Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1916 — Lord Byron an Idol in Greece. [ARTICLE]

Lord Byron an Idol in Greece.

There is at least one Englishman for whom Grrek affection has never wavered —Lord Byron. Not only is he commemorated in Greece by statuesand street names, but his portrait is to be found everywhere, even in the most unlikely places. W. Miller, in his “Greek .Life in Town and Country," teHs how he came upon a portrait of the poet in a provincial restaurant. The moment he took notice of it "the proprietor, a stout, prosaic looking man, whom no one would have suspected of sentiment, stepped toward the picture, clasped his hands iri pathetic gesture, and with a faraway look in his eyes, stood for a time in rapt admiration of the great Philhellene.”