THE ROYAL PALACE, ATHENS 



would have upset the delicately poised throne 

 of a man less evenly balanced in mind and 

 character. 



Alas ! it is another of the " sad stories of the 

 death of kings." King George fell by the 

 hand of an obscure assassin; yet who could 

 think him all unhappy in his death ? He died 

 at the moment of triumph. He had seen his 

 adopted country successful in war, and brought 

 under his guiding hand from chaos to regenera- 

 tion ; he had seen a great idea implanted in the 

 minds of his subjects and set before them as 

 an aim the idea that it is their mission to 

 Hellenize that great stretch of the Nearer East 

 which is inhabited by people of Hellenic stock, 

 professing the Greek faith and speaking the 

 Greek language. 



HELEN HESTER COLVILL 



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