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. LXI.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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0 Greece and the Howitt G-reeTis . . B 2...
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. Lxi.—Notices Of Books.
. LXI . —NOTICES OF BOOKS .
0 Greece And The Howitt G-Reetis . . B 2...
0 Greece and the Howitt _G-reeTis . . B 2 y Yols Fredrika . Hurst Bremer & Blackett . Translated . by Mary
Ik 1836 Dr . Arnold wrote to Mr . Justice Coleridge from Rugby , , " My delight in going over Homer and Virgil with the boys makes
me think what a treat it must be to teach Shakespeare to a good class of young Greeks in regenerate Athens ; to dwell upon him
line by line , and word by word , in the way that nothing but a translation lesson will ever enable one to do , and so to get all his
pictures and thoughts leisurely into one's mind , till I verily think one wouldafter a timealmost give out light in the dark , after
, , having been steeped as it were in such an atmosphere of brilliance . " In 1863 what is doing and what will be done in " regenerate
Athens ? And how far will England sympathize in the fortunes of a country from whose literature every new generation of . her
children draws an unfailing stimulus to greatness , and whose own harassed people have preferred before all others an English prince
as king ? To these questions the book before us will afford , —no direct answer indeed , since Miss Bremer will but watch with us the
exciting politics of the East , —but an answer which may help us in reckoning the probabilities of the futureand will certainly add
, to the interest we take in the actors on the scene . Miss Bremer reached Athens in the summer of 1859 and remained in Greece for *
more than two years . "While there she seems to have mixed freely in the native and foreign society of Athensand to have collected
, opinions upon Grecian affairs from a large and varied number of influential men . We think the digests she gives of her conversations
with these , the ' most valuable part of her book . From among them "we extract the following : —
" One day , at the commencement of the last month , October , I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mr for . Von W— , at h her lect chief little dinner of
party which the excellent Queen gave me , througlady " Am honour alinruh —a lady I of have great not cult often ivation met and with know a led man ge of who the so world quickl —at her and seat so _,
completel e y won . my confidence , and by his conversation so riveted my y interest . This , however , was with regard to Otho a subject which was of rivetin to g interest
to us both . Mr . Yon W— , King ' s private Secretary , came Greece since at the . same Whilst time we with were the walking young among king , the and seven has hills remained whole of Hep Greek with htalop him hos ever , he-
related to me the condition in which Athens and the peninsula ' was at that time and described the extreme ruin and impoverishment of the country " ' You . could not have _/ found' said he c at that time a single head of cattle
throug German hout attendan the whole ts were of ob Greece liged , to ; scarcel live , in y a house a hen which or an did Qgg not . The afford King them 's shelter from rain or the north wind . But none of the Greeks had anything
better warfare . All of this the nation more , against for this the reason Turks , must ; their one courage admire and the patience persistent in enduring kind of privationhungerliving in cavessuffering
species of every wantrather than submit , to , the old enemy . , The battle every of ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/51/
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