Probably the only household word common to the whole of the Balk-one and Greece—that portion of the conticent where the iobabitants talk of going to Europe"" cores the Danabe—is the name of Gladstone. Servi may invoke the memory of Milosh Obilich or Gear Bulgaria may recall a Boris or an Iva Greece will tell of one or other of the minor heroes of the War of Iodependence; bat outside the boundaries of their respective countries these names Throughout the name of Gladstone is held in' special honour and it may be regarded as the underlying cause of the i friendliness {elt by all these indication of the genuine respect with which Gladstone's memory is still cherished was given last mooth when a deputation of the Bulgarian Nation Assembly was present at the colebraliver wreath on his statue. At the sam; time memorial services were bela in the Sofia Cathedral aod in the majority of churches throughout Bul-Gladstone is regarded in the all small nationalities; bat his denunciation of the then Turkish regime and his championship of the Bulgarians secured him the special gratitude of the Principality. In Greece his name is associated with the retarn of the Ionian Islands to that country on the acossaion of King George; bat he was held subsequently to have fallen from grace when he countenanced the blockade of the Peiraeus. In this connexion we may recall the chequered career of a statue of Gladstone built to commemorate the gratitude of the Greek nation. Before the statue was finished the blockade of the Peiraeus bad occurred. The name of Gladstone was forthwith taboo, and with no one to take it in public, the statue was rasly to a cellar of the Athens U: ity. There it lay, antu time had healed the bitterness of Gladstone's offence, and in 1898 the occasion of a small exhibition in Athens was taken to introduce the statue to the public. As no untoward results ensued the Government of the day plucked up courage and on Gladstone's death it was decided to set up the statue with dae bonar in the finest thoroughfare of the capital.
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