The Maccabaean

ish student the opposite of the popular conception of the Golus Jew. Straight, beautiful, fearless, energetic, proud of his ancestry, hopeful of the future of his people, impatient to hasten the days of the Messiah, having assimilated the culture of the nations, his serene nature presented a Greek harmony. He was not of the Ghetto and he had but slight acquaintance with the life and the literature of the past. In this, too, he was the opposite of the Golus Jew; and it was this which brought down upon him the antagonism of men, who despite their agreement with his ultimate ideal and their undoubted talent in fostering the literary side of the Zion movement, were nevertheless Golus Jews, were not Jews of the Great Redemption. They have opposed him because in an unknowing moment of inspiration he proposed statesmanlike, the using of political methods to deal with political problems. They have opposed him for this as though the

very word politics were a work of the devil and were not rather the modern name $or that activity which has to do with securing the foundation of government without which spiritual movements are themselves impossible. But he, not they, has entered the lives of Jewish students. Youth has understood, without sophistry, that he has laid the basis of a living movement. The young Jewish intelligence has thankfully turned to good account subsidiary Jewish national tendencies. but this upon the basis in life which is the creation of Dr. Herzl’s genius. Him, the quick eye of youth had discovered already standing on the crest of the eastern hill and already clothed in the bright light of the rising sun. How high will the sun have climbed into its heaven before its bright light shall have clothed all our people as it has clothed the dead leader who had advanced so far ahead of all?

THE editorial department of the "Neue Freie Presse" has suffered a painful loss through the death of Dr. Theodor Herzl. He was a writer of the highest endowment, an artist in his power of presentation, a journalist of genius and a man of distinction. We lose not only a distinguished co-worker and editor, but also an exceedingly congenial colleague, to whom we were bound by long years of friendship and affection. Dr. Herzl, by his loveableness in intercourse, by the charm which he imparted to a consultation on even everyday editorial matters, had won the greatest regard. It was a rare pleasure to discuss

with him questions of the day, concerning which his judgment was marked by originality, acuteness, and not seldom by flashing wit. As feuilleton editor of the "Neue Freie Presse," a position to which he was called nine years ago, he showed great kindness to younger writers and it gave him much pleasure to be able to say that he had discovered in a new manuscript gifts that justified earnest hopes for the future.

The attention of the "Neue Freie Presse" was early directed toward him. The first contributions offered by him to the "Neue Freie Presse" and to Berlin papers showed at once strong and characteristic traits, and the account that