The lamented death of Dr. Joannes Gennadius has severed a link which for two generations had contributed to unite Great Britain with Greece. No foreign diplomatist possessed such a complete knowledge of our language, which he wrote and spoke with elegance, and of our psychology; no Greek public man had lived so long in England, with which he had literary, no less than political, associations, going back to the early seventies of the last century. Of his diplomatic services to both countries, his own and that of his adoption, others have written; I propose here to say something of the noble library which will always be a monument to his patriotic father, one of the finest figures of the Greek struggle for independence, the διδάσκαλος τού γένους, to himself and to the distinguished English lady who was his wife and whose initials, with his own, are imprinted on many of the beautiful bindings which adorn the ‘Gennadeion’ upon the slopes of Lykabettos.