Evening journal., 1901-11-30

In remarkable article in Frank
Leslie's Popular Monthly for Deem
Der zangwill discusses the famous
project of recolonization of the Jews.
The task, he says, to which Israel is
thus called is of an originality cOngru-
GUS with his unique history. Mother
lands have always created colonies.
Here colonies are to create motherland,
or rather recreate her. 1t is not essen
tial that all her daughters shall return
to her skirts. Long before Titus con-
quered Jerusalem, Jewish settlers had
| followed in the wake of Tyran and
! PhOenician commerce. The problem
is simply to set up a centre of Jewish
| life and concentrate all ones labor on
it, Gradually it would become the
magnet of the race.
The task is difficult-more difficult,
perhaps than any in human history,
beset with more theological and politi-
cal an-traps-unique in it's problem
of migration. But the very greatness
of the task should stimulate the most
maligned of races to break the desc
late monotony of this brutal world by
the splendOr of an antique idealism.
! Palestine is a country without a
people. the Jews are a people without
country. The regeneration of the
soil would bring a regeneration Of the
people. 1t is marvellous that the coun-
try should have remained compara-
lively empty for eighteen hundred
years but it cannot remain unexpected
much longer. The age of electricity
is upon us, and the problem of Asia.
- aNraa. sNar
Another generation and Palestine will
lbe populated by Uitlanders and domi-
mated by Germany. Another genera
ton and the Western Jew will have
lost the warmth of Jewish sentiment
In the Jews. as in Palestine there
have been more changes during the
last generation than during all the
centuries Of the Christian era. Neither
the Jew nor Palestine can wait longer.
The Red sea was divided for Israels
first exodus; it is United to the Med
iterranean for the second. The Suez
canal mas brought the world to the
doorstep of Palestine. And Palestine
is the centre of the world.
No one will ask for better holiday
reading than that which the Christmas
number of McCures Magazine viii
furnish First and fOremOst,o course
i lis to be mentioned John LaFarge's ar
ticle on Michael Angelo" the first oi
a series in which during the following
year this great artist and critic viii
discuss in the pages of McCmre's tn,
greatest artist Of the past. "A Mendi
; can't" by Adachi Kinnousuki, is a tall
of Japan in the heyday of romance
. touchingly simple in plOtand full of tn
spirit of that medieval idealism wlhicl
finds ITS prototypes in the West in I'M
: tales of troubadOurs and minstrels
Again, for the briskly humorous styl
: of recital. it would be hard to exec
Herminie Templeton's vivacious ac
count of Darby Gill and the Gool
, People Life of today is variousl.
dealt with by II. A. Crowell in 9Th
S Pictures and the Pineapples," a stor,
of the Italian quarter of New York; b,
Theodore Dresser in "A True Patri
arch" the fitting title to the portrai
l. of the old man it portrays; by Johl
q Swain in an Independent Boy"
sketch of the unique Juvenile couT
I lof Cook county, Illinois; and by Ra
Stannard Baker in "At the Tunnel
{ End" the story of two brave men VIII
risk their lives in the pressure worl
ings Of a submarine tunnel. In anoth6
Emmy Lou story. THE Shadow of
k Tragedy" George Madden MART