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containing' the admixture of slight and superficial notices of the pastor- 

 al and agricultural inhabitants of the country. We were not surpris- 

 ed to find their testimony respecting these people more favourable 

 than might have been expected from the reputation the Greeks have 

 acquired at Smyrna, Constantinople, and other trading places, where 

 the most disadvantageous comparisons are generally made between 

 them and their former barbarian masters. In other respects, the 

 drawing up of this narrative gives no very favourable opinion either 

 of the liberality or knowledge of the author, on certain subjects he 

 has the bad taste to introduce or rather parade before his readers. 

 He appears to be of that class of his countrymen who labour under 

 what may be termed, " anglophobia," which became prevalent in the 

 time of the empire, having succeeded to the " anglomanie" of the pe- 

 riod prior to the revolution, and is so prevalent at present, notwith- 

 standing the friendly terms we are on. that every candidate for public 

 favour must make his profession of it, or be purified, according to 

 the Spanish phrase, of any tendency to the older disease, — and we 

 doubt not this seasoning of anglophobia one cause for this volume 

 running to a second edition, as we understand it has, the merits of 

 the book itself being very small. The writer gives very unequivocal 

 proof of his being of the modern school. He deplores, in a way to 

 leave no doubt of his sincerity, the national arms being employed in 

 concert with those of England. Every rock seems to suggest visions 

 of occupation, and of goblins in the shape of British sailors and ma- 

 rines taking permanent possession of them ; — a strange commen- 

 tary on the proceedings of his countrymen on the opposite coast of 

 Africa ! 



In one instance he travels quite out of his way, in speaking of the 

 Greek Priests, to introduce an observation on our manners, which, if 

 it were founded on fact, would be totally misplaced in his work ; but 

 happening to be quite the reverse, it shews not only the animus 

 which dictated the insertion of it, but the utter ignorance as well as 

 low and vulgar prejudices of the author. These observations may 

 appear to be unnecessary here, and foreign to the subject we are 

 writing on ; but they are by no means so. We are speaking of a 

 public body, the elite of one of the leading members of the great 

 republic of science, and it is not unimportant to notice the spirit 

 in which these reports, which are in fact public property, are con- 

 ducted. Independently of this there are other reasons. The same 

 narrow and contracted views which have caused the introduction of 

 these topics where they are quite uncalled for, infect varioiis parts of the 



