Freie
ins
box 3/2
23. Der Ne
an — — eeneeaeenenereee
OCrOBER 2, 1908.
22
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE.
milien. With wonderful virtuosity, Schnitzler shows how all these Jews are
N 278 n7a9 Ju7D
stilted and disguised towards this Christian Baron and behave as if they
were behind a mask, and he shows us with painful verisimilitude how this
uncertain behaviour, from which even the Zionist, Golowski, is not quite free,
NEW EBTTION THE PESTITAE TRATENS
affects, and is bound to affect, this Aryan, who is really a good fellow. When
Dr. Stauber, at their first meeting, gave him to understand that he was a Jew,
Issued with the Sanction of the Chief Rabbi.
the Baron smiled benevolently.
In reality, however. he was annoyed. In his view there was absolutely no
As perfect as any work of the kind can possibly be.'—Jeiish Chronicle.
necessity for the old Dr. Stauber to communicate the fact of his official adherence to
Judaism. He knew it already and did not object; but why did they always them¬
selves begin to talk about it? Wherever he went he only met Jews who were
ashamed or being Jews, or others who were proud of it, and were afraid people
might think they were ashamed of it.
Throughout the whole novel, and even in the love story, Schnitzler con¬
sistently emphasises the fact that even in heart-affairs there is a mighty
SERVICEOFTHESTNAGOEUE
difference between the Baron andthe Jews. Whereas Baron Georg leaves his
sweetheart (who bears him a dead child), with all sorts of sophistical reason¬
(in SIX VOLUMES), edited by
ing, in the lurch, and out of his bondage of love light-heartedly seeks the
47
+road to freedom'’ and with a clear conscience begins a new life and new
HERBERT M. ADLER, M.A., LL. M.
love, Heinrich Bermann distractedly seeks to convince himself that he was in
no way responsible for the suicide of his sweetheart, who had cheated him in
With an English Translation (in Prose and Verse)
a hundred ways. One gains the impression that Bermann is bound to go to
destruction over this mental conflict.
By ARTHUR DAVIS, NINASALAMAN, ISRAELZANGWILL, and others,
Der Weg ins Freie'' is not a“tendency novel'; it is a minute and
and the Editor.
accurate description of men and affairs with whom and which we come into
daily contact. Allthecharacters of the narrative feel themselves in bondage
Svo, Cloth, red edges, 5/- net, per vol., or 25/- net. for the 6 vols.
and seek“the road to freedom.“ Many of them behold their road, few enter
upon it. And even these do not pass the first milestone. Schnitzler nowhere
shows which is the road that he would traverse to the end. Thus he will
EDITION DE LUXE, on JAPON PAPER, bound in Lombskin,
belong'’ to no-one; he will remain an observer, a delineator, in short, a
güt edges, with front. bu S. J. SOLOMON, R. A., 108. 6d. net pen
poet. And he is a poet by the grace of God!
vol., or 32 12s. 6d. net for the 6 vols.
" Holy Orders.“
Perhaps one of the most tedious books she has ever written—and the
the author has a reputation for tedious prolixity and verbose iteration—is
Marie Corelli's latest novel,“ Holy Orders.“ lt is a novel with a purpose—a
Vol. I: NEW YEAR.
tirade against thedrink curse, whose devastating effects upon a quiet English
village in the Cotswold Hills are portrayed in lurid colours, and with all
the force of exaggeration in which this writer loves to indulge. So much
Vol. II: DAY OF ATONEMENT,
has been said and written about this unsavoury subject that it scarcelv
Evening Service.
needed a novel of several hundred pages to enforce such an obvious moral.
