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EPILOGUE. It is a most peculiar habit of tourists who have been a few days in Athens to write childish arti- cles for their home journals about Greece and the Greeks. I recollect such a paper which ap- peared in one of our first-class illustrated maga- zines. The author, a reverend gentleman, had been staying in Athens two days in all. He was addressed as Kurie, and people said kalimerra instead of good-day, and this was all he wrote about the Greek language. Unfortunately these tourists, not understanding the language of the country, are ill-humored and write with malevolence. Their readers at home believe everything, and the most absurd ideas are spread. Perhaps nothing is more amusing than the in- voluntary drollery of the man in the shabby full- dress suit in a dime museum. " Here, ladies and gentlemen, you see two busts: this is Cae- sar's and the other Pompey's. They are very much alike, especially Caesar." This is about