Evening star., 1944-02-20
Stamps
By James Waldo Fssccrff.

Ayin~ Tor March Will be of Specia
interest and value TO collectors o.
the stamps Of Greece. More thar
three-quarters of the contents o.
the issue are devoted to Helleni,
history, culture and philosophy.
As q preface TO the main text
Or. Gilbert Grosevenor. editor. Of
fers a discussion OF The Greel
Way" by Edith Hamilton. author
Of THE Great Age OF Greek Liter
ature" and other books on classica
themes, now a resident of George
town. THE Greeks" 1t is explained
were the first people in the world tt
play, and they played on a grea
scale. All over Greece there wer'
games. all sorts Of games; athletic
contests of every description
Races-horse, boat, foot, torch races
contests In music, where one sid'
outsang the other; in dancing-or
creased skins sometimes to display
a nice skill of foot and balance o
body; games where men leaped ir
and out Of flying chariots; game
80 many one grows weary with the
list of them. They are embodied IL
the statues familiar to all, the dist
thrower, the charioteer, the wrest-
ling boys, the dancing flute players.
In Illustration of the principle o.
civilization thus expressed - the
principle of life lived with some
conscious and deliberate determine.
ton to achieve health and happi.
ness the National Geographic
prints 80 beautiful pictures of 1.-The
Glory That Was Greece" painted
in full color by H. M. ,Herget of St
Louis. with descriptive captions re-
flecting the development Of modern
Mediterranean archaeology and eth
biography.
A third feature is comprehensive
article on Greece, the Birthplace
of Science and Free Speech" by
Prof. Richard Stillwell of Princeton
University, currently an officer in
the United States Navy. Many half
tone plates are introduced in this
portion Of the magazine.
The correlation of the whole issue
with the Greek aspect of philately
is evident from a hurried compari-
son between the subject of Mr..
Herget's paintings and SCOTS
Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue
for 1914. First of the series depicts
an incident in the bull ring at
Cnossus in Crete-the mysterious
sport in which both boys and girls
grappled with animals, apparently
trained for such exploits. The
stamp to which it relates is the
81, brown, red and blue adhesive of
1887 (Scott's A-69D.
Other pictures by Mr Herget and
their opposite numbers in stamps
are:
Mycenaean Palace, a lady of the
court receiving travellers, A70;
Fountain House, $500 years ago,
AS classic vase; chariot race at
Olympia, AS and ATT; harvesting
olives, Alb (Atlas and the apples of
Hesperides).
Corinth fishermen, A-36; hauling
a ship over the isthmus, AP-13
(map); Oracle of Delphi, A-23 (sac-
rifice) and A-l0l dnsignia; young
Spartans, AS (boXers), A-97, A-99
and A-1o0 Greek youth organiza-
tion series; Battle of Themopylae,
A-63 youth of Marathon; Per-
slams Storming the Acropolis, AT,
A-I0, A-42, A-46, APP, AP-5, AP-
=. AP-31; Battle of Salamis, ATS.
Greek Love of Athletics, AS
E.oxers), A-20 (wrestlers), All
{ -ir1perJ; Athenian School, A-44
academy of Sciences; Weaving
and Spinning, AIS Gris), A-32,
A-72; the Parthenon. A-10. A-62,
A-66; Panathenaic Procession to
Athena, same; the Erechtheum, AP-
Greek Domestic Scene, PTS and
Pts; Voting In Athens Market
Place, A-78 (St. PauD: Potter at
Work, APT (flgurineo; Hippocrates,
PTS and PTS: Praxiteles, AS;
Hermes, A-74 Venus de Milo);
Greek Countryside, Apt GSan-
torin).
Alexander and Diogenes, ATT;
Alexander at Issus, same; Greek
Theater, AT and Asa; Greek
Fleet, ATS; Archimedes, A-44.
Careful study undoubtedly will re-
veal to observant collectors details
of design and text which are not
apprehended at first glance. Mr..
Herget's paintings, meticulously cor
rect as they are, and Prof. Still
wells and Miss Hamilton's articles
constitute what is, in effect, an
encyclopedia for stamp enthusiasts
who favor Hellenic adheSives. The
material available, of course, is not
limited to Greece. 1t extends every
where that Greek civilization has
reached. And philatelists are rather
more apt to appreciate that truth
than people unacquainted with the
worlds favorite hobby.
The originals of Mr.. Herget's pic
tures-also his studies of life in
ancient Mexico, Peru and Egypt
previously published by the National
Geographic Magazine will be on
exhibition at the society's headquar-
ters, Sixteenth and M streets NV,
shortly.
Five new "Anno Santo" stamps
are reported by the Associated Press
as having been produced by the
postal authorities of Spain. One
design features the portrait of a
bearded man with what seems to be
a halo behind him-perhaps a rep
resentation of the Saviour.
DR.. Marc Peter, former Minister
of Switzerland, now American rep
resentative of the International Red
Cross Committee, will speak before
a meeting of the Washington
Philatelic Society, Lee Sheraton Ho-
tel, Fifteenth street NV, Wednes-
day evening at 8. His subject will
be War Prisoners Mail" The pub
lie Is invited to attend.
STAMPS AND COINS.
FREE, 80 different U. S. with U. S. and