In Memoriam

Tourists in Athens have found the memory of Lord Byron celebrated nightly in "The Byron Bar," just a block from the Great Britain Hotel. On April 19, 1924, centenary of the death at Missolonghi*of Byron, most famous of the champions of the cause of Greek freedom during their eight years' revolution against the Turks, will be more decorously celebrated throughout Greece.

A course of lectures on Byron has already begun at the Athens "Parnassos" Society; a book by M. Volonakes, Rhodes historian, is coming out; there is to be a commemorative issue of postage stamps.

Byron visited Greece three times: much of his most inspired poetry deals with themes evoked by the country he loved so much.

*Missolonghi is a hot, dusty little fishing hamlet on the north of the Gulf of Corinth. It was there that Byron died during the dramatic defense against the overwhelming forces of Osman Pasha, a defense that lasted two yeart and fired the imagination of all Europe.