It has often happened that the representatives of the Greek Orthodox church have not been understood as they spoke to make their position clear in matters of theology and ecclesiastical organization. That is because the Greek Church has been so little known, and its history and development so largely neglected by English writers and students. The Greek Patriarchs who have become well known at the various conferences held under the auspices of the World Council of Churches have none the less come from another world not known, especially what has been going on in that world in the last generation or two. This gap Mr. Hammond attempts to fill, with sympathy, wit and keen insight into the ways of the Greek Church which seem as strange and foreign to the western world. It is based on first-hand experience: the author was invited by the Church of Salonica to spend two years there for the very purpose of learning and seeing what he has vividly portrayed in these pages.