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 206 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. ties as compared with Kolokotronis, Grivas, and Phlessas. A wise administration, understand- ing the people and bearing with their foibles, would have had a golden opportunity to bring on peace between the people and the govern- ment. The mistake once made brought on diffi- culties which could not be overcome in a coun- try demoralized by many centuries of barbarous slavery and completely unsettled by many years of a devastating war. In describing now the condition, the politics of Greece, I avail myself of a pamphlet which I found in the library of the Historical and Ethno- logical Museum of Athens. The author was not named; the paper was written in 1870.'^ The anonymous author says : " I desire to put forward what I believe to be a true and impar- tial statement to vindicate the calumniated, to expose abuse which is simply infamous, and to repel accusations which are directed against the Greek people and which are untrue, unmerited, and unscrupulous. . ., Correspondents take a particular pleasure in endeavoring to make out, that the author of the pamphlet here quoted is J. Gennadius, the same from whom I have quoted already, and who later on became, and continued until recently, Minister Plenipotenti- ary of Greece to England.
 * Only after this part of the book was in type did I learn