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 288 REVIEWS OF BOOKS April K a Sdrou. If we may judge from the contents of the present volume, the complete work will form the most comprehensive history of Chios that has yet been published. For since Vlastos issued his Xia*a in 1840 (the second part of which was translated into English by Mr. A. P. Ralli in 1913, the year after the Greek annexation of the island) much has been written about its interesting history. Besides Rodokanakes' gigantic, but discursive, biographical treatise on the Giustiniani, and Hopf's scholarly disquisition upon them (exhumed and presented in a portable French translation by another Vlastos), two numbers of a valuable periodical, Xtaxa XpovLKa, have seen the light, and the late F. W. Hasluck studied the Latin monuments of Chios. The present volume is topographical, dealing with the geology and climate, the trade and products very important subjects in so mercantile a community as Chios and the geographical names of places in ancient, medieval, and modern times. There is a full account of the mastic and the wine, and it is interesting to learn that ' some English merchants were settled at Scio soon after the establishment of our commerce in the Levant in consequence of its connexion with the port of Smyrna ', as Dallaway says, just as a considerable number of the Greeks in England are, like the famous house of Ralli, of Chian origin. There is an analysis of the names mentioned in the golden bull of 1259, which is a valuable source for the medieval topography of Chios. Specially interesting are the derivations of some place-names from foreign races connected with the island in the middle ages, Catalans, Armenians, Cumans, and Slavs. Like the Morea, Chios had a ' Castle of the Fair Woman ' with a picturesque ballad about it, and a legendary foundation of Belisarius, the castle of Volissos. Of the churches the most famous is that of Nea Mone, founded by Constantine IX Monomachos and stormed by the Turks during the massacre. A large map accompanies the volume, which also contains a copious, but (for the foreign names in Latin type) not always accurate, bibliography. We shall await with interest the volume on the Maona. W. MILLER. Essays on the Latin Orient. By WILLIAM MILLER. (Cambridge : Uni- versity Press, 1921.) IF this substantial volume, which is a collection of reprinted and revised articles 1 and monographs, Mr. Miller continues his work on the Latin Orient, of which The Latins in the Levant was an earlier instalment. The present volume has a wider chronological range than its predecessor, which was confined to the period between 1204 and 1566. To this chapter iii, ' Frankish and Venetian Greece ', which fills nearly half of the present book, corresponds ; but we now have on a smaller scale earlier chapters, ' The Romans in Greece ' and ' Byzantine Greece ', and at the other end chapters on ' Turkish Greece ' and ' The Venetian Revival in Greece ', which carry the story down to 1718. Fresh ground is broken also in chapter iv, ' The Genoese Colonies in Greece '. The seventh and last chapter groups together as ' Miscellanea ' six papers on subjects which do not easily fall into the general framework of the book. The whole is the work of a scholar who has made this province of history peculiarly 1 See ante, xxxv. 343.