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 8o CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. have already brought a great deal of light and justice. During the last decade no part of history has received more attention than the Byzan- tine period. Krumbacher's Byzantinische Zeit- schrift, a periodical devoted to the study of By- zantine history, language, literature, and art, has reached its sixth year. The six volumes contain contributions from the pens of the best scholars, philologists, archaeologists, historians of all the civilized countries, articles and communications in German, English, French, Italian, and Greek. The scholars of the different countries co-operate assiduously to enlighten us, to do justice where there had been a tendency to do injustice. Six years ago Krumbacher, A. Ehrhard, and H. Gelzer published an elaborate work on the history of the Byzantine literature. The appear- ance of a second edition more than twice as large as the first gives evidence that researches in this direction are appreciated. The attention of the world of learning is again directed to the By- zantines in order to vindicate the truth and ren- der tardy justice where for four centuries both had been denied. When we compare the history of the Roman Empire of the East with the Roman Empire of