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then informed that the majority who have come here
have come because of the pressure of economic need
and because they were the unfit, who were unable to
survive the keen competition of Europe. This country
is composed of 90 per cent Europeans, the unfit and
incompetents, and yet by some magic known to Profes-
sor East we have been taking the unfit and incompetent
of Europe for 250 years and we have less unfit and in-
competent than they. Surely there must be something
wrong with the reasoning of the professor and we think
we can put our finger on it. He, like practically every
anti-immigration Nordic superiority apologist, confuses
economic fitness with biologist fitness. One may be bio-
logically fit and economically unfit and vice versa. One
may be economically unfit in one place and fit in an-
other. America has afforded greater economic oppor-
tunity and consequently many have succeeded here
while in Europe they were failures. Furthermore, lan-
guage and custom differences have had much to do with
the question of determining fitness and competence.
We are not sentimentalists but until we are fur-
nished with convincing biologic data which proves the
biologic superiority the inhabitants of England, France,
Germany and Scandinavia we shall prefer to accept the
findings of the honest, conscientious scientists who
claim that they have been unable to discover such su-

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Jewish Sculptor Drives London Mad

HERE AND THERE

By JOSEPH LEFTWICH

It

is no exaggeration to say that
Jacob Epstein has driven this great,
wonderful old London and its goner-
ally calm Londoners mad, frantic, he-
side themselves. It is no small achieve-
ment to drive any general public mad
about a work of art, but Epstein has
done it—and not for the first time in
his life either. It is a fatal facility
of his to set the men in the street in
a rage about his work. Ile did it
with his Oscar Wilde monument in
Paris, which was not allowed to be un-
veiled because the public and the Grit•
ics resented it. Then there were his
sculptures for the British Medical As-
sociation in the Strand, -which brought
a ho wl of p rotes t f ro m all sid es an d a

A case which is arousing in Egypt
an interest comparable to that in the
United States over th e D a yton trial
came before the Superior Council of
Al Azhar—the great Moslem univer-
sity—when Shirk Ali Abdel Razek
Cadi (Chief Judge) of the Mansura
Mekhenia Sharia Court, was question-
ed about his recently published book,
"Islam and the I'rinciples of Govern-
ment."
The Sheik pr o po unds in thi s book
the theory that the Moslem code is in-
tended solely as a guide to personal
conduct and it is not for incorporation
in government statutes. He discusses
current Islamic questions from an ad-
vanced viewpoint hitherto unknown in
Egypt.
this statement aroused the intense
opposition of the orthodox Moslem
preachers, particularly the declaration
that the Caliphate never was essential
and indispensable to Islamic institu-
tions. Anger was also aroused by the
Sheik's condemnation of polygamy and
his severe criticism of the status of
Egyptian women.
The publication of the book has
calmed a fierce controversy and certain
university members demanded that the
government prosecute the
When it refused to do so they launched
a newspaper offensive. This, however,
fell flat, even evoking editorials cor-
dially supporting the daring Sheik's
championship of freedom,
As a last resort the Al Azhar clergy
instituted the present proceedings.
Whereupon more than 100 prominent
writers and others petitioned King
abandonment of the trial
lidftiirethe
h
back
eke n to
f g s p t b
assert te (t. tau nel s Egypt
whic
darkness ,
li7.e
the era o);
trary to the spirit of the Egyptian
in the
and rden
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controversy which lasted for years.
His Venus was attacked as an ugly,
formless parody of the goddess of
womanly beauty, and his statue of
Christ was denounced as a scandalous
piece of sculpture, a blasphemous con-
ception and an outrage to decent feel-
ins.
Now his Rima, which was unveiled
several weeks ago by the ('rime Min-
ister, Mc. Baldwin, at an official care-
ninny in commemoration of the great
whom
the
FP-
naturalist \V H. Hudson, to
the bird ;ancillary of which
e
stein panel forms part has been (led-
kilted. is the center of 'a storm of pro-
test m
le e o r e ellesdionitenEt psttheainn ha. ynyhies veeeritibees-

