Abstract

Americans in Turkey

This article critically appraises the book, "Among the Turks," by Cyrus Hamlin. This is, reportedly, a book containing sketches of the personal experience of a missionary who resided for thirty-five years in Turkey, chiefly in Constantinople, Turkey, and giving at the same time various anecdotes and stories, all of which are entertaining, with remarks and inferences which, in many cases, are not borne out by the context. Hamlin has made a greater impression, but while knowing little about Russia, he fears and dislikes that country. His fear seems chiefly directed to one point that if Russian influence should become predominant in Turkey the missionaries would not be so able as before to turn Armenian and Greek Christians into Protestants, for of the conversion of the Turks there is as yet very little thought, and the American missionaries in Turkey do not occupy themselves with the Jews.