. The rulers of the Mediterranean. GREEK PEASANT MODERN ATHENS 189 hospital of /Esculapius. But he cannot restoreto the market-place that very human citizen whocast m his shell against Aristides because hewas aweary of hearing him called the Just; norcan either his games or his hospital bring backthe perfect figure and health of the men whosefigures and profiles have set the model for all. ALBANIAN PEASANT IN THE STREETS OF ATHENS time. He has, however, retained the Greek lan^guage, which is very creditable to him, as it is alanguage one learns only after much difficulty He even goes so far an
. The rulers of the Mediterranean. GREEK PEASANT MODERN ATHENS 189 hospital of /Esculapius. But he cannot restoreto the market-place that very human citizen whocast m his shell against Aristides because hewas aweary of hearing him called the Just; norcan either his games or his hospital bring backthe perfect figure and health of the men whosefigures and profiles have set the model for all. ALBANIAN PEASANT IN THE STREETS OF ATHENS time. He has, however, retained the Greek lan^guage, which is very creditable to him, as it is alanguage one learns only after much difficulty He even goes so far and then forgets at once. jgo THE RULERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN as to put up the names of the streets in Greek,which strikes the bewildered tourist trying to findhis way back to his hotel as a trifle pedantic, andhe prints his daily newspaper in this same is, perhaps, going a little too far, as it leavesyou in some doubt as to whether you have beenreading of the Panama scandal or a rej^rint on thebattle of Marathon. Baron Sina, a Greek banker, has shown the mostpublic-spirited and patriotic generosity, and tasteas well, in erecting the buildings of the universityat his own expense and giving them to the are reproductions in many ways of differentparts of the temples of the Acropolis in minia-ture. The Polytechnic is almost an exact copyof the front of the Partheno
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