of stone carved by a sculptor into the
shape of his imagining.
In Hyde Park, while the crowd was
standing round the panel arguing and
criticising, Epstein and his wife came
up. Mr. Humerville Hague, the sculp-
for who is at present engaged on some
work at Australia House, formed the
center of a group of people condemn-
ing the sculpture both as a work of
art and as a work expressive of Ilud-
son. Someone recognized Epstein and
touched Mr. Hague on the shoulder,
and advised him to lower his voice.
Instead of doing that Mr. Hague went
over to Epstein and drew him into the
argument. You are criticizing my
work with considerable vehemence,"
said Epstein. "I have a perfect right
to criticize a work of art," replied Mr.
Hague, and this one is public prop-
erty." The argument between the two
grew heated. Mrs. Epstein became
concerned and tried to draw Epstein
away, but before she succeeded there
was considerable plain speaking on
both sides.
The comments overhead in the
crowd . are more outspoken even than
ing Mr. Hague could have said.
anything
must disgusting thing I have
ever seen," says one. "HOW could they
giv him the order. They will have to
take it away," says another. "The
P ublic can stand a good deal, but this
is the limit. Some one ought to come
on a dark night and smash it to
bits with a sledge hammer, says a
third. "If we don't admire a hideous

Albert Johnson, the framer of our drastic immigra-
tion law, is preparing to put teeth into our immigration
legislation for he proposes to add the registration clause
which will make us resemble Czarist Russia and
railitarist Germany in their heydey. To make things periority.
more pleasant for the immigrant he shall ask Congress
Professor East talked birth control and indicted the
to enlarge the deportation powers of the Department whole Italian people. He speaks on the biology of
Author.
of Labor. Hard upon this gladsome news for the alien immigration and talks on everything under the sun but
we are informed that the American Federation of La- biology. We think he will find excellent room for his
—
cou rse ,
ber in characteristic style calls upon the local unions to talents in the plant morphology laboratories at Ilan
lacking, and important defenders, men
make America American by excluding all those who "rd,
whose word demands respect, and nat-
urally, the abuse on the attacking side thing of this kind," says a fourth,
"they call us Philistines."
live in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. In this con-
grows more heated and exaggerated
prAn artistic looking man standing by,
Midsummer Amenities.
so the ardency of the defenders be:
nection we would like to ask why 65 per cent of bi-
"It is a beautiful work of
comes more fired and Epstein is ale-
art," he said. "Where is the beauty?"
tuminous coal is dug by non-union miners, while in
Rabbi Solomon Foster of Newark is in for a most in -
h
voted by them into a symbol, into
came the chorus from the crowd. The
something greater than himself and
1923 only 25 per cent was mined by them. We think t e r e s t i n g time because of his remarks on Zionism at
all his work, and he becomes the ban- symmetry of the whole thing," replied
the young man, "is beautiful. The
the question is revelant and competent especially since the Williamstown conference conducted by Dr. Rap-
nor of the modernists, the high-brows
lines are beautiful, the upward sweep
the restricted immigration has been in effect since that pard, professor of the University of Geneva and secre-
the admirers of the daring and the tin:
to which all the figures contribute, is
a
test
Rs
The trial is regarded
conventional, and those who love to set
time and for the further reason that there has been an tary
beautiful. The whole panel has the
ry of the Permanent Mandates Commission.
wii ile l thaedrvaE nc g ey pli.fitt7, modern
the Philistine by the ears in their over
driest simplicity of great art."
actual decrease of Eastern and Southeastern Europeans
develop-
raging battle against the Quietists,
The professor went into ecstacies and rightly over %
And so the controversy goes on.
And
re -
by emigration, according to Senator David A Reed, in the achievements of the Jews in Palestine. He said, ments or range itself alongside Of 'p
the technicians in art, and the aver:
and hideous," "Gross,"
the
age everyday layman.
his survey on the blessings of the immigration law. in part: "Zionism is one of the most extraordinary phe- ligious medievalism.
"Primitive and l'olynesian," "Alien to
Epstein's panel in Hyde Park has
English
Taste,"
are some of the epi-
We have a faint suspicion that there are causes of para- nomena that I have ever studied. Palestine is an in-
become a place of pilgrimage. Crowds
theta applied to the memorial in the
Aids Rejected Immigrants.
go their daily to stand in front of it
mount importance which are responsible for the un- tellectual fairyland because the contrasts are so
press, and the Observer adds that
and perform the ritual of abuse. It
The National Migration Service, the
happy state of miners' union and that immigration is astounding. The Arabs are in the majority but they
