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 150 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. ized." He enumerates the books from which he has taken his information. He has selected just those which were either written in an anti- Hellenic spirit or which do not contain the re- searches of those historians of our time who have made real scientific investigations. Thus, for instance, he does not or will not know the writings of Zinkeisen, Ross, Gervinus, Bikelas, and the excellent historian Hertzberg. On the other hand he has used a book, as he confesses himself, which was issued by its author as a counterblast to the Armenian agitation, intended as an apology for the Turk and an indictment of the Oriental Christian. Mr. Phillips, it ap- pears, has never heard of the horrible blood tax of which mention is made above, or is it that he does not wish to state anything which is un- favorable to the Turk ? I refer to this author only because his book is the most recent on hand, and it will serve as an example of how some writers treat modern Greek history, namely, by misrep- resentation, by omission, and by repetition of old intentional untruths. But, to return to the horrors of the Turkish reign over the Greeks : The proverb says where there is much light there is much shadow. Here we may say, where there is so much shadow