The Cruise of the Branwen

INTRODUCTORY been paid either to our taste or to our love of justice. But more than this is necessary, and the inevitable hard work is being cheerfully under– taken by Olympic Committees organised in every country, who select representative athletes, secure Government subsidies to pay for their journey, raise subscriptions with the same object, in– vestigate the amateur status of competitors, who can only enter with that official guarantee, and correspond on every conceivable subject and in about a score of different languages with the British headquarters at 108 Victoria Street~ Westminster, where the threads of this huge undertaking are inspected, manipulated, woven slowly into some semblance of a pattern, by the British Council, whose names I have just given. It will be realised already that the series of Games resulting in the Meetings of I 896, 1900, 1904 and 1908, with future meetings in 1912, 1916, and so forth, implies a quadrennial cycle in– volving a permanent organisation in which one central board, called the International Olympic Council, is at the head of the various councils which manage each nation's separate athletic a-ffairs, and the meetings resulting from this are those technically known as "The Olympic Games." But no one is, after all, in a position to say that Greece is not to use a title so charac– teristically appropriate to herself for international gatherings which occur in a different series from that of the official cycle just described. As a matter of fact, the brilliant and interesting gathering in Greece in 1906 which is the main 7