Messrs. Edward Stanford have published an instruotive and well-executed Ranalogical
Map illustrating Hdlenienn in the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor, with an explanatory pamph- let by Professor Soteriadis, of the University of Athena. The map is based not on language so much as on "national conscious- ness as the only satisfactory criterion of nationality." Unlike many patriotic map-makers of Eastern Europe, the author does not exaggerate the extent of territory inhabited by Greeks. He admits, for example, that, though Drama and Koval& are Greek towns, the neighbouring districts are mainly inhabited by Moslems. On the other hand, he shows that all the coast of Thrace, contrary to Mr. Lloyd George's hasty assertion, is inhabited by Greeks, while the Moslems have the interior. The Western Asiatic coast, too, from the Straits down to Alikaruassos (Budrum) is Greek. The author deals very fairly also with the complex of nationalities in Macedonia and Southern Albania or Northern Epirus. It is obvious that no clear-rut solution of these problems can be found.
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