education, to which is added instruction in the Talmud—but in an intelligent and modern fashion. It has recently added a high school curriculum, in which students may prepare themselves for teachers’ work in Palestine. But perhaps the most interesting, and surely one of the most useful of such educational establishments, is the School of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, of Paris. It occupies large and spacious quarters on the Jaffa high road, almost opposite the excellent Jewish Hotel of Wm. Kaminitz (“Jerusalem Hotel”). It is divided into an elementary school for boys and girls (founded in 1884), and a technical school for boys (Ecolé Professionelle, founded in 1886). It still has its conflicts with the retrograde elements in the city, and only recently its children were inhibited from taking part in the funeral cortege of a noted rabbi. It was a satisfcation to go through the ateliers and to find the boys drawn from all elements of the population, striving hard in the sweat of their brows. They do excellent work in iron, wood and brass—certainly the best of its kind done in Jerusalem. Recently the “Jewish Colo-
nization Association" has come to its aid, and has established a "filature," in which nearly all the workers are Yemenites, and a weaving department where covers, Turkish divans, cot- ton and silk goods, as well as ordinary lace, are produced that would do honor to much more experienced hands.
Jewish Jerusalem is many-sided and varied —and naturally, puzzlingly polyglot. The Oriental Jews speak Arabic; if they come from Persia or Bochara, a Persian dialect; the Sephardim their Spanish Ladino; the Ashkena- gim their Judaeo-German. One can easily imagine that these difficulties of ordinary daily speech are greatly enhanced by the exigencies of the schoolroom—and this especially, as the three chief schools were founded with the sub-conscious intent of making them fore- posts of certain definite forms of European civilization. The Lämel School was for German; the Rothschild for English, and the Alliance School for French. For many years they have been working at cross purposes. Instead of acting as a cementing and unifying