The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-22

the conclusion that ii was the ex-
lseence OF slavery and the feudal ideas
winch kept the talent of the ssOId
| Seuth out of the channels Of Fftera-
| ture With the departure of fe41daI
IDEAS came the ability to see that life
as 1t 1s-the everyday existence of the
pain peoples the stuff of which IT.
TrdLnfe Is mace. The Penalty of
II 1nor is a bit of special pleading for
the recognition of the merits of Mark
with as a novelist apart from his rep
uLdLlon as "a funny man." ''Or1 Pleas
ing the Taste of the Public" is an able
oeInonstrat1on OF the fact that the
PUBIC Is diverse and contains a. hmm
drea audiences. 1.-TWO Scatch1nen Of
Letters Is an appreciation of Lang
ana stevenson. The Gift of Story
Telling" is study OF tf1at ssfne11la p
faculty which can exist fs63tDenfIeT1-tIIy
or any other literary power. 4sCery-
antes, .Zala, KfT3fing e Co.. is a stf,rt
study OF the progress made in the art
or romantic fiction, especially the adj
venture story. Other ESSAYS in the
volume Zeal with Coppee, Halevy and
fiction. "
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Faul BOO and Stationery comnany)
Inc recent movement of the Jews to-
ward Palestine has recalled interest IN
the always important phenomenon of
the preservation of the Jews as a sep
arate people through SO MANY cenIr
ries of inorganic life. It has been suf-
nelently noted that the Ghetto. or SEQ
afate quarter for the Jews in the vari-
Gus cities of Europe, where thew made
hcnes, Is largely responsible. for fba
staying Of -disintegrating inf1ueneas
Inc jew mas been preserved by hate
t1dcy Ii
lie in the Ghetto, and has made nc
feel its nobleness, as we'll as know
IT'S squalor, a further study from q his
tor1cal point of view will aid his IA.
efary picture. Mr.. Israel Abrahams
mas done this work in his Jewish Tif.
III the AIlddie Ages" He shows how the
synagogue became the center of This
life of enforced separation. and how
rhe rabb1nicaI law WIS able tn grow
IN power by It's appropriate and mr..
row Held in the Jewry He noirrts -oI,+
also that many OF the modern ssnira-
tloHs OF communism were made q NO
eessTty to the Jews from the aItyr,-1tJ,
To the Hfteenth centuries
Touching the modern u1oxeTzee,9t. f,
new Hebrew nation, with heaSc,r.r7-t.ars,
at Jerusalem, Mr.. Abraba1,,s SEE -
d1scordaI1t note. He points ont ff,o =
the Ghetto life, by its INTENSIVE. pyz-Tx.
pirth TO local developments 7uIIIita r,14t
- WILL JIk6 hQf4ARHF1aiixy.
needed by a nation. The Jew ;af.-o1,[5+7s
10 MIN, is not national but cosn1enoE
TAN He wishes to see Judaism f5aTra-
ti0nalized, and itsespirit live again j.,
local patriotism to the various birTh-
lands of Israel's sons
he discusses the social life of his
people, analyses their morality de-
scribes their occupations and insists
upon their office as intermediary he
tween the culture of the Orient ana
the barbarism of the West, SO that +ba
Jew was the forerunner of the renaie-
sance. The charities of the Ghetto
anticipated many modern ideas of deoI0
ing with the poor, and may account
for the small number Of Hebrew nanN
pers The home life is described fully
and the growth of ritual in the homo
Increased in power to develop the re-
figiolIs habit until it became intoIere-
bic. and led to the Jewish Lutberan-
ism since the eighteenth century. Tho
book Will be useful TO These. Interested
in the Hebrew problem
CfJewash Life in the Middle Arms 1,v
israel Aerahans. The Macmillan ,conruay
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r. Marion Crawford's new novel 10
another tale of Italy, and a good. stir
ring, fluent tale 1T is. 1t is NOT. uer-
haIs, in the authors best vein tlrroz1esh
OAAy DAh L. 10 la IIfC NOiIl LIltLI
to the best Tt has mot the tragic dig
nifty and ethical nervousness of .sCsa<sY
Braeci0, nor the ztRtfStty and thrill of
Pietro Ghisleri - but 1T is suffice entity
stirring and eTniaentiy readable In.
point of construction 1t is less ingenious
than some Of MIR. CraWfUds other TO-
IaaIEces, for the first volume is far more
exciting; than the second. The tale
opens with q scene in which a beaaTtiffll
and wealthy girl, Veronica Eefaa
Princess of Acireale, is signing her will