BRITISH CULTURE ABROAD [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] -
SIR,—Now that there is serious talk of an organized effort to make British culture better known abroad, it is to be hoped that Athens will not be overlooked, as it has been for so long. While there is an Italian Institute, where distinguished lec- turers from Italy lecture on Italian literature, art and political institutions, while there are lecturers, appointed by their respective countries, at the University, who give courses of French, German and Italian literature, there is no lecturer on English literature. British dramatic companies never visit -Athens,-the few British institutions receive scanty sup; port, while the Germans have spent a large sum on their new church and provided their chaplain with a suitable parsonage; and the German governesses are more' numerous than the English.
It is high time, if we wish to maintain our prestige in a country so Closely connected with-Great Britain in. the past, to abandon- the attitude of Gainey whose• descendants would seem to have been Roman legionaries encamped in the neighbourhood of what was,later Whitehall.—I am, yours, &c.-,
WILLIAM MILLER.
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