tion from captivity then will the "Light of the Torah" restore to us and to those under our national flag its natural beauty and dignity. This is the spirit of the last named work.
Of his other books, “Narratives and Pictures” and “These Lights” attracted wide attention, but the “Ben Hamzorim,” a Hebrew translation of a romance written by General D. L. Morduvzow, Professor of History at the St. Petersburg University, is the work which, had I time, it would be my desire to review. The very title— “Between the Hammer and the Anvil” — suggests suffering, and it is the suffering which the Russian Jew endured during the latter half of the past century. The brief letter to the trans-
lator, Herr Lewitt, from the author of the Russian romance, Prof. Morduvzow, however, shows that in dark Russia some great hearts throb with sympathy for down-trodden Israel. Prof. Morduvzow says, "I bow before the genius of thy people Israel, who can not be subdued by the universal hatred to which they are so constantly exposed. I rejoice very much in having succeeded in meeting favor in the eyes of the Jewish brethren, and I glory in their sacred literature which helped me in my literary work."
The Hebrew poem which, through the kindness of Mr. Lewitt, follows, is the first he has written since his arrival in America.
MOSES KLEIN.
הַמָּשׁוּרֵר בַּגּוֹלָה.
עַתָּה זֶה בָּאתִי מֵאֶרֶץ רוּמָיָה, בָּה יִשְׂלוֹם בְּמִיל אָדָם, הָרִשְׁעָה הוֹמָיָה; בָּה חָקִים מְעִיקִים יָשִׂימוּ מוּעֲקָה בָּמָּתֵנִי הַיָּהוּדִים, הַמָּדַבְרִים בִּצְדָּקָה, הַמָּבִים וּמְעָנִים וּרָחוֹקִים מִיָּשֵׁע, בִּי אֵין מֵלִיץ יֹשֶׁר מוּל מַנִּיד פָּשֵׁע... בָּאֶרֶץ רוּמָיָה סָבַלְתִּי גַם אָנִי, מְשׁוֹרֵר הַגּוּלוּת, הַסּוֹפֵר הָעָנִי. שְׁאַפְתִּי שֶׁם לְגָדוֹלוֹת וּמָאוּם לֹא מְצָאתִי, בִּי בָּשָׁעָה שְׁנוֹלַדְתִּי נוֹלָדָה גַם צָרְתִּי, הַהוֹלֶכָת לָפַנִּי, תָּמִיד אוֹתִי מְלַפָּפַת וּבְחֶרָב דָּמָקוֹלוֹם עַל רֹאשִׁי מְרַחְפָּת... * * * יחזקאל לעווים פולאדעלפיא. אדר שני התרס'ב.