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The most important article, at least of a political character, in the new number of the Scottish Review is a clear, temperate, and, on the whole, able paper on the Greek Question, by M. Demetrius Bikelas, who has a right to be heard upon such a sabjeot. M. Bikelas, who assures us that " the Great Idea of raising again the Christian Empire once enthroned at Byzantium " no longer " actuates the movements of our national policy," states the views of his fellow- countrymen in these words :—" We hope to have a Greek State with a Northern frontier starting east wards from the Adriatic at some point north of Corfu, and reaching the "Evan at some point east of the Chalcidic Peninsula, including such part of Macedonia as is Greek. The Island of Crete would be our farthest limit southward. We would fain see Montenegro aggrandised, and between such a Monte- negro and ourselves, an emancipated Albania, either autonomous or attached to ourselves by a brotherly tie. We would that our Northern frontier should meet the frontiers of a fully expanded Servia, and of an enlarged and united Bulgaria, embracing not only the actual Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia, but also all territory which is really inhabited by Bulgars." Both good criticism and sound morality are to be found in an article on "Ethics and Art in Recent Novels ;" and there is some shrewd sense on " rho Hundred Best Books " craze in a paper ou " Fallacies of Reading Lists." " Bar- boar's Legends of the Saints" and "The Caldwell Papers" are excellent examples of the essays treating of Scotch literary and historical subjects for which this Review has now obtained a special reputation, and of which the present is an admirable number,— admirable as regards the variety no less than the quality of the
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