Macmillan's Magazine.—May. (Macmillan and Oo.)—Mr. Grant Duff sends an effective
analysis of Seeley's " Life and Times of Stein," and Mr. Freeman a learned account of Syracuse ; but the most valuable paper in the number is Mr. G. Macmillan's demonstration that Jeanine is strictly Greek, and not a Turkish city :—
" We have seen that Jeanine, whose very name (va lachneva) is and always has been Greek, has through a long and chequered career constantly preserved its Greek character, so that even under Tarkish rule Greek has been recognised as the official language. We have seen it preserving this language in unrivalled purity, taking the lead in the revival of its study, and keeping the torch of Greek culture steadily burning at a time when the rest of Greece was sunk in barbarism. We have seen it under its famous Albanian pasha deservedly regarded as the literary capital of the country. We have seen it, after the- desolation caused by the noble straggle in which its citizens shared (though refused in the end the very prize for which they had fought) rise again, phceniz-like, to a position second to none but Athens in the Greek kingdom, and in proportion to its size second to few cities in the world. Can we wonder that Jennina, with such a history, should aspire to union with the people for whom it has dons so- much ?"
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