Nor has all this been a vain show. In the course of the past century, liberty has won many victories in the Near East. Servia, Roumania, Bulgaria, Greece, have risen from the dead and become independent and progressive nations. Old national memories, stretching, in the case of Greece, as far back as classic times, have united with modern ideas to restore the continuity of history, and to hasten the day when the whole of Europe will move forward together. The flood which covered the land has slowly subsided. Tract after tract of the devastated earth has risen above the waters, and is reclaimed for new life and fruit. And the forces which have produced this wonderful transformation still operate. Who can stay their power? What precise form the final consummation will assume--a federation, the rule of a Free Russia, a group of independent but friendly States, partition between the Great Powers--is a secret no one can meantime divine. The unexpected may happen. But the future destiny of a city which has acted so great a part in the past, and which is capable of acting an even greater part in the time to come, is only another reason why life here is so large. What other city presents such a problem? One may as soon dwell by the shore of an ocean, or in view of peaks rising to heaven, and fail to be impressed by the greatness of the world, as live in Constantinople without realising the vastness of human interests and problems. INDEX Abimelech, 254 Acœmetæ, 150, 155 Acropolis, 15, 16, 88, 89 Admiralty, 109, 117 Adrianople, 33, 144 Aivan Serai, 54, 102, 115, 119 Alaric, 45, 54 Albanians, 273 Alemanni, 29 Alexander the Great, 13 Ali, 270 Alti Mermer, 37 Amalfi, 161 Ammianus Marcellinus, 25 Anemodulion, 39 Anna Dalassena, 163 Anthemius, Prefect, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 137, 149, 183 Anthemius of Tralles, 180 Aqueduct of Valens, 218 Arabs, 123 Arcadia, 48 Arian, 234 Arius, 35 Armenian Church, 68, 234 Armenians, 211, 234 Athanaric, 34, 35 Athenais, 71, 72 Athyras, 122 Attila, 54, 57, 78, 122 Augustaion, 20 Avars, 120, 123, 155 Bairam, 231, 268 Balat, 111 Basil, 86, 135, 157 Basilica, 27 Basilica Cistern, 218 Basilica Theodosiana, 39 Baths of Achilles, The, 60 Baths of Constantine, 39 Baths of Zeuxippus, 16, 19, 20 Bektash Dervishes, 271 Belgrade, 9 Belisarius, 158 Beshiktash, 84, 114, 116 Blachernæ, 23, 53, 120 Bohemond, 126 Bondelmontius, 137 Bonus, 155 Bronze Horses of Lysippus, 60 Browning, 104 Bucoleon, 94, 96 Bulgaria, 275 Bulgarian Church, 239, 240 Bulgarians, 236, 238, 239, 240, 273 Bury, Professor, 148 Buyuk Tchekmedjé, 122 Buyukderé, 203 Cannæ, 33 Canning, Sir Stratford, 200, 250 Capitol, 21, 62 Capitoline Hill, 193 Capitulations, 265 Carthage, 54, 57 Cassim Pasha, 114, 116 Cassius, 4 Chæronea, 149 Chalcedon, 84 Chalons, 272