But drink is not the only evil against which Miss Corelli inveighs. If we are
Vol. III: DAY OF ATONEMENT,
to accept her as our mentor, everything in present-day England is as bad as
Morning, Afternoon, and Concluding Services.
it can possibly be. Her Church is thoroughly corrupt, eriminals fill some of
its highest oflices; society is rotten to the core; the poison disseminated
Vol. IV: TABERNACLES.
among the masses by a venal and vulgar Press is only different in kind to
that which is manufacted by rich brewers for the physical and moral
destruction of the poor; and London, like Babylon of old, in inevitably
Vol. V: PASSOVER. IVern Shortiz.)
doomed. Jews are notoriously a temperate people, and have no connection
whatever with the brewing interest; but even they do not escape the
writer’s lash. Indeed, her invective rather singles them out as a special
Vol. VI: PENTECOST. 14t Press.)
object of vituperation. One wonders what sources of information were
accessible to a writer living a retired life at Stratford-on-Avon, who can
allow her pen to run on in this irresponsible fashion :—
This place was the scene of a curious riot some time ago. Nearly every house in
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, Ltd., Ludgate Hill, E.C.
it is owned by Jews, and one of them, a baker, being over-pressed with work against
time, took on three Christian assistants to help him turn out his loaves. Ie was at
once" boycotted,' and gangs of Jews paraded in front of his shop, causing a great
obstruction and annoyance. and threatening him with actual bodily violence because
he had employed other than Jews. Think of that in free' England! I am no
fanatical anti-Semite, but Ishould be intellectually blind if 1 did not see that Britain
is being gradually overrun by Jews, in societv. in politics and in commerce, and that
the marked encouragement of Jews by the Throne and the Press is going in time to
prove as serious a matteras the question of the negro population in America.
Vegetable
The grabbing Christian is bad enovgh, but the grabbing Jew is twenty times worse.
Besides, it is not aquestion of sect—but ofrace. Racial differences are inextinguish¬
Margarine
able. The lion will not lie down with the lamb. Take Nordstein, for example. He
has made his millions by the most unscrupulous and dishonourable methods, and yet
N.
there is no-one who would dare to expose him.
A Century of Misguided Effort.
THE MOST PERFECT
There has just been placed in this reviewer’s hands—from an entirely
*
unoflicial source—the“ History of the London Society for Promoting
Cthe z Norn 6# an per.
A bulky volume of nearly seven hundred
795
Aa
pages, it provides an instructive obiect-lesson in the ultimate futility of con¬
versionist efforts. It might as well be mentioned at the outset that the
1 wan
Substitute for
volume is dedicated“ To the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Lord Arch¬
bishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Patron of the Society?—
• 20 AurS 3“ 47
Natural Butter
this, with His Grace’s permission. Looking back upon a century of activity,
Free from animal fats.
the Rev. W. T. Gidney, M.A., observes that“ readers
must not
„ur u zge mue me s
Equals the best Natural
expect to learn of large numbers of converts gathered in at oné time, but
Tas 7) 15% De Gsfürsee ur
Butter in all its qualities.
rather of one here and another there.“ And so it wouldappear froma further
perusal of these pages, for the word failure is indelibly writ large over many
Tomor is to be preferred to
Sl S u br unde
butter because it can be used
of them. Pages are devoted to conversionist activity among our coreli¬
as well with milk as with meat
a g
gionists in Russia and Roumania, while the Falashas claim no small amount
and because it complies with
of attention. Touching upon the evangelisation of the Jews in Russia, the
tlie severest presciptions.
ldr h -niret aue Iuf osenn of
historian has a somewhat doleful narrative to relate:
Absolutely different from
#e min- Geka greser k ##
There they have resisted all modern innovations; and therethey still present as
Margarine made of animal
1202 75
So far from the
firm a front as ever of orthodox and conservative Judaism.
fat.
problem of the effective evangelisation ofthese Jewish millions having been solved, it
is to be feared that the magnitude of the undertaking has not even yet been realised.
4e z Wun.e auzi 57
ToMok is manufactured
under constant supervision
So we see that the poor, harassed Russian Jew, in spite of all, still
uer## Se ze l##l. Nan 2 4·70
and direction ofan orthodox
remains loyal to the Jewish flag, despite missionary blandishments, despite
oflicial, specially appointed
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the tremendous efforts to teuch even the outskirts, the fringe, of“this
for this purpose and con¬
trolled by the Revd. Rabb.
compact and solid mass of Judaism.? The book takes the reader through
Dr
#1
Orne
SRdar
ins
box 3/2
23. Der Ne
an — — eeneeaeenenereee
OCrOBER 2, 1908.
