Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-21
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Original Ar. Jacobs is the title Of
a remarkably vicious book from the press
Of the Minerva Publishing Company, New
York. 1t is the work recently prohibited
from sale upen the New York elevated
1t is coid-blooded and unsup-
ported ASSAULT upon The Jewish people ev-
erywhere, s1d of ell tongues and chimes.
The author, who appears to have had most
of his experience in France, gives evidence
upon every page of the bitterness of his
and the depth Of his hatred
against tAe Jews. He is, therefore sell
confessed, partial critic, and the very last
OF N ela to write Of the history of the Jews,
of their habits, social and business lie. and
their relation to modern institutions.
One would think, to accept TIE state
meats of this book, that all vice, selfish
ness, uncharitsbleness and inhumanity are
concentrated in the Jewish race while
Gentiles of all creeds are harmless peoples,
and to be pitied as the hapless ard helpless
prey of the ravenous Hebrew That we
shouldnot misiudge the author of this SEN
ss5ional work, we have read it with pa
tience and such judicial calm rs is possible
to be maintained in the face of so gross
and vicious book. The Jew may not be
all that can be desired in humanity, neither
can we classed as Gentiles claim to have
filled the schedule of all the virtues requi-
site for perfect race. But that the Jew,
IS we know him in America, is the inn
placable enemy of man, and the devouring
fiend OF all things pure and elevating, none
except the author of this remarkable vol
urne, behind which he hides in cowardiy
anonymity, will undertake to maintain.
The chief points Of the work are not
difficult of presentation in few lines. Its
claim is that the life's aim and purpose of
tho Spy,aifa 10 IN rcrit1oa ha A -
tude, or, at least, "to put him to severest
straits" In line with this purpose, the
hand of the Jew, it is charged, is against
all men. For the spoliation of all not of
his religion, the work proceeds to set forth,
he prostitutes truth, silences conscience,
and debases his manhood. He is Justly
condemned of men and despised of races,
and in all lands is rejected from good So
ciety Tor only tolerated because of his
ability to lend and to collect usury). He
adheres to barbarous practices where he is
least advanced, sacrifices human life upon
his affairs, and engages in the eating and
drinking of the blood Of his enemies. He
Is vulgar, arrogant, and excessively amor
GUS; he respects not the virtue of Gentle
women, and holds himself absolved from
the natural consequences of offense against
them. He is insolent but never proud
Religion is with him of but secondary i'm
portance. Nirginity, virtue innocence,
purity, are only so much capital with the
Jew. The controlling instincts of the ] ew,
this precious volume of maleyolence
charges, are the boarding of property and
the punishment of the Gentle. He is the
author of the Commune and Nihilism; he
assumes other religions to accomplish plots
and betray Gentiles; he is flatterer and
blackmailer and corrupter of good morals
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his learning is derived from the researches
of others, which he insolently parades as
the result of his own investigation.
So the volume proceeds, each point being
illustrated with great number of stories
dating from the pre-Christian era to this
day, and involving the names of poets,
historians, composers, artists, Journalists
financiers, priests, kings, queens, peasants
and mobiles. Some of these tales are dang
erous in the application made, because
they happen to be in good part true; but
in nine instances out of ten they are
warped, contorted and colored into premi-
ses for abhorrent conclusions. The answer
to the indictment this book purports to be.
is that there is no race of men of whom,
by diligently selecting instances of in
justice, wropg-doing, uncharitableness,
crime, hypocrisy, deceit and inhumanity
may not be said-accepting the selected
instances as illustrative of the race traits
and enthusiastically as cruel, harsh
and horrible things, as the author of the
volume under review utters against the
Jews.
While it is true that Judaism retains its
compactness, and that the Hebrews under
all skies and speaking many tongues are
Hebrews still, it is also true that no re-
ligion of some centuries of history since
the beginning of the Christian era exhibits
so little of intolerance, cruelty and perse-
cution as theirs. No religion has had so
little to do as motor with fomentiug dis
cord or plunging nations into wars So
cially the Jew-notably in Europeans
been set apart, but that this is to be used as
basic fact upon which to build SUPER
structure of hatred and enmity, or as rea-
son for invoking upon the Jew such
anathemas as find place in this volume, is
intolerable to thought The author of the
book insults the intelligence of mankind
when he asks it to believe that the Jew.
because he is Jew, is the source of more
social ills. lawlessness and misery than
any other race of men. In short, tnis
book, which is so sersationallv written
so plausible in its application of historical
facts to the scheme of the volume; which
is so adroit in its manner and cunning in
its devices, is really but a cardboard
structure after all. since the man of intel
ligence as he peruses it must reflect upon
the ease with which a companion volume
might be compiled as seriously charging
and as holly vituperating, with dozen or
more nations and races as the subjects OF
indictment for injustice, intolerance, inhu-
manity, outrage, corruption, lawlessness.
deceit, hypocrisy and cruelty, on the basis
of instances that may be cited in as great
number from the history of each. The
cheat of the volume will appear speedily
TO the thoughtful and well-informed
reader, while the illogical character of its
least skilled. That it will be ANYTHING more
than passing andSyicious sensation, with
its extravaganza, '6ntruth and unreason.
in which are mingled some grains of truth.
is unthinkable. The author evidently set
about TO produce a book that, by reason of
lis extravagant character, would attain
some notoriety, and thus. by stimulation Of
public curiosity, serve to line his pocket
well. This cannot now be averted, since
he has succeeded in inducing foolish rail.
way company to exclude the work from its
stations and cars. an act that contributed to
the end he desired most to accomplish.
Compared with Ingersoll's arragnmert of
Christianity and the Christian church. this
volume is in no wise comparable for brill
fancy, incisiveness or force, nor vet for
of charges laid and offenses cat
alogued. But Mr.. Ingersolls publishers
were not so fortunate as to procure an order
of exclusion Of his books from dealers
shelves. Christianity sustained Ingersolrs
heavier assaults with complacency; Juda-
ism will not be more disturbed bv the
lance now poised against it.
1t would be an exacting person who
could find fault with the table of coi.tents
ef the Magazine OF Art for May, Cassell
& Co., New York. 1t is not only varied
but it is interesting from opening article to
Art Notes. The fiontispiece is fine etch-
ing, by Z. Piekel, Of Grutznen's painting. j
8 The Master Brewer of the Monastery"
A paper on The Barbizon School +" paint
ers, 10 David Croal Thompson. opens the
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot is
the special subject of the article. An out
spoken paper on Crazes in Art is by w.
2. Firth. An interesting paper is a Per
sonal View of japanese Art by Mortimer
Meneps. Two papers are devoted TO Irish
Lace "0ld Masters of Sculpture at the
Royal Academy" and other interesting pa i
peTs, together with an ample supply of /
notes, close the number.
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