The Greek Archbishop of Syra and Tenos was enter- tained
by the Dean of Westminster at a dinner in the Jerusalem Chamber. Dean Stanley said grace in Greek, and also proposed his Grace's health in a very picturesquely geographical speech, reminding the company that Archbishop Lycurgus, in his rocky see of Syra, is a true episcopus or overlooker, overlooking " Tenos the faithful friend of Athens, in old days ; Melos, alas ! her doomed enemy ; and most instructive and significant spot, to which no diocese in Europe can offer any parallel, he overlooks the sacred isle of Delos, the birthplace of Apollo, the god of the Muses, the oracle of Greece, the inspirer of Grecian literature." The Dean also reminded his guests that only one Greek Archbishop had ever before visited these shores, Theodore of Tarsus, the only Greek who ever sat on the throne of Canterbury, and who in the seventh century was, rather than Alfred, the founder of the learning of the English Church. "The Saxon Chronicle" said of him, "before Theodore the bishops were all Romans,—after him they were English." Archbishop Lycurgus, though a Greek by birth, is a German by training, having studied at Leipsic, Berlin, and Halle. He had engrafted "on the stock of Augustine and Basil the learning of Tholuck and Winer." If so, he may well " overlook " Delos itself, and must have had some curious things to tell his diocese. We may all of us heartily join in Dean Stanley's unexpected modern Greek toast to the Christian Lycurgus,—which ran, being inter- preted, "May your years be many I"
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