. The Burton Holmes lectures;. THE OLYMPIAN GAMES 35 may for the nonce forget its arid Attic surroundings in thepurple gloom of the wistaria arbors. This garden is the mostexpensive luxury in Greece, for it has been created, as it were,from the Attic desert. \\ater and vegetable soil are scarcities. AN ATHENIAN HOME in Athens, and vast sums were spent here by the BavarianKing, Otho, to please his queen Amalie, who longed for shadeand verdure which before her time did not exist in Athens. And as we linger here there naturedly rises before us theface of him who rules the destinies of Greece to-d
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. THE OLYMPIAN GAMES 35 may for the nonce forget its arid Attic surroundings in thepurple gloom of the wistaria arbors. This garden is the mostexpensive luxury in Greece, for it has been created, as it were,from the Attic desert. \\ater and vegetable soil are scarcities. AN ATHENIAN HOME in Athens, and vast sums were spent here by the BavarianKing, Otho, to please his queen Amalie, who longed for shadeand verdure which before her time did not exist in Athens. And as we linger here there naturedly rises before us theface of him who rules the destinies of Greece to-day, George 36 THE OLYMPIAN GAMES
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