"those who have criticized the pretty-
has become the sensation of the day—
American branch of which New York,
pretty in art may now do what they
not the most cogent. The explanation for this sorry have nothing comparable to the Jews in energy and has
and of the night.
issued a statement explaining the
can with the ugly-ugly."
It was almost midnight when quite
and untoward state of affairs will no doubt be fur- intellect I see no precedent for anything like this in o b bjects
ects of the organization. It says in
Of course, the fact that Epstein is
a distance from Hyde Park I heard an
a Jew has also come into the arg-u-
nished in due time by the apologists who can reconcile history; I do not know where to look for any similar part:
American tourist, in his unmistakable
recent restrictive immigration
its
fundamental
"in's
c work is Oriental in
mend.
Epste
the irreconcilable and explain the unexplainable. If movement which is religious and anti - theological." l e "The of
American accent, asking a policeman
United
i terde States sheasa ei an _
onception," says one
the way to the Epstein monument.
we may offer some unsought withal generous advice to Other Christians have enthusiastically praised the corn- efit'atdyreosultheed in f frequent p
critic, "and Hudson's spirit was en-
"I went into the park this after-
lion
of
families.
The
International
Mi-
sentially
English.
It seems odd that
those who would out 100 per cent the 100 per center munal agricultural workers in Palestine for their ex-
sues," says a correspondent of the
in i ns trying tolessen the
grnanteicoen,,Seervic ie
u
an artist of Epstein's sympathies
Manchester Guardian, "made for the
in the American labor movement we would suggest traordinary achievements.
sufferin n g
The magnificent, con -
g t 1 1 a t
should have been chosen to celebrate
first policeman I saw and before I
ttend th it e : moving of wage
attend
that they devote more of their time to the building up
Hudson's life work."
structive work under the severest handicaps due to the seems to from
could open my mouth, he said 'Go
one country to another.
The editorial writer in the Daily
Of their unions and less to assuring the country of their lack of training and stubborn soil has done much to earnol,
along that path as far as you can and
Our organization, through its offices
Graphic, who is on the whole favor-
sound patriotism. This constant assurance of their un- destroy the falsehoods and libels concerning the Jew's abroad, is in a position to help fam- you will find it on the right."
able to Epstein, says: "Epstein is a
The criticism has been fierce and
ilies to make some intelligent plan for
Jew and he has the Jewish genius for
dying devotion creates the suspicion that they arc in a inability to become a successful agriculturist.
heated. "The H
Hyde Park atrocity;' is
the shieel admittedhieni true thli, led unni tuendt id:at ys
abstract ideas and sheer stark logic.
defensive position and apologizing for something they
'
a heading freely applied to the panel
An intellectual with whom life is an
The statements of Rabbi Foster which provoked the
in the press.
contemplate doing, which may offend the canons of
or until the father and husband del
expression of ideas. Hudson is the
flood of abuse do not contravene those of Dr. Rap- ci :,deis il-,Iattte since his family cannot get
"You have misunderstood the idea
antithesis of these things."
good taste. It has been a long time since the loyalty
it is to attract the birds not to
w
ryn tor the
pard. He said, among other things: "Political Zion-
him
g the
to
at for h
The serious professional art critics
of American labor has been impugned and yet the de-
frighten them away," a cartoonist re-
year,
peat
During
other
t
t
side.
are most of them admirers of Ep-
ism is regarded as dead among the Jewish people. In-
marks of it, addressing Epstein. An-
fense mechanism is set in motion upon all occasions by
have raised $87,000 for t he work. The
stein's work and very few of them con-
telligent Jews do not expect a status of nationality for Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial other cartoonist has brought together demn the panel. utterly. All of them,
vociferous pronouncements of their Americanism.
the Jewish people. The majority of the Jews are has been responisble for a large part a collection of all the ugliest statues however, agree that it is inappropriate
To this galaxy is added the singular American or- against Zionism." These charges should be examined of our success because it has given in London—the Albert Memorial, the for its purpose. The art critic of the
Nurse Cavell Statue and several of the
0 00 and voted a new appropriation
Daily Telegraph, Mr. W. R. Tatlock,
$11,
ganization, the Ku Klux Klan, which has publicly dispAssionately and objectively.
of $33,000 for the nine months begin- drab, nondescript generals who are
writes: "The first thing to be said is
scattered about, unloved and unwant-
abandoned masks but has emblazoned on its banner,
nine
Oct.
1.
that the sculptor has entirely failed
-
We are persuaded that some of the extreme Zion
ed, in the London squares, and he has
Viscountess Gladstone is acting
