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 THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. I9I his articles "W. J. S.," who with venomous malevolence makes plausible misstatements, which go to make up that tissue of splendid mendacity which is deceiving some people who are not familiar with history. This W. J. S. is a Mr. W. J. Stillman who was United States consul in Crete during the years from 1866-68. In 1874 he published his book on the Cretan insurrection of 1866-68. Strange it is that W. J. S., or W. J. Stillman, leads a double life, as Mr. Gennadius has so clearly exposed in a letter from London dated April ist and published in The Evening Post. While his book is fair and correct, his articles of recent date are the con- trary. Both Mr. Bikelas and Mr. J. Gennadius, another brilliant Greek scholar and writer, and a historian and philologist well known also in Eng- lish literature, have answered this Jekyl-Hyde. Since there is so much quoted from Mr. Bikelas it may be well to quote now Mr. Gennadius. When W. J. S. (Hyde), says Gennadius, comes to survey past history, he (Jekyl-Hyde) declares that this contemptible little vState of Greece "owes its existence and every foot of ground over which its rule extends" to the great powers. " Not an inch of territory has ever been won by Greek effort." How we lament, continues Gen-