22
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE.
milien. With wonderful virtuosity, Schnitzler shows how all these Jews are
N 278 n7a9 Ju7D
stilted and disguised towards this Christian Baron and behave as if they
were behind a mask, and he shows us with painful verisimilitude how this
uncertain behaviour, from which even the Zionist, Golowski, is not quite free,
NEW EBTTION THE PESTITAE TRATENS
affects, and is bound to affect, this Aryan, who is really a good fellow. When
Dr. Stauber, at their first meeting, gave him to understand that he was a Jew,
Issued with the Sanction of the Chief Rabbi.
the Baron smiled benevolently.
In reality, however. he was annoyed. In his view there was absolutely no
As perfect as any work of the kind can possibly be.'—Jeiish Chronicle.
necessity for the old Dr. Stauber to communicate the fact of his official adherence to
Judaism. He knew it already and did not object; but why did they always them¬
selves begin to talk about it? Wherever he went he only met Jews who were
ashamed or being Jews, or others who were proud of it, and were afraid people
might think they were ashamed of it.
Throughout the whole novel, and even in the love story, Schnitzler con¬
sistently emphasises the fact that even in heart-affairs there is a mighty
SERVICEOFTHESTNAGOEUE
difference between the Baron andthe Jews. Whereas Baron Georg leaves his
sweetheart (who bears him a dead child), with all sorts of sophistical reason¬
(in SIX VOLUMES), edited by
ing, in the lurch, and out of his bondage of love light-heartedly seeks the
47
+road to freedom'’ and with a clear conscience begins a new life and new
HERBERT M. ADLER, M.A., LL. M.
love, Heinrich Bermann distractedly seeks to convince himself that he was in
no way responsible for the suicide of his sweetheart, who had cheated him in
With an English Translation (in Prose and Verse)
a hundred ways. One gains the impression that Bermann is bound to go to
destruction over this mental conflict.
By ARTHUR DAVIS, NINASALAMAN, ISRAELZANGWILL, and others,
Der Weg ins Freie'' is not a“tendency novel'; it is a minute and
and the Editor.
accurate description of men and affairs with whom and which we come into
daily contact. Allthecharacters of the narrative feel themselves in bondage
Svo, Cloth, red edges, 5/- net, per vol., or 25/- net. for the 6 vols.
and seek“the road to freedom.“ Many of them behold their road, few enter
upon it. And even these do not pass the first milestone. Schnitzler nowhere
shows which is the road that he would traverse to the end. Thus he will
EDITION DE LUXE, on JAPON PAPER, bound in Lombskin,
belong'’ to no-one; he will remain an observer, a delineator, in short, a
güt edges, with front. bu S. J. SOLOMON, R. A., 108. 6d. net pen
poet. And he is a poet by the grace of God!
vol., or 32 12s. 6d. net for the 6 vols.
" Holy Orders.“
Perhaps one of the most tedious books she has ever written—and the
the author has a reputation for tedious prolixity and verbose iteration—is
Marie Corelli's latest novel,“ Holy Orders.“ lt is a novel with a purpose—a
Vol. I: NEW YEAR.
tirade against thedrink curse, whose devastating effects upon a quiet English
village in the Cotswold Hills are portrayed in lurid colours, and with all
the force of exaggeration in which this writer loves to indulge. So much
Vol. II: DAY OF ATONEMENT,
has been said and written about this unsavoury subject that it scarcelv
Evening Service.
needed a novel of several hundred pages to enforce such an obvious moral.
But drink is not the only evil against which Miss Corelli inveighs. If we are
Vol. III: DAY OF ATONEMENT,
to accept her as our mentor, everything in present-day England is as bad as
Morning, Afternoon, and Concluding Services.
it can possibly be. Her Church is thoroughly corrupt, eriminals fill some of
its highest oflices; society is rotten to the core; the poison disseminated
Vol. IV: TABERNACLES.
among the masses by a venal and vulgar Press is only different in kind to
that which is manufacted by rich brewers for the physical and moral
destruction of the poor; and London, like Babylon of old, in inevitably
Vol. V: PASSOVER. IVern Shortiz.)
doomed. Jews are notoriously a temperate people, and have no connection
whatever with the brewing interest; but even they do not escape the
writer’s lash. Indeed, her invective rather singles them out as a special
Vol. VI: PENTECOST. 14t Press.)
object of vituperation. One wonders what sources of information were
accessible to a writer living a retired life at Stratford-on-Avon, who can
allow her pen to run on in this irresponsible fashion :—
This place was the scene of a curious riot some time ago. Nearly every house in
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, Ltd., Ludgate Hill, E.C.
it is owned by Jews, and one of them, a baker, being over-pressed with work against
time, took on three Christian assistants to help him turn out his loaves. Ie was at
once" boycotted,' and gangs of Jews paraded in front of his shop, causing a great
obstruction and annoyance. and threatening him with actual bodily violence because
he had employed other than Jews. Think of that in free' England! I am no
fanatical anti-Semite, but Ishould be intellectually blind if 1 did not see that Britain
is being gradually overrun by Jews, in societv. in politics and in commerce, and that
the marked encouragement of Jews by the Throne and the Press is going in time to
prove as serious a matteras the question of the negro population in America.
Vegetable
The grabbing Christian is bad enovgh, but the grabbing Jew is twenty times worse.
Besides, it is not aquestion of sect—but ofrace. Racial differences are inextinguish¬
Margarine
able. The lion will not lie down with the lamb. Take Nordstein, for example. He
has made his millions by the most unscrupulous and dishonourable methods, and yet
N.
there is no-one who would dare to expose him.
A Century of Misguided Effort.
THE MOST PERFECT
There has just been placed in this reviewer’s hands—from an entirely
*
unoflicial source—the“ History of the London Society for Promoting
Cthe z Norn 6# an per.
A bulky volume of nearly seven hundred
795
Aa
pages, it provides an instructive obiect-lesson in the ultimate futility of con¬
versionist efforts. It might as well be mentioned at the outset that the
1 wan
Substitute for
volume is dedicated“ To the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Lord Arch¬
bishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Patron of the Society?—
• 20 AurS 3“ 47
Natural Butter
this, with His Grace’s permission. Looking back upon a century of activity,
Free from animal fats.
the Rev. W. T. Gidney, M.A., observes that“ readers
must not
„ur u zge mue me s
Equals the best Natural
expect to learn of large numbers of converts gathered in at oné time, but
Tas 7) 15% De Gsfürsee ur
Butter in all its qualities.
rather of one here and another there.“ And so it wouldappear froma further
perusal of these pages, for the word failure is indelibly writ large over many
Tomor is to be preferred to
Sl S u br unde
butter because it can be used
of them. Pages are devoted to conversionist activity among our coreli¬
as well with milk as with meat
a g
gionists in Russia and Roumania, while the Falashas claim no small amount
and because it complies with
of attention. Touching upon the evangelisation of the Jews in Russia, the
tlie severest presciptions.
ldr h -niret aue Iuf osenn of
historian has a somewhat doleful narrative to relate:
Absolutely different from
#e min- Geka greser k ##
There they have resisted all modern innovations; and therethey still present as
Margarine made of animal
1202 75
So far from the
firm a front as ever of orthodox and conservative Judaism.
fat.
problem of the effective evangelisation ofthese Jewish millions having been solved, it
is to be feared that the magnitude of the undertaking has not even yet been realised.
4e z Wun.e auzi 57
ToMok is manufactured
under constant supervision
So we see that the poor, harassed Russian Jew, in spite of all, still
uer## Se ze l##l. Nan 2 4·70
and direction ofan orthodox
remains loyal to the Jewish flag, despite missionary blandishments, despite
oflicial, specially appointed
#7 uabel wo64 be ##n)
the tremendous efforts to teuch even the outskirts, the fringe, of“this
for this purpose and con¬
trolled by the Revd. Rabb.
compact and solid mass of Judaism.? The book takes the reader through
Dr
#1
Orne
SRdar