Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: White, William Hale. Clara Hapgood. 26sp. N. Y. Dodd, 1896, $1.25. On religious problems,; Baruch Cohen, who has leanings toward lesser socialism that borders on anarchy, is on the whole an admirable character. Calisch Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto: study of a peculiar people. 553p. N. Y. Macmillan, 1895, $1.5o; also Phil. Jewish Pub. Soc. $1.5o. Life of the Jews in London, chiefly poor and wretched immigrants but also of the aristocracy; strong in its portrayal of both ethnic and personal traits. Baker,s best fict. — Ghetto comedies. 4and7p. N. Y. Macmillan, 19o7, $1.5o; also N. Y. Bloch, $1.5o n. Strong, artistic, short stories of the Jew, forming a wonderful piece of affectionate satire and speculation upon the attitude of the Jewish world towards its own contemporary problems. A. L. A. catalog, 1i)0)-11 King of the schnorrers: grotesques and fantasies. 4oop. N. Y. Macmillan, 1894, $1.5o; also N. Y. Bloch, $1.5o n. Presents merely one phase of Jewish life, but with close intimacy and abundance of detail, the schnorrers or beggars. The tone is that of extravaganza, tragic as well as comic. Baker,s hist. fict. "They that walk in darkness" : .Ghetto tragedies. 333p. N. Y. Macmillan. 1899, $1.5o; also N. Y. Bloch, $1.5o n. e Pictures of the Ghetto, somber in tone. FRANCE Baring-Gould, Rev. Sabine. Noemi: story of rock-dwellers. 263p. N. Y. Appleton, 1895, $1; also N. Y. Burt, 19o5, 75c. e France under Charles VII, at the time of the long struggle with England (£.145o) ; the heroine, an Amazonian Jewess. Local features, such as the wondrous rock-fortress on the Dordogne, play a considerable part in the tale. Baker,s best fict. Du Maurier, George. The Martian. 477p. N. Y. Harper, 1897, $1-75- Leah Gibson, the heroine, ...