East and West. By Stefanos Kenos. (Trubner and Co.)—This gentleman,
a Greek, with an extraordinary mastery over the English Language, is not at all satisfied with the terms on which the Ionian Islands were ceded. We do not quite see why the Greeks objected to the destruction of the fortifications or the neutralization of the islands themselves, bat their objection to paying the pensions of the English officials is intelligible enough, though not very reasonable. The Greeks are quite Irish in their ideas of what England ought to do for them, and at least we did not misgovern Greece. Mr. Kenos's main point, however, is the wickedness of our policy in supporting Turkey. More or less he is right here, but he greatly overrates both the decadence of Turkey and the progress of the various races of Christians who inhabit European Turkey. That they would submit to the rule of Greece, or that Greece, which cannot govern itself, could govern them, at present we can see no likelihood. The bulk of the volume, however, consists of a reprint of the various official documents by which the recent changes in the status of the little kingdom were effected.
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