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OTHER PUBLICATIONS OF
THE ANGLO HELLENIC
LEAGUE

ALBANIA AND EPIRUS, by the Hon.
W. P. Reeves. 1913.

THE NEW GREECE, by R. M. Burrows,
D.Litt. (Reprinted by permission from The
Quarterly Review.) 1914.

GREECE AND TO-MORROW, by
Z. D. Ferriman. 1915.

ENGLAND IN THE BALKANS, by
John Mavrogordato. 1915.

SPEECH OF E. VENIZELOS TO
THE PEOPLE, August, 1916. (Greek and
English.)

ENGLAND'S WELCOME TO VENI-
ZELOS AT THE MANSION HOUSE.
November 16, 1917.

THE ANGLO-HELLENIC ALLIANCE:
June 27, 1918. Anniversary of the Entry of
Reunited Greece into the War.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING,
July 11, 1918. Address by Gilbert Murray.
AN APPEAL FOR THE LIBERATION
AND UNION OF THE HELLENIC
RACE, by W. Pember Reeves with an
ethnological map of the Balkan Peninsula
and Asia Minor. 1919.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.
June 20, 1919. Address by J. L. Myres.
SOME ENGLISH PHILHELLENES, by
Z. D. Ferriman-I. Frank Abney Hastings.
II. Sir Charles James Napier. III. Thomas
Gordon. IV. A note on "Kirkman Finlay."
V. John Pitt Kennedy. VI. Lord Guilford.
VII. Sir Richard Church.

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LORD BYRON

THE greatest of the Philhellenes was so much else, that in writing of him, it is not easy to confine ourselves to his Philhellenism. The phases of his career, the aspects of his personality, constantly lure us into other paths. He was the subject of so much controversy into which his relations with Greece did not enter. His Greek sympathies were a matter of indifference to most of those who assailed him with unmeasured malignity or heaped upon him extravagant adulation. No man ever called forth such diverse opinions. M. Taine said "he was so great and so English"; yet in England he encountered the bitterest detraction, while, on his side, no English writer ever exposed English failings to such withering sarcasm. The truth is, that in Byron, the European outweighed the Englishman. Whatever may be said of him, he cannot be reproached with insularity. He appealed to Europe, and he is the only English writer who, during his lifetime, enjoyed European fame. The appearance of a work of his was an event throughout the Continent. He had the homage of the greatest men of letters, the most celebrated critics of his time and after. Stendhal, Sainte Beuve, De Chasles, Mazzini, brought the tribute of their admiration. Goethe pronounced him "the greatest genius of our century." Castelar wrote, "there is no one with whose being some song of his is not woven." These opinions were not shared by some at least of Byron's eminent countrymen. Whilst Goethe said "the beauty of Cain is such as we

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