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 52 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. Allow me now to read a letter which I re- ceived recently from a professor of Greek of one of our colleges, a man who has written a treatise on the teaching of the classical languages. This letter will illustrate what arguments some of our professors of Greek produce to suppress his- torical truth. March qth, 1896. My Dear Sir: You sent me a letter addressed to during my absence in Europe. I was away two years. I regret that in consequence of confusion among my papers, my answer has been delayed until this time. I am not able to put my hand on the pamphlet to which you refer in your letter. Indeed, I am not sure that the copy which you sent to me ever reached me. But, nevertheless, I have learnt through conversation with others the subject of your thesis. This whole matter is one of extreme difficulty. If Erasmus had never written his celebrated dialogue, the movement which Reuchlin had be- gun in Germany would have spread, I have no doubt, over the rest of Europe.* At the present time the Erasmian pronunciation so called has securely established itself. The difficulty of introducing the modern Greek pronunciation, but simply adhered to the only correct pronunciation.
 * I beg to say that Reuchlin did not commence a movement,