Mentone, Cairo and Corfu . theancients never pronounced in this way, may we not askhow they can be so sure ? They are not, I take it, in-spired, and the phonograph is a modern voice of Robert Browning is stored for cominggenerations; the people 3000 may hear him recite How They Brought the Good News from Ghent toAix. Possibly the tones of Lord Salisbury and of Mr. 296 Balfour are already garnered and arranged in cylindersfor the future orators of the South Seas. But we can-not know how Pindar spoke any more than we canknow the song the Sirens sang; the most learnedscholar ca
Mentone, Cairo and Corfu . theancients never pronounced in this way, may we not askhow they can be so sure ? They are not, I take it, in-spired, and the phonograph is a modern voice of Robert Browning is stored for cominggenerations; the people 3000 may hear him recite How They Brought the Good News from Ghent toAix. Possibly the tones of Lord Salisbury and of Mr. 296 Balfour are already garnered and arranged in cylindersfor the future orators of the South Seas. But we can-not know how Pindar spoke any more than we canknow the song the Sirens sang; the most learnedscholar cannot, alas! summon from the past the articu-lation of Plato. In the esplanade the period of English rule isfurther kept in mind by monuments to the memory ofthree of the Lords High—a statue, an obelisk, and (ofall things in the world) an imitation of a Greek temple—it is so small that they might call it atemplette—was erected in honor of Sir Thomas Mait-land, a Governor whose arbitrary rule gained for him. SMALL TEMPLE, MEMORIAL TO SIR THOMAS MAITLAND the title of King Tom. The three memorials are offi-cially protected, an agreement to that effect havingbeen made between the governments of Great Britainand Greece. They were never in danger, probably, asthe English protection was a friendly one. In spite ofits friendliness, the Corfiotes voted as follows with 297 enthusiasm when an opportunity was offered to them : The single and unanimous will of the Ionian peoplehas been and is for their reunion with the Kingdom ofGreece. England yielded to this wish and withdrew—a disinterested act which ought to have gained for heruniversal applause. Since 1864 Corfu and her sisterislands, happily freed at last from foreign control, havefilled with patriotic pride and contentment their properplace as part of the Hellenic kingdom. The esplanade also contains the one modern monu-ment erected by the Corfiotes themselves—a statue ofCapo dIstria. John Capo dIstria, a native
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