to interpret the spirit of Hudson. If
"One language, One religion, One God." It is a sad
ist partisans will not be convinced by any proofs which chairman of the London office and grouped them about the Epstein panel we took Michelangelo's 'David' from
commentary upon the state of civilization in America
as if they of all things on earth were
Professor Gilbert Murray, treasurer.
its place in Florence and put it in
can be marshalled. Let us look at some of the facts.
when an alleged American organization can flaunt such
The headquarters is at 10 Rue de la holding an indignation meeting
Hyde Park and called it a Hudson
against its existence.
Did not the Plumer appointment give rise to the Bourse , Geneva, Switzerland
Memorial it would still remain a great
a banner and then proceed to aid in the movement to
That is perhaps the best means of
'
'
'
work of art, but it would have been
exclude those who are not 100 per cent Nordic blond, notion that political Zionism is rather moribund? Did
defense of the Epstein panel the only
out
of place. The design, taken as a
not
the
attack
of
the
Zionist
opposition
on
Weizmann
defence for if it is ugly, what in
Mayor.
Former
Honor
Protestant Americans.
whole and in isolation, is very much
Heaven's name are these others, and
for his neglect of political Zionism arouse the suspicion
better than those we are accustomed
Mobile, Ala ., the city commission
At
Not to be surpassed by these defenders and uphold-
that political Zionism had not much vitality? Is not in special session" adopted rasolu-tions why is there no howl of protest to see in London. It is above the av-
ers of the American creed, according to the mode of
erage, but neither the best Mr. Ep-
regret on the death of former may-
the fact that there are only 65,000 members of the of
aeons:
at hgeB
ayiunats teht answer y simple, because
or and city commissioner Laz
stein has produced nor as good as cer-
1925, comes Edward M. East, professor of plant mor-
are dull
um al n In?:
end hies interest
ionist Organization of America at least a straw Schwartz who died recently. The city
tain other young sculptors can do."
Z
not even to protest.
'
phology at Harvard University, with an ex cathedra
y
eery
Mr. Frank Rutter, one of the pio-
which indicates that a majority do not approve of Zion - hall was closed for the funeral
Although _the Hon. Stephen Coles-
decalogue on the "Biology of Immigration." In the
..
of the former city official and flags
neers of the modernist art movement
edge,
and d artist and the son of
ism ? There are nearly 4,000,000 Jews in America. ices
During the
in
England, and the critic of the Sun-
ere
n
e
lexicon of nonsense there are surely more than 10 rea- Have not the cumulative pronouncements and the di - were
elf Lor
th famous
the
Chief Justice, at-
rluol the bell in the city
i y fire tower
day Times, wrote: "The truth is that
h d f
'
that
by
sons, but perhaps there is more force and authority in
„ k
was
tolled.
Besides
serving
in
the
of
.and Epstein are opposites and
verse activities of Zionist leaders created a tangible
"those of us who are disgusted with
forget Huilh-
the number 10 because the law-giver Moses once hand-
fire of mayor and city commissioner,
irreconcdlables.dlfrwe
doubt as to the desire for a national status? Has not Mr. Schwartz was for many years a the Epstein performance have no brief Hudson
er, a new or
pstein
son
an
regard .w
ed down this number on Mount Sinai.
defend the generals in Trafalgar
,
the creation of the agency supported the theory of the member of public works. A native of to
simply as his own expression, thin I
Square
or
the
statesmen
in
frock
coats
Engenheim, Bavaria, he came to Mo-
The biology of immigration as revealed b y the deco -
think must admit that is is an ex-
in Parliament Square. Because other
bile at the age of four years. A large
logue rigorously excluded biology and dealt instead abandonment of national aspirations?
P ressive and impressive work of great
t dguses are nnut ghlyt.,eutnt
the e Epstein memos-
We do not agree with the Jewish Day that Solo- delegation of members of Mobile lodge tu hlin
power and originality."
i T
, ehse,
with economics, international relations, culture, politics mon Foster is insolent, nor does he show a spirit of an- of Elks attended the funeral. Rabbi
r. P. G.
.,. Konody, one of the leading
standard of beauty we desire to set up
. M.
Alfred G. Moses of the Congregation
critics in I..nglan. d and a great admirer
and birth control.
tagonism to the cherished ideals of the Jewish people. Sharaai Shomayim conducted the serv- for emulation are the matisftuelr.pe
tein,tes
,, wx in the Observer,
of
fEz
..
.
not the ineptitudes
and the
unhappy
The immigrant is surely an iniquitous person if we II,. ,l000 vv,..1 hain,, ,, with the Ilnkonkreuzler and he ie..
•
• • •
n
,
, a nal is not w erhas
monuments and statues which no one
are to believe all that Professor East tells us about him. has not joined with the most malignant forces bent on
a masterpiece, it is surely not un-
with any taste admires."
worthy of the great traditions on
He has become the official scapegoat and whipping boