BLACKWOOD’S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. CCCCLXVI. AUGUST, 1854. VOL. LXXVI. CONTENTS. TRICOUPI AND ALISON ON THE GREEK REVOLUTION, 119 STUDENT LIFE IN SCOTLAND, 135 THE INSURRECTION IN SPAIN, 151 THE ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPE, 165 THE GANGETIC PROVINCES OF BRITISH INDIA, 183 THE SECRET OF STOKE MANOR: A FAMILY HISTORY.—PART III., 206 CONSERVATIVE REASCENDANCY CONSIDERED, 230 EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, 45 GEORGE STREET, AND 37 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON; _To whom all communications (post paid) must be addressed._ SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH. BLACKWOOD’S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. CCCCLXVI. AUGUST, 1854. VOL. LXXVI. TRICOUPI AND ALISON ON THE GREEK REVOLUTION.[1][2] We certainly owe an apology to our Greek ambassador. The nine hundred and ninety-ninth edition of a declamatory old play of Euripides, cut and slashed into the most newfangled propriety by some J. A. Hartung, or other critical German, with a tomahawk, is a phenomenon in the literary world that can excite no attention; but when a regularly built living Greek comes forward in the middle of this nineteenth century, exactly four hundred years after the last Byzantine chronicler had been blown into the air by our brave allies the Turks—and within the precincts of the Red Lion Court, London—ἐν τῇ ἀυλῇ τοῦ ἐρυθροῦ λέοντος—puts forth a regularly built history of the Greek Revolution of 1821, thereby claiming—not without impudence, as some think—a place on our classical shelves alongside of Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, and a great way above Diodorus Siculus, and other such retailers of venerable hearsay: this truly is an event in the Greek world that claims notice from the general reviewer even more than from the professed classical scholar. At the present moment, particularly, one likes to see what a living Greek, with a pen in his hand, has to say for himself; his language and his power of utterance is an element in the great Turko-Russian question that cannot be lost sight of. Doubly welcome, therefore, is this first instalment of Mr Tricoupi’s long-expected history; and as it happens opportunely that the most interesting portion of Sir A. Alison’s third volume is occupied with the same theme, we eagerly seize the present opportunity at once to acquit ourselves of an old debt to our Hellenic ambassador, and to thank Sir A. Alison for the spirited, graphic, and thoroughly sympathetic style in which he has presented to the general English reader the history of a bright period