inhabitants to look forward to the possession of a lyceum or university similar to those of the larger cities.* half for every lecture he may deliver in addition; subject, I conclude, in this, to the control of the chancellor. Permission to attend lectures, as well as instruction in the English language, is quite gratuitous. Thus the expenses of a philologian are confined to the mere necessaries of life; and, so far as the authority of the University extends, no extravagance of any kind is permitted. The student cannot exceed much in the article of coffee, which is the usual morning beverage; and at the trattoria, or dining-house, every thing is limited, twenty oboli, or ten-pence, being the maximum allowed on ordinary days, twenty-five on the holidays of the church, thirty at Christmas and Easter, and on the festival of the philologian's patron saint. It is indeed not rating the cost of education at Corfu too low to say that, including * Hugo Foscolo, whose name is so well known in England as an Italian critic and commentator, stood deservedly at the head of the Ionian literati. Another distinguished scholar is Andrea Mustoxidi, who discovered in the Ambrosian library the lost fragment of the Tepi Ts avτidóσews of Isocrates, which he published at Milan in 1812. Poetry, likewise, has been most successfully cultivated in the Ionian Islands; the verses of Salomos and Calbo equal, if they do not exceed in popularity, the lyrics of Christopoulo; and Zambelios, of Santa Maura, is author of a tragedy entitled Timoleon, one of the greatest favourites of the modern Greek drama. The songs of Calbo were printed at Geneva in 1824, and one of the most favourable specimens of the poetry of Salomos, his splendid " Address to Liberty," will be found in the second volume of M. Fauriel's collection. At Patmos there had existed since the beginning of the eighteenth century an insti board and clothing, it does not exceed fifteen dollars, or three pounds ten shillings a month, or about forty pounds a-year. 66 With the exception of a few days in holy week and the holidays of the Greek church, all is active term-time from the first of November, when the scholastic year terminates, to the fifteenth of June. The number of philologians has encreased rapidly and steadily since the opening of the University. There were fortyseven the first year, eighty-seven the second, and two hundred and eleven in June 1826. To make up the latter number, Corfu sends eighty, Cephalonia twenty-eight; Ithaca, twenty-one; Zante, eleven; Paros, four; Santa Maura, two; Cerigo, two; England, one; and the Continent of Greece, sixty-three. The complement of ephebes rather exceeds in number that of the philologians, so that it may be fairly calculated, that in June 1826, there were nearly five hundred students belonging to the Corfu establishment. No ephebe can become a philologian till he has reached his fourteenth year; nor then, till he has satisfactorily passed a strict examination in Greek, Latin, and arithmetic; and, when the student is intended for holy orders, in theology. After three years the philologian is examined for his bachelor's degree; and upon this occasion the Archimandrite of the Greek church attends, to question the candidates for the priesthood. The bachelor is to be admitted master of arts after a certain time, not yet determined upon; and a degree is, henceforth, to be considered a necessary qualification for holding certain offices, among which those of the church are included. "The costumes of the University have been chosen, as far tution for education, which was formed by an ecclesiastic named Macarius, and was one of the earliest instances of private liberality as modern notions of comfort and propriety allowed, from the ancient dresses, as we find them sculptured in marble, or painted upon fictile vases. Among them, the full dress of a doctor is strikingly classical, and, when well managed, very imposing. It consists of a full drab-coloured uation, or robe, extending over the whole body from the neck, where it is buttoned close as far as the mid-leg, where it meets the red uides, or boots, as we should call them; over this is the Tρißaviov, through the rents of which, on the shoulders of Diogenes, Plato spied the vanity of the Cynic philosopher. The colour of the trevonion varies, and is red, purple, or blue, according to the faculty of the wearer in physic, law, or philosophy; the imation being the same in all, except in the faculty of theology, in which case there is no trevonion, and the entire dress is black, like that of the priests. The brow is encircled with a narrow σTepavos, or fillet, of the same colour and cloth as the imation; an exception being made in favour of the archon (and it is his only distinction), when it is composed of black velvet, with a gold owl and laurel wreath embroidered upon it, the owl appearing in the centre of the forehead. The philologian wears a nankeen imation, restrained by a zone of the same material, and a xλaμidiov, or scarf of light blue, which is generally worn crossed over the chest, one end of it being thrown gracefully back over the left shoulder. None of the ephebes wear academics except the euelpists, who are distinguished by a chlamidion of white instead of light blue. As a covering for the head a broad umbrella kind of hat, termed Teraσos, such as are worn by Dominican friars in Italy, was first tried. Its ample dimensions were dictated by the climate, and Caligula allowed endowing such foundations.* It continued for upwards of a century to supply teachers to the surrounding islands and the towns on the Asi one of a like form to be worn at the public theatres by way of parasol. But every country is said to produce a certain quantity of coxcombs as preservatives against the spleen; and Corfu possesses a few among its philologians. These young gentlemen, in their anxiety to make the petasos more becoming, clipped it and clipped it till they formed what English simplicity might have compared to a Newmarket jockey-cap; though it ought, I presume, to have been rather termed a crestless xuveŋ, or helmet. They afterwards returned to the original shape, for which there is authority on the Greek vases. "The number of books which the University library contained in June 1826 amounted to upwards of nine thousand; of these one half belong to Lord Guildford, the other to the Ionian Government. Among the latter are the Flora Danica and Scriptores Rerum Danicarum, with several valuable works from the royal typography at Copenhagen, recently presented by the King of Denmark. There are likewise some donations from our two English Universities and the East India Company, with smaller offerings from private individuals anxious for the success of the Corfu institution. A thousand books are also now on their way to the island from Count Mocenigo, a Zantiote nobleman, envoy from Russia to the court of Turin. To all these Lord Guildford has recently made a splendid addition of eight thousand printed works, besides three thousand highly valuable manuscripts illustrative of modern history, from the twelfth century down to the present time, so that there are now upwards of twenty-one thousand volumes at Corfu." Jowett's Researches, p. 62. Leake, p. 227. atic coast, till eclipsed by the colleges of Scio, Smyrna, and Aivali, which it had been the first to furnish with professors. It was in this portion of the Levant, where commerce was most extended and lucrative, that education seemed peculiarly to flourish. to flourish. At Scio the merchants had, about the close of the eighteenth century, established a college by a voluntary tax of two per cent. upon their property;* its increase was so rapid, that at the period of the destruction of Scio by the Turks, in 1823, it contained fourteen professorships, † accommodated eight hun * Mac Farlane's Constantinople, v. ii. p. 161. Memoirs of the Rev. Pliny Fisk, p. 84. Carrel, p. 273. Jowett's Researches, p. 71. At the time of Mr. Fisk's visit to Scio (July 24, 1820), there belonged to the college, one professor of chemistry and rhetoric, one of mathematics, one of theology, geometry, &c. one of the Turkish language, one of Latin and the French, and nine teachers of the ancient and modern Greek. The higher classes were required to study Plutarch, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Plato, Herodotus, Pindar, and the Iliad. Of the Sciot professors the most distinguished was Vardalachos, whom I have already mentioned as successor to Photiades at Bucharest: he was born in Egypt of Sciot parents, educated at the expense of the Patriarch of Alexandria, and having completed his studies at Padua and Pisa, he obtained his Wallachian professorship, whence he removed to his native island in 1814. His subsequent withdrawal to Odessa I have already mentioned. Vamvas, another eminent scholar of the same institution, is particularly distinguished for his |