modification of the system followed in the Jewish Encyclopedia. The arrangement makes it possible to use the book as a Hebrew reader in the schools. The book contains 27 tunes, among them being Yigdal, two versions, Lechoh Dodi, El Noro, Migdol Yeshuos, Ledovid Boruch, Mi Chomocho, etc. (Bloch Publishing Company, N. Y. Price, postpaid, 50 cents, or 40 cents without delivery. May be secured through THE MACCABAEAN MAGAZINE.)
THE POGROMS IN RUSSIA.
Two comprehensive volumes on the Pogroms against Jews in Russia have been issued by the Zionist fund in London. The two volumes are quite heavy and present a wealth of material in the study of the terrible incidents that have so demoralized Russian Jewish life. As a work of reference they will prove of enormous value to the student. One presents a general picture of the “pogroms” and the other deals with attacks on the Jews in more than 90 different piaces, chiefly situated in eight provinces of the Jewish Pole; the individual accounts are based on the labors of a large number of investigators. The whole work is a very serious study. It starts from the little known pogroms of the eighties, which set the tone for ali' that came later and were never properly investigated by the Russian government. The second chapter gives a long but necessarily incom-
plete list of the many circulars issued against the Jews between 1882 and 1903. After a chapter on the pogroms of Poland, there is a well written study of the conditions which led to the responsibility of numberless officials for the pogroms of October, 1905. The book takes little or no note of the many mob attacks on students, schoolboys and professional men in central Russia.
Allan Davis has been appointed Educational Director of the New York Educa- tıonal Alliance. Mr. Davis, who is now a tutor in the University of Pittsburg, is a graduate of Harvard University, class of 1901; a member of the Menorah Society; the Harvard Debating Club, and won first prive in a notable debate with Yale. He is the author of a Zionist play of some value, entitled “The Promised Land,” which was produced by the Harvard Dramatic Association.
The Zionist Banner is the name of a new Zionist monthly magazine published in Manchester, England, by the Zionists of that city. The first number is a creditable piece of work, and contains a number of articles of timely interest and suggestive thought. Among the contributors to the first issue are: H. Sacher, the Rev. H. S. Lewis, Joseph Massel, Leon Simon and Phineas Cohen. We welcome the new publication and wish it success.