the lawyer, the surgeon, and a fourth official, all Jews, and none but the corpse was German. Behold a picture of the present!" The success is won fairly enough, by qualities which his rivals might display, if they had them, - by intelligence, effort, and readiness to accept all inevitable conditions. The only advantages Jews possess is their cosmopolitan character, which is an accident; their mutual sympathy, which, though sometimes carried rather far - as in the feeling which the Jews of all countries have displayed for Lord Beaconsfield - is natural in an oppressed race; and a certain limitation of sympathy to their own people, which makes all Christians deem them hard. Read Lord Beaconsfield upon Irishmen or on English politics, and then read him on his own people, and mark the difference of the passion. Trades' unionism, however, even upon a large scale, is not in itself immoral, and in Asia " men hold together against dark men quite as strongly as Jews have ever done against the Gentiles among whom they dwell.

ties the world does not attribute to Jews,
an over-fervid imagination and breadth of
enterprise. The Jew has not the con-
structive faculties in any unusual degree,
and still less the industrial; in fact, he
produces nothing, neither buildings, nor
food, nor ships; but he has keen intelli-
gence and great strenuousness, and in
our day keen intelligence tells, while
strenuousness, in many departments of
life, compensates for industry. The Jew
succeeds as a lawyer, as an official, as a
professor, as an advocate, as a Parlia-
mentary debater, as a proprietor of jour-
nals, as a physician, and in many walks of
literature, occasionally, as in Heine's case,
rising to the highest. That he is a great
wealth-maker, we should, if we had the
courage to defy a universal prepossession,
be inclined to deny, for he adds nothing
to the wealth of the world, and the mass
of his nation remains, therefore, poor to
penury, no poverty surpassing that of
Russian, Polish, German, and Austrian "white
Jews, that is, of the enormous majority;
but he has mastered the secret that money
is to be made rapidly by the distribution
of products; he has been compelled, by
the oppression of centuries, to compre-
hend exactly the value of paper "securi-
ties" and the mode of dealing with them,
and his intellect being exactly fitted to
the work, whenever he gets fair play in
those departments of life he beats all
competitors, except, perhaps, Armenians
and Parsees. The Armenians have never
invaded the orderly countries, and have,
therefore, never been able to accumulate
freely; and the Parsees have confined
their great capacities to rather too narrow
a field, the trade of India and a few ports
of the southern Asiatic coasts. Neither
Armenian, Parsee, nor Christian, how-
ever, will labor as the Jew labors in his
own groove, take half the trouble, or
watch opportunity with half the aggres-
sive intelligence. Within his limits the
Jew succeeds, and as he is extremely
strenuous, rarely burdens himself with
more education than he needs - for
though Jews are among the most culti-
vated of mankind, the majority care more
to be linguists, mathematicians, and mas-
ters of the ways of trade-and has the
sympathy of his entire people, he rises
more rapidly and with less friction than
his competitors, till in some places every
prominent person seems to be more or
less a Jew, and Dr. Stocker's fierce epi-
gram becomes literally true, "At the
post-mortem examination of a body lately,
there were present the district physician,

It is more easy to explain why Jews succeed than why they fail, but in one respect they certainly do fail. They genuinely desire to be liked by the peoples among whom they sojourn, and they are not liked, either in Asia, or America, or Europe. This is not due to their creed, for Asia tolerates all creeds, and their cultus, depending on pedigree, gives no offence by proselytism, while in Europe whole classes hold a faith hardly distinguishable from theirs. Nor is it their conception of life which is offensive. Jews have become an adaptable race; they do not reverence asceticism, and their idea of luxury, apart from a certain love of splendor, which the East thinks magnificent and the West vulgar, differs very little from that of their competitors. The rich German, or Frenchman, or Englishman has not much right to talk about Jewish profusion, or his hunger after material comfort, or even his fondness for display. Still, the Jew is disliked, as his rivals, living like him, are not disliked, and in all Western countries things are pardoned to successful natives which in successful Jews arouse the bitterest resentment. The reason is alleged to be want of patriotism, but though the Jews are often cosmopolitan, and in countries where they are persecuted distinctly hostile to the oppressive régime - a hostility rising in states like Roumania to a passion - they often can be and are patriotic.

There are no more decided Germans, | their importance felt. They all, if they Frenchmen, or Italians than the Jews of grow rich, ask rank at the sovereigns' those countries; and the English Jews hands. They all, not without reason, are would be English, too, were they not so full of the pride of pedigree, and look few, and so impatient of the English down on other races as both parvenus temperament. The main reasons, we be- and stupid. They assert themselves lieve, for the dislike are two, the first strongly, with a certain triumph, as of being that the Jews in all countries remain people to whom justice has been done at Jews, that is, distinctive, and thereby ac- last; and as self-assertion has till r I recently quire the dislike with which any foreign been difficult, their manners have often race whatever similarly successful would become, as a witty American said, "a litbe regarded; and the second, that they tle large in proportion." Their method are an exceedingly pushing people. They of asserting themselves is not their fault, are not more disliked than the Scotch for all Orientals not of the highest type were, and the Greeks are, in England, or pursue it, a wealthy Baboo, or Parsee, or than the Poles are in those districts of Persian asserting himself in just the same Germany where the races come in con- way, with a certain swell and fuss, but it tact. The Jews say, of course, every makes them prominent; and, granted a where, that they are merely citizens with separate people, very successful, very cona distinctive creed; but citizens with a spicuous, and very vain, planted among distinctive creed rarely refuse to inter- another people much more numerous, marry, do not live so completely among much less successful, and rather proud themselves, do not help each other so than vain, the two understanding each markedly, and are not separated from the other's language perfectly, and being close majority by so unmistakable a difference enough to differentiate each other at a of appearance. They are separate, and glance and follow each other's nuances of with the mass of mankind separation im- manner, we have all the materials of popplies hostility, more especially when, as ular dislike. We doubt its being very in this case, separation is not accompa- deep, even in Germany, where, after all, nied and palliated by seclusion. The Jew there is a rooted respect for the intellecis everywhere except in the open fields, tuality which is the Jew characteristic; in all societies, in all marts, in all streets, and believe that with the existing distress, and everywhere is the least secluded of which embitters the country against all men, the man, in fact, who makes him- who are rich and extravagant, it will pass self the most visible. He is gregarious, away, if not as completely as in France, not solitary; a man of society, not a re- at least as much as in England, where cluse; a pushing man, not a retiring, and Jewish blood is no bar at all, and where far less a humble one. There, we sus- Jews of the synagogue reach every kind pect, we arrive at the final secret of pop- of office at least twice as easily as Roman ular dislike. My people," said one of Catholics. There is here, as in Germany, the most accomplished and best-born of a philosophic distrust of the influence the their number to the writer, "have all one Jewish mind, which is very separate, may foible which breeds trouble. All Jews exert on politics, journalism, and theolare vain." They like to be at the top, to ogy; but it is not a popular dislike, propbe great in society, to be en évidence erly so called. If it were, it would be everywhere, to be important, and to make exhibited at the hustings.

NOVEMBER DAYS.

THAT time of year thou mayest in me behold,
When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the
cold;

Bare ruin'd quires, where late the sweet birds
sang.

In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by-and-by black night doth take away,

Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou seest the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire,
Consum'd with that which it was nourished by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love
more strong

To love that well which thou must leave ere
long.

SHAKESPEARE.

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