The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-07
MR. FfRJIDN.



Many Of the Israelitcs of this city have
road with some feeling the paragraph in the
JDrisi Times ntimatng that Mr. Farcon has
denied lie race and religion. Mr. Israel Far
iron II Nnssiu street. the authors brother. a
dealer ia jewellers materials. says: d" saw tho
paragraph from the J,r,si 7on,s. and was
amused anil vet half indignant about it, 4
great number Of my friends have been to SEQ
mo. anil some Of them had moro fcrling
about 1t than I ever thought OF enter.
tanning. Thu paragraph lal It's origin in
"a hluui"r ina report in IA sIfYoNof am intnr-
view with my brother. H. WIS asked of what
rae" our mother ~. and h. replied that she
WIS ntish womun The reporter wrote u
Celtic woman assuming that my brother
meant that she was of Irish birth. The Hrahrs
hunlor and the Tunes unthinkng haste to
defend what didn't need defence are re-
sponsihle for This foolish paragraph. NV
father was nntivc " Tunis H. wns an cdu.
crt"d man.. u great traveller. and n ln.u "A.
H." travelled ia almost every nation uf Europe.
aud acquired n thorough familiarity with srvnn
lanpung =. When he went To- England h. found
my mother I'm the shire " Kent. ono NJ twenty
tlrer children. can say cons irntiously that
and that thrr" are few like her living nowadays.
! hay been uskcd whore was born. and when
replied in Epglnnl. some If my lucsiionrrs
have "Xclaimed Willy, We thought you wore u
j W. Many persons scrm to think thatnll Jews
are born inJerusalem Munyo the Old orthodox
j Tvs ar" not in the best humor with Bon bo-
guus' he married Mr.. Jcfrrrson's daughter.
liut ~ he never pretended to u" what IL known
as an orthodox jew. those criticisms do not
trouble him lie hates sham So much. and is So
utterly ind pendent that h" will do Us ho
pienscs. what vrr hefalIs him
in company Win Story the SCULPTOR the guest
OF In" Penn Club q sort ~ Lntos club. The
ihc Erei'jng Posi Ming. lis T9rif@n n Jrw -
b'ine shown hlu h" dropped easily INTO con-
v'rSattnn. tn" number 81 IRISH Jews, he
sud. with merry twinkle in his dark cy". is.
believe. very small and | am not one of them.
tn" iyis" report To the cunirary must haNeHr - n
out ~ "A misrepresentation of something sud
l@E" Htrad. Who '"'"' in O. CONFIRMATION Con
% Vssrs native y o y09 told 6my hat she % %as
k"ntish woman. ns she was born in Doal. u
liitie sensible place in the county OF. Kent, Eng.
ana thei ne understood mo Ia say q Celtic wo-
man; on seeing the report in the HerdM |
laughed heartily. did not consider II OF SUM
cent Importance 10 writ" for correction As
t. the construction put upon it 10y the Iorish
ImeS;. may say that it Is uncharitable, un-
Ny father was jew and whom loft homo
some seven years ngo. and wcntto London TO
work out my carecr made a study Of jewish
chara'ter and found 1t Us rrrrcS, nted in my
Solomon Isaacs.' The jews are n hnrdwork-
ing domestic people but | have never heard
surh sentiments from their lips as those ut
tered by Daniel Dcronda or Mordrrai. Tho
Jews. he continued. ARE not miscrly. but
A"iAltN Ai'N save Nil'lI llNn'N. bhl Mlltu INC
want 10 ENJOY themselves they are ready 10
spend II. not foolishlv. however. A jew never
turowS away his money. When hc spends It
he gets il worth. There are no moro dom site
people In the world than tho Jews. They enjoy
their families and never come home drunk.
There Is another reason for their success. A
Jow may drink hut he never ret drunk. I'm
London they have their clubs for 'ading and
d"iWt and they drink n little beer. Tut never
touch spirits. They are n very powerful clc-
ment in this country. and are constantly in
9re"sns; hut they do not ~ reasc In En..lanl.
There are not more than 5O.Oou in all Great
Britaln, 5000 of whom are IN London: vet IN
NV York alone there are more than 5u.uuO."
Dir FdrIsQu Will travel in Amori % for five or
SIX months. visiting the prinripa citi and
points oi interest gathering Information and
giving public readings from his works.
MI Farlcon went t. Australia in his early
noyhood. and was instrumental In organizing
the first daily newspaper IN that part ct the
world-th" Otago Tpes-and was manager and
part propr' TOR Of that journal until about seven
years ago, Whom he began his lit rary career in
England. To this step he WIS urged first. by
his own impulses ana desire to obtain "A name
as an English uutIor. uni also by "A ronmuni-
caii n from Charles Dickens. who. in on Of his
letters To- Mr.. Far1"on. spok" highly Of Short
story. WORK written hy the lat,er. which had
happened to fail into the HANDS OF che ~. At
Novelist