is besides very lax in her observance of the laws of Israel."
"Do not worry, my dear friend," said Zarchi, "I shall go to your wife to-day and I shall give her a good lesson in Judaism. Trust me. I shall Judaize her and we shall eat Matzo and Maror and Charoses, fish and all the rest of the Jewish delicacies. Let me invite you, Carps my friend, to the Passover Seder in your own house!"
* * *
Even as Zarchi had said, the Seder was held in Carps' house. The table was ar-
ranged according to law. Carps, the king, was seated reclining upon the pillows, his wife, the queen, at his right, and Zarchi, as sort of prime-minister, at his left. And in the house there was light and joy. The little ones wondered, and one asked the other: How does this night differ from other nights? and they demanded that it be thus on the other nights. The elders told the story of the Egyptian Passover and they spoke of the Passover of the Future. . . and they ended:
Next year in Jerusalem!
II.
AMONG the many documents bearing upon the history of the nationalist propaganda in Israel which the writer has collected, none is more interesting than the stirring appeal of an anonymous German Jew, published (in German) in Fürst's Orient (Leipzig), June 27, 1840, pp. 200- 201. It is communicated by a correspondent from Constanz am Rhein, who signs himself “D. V. H.,” and who gives no clue to its authorship. In that obscure place this impassioned and eloquent plea for the Return has languished for 66 years, without a word of encouragement even from the editor, who, on the index page of his paper, calls it a seltsamer Aufruf. Nor is it likely to have been “remembered for righteousness,” had not the American editor of an English history of the Jews rescued the precious document from oblivion. We learn from its pages that it was probably called forth by the persecution of the Jews at Damascus in 1840, and that a real movement Zionward was then in contemplation in the land of eternal unrest— Russia.
"The really sincere among the European Jews," says the editor of this remarkable book, (History of the Jews . . . with a preface by William Finks, D.D., 2d American Ed., Boston, 1847, pp. 361-364.), long since out of print, "are now looking with longing eyes in the direction of the Holy Land. An opinion is prevalent among them that they shall speedily be restored to their own country; and they believe that the changes which have lately taken place in the East, are designed by the Most High as preparatory to a signal manifestation of His favor towards His ancient people. A singular instance of anxiety to repair to Palestine has lately been given by the Polish Jews. Thirty thousand of them presented a petition to the Emperor Nicholas, requesting him to allow them to proceed thither in a body to await, during three years, the coming of the Messiah; promising to return to Poland and embrace the Christian faith, if their expected Deliverer should not appear within that time. Those of Palestine, however, warmly dissuaded their brethren from taking such a step; and it seems very unlikely that their petition would be favorably received by the emperor who is exceedingly jealous of all movements among