2 JUNE 1917, Page 16

The history of Salonika is well told by Mr. William

Miller in the new number of the English Historical Review (Longmans and Co., 6s.). It was founded by Kassander, King of Macedon, in 315 B.c., and named after his wife Thessalonike, who was a half-sister of Alexander the Great. In Roman and Byzantine times it was important because the Via Egnatia from Durazzo to Constantinople ran through the city, and because it served as an outpost against the Slays, who often attacked but never captured it. Constantine (or Cyril) and Methodius, the Greek apostles to the Slays, were natives of Salonika.