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THE GREECE OF THE GREEKS.
The Greece of the Greeks. By G. A. Perdicaris, A.
M., late United States' Consul at Athens. 2 vols.,
12mo. Illustrated with 12 tinted lithographs. Price
$1 50 cents.
“The volumes before us are worthy of an attentive perusal. Indeed
they will command perusal from any one who glances at the first volume;
he will scarcely lay them down until he reads them through. The work
has been to Mr. Perdicaris a labor of love; a native of Greece, and yet a
proficient in our language, having been educated in the United States, he
brought to the compilation of his work an intimate acquaintance with his
subject, and a graceful pleasing style which never wearies. The work is
interspersed with interesting anecdotes and classical allusions. But it is
further useful, giving as it does, a brief and comprehensive history of
Greece since its disenthralment from the Turkish yoke, and explaining its
present political position. Mr. Perdicaris shows conclusively, that the designs
of England and the other European powers, in favoring the freedom
of Greece, have been selfish and disengenuous. We heartily commend the
book to all those who love that land of glorious memories; and who is not
an enthusiastic lover of Greece? Who has not sympathized with her sufferings,
and rejoiced at her enfranchisement?
“The work is got up by the publishers in choice style, and is illustrated
with spirited engravings, from sketches of the gorgeous and classic scenery
of Greece. It has also portraits of the present king and queen of Greece,
dressed in the picturesque costume of the country.”
—New York Vindicator.
“There is something so sacred, so classic—may we not say so touching,
in the very name of Greece; it so calls up every heroic sentiment, and
every refined feeling, that it is difficult to embody one's thoughts even of
such a book as the two handsome volumes before us, without so much of
this feeling rushing upon the mind, as to render the task not facile of attainment.”
—National Magazine.
“His brief and chaste sketches of the prominent incidents in the adventurous
lives of the heroes of Greece, as exhibited in their deeds of bravery
during the revolution, have all the charms and exciting interest of romance.
With all that pertains to a comprehensive delineation of the present aspect
of the affairs of the Greeks, and incidental sketches of the most exciting
scenes of their late struggle in the cause of freedom, Mr. Perdicaris has so
happily blended the whole with classic allusions and philosophical reflections,
as to render his work alike interesting to the scholar and the statesman;
and not only so, but of general interest to all, while it will become
the indispensable vade-mecum of future travellers in Greece.”
—Ev. Mir.
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