3 OCTOBER 1914, Page 7

Greece of the Hellenes. By Lucy M. J. Garnett. (Sir

Isaac Pitman and Sons. Os. net.)—Miss Garnett gives a readable account of the modern Greeks, their governmental system and social habits. It is interesting to note, in her chapter on classical survivals, that storms and whirlwinds are still ascribed to the agency of the Nereids, who seize on any one who fails to crouch down reverently whilst they are passing overhead, and carry him or her off to the mountains— a superstition very convenient for the casual brigand.