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But their courageous story has been lost to Cornell history - until now. Blizzards, bad roads, an "unsettled" country: the challenges facing the three Cornellians who sailed from New York for the eastern Mediterranean in 1907 were legion. But their fourteen months' campaign in the Ottoman Empire nevertheless resulted in photographs, pottery, and copies of numerous Hittite inscriptions, many newly discovered or previously thought to be illegible. It took three years before their study of those inscriptions appeared, and while its title page conveyed its academic interest, it tells us nothing of the passion and commitment that made it possible. The story of the men behind the study and their adventures abroad has been lost to Cornell history-until now. The organizer, John Robert Sitlington Sterrett, spent the late 1800s traveling from one end of Anatolia to the other, where he established a reputation as an expert on Greek inscriptions. In 1901 he became Professor of Greek at Cornell, where he instilled his own love of travel in his most promising students.

For Sterrett, the expedition of 1907-08 was only the first step in an ambitious long-term plan for archaeological research in the Eastern Mediterranean. To launch his plan, Sterrett selected three recent Cornell alums. Their leader, Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, already projects a serious, scholarly air in his yearbook photo of 1902, whose caption jokingly alludes to his freshman ambition "of teaching Armenian history to Professor Schmidt." In 1907, just before crossing to Europe, Olmstead received his Ph.D. Cornell with a dissertation on Assyrian history. Olmstead's two younger companions, Benson Charles and Jesse Wrench, were both members of the class of 1906. They had spent 1904-05 traveling in Syria and Palestine, where they rowed the Dead Sea and practiced making the "squeezes," replicas of inscriptions made by pounding wet paper onto the stone surface and letting it dry, that would form one the expedition's primary occupations. Olmstead, Wrench, and Charles made their separate ways to Athens, whence they sailed together for Istanbul.

India's foreign policy establishment is said to be divided on the issue of Iraq. Some believe that with Bush set on ousting President Saddam Hussein through military strikes and in determining the nature of a post-Saddam dispensation, it would be in India's interest to just go along with the US now and gain a share in the spoils (reconstruction projects) as it has in Afghanistan. However, others believe that India does not stand to gain from an Iraqi invasion. The political upheaval and economic uncertainty it will engender across the Middle East will severely affect India. It could mean the return to India of millions of Indians working in the Middle East who are currently remitting around US$6 billion annually. Furthermore, the impact on the Indian economy will be severe given the fact that Arab oil accounts for almost two-thirds of India's crude imports. Indian officials are worried that Washington's current preoccupation with Iraq has distracted its attention away from the military operations against al-Qaeda.

It consists in the effort of will that results from it, in the moral improvement that is its successful conclusion. In this way we have wished to demonstrate that the most refined artists and also the most elevated moralists can take pleasure in travel books, that they are not only of scientific interest, above all if, like the one we are recommending here to the reader, they testify to the highest intelligence and the most admirable energy. It is France that M. de Cholet speaks of in these terms, and it seems to us as we finish his book, that he is also talking about himself. What animates this book and gives it so much interest, is in effect vitality in all its forms, the voluptuous life of artistic imagination that applies itself to the most diverse landscapes and recreates them, the austere life of thought that meditates upon the most weighty problems of history, the energetic life of a will without limits and without weaknesses that pursues the most difficult enterprises and steers them to good purpose.

The Kurds and the Turks, in short, made a very good impression on M. de Cholet, who in many passages speaks very highly of their feelings of family. He even devotes a charming description to the beauty of young Turks. The Armenians inspired in him some less favourable pages, though no less brilliant. M. de Cholet after having spoken about them, "where, not only do the most dissimilar races live side by side without mixing, but where, moreover, the most varied religions are practised without dying out. Armenians or Greeks, Mohammedans or Syriacs, Maronites or Chaldaeans, Gregorians or Nestorians, sometimes separated only by insignificant questions of rites or interpretations, stand irreconcilable one against the other, stirred up more than anything by their over numerous and over wretched clergy. Some however are more eclectic, and we were told about one of the great Christian merchants in the town (Kayseri) who, having placed his eldest son in the Armenian school, had had his second son enter with the Jesuits and the third placed in the Protestant Institute. In this way he was sure of having the support of each party, and only considered the different creeds that he was having each of his children practise as the means of freely gaining for them an excellent education." Does this resident of Kayseri not have an air of one of M. Meilhac's characters who would have deserted his immaterial comrades to go and colonize Asia Minor?

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