PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.
PREFACE.
THE SHYLOCK OF BARNOW.
CHANE.
TWO SAVIOURS OF THE PEOPLE.
"THE CHILD OF ATONEMENT."
ESTERKA REGINA.
"BARON SCHMULE."
THE PICTURE OF CHRIST.
NAMELESS GRAVES.
Christian Reid's Novels.
Rhoda Broughton's Novels.
Julia Kavanagh's Works.
By F. Anstey.
By Joel Chandler Harris.
Charlotte M Yonge's Novels.
James Fenimore Cooper's Novels.
Appletons' Popular Series.
Although the high literary art which Franzos possesses (the finerquality of which has been preserved in this translation) is fullyadmitted by intelligent Jews, the subject-matter of his book itself, itsraison d'être, they have by no means relished. In a review of "TheJews of Barnow," published some months ago in a leading New Yorkjournal, it was asserted by the writer that, from internal evidence,Franzos must be a Jew. This statement was directly controverted by aJewish weekly of the highest standing. Still, we must believe that theacumen of the New York reviewer was not at fault, because in a latenumber of "Blackwood's Magazine," which contained an interestingcriticism of Franzos and his book, it was asserted that the author is orwas a Jew. No man not born a Jew, perfectly familiar with all the phasesof Jewish life in Eastern Galicia, and in sympathy with them, could havecreated this book. Franzos may have clothed Jews and Jewesses withpoetical raiment, given them melodramatic phrasings, but the gabardine,caftan, love-locks, are visible—the whine, the nasal twang audible.
This denial that Franzos was a Jew, though apparently insignificant initself, and due, perhaps, to a want of acquaintance with the facts, isstill peculiarly indicative of