The Jewish Chautauqua The Seventh Summer Assembly of the Jewish Chautauqua was held at Atlantic City during July. As usual there were a number of interesting addresses. Some of the lecturers were: Rev. Dr. Henry Berkowitz, David Philipson, Col. John B. Weber, Rev. Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, Rev. Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, Rev. H. Maslianski, Justice Sulzberger, Louis Marshall and J. M. Mayer. Personalia Prof. Gotthard Deutsch. who resigned the chair of History in Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, has withdrawn his resignation. Literary activity has not been fruitful. W. C. Stiles's "Out of Kishineff," a polemic against Russian barbarism, is timely, but it does not tell anything the newspapers have overlooked. The Jewish Publication Society of America is issuing a volume to contain a résumé of Russian laws affecting the Jews. Mr. Herman Bernstein is engaged on a novel of Jewish life, and Mr. Abram Cahn is engaged for a number of months on an important volume to be named "The Chasm," which will be a picture of American Jewish life in the eighties.
New Year Cards
But little advance has been made in recent years in the publishing of Jewish New Year cards. Though the custom of sending pictorial and card greeting extends year by year, for the most part non-Jewish cards are used with Hebrew gilt lettering or floral arrangements, quite meaningless even when pretty. The Maccabæan Publishing Company, encouraged by the success of their last year's experiment, have prepared for the ensuing New Year, an elaborate and varied assortment at popular prices, which are original and distinctly Zionistic. The charges for the cards, either on Bristol board, or as mailing cards, are $1.75 per hundred, post free. Sample sets of 6, each of different design, 15 cents, post free.