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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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yal gardens and the white marblepalace of the king. It is King George I, now, a worthy-successor to the rulers of that elder daywhen Greek art and poetry and nationalprosperity set a standard for the world.Athens was a pretty poor place whenKing George came to the throne in1863. He was only eighteen years old,then—the country was bankrupt, thethrone had gone begging. In Inno-cents Abroad Mark Twain says: It was offered to one of Victoriassons, and afterwards to various otheryounger sons of royalty who had nothrones and were out of business, butthey all had the charity to decline thedreary honor and veneration enough forGreeces ancient greatness to refuse tomock her sorrowful rags and dirt witha tinsel throne in this day of her humil-iation—till they came to this youngDanish George and he took it. He hasfinished the splendid palace I saw in theradiant moonlight the other night and isdoing many other things for the salva-tion of Greece, they say. This was written in 1867, four years
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HE WOULD SWING HIS ARMS AND POINT TO SOMETHING AND BEGINYOU SEE ! THE REST REQUIRED A MIND READER. after King George ascended the throne, stored upon the spot where the ancient For the good of Greece he has been stadium stood—renewed in all its splen- spared these forty years and more to dor by a rich Greek named George continue the work which in this noble Averof, a monument such as no other palace he began. Athens is no longer a Greek has left behind,mendicant and a reproach, but a splendid I believe King George, however, was marble city, preserving her traditions, chiefly responsible for this noble work, caring for her ruins, reestablishing her The ancient stadium was laid out in a classic tongue. natural hollowT by Lycurgus, before The Diplomat told us some of these Christ over three hundred years, and things as we drove along and the others was rebuilt something less than five hun- wTe could see for ourselves. Then sud- dred years later by the Averof of that denly we were broug

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