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    346 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    0 Greece And The Howitt G-Reetis . . B 2...

    but I know , also , tliat the amount received does not yet exceed some few thousand drachmas , and that probably many years will be needed before

    the sum of 200 , 000 drachmas can be collected , which it is considered that such an institution will require . And , in the meantime , must the present state of things be continued for the lepers hereand still worsestill

    more sorrowful , in other places in Greece ? Must the , poor , lamenting ,, unfortunate beings be left alone in the last stage of the disease , with their bottle of water , and have to cry to the chance stranger for a little

    consolation in their misery ? Shall fresh youths and maidens be despatched hither to live in the caves of the rock , without medical care , without the regard of more happily _circumstanced fellow-beings , and without any prospect but

    that of becoming by degrees , after many long years spent in the rocky desert , like the living corpse lying there within that desolate room ? If I were one of thesecondemned to live here on the edof the crater

    whilst I heard , day and , night , the waters in the depth below ge heave themselves , the with ro the ck thunder to be found of their thrown giant si back ghs , and again strike from against their har the d riven bosom chasms —oh ! of I

    know very , well to what they would tempt me .... It was with bitter tears , the first I had shed in G-reece , that I left this place . The Lazarus whom I saw here I shall never forgetI know that I shall notneither

    < lo I wish it . But weeping I will lay him ; down before the gates , of those rich men—of those Greek patriots who , from Vienna and Taganrog , from

    [ London and Paris , send rich gifts to their fatherland for the erection of academies and schools . I will bear him to the threshold of the palace of the King and Queen of Greece , asking whether a few of their grand

    these festival lep s ers mig . ht I not will annu knock ally at be the converted doors of into the still food wealth and care conve -taking ntsand for ask whether they have not sufficient to enable them to y ive somewhat ,

    more than hitherto to the poor lepers ? I will add nothing g more . The scarcely audible prayer of the unfortunates , and their lament , which I here carry forth , will best appeal to the good and thinking Christian . " ,

    From a note of tlie author ' s we add : — "On King Otho's first visit to Santorin he was shown a leper , quite a

    young girl , who , it was believed , might be cured by suitable diet and medical the attemp treatment t be made ; but at the my means cost , ' said for the this King were . not After forthcoming the proper . means 'Xiet ,

    had ten years been afterwards used for ei , g in ht perfectl months y , the good g health irl was . " restored , and still continues , We recommend to those of our readers who be able to

    procure the book for themselves , an interesting may account ( vol . i . p . irls 294 recei , ) of ve the a Arsakion liberal edu ,. a c large ation school and o £ in the whi A ch malion 600 young a home Greek for

    t g bringing up of fatherless and , motherless girls , who , are educated as skilful servants , and for good wives and mothers of the lower

    classes . There are also notices , much slighter than we could have _^ w ago ished amongs , of the t t he school ruins which of At Mr hens . and Mrs inning . Hill with opened 90 thirty ils years but

    , pup , Miss mounting Breiner up within gives us a few too years , sketches to 1000 of , the and leading of all ages men and of classes Greece .

    who are "before the public now , of Mavrocordato , the present leader of the republican party , " the connecting link between young Greece ,

    h y his the moral most hi purit ghl y y , develo his unse ped lfishness states of as Euro regards pe , _" alike money dis , t inguished power

    of self-control , as well as his handsome person , his politeness , and

    346 Notices Of Books.

    346 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/58/