aptain Brodie." Since the Editor permits such
hopeless nonsense to appear in his columns one may be excused,
I think, for not taking _The Near East_ very seriously. It is
not worth while informing them how General Phillips of Scutari
dealt with Captain Brodie.]

[Footnote 88: Referring in the _Nation and Athenaeum_ to Sir
Charles's latest work, _Hinduism and Buddhism_ (3 vols.), Mr.
Edwyn Bevan says that "for a lonely student, who had done
nothing in his life but study, the book would have been a
sufficiently remarkable achievement. That a man who has been an
active public servant and held high and responsible offices
should have found time for the studies which this book
presupposes is marvellous. It is a masterly survey.... There
can be few men who have Sir Charles's gift of linguistic
accomplishments, who can not only read Sanskrit and Pali, but
know enough of the Dravidian languages of Southern India to
check statements by reference to the original writings, and add
to this a knowledge of Chinese and Tibetan."]

[Footnote 89: Cf. pp. 72-73, Vol. I.]

[Footnote 90: Cf. _Manchester Guardian_, February 28, 1919.]

[Footnote 91: Cf. _A Political Escapade: The Story of Fiume and
D'Annunzio_, by J. N. Macdonald, O.S.B. London, 1921.]

[Footnote 92: Cf. _Tribune de Geneve_, October 13, 1921.]

[Footnote 93: Those who are curious as to the gentleman's
antecedents may like to refer to my book, _Under the
Acroceraunian Mountains_.]

[Footnote 94: Cf. _La Suisse_ (of Geneva), October 13, 1921.]

[Footnote 95: Cf. _Journal des Debats_, October 15, 1921.]

[Footnote 96: This would be about 18,000 lb. avoirdupois.]

[Footnote 97: Cf. p. 283, Vol. II.]

[Footnote 98: Cf. _Morning Post_ of December 14, 1921.]

[Footnote 99: Cf. _Le Temps_, November 11, 1921.]

[Footnote 100: "Who is this anonymous idiot?... He really ought
to have known better than that," says a reviewer in _The Near
East_. I quite agree. It is pleasant now and then to be able to
agree with a paper which is so one-sided as to admit pro-Nikita
and anti-Serbian diatribes by Mr. Devine, but which refuses to
insert a letter on the other side. "Let us not mix ourselves up
in their domestic affairs," said the Editor to me after an
hour's conversation. And though it is a matter of no
importance, I m