ene heieen ehe Inaron unt tne dews. Whereas Baron (icorg leaves his
sweetheart (who bears him a dead child). with all sorts of sophistical reason¬
ing, in the lurch, and out of his bondage of love light-heartedly secks the
+road to freedom' and with a clear conscience begins a new life and new
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
a hundred ways. One gains the impression that Bermann is bound to go to
destruction over this mental conflict.
Der Weg ins Freie“' is not a “tendency novel'; it is a minute and
accurate description of men and affairs with whom and which we come into
daily contact. Allthecharacters of the narrative feel themselves in bondage
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
belong'’to no-one; he will remain an observer, a delineator, in short, a
poet. And he is a poet by the grace of God!
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.“ It is a novel with a purpose—a
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
has been said and written about this unsavoury subject that it scarcely
needed a novel of several hundred pages to enforce such an obvions moral.
But drink is not the only evil against which Miss Corelli inveighs. If we are
to accept her as our mentor, everything in present-day England is as bad as
it can possibly be. Her Church is thoroughly corrupt, criminals fill some of
its highest oflices; seciety is rotten to the core; the poison disseminated
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
doomed. Jews are notorionsly 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
object of vituperation. One wonders what sources of information were
accessible to a writer living a retired life at Strau'ord-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
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. IIe was at
once" boycotted,' and gangs of Jews paraded in front of his shop, causing a great
obstruction and annogance. and threatening him wich actual bodily violence because
he had employed other than Jews. Think of that in free' England! 1 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 1o#
prove as sericus a matteras the question of the negro population in America.
The grabbing Christian is bad enough, but the grabbing Jew is twenty times worse.
Besides, it is not a question of sect—but of race. Racial differences are inextinguish¬
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
there is no-one who would dare to expose him.
A Century of Misguided Effort.
There has just been placed in this reviewer’s hands—from an entirely
unofficial source—the“ History of the London Society for Promoting
Christianity amongst the Jews.“
A bulky volume of nearly seven hundred
pages, it provides an instructive object-lesson in the ultimate futility of con¬
versionist efforts. It might as well be mentioned at the outset that the
volume is dedicated“ To the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Lord Arch¬
bishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Patron of the Society?'—
this, with His Grace’s permission. Looking back upon a century of activity,
the Rev. W. T. Gidney, M.A., observes that“ readers
must not
expect to learn of large numbers of converts gathered in at one time, but
rather of one here and another there.“', Andso it wouldappear from a further
perusal of these pages, for the word failure is indelibly writ large over many
of them. Pages are devoted to conversionist activity among our coreli¬
gionists in Russia and Roumania, while the Falashas claim no small amount
of attention. Touching upon the evangelisation of the Jews in Russia, the#
historian has a somewhat doleful narrative to relate:
There they have resisted all modern innovations; and therethey still present as
firm a front as ever of orthodox and conservative Judaism.
So far from the
problem of the effective evangelisation of these Jewish millions having been solved, it
isto be feared that the magnitude of the undertaking has not even yet been realised.
So we see that the poor, harassed Russian Jew, in spite of all, still
remains loyal to the Jewish flag, despite missionary blandishments, despite
the tremendous efforts to touch even the outskirts, the fringe, of“ this
compact and solid mass of Judaism.“
The book takes the reader through
many climes, and throughout one is struck by the feverish activity displayed
in the search for lost Jewish souls. In his retrospect of work in the Ottoman
Empire, the author has some significant remarks to make concerning the
Sephardie Jews. Here is one of them:“ Spanish Jews are proverbially
harder to reach than the Ashkenazic, or German Jews. Pride of origin,
as well as of religion, makes them unapproachable.“
We are asked to state that the German edition of Mr. Zangwill's
Dreamers of the Ghett is published by Siegfried Cronbach, of Berlin, who
is the publisher of the authorised German edition of all Mr. Zangwill’s works
TilE Rev. the Haham, Dr. Gaster, will deliver a lecture, entitled“ Folk¬
Lore,' at the Bishopsgate Institute, on Tuesday, November 3rd.
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Vol. I: NEW YEAR.
Vol. II: DAY OF ATONEMENT,
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Vol. III: DAY OF ATONEMENT,
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Vol. IV: TABERNACLES.
Vol. V: PASSOVER. IVern Shortiy.)
Vol. VI: PENTECOST. 144 Press.)
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sweetheart (who bears him a dead child). with all sorts of sophistical reason¬
ing, in the lurch, and out of his bondage of love light-heartedly secks the
+road to freedom' and with a clear conscience begins a new life and new
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
a hundred ways. One gains the impression that Bermann is bound to go to
destruction over this mental conflict.
Der Weg ins Freie“' is not a “tendency novel'; it is a minute and
accurate description of men and affairs with whom and which we come into
daily contact. Allthecharacters of the narrative feel themselves in bondage
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
belong'’to no-one; he will remain an observer, a delineator, in short, a
poet. And he is a poet by the grace of God!
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.“ It is a novel with a purpose—a
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
has been said and written about this unsavoury subject that it scarcely
needed a novel of several hundred pages to enforce such an obvions moral.
But drink is not the only evil against which Miss Corelli inveighs. If we are
to accept her as our mentor, everything in present-day England is as bad as
it can possibly be. Her Church is thoroughly corrupt, criminals fill some of
its highest oflices; seciety is rotten to the core; the poison disseminated
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
doomed. Jews are notorionsly 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
object of vituperation. One wonders what sources of information were
accessible to a writer living a retired life at Strau'ord-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
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. IIe was at
once" boycotted,' and gangs of Jews paraded in front of his shop, causing a great
obstruction and annogance. and threatening him wich actual bodily violence because
he had employed other than Jews. Think of that in free' England! 1 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 1o#
prove as sericus a matteras the question of the negro population in America.
The grabbing Christian is bad enough, but the grabbing Jew is twenty times worse.
Besides, it is not a question of sect—but of race. Racial differences are inextinguish¬
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
there is no-one who would dare to expose him.
A Century of Misguided Effort.
There has just been placed in this reviewer’s hands—from an entirely
unofficial source—the“ History of the London Society for Promoting
Christianity amongst the Jews.“
A bulky volume of nearly seven hundred
pages, it provides an instructive object-lesson in the ultimate futility of con¬
versionist efforts. It might as well be mentioned at the outset that the
volume is dedicated“ To the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Lord Arch¬
bishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Patron of the Society?'—
this, with His Grace’s permission. Looking back upon a century of activity,
the Rev. W. T. Gidney, M.A., observes that“ readers
must not
expect to learn of large numbers of converts gathered in at one time, but
rather of one here and another there.“', Andso it wouldappear from a further
perusal of these pages, for the word failure is indelibly writ large over many
of them. Pages are devoted to conversionist activity among our coreli¬
gionists in Russia and Roumania, while the Falashas claim no small amount
of attention. Touching upon the evangelisation of the Jews in Russia, the#
historian has a somewhat doleful narrative to relate:
There they have resisted all modern innovations; and therethey still present as
firm a front as ever of orthodox and conservative Judaism.
So far from the
problem of the effective evangelisation of these Jewish millions having been solved, it
isto be feared that the magnitude of the undertaking has not even yet been realised.
So we see that the poor, harassed Russian Jew, in spite of all, still
remains loyal to the Jewish flag, despite missionary blandishments, despite
the tremendous efforts to touch even the outskirts, the fringe, of“ this
compact and solid mass of Judaism.“
The book takes the reader through
many climes, and throughout one is struck by the feverish activity displayed
in the search for lost Jewish souls. In his retrospect of work in the Ottoman
Empire, the author has some significant remarks to make concerning the
Sephardie Jews. Here is one of them:“ Spanish Jews are proverbially
harder to reach than the Ashkenazic, or German Jews. Pride of origin,
as well as of religion, makes them unapproachable.“
We are asked to state that the German edition of Mr. Zangwill's
Dreamers of the Ghett is published by Siegfried Cronbach, of Berlin, who
is the publisher of the authorised German edition of all Mr. Zangwill’s works
TilE Rev. the Haham, Dr. Gaster, will deliver a lecture, entitled“ Folk¬
Lore,' at the Bishopsgate Institute, on Tuesday, November 3rd.
Chief 3e1, GRAV’S INN RD.,
9320
W. CLARKE & SON, Omce: KING’s CROsS, W. o.
EUAANE SN
21.
COAL AND COKE.
Phone 628 North.
95. QUEEN'S RD., BAYSWATER, W eic. Phone 565 Paddington
Coal and Coke delivered in all parts of London same day as ordered if
S dred. Priccs on Application Ovaurer Guanasrahb. Established 1812
(in SIX VOLUMES), edited by
HERBERT M. ADLER, M.A., LL. M.
With an English Translation (in Prose and Verse)
By ARTHUR DAVIS, NINASALAMAN, ISRAEL ZANGWILL, and others,
and the Editor.
Svo, Cloth, red edges, 5- net, per vol., or 25/- net. for the 6 vols.
EDITION DE LUNE, on JAPON PAPER, bound in Lombskin,
git edges, with Front. bu S. J. SOLOMON, R.A., 108. 6d. net per“
rol., or 42 128. 6d. net for the 6 vols.
Vol. I: NEW YEAR.
Vol. II: DAY OF ATONEMENT,
Evening Service.
Vol. III: DAY OF ATONEMENT,
Morning, Afternoon, and Concluding Services.
Vol. IV: TABERNACLES.
Vol. V: PASSOVER. IVern Shortiy.)
Vol. VI: PENTECOST. 144 Press.)
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, Ltd., Ludgate Hill, E.C.
Vegetable
Margarine
THE MOST PERFECT
*
Gen ## norn 62# an zer
Daus 1072
n Ma
Substitute for
*# a00 Auro 9“ 4·7
Natural Butter
ur ge ae ae #
Free from animal fats.
Equals the best Natural
######### glürge s
Butter in all its qualities.
e n un br unde
Tomor is to be preferredto
butter because it can be used
## geg
as well with milk as with meat
and because it complies with
er i a#hrd zne Iuf ####n -oll:
the severest presciptions.
Absolutely different from
## - Geba#p#er # ##
Margarine made of anima##
42)# 75
fat.
600 : Vun wasS# au5
roMon is manufactured
under constant supervision
or l # # 0
and direction of an orthodor
oflicial, specially appointed
##e unbel #0# De u#n).
for this purpose and con¬
trolled by the Revd. Rabb.
— 66g 2P 3 —
Dr. B. Wolf of Cologne.
Six N # lolra
Au Gs uns Dhere nunel Hn ono
Write
Aae e uu
for samples and
mnom „.
el Ahe ##um k. W.
own
prices direct to
Wan morn
8
2
du e Z
the sole
Manufacturers:
11
Jand -Compang m. S. I., dieves
Rhenish Prussia.