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And now, “though: ‘Yast, not léast in 
our dear love,” comes the Uh chth idion, 
or Manual of Fr ancis Quar les ;-a most 
valuable manual of maxims, ethical, 
religious, practicable, and contem- 
plative. Thename of this author, as 
a poet, has—perhaps not unjustly— 
been “‘ damned to everlasting fame” 
by a conjunction with those of Wi- 
thers and Blome in “the Dunciad.” 
His prose, however, is admirable: he 
is excelled by none of his contempo- 
raries in the vigour and nervousness 
of his lancuage. His style is gene- 
Tally brief, pithy, and concentrated ; 
yet, when he allows himself to expa- 
tiate, there is occasionally a copious- 
ness and sweetness of diction that ‘‘is 
indeed eloquence.” We refrain from 
entering into particulars, as we have 
seen an equally cheap and elegant 
reprint, in a style uniform with War- 
wick’s * Spare Minutes,” and we 
shall therefore have an opportunity of 
judging for ourselves. 
en. “seen 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
The ACTUAL STATE of the GREEK 
‘ISLANDS; by MARKAKY ZALLONI, a 
~ native of TINOS, physician to PRINCE 
ALEXANDER SUZZO. 
MONG the numerous descrip- 
tions extant of the Egean sea, 
at present called’ the Archipelago, 
Ido not think there is one which 
perfectly answers the end that every 
writer of such descriptions should pro- 
pose tohimself, ‘In’ general, I per- 
ceive ‘that travellers ‘who have pub- 
lished accounts of Greece are more 
willing to inform us what this country 
has been, than what it is at present. 
They appear ‘to have been indefatiga- 
ble in their researches after the remains 
of moriuments, but to have passed over 
in ‘Silence the manners and institutions 
of the Greece of our days. Tu reading 
their works, it appears that these 
countries are ‘now, deserted in ‘such a 
degree, as not to be worth the atten- 
tion of the traveller, but only on ac- 
count of the raré vestiges of that 
grandeur so long’since ¥ anished. The 
Jabours of the learned, with a view to 
supply us with correct notions, patti- 
cularly with respect to’ ‘antiquity, are. 
beyond contradiction worthy ‘of ‘the 
liighest enlogiums; and in this view are 
But ought the modern” 
Greeks °to be: neglected, in order to’ 
highly “useful. 
confine all’ their observations ‘to the 
q ralz & 
* See nthe: vol, lili. p. ora 
On the ‘Actiial State of the Greek Islands. 
{July 1, 
aticients?. They seem to think that 
the vestiges of the best days of Greece. 
are only to be found in mutilated sta- 
tues and monuments, buried marbles, 
in medals, tombs, &e.; but why not 
look for them in the Greeks them- 
selves? Their character and manners 
certainly afford a picture of those of 
their predecessors, though it must be 
allowed to be imperfect and confused, 
Meditating in the environs of Athens 
upon a mutilated statue, or the portico. 
of an old temple of Neptune or Apollo, 
covered with moss, we are transported, 
with admiration for the statuary or the. 
architect who created this chef @euvre, 
At least we may be certain that the 
modern Greeks have been formed. of 
the same clay as their ancestors, and 
would be capable of the most heroic 
actions, if their energies had not been 
exhausted in their incessant struggle 
against all the eyils attendant upon 
the yoke of despotism under which they 
had fallen. 
Modern Greece merits more atten- 
tion than is generally imagined ; its 
inhabitants have not degenerated’ so 
far as not to retain any traces’ al 
them of the descendants of heroes: : ni 
to paint them faithfully, ‘the’ writer. 
should be one among them; he should 
mingle with their customs and. 1 man- 
ners; he should act, converse, and live’ 
with them freel ¥5 and without testraint, 
It is from this consideration that; being’ 
myself a Greek, E have presumed. to’ 
describe the Greek ‘nation. Havin 
chosen a subject with which Iam bes 
acquainted, I shall relate with the most 
careful accuracy all that I know of 
TINOS, my native country. 
At first view, my work may appear 
uninteresting, and some astonishment 
may be excited at my describing so 
small an island with so much detail, as 
it does not contain more than 25,000 
inhabitants, or, in other words, where 
the population does not exceed that of 
one of the, smallest’ cities in Europe ; 
but this surprize will disappear, when 
it is found that each’ island” of ‘the 
Archipelago, and even each town in 
Greece, offers innumerable. features 
worthy of detail. It will now be my 
task ‘to describe the genius and ‘cha- 
racter of the inhabitants of ‘Titios, and 
upon. this subject, I shalt principally. 
dwell ~ 
“My objet is to exhibit to the world 
the portrait of a ‘modern Greek, with, 
all his merits and defects; to the one 
shall do justice With” pleasure: and im- 
partially 
it 
