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 286 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. library was the gift of the celebrated man of sci- ence, Alexander Paspatis, and his widow has given a considerable sum for the completion of this library. If we take a glance over the whole, the great collection and the great work connected with it which present themselves to the scholar, we may well envy the University of Athens, and Greece in general, which are so fortunate as to possess them. Here is a rich material for the study of anthropology, and a master is here to make use of it as nobody ever before has been able to do. It is especially noteworthy that one single man is working on a scale of such immense proportions. The Greeks incurred the displeasure of the European governments by their revival of the Olympian games in 1896. The eyes of the world were directed toward the Greeks, and it appeared very probable that many of the artifi- cially kept up prejudices against them would vanish. This, however, as we can understand after having read history, did not harmonize with the politics of the English, the Russian, and the German governments. With the commence- ment of the Cretan difficulties the press of Eu- rope, foremost that of Germany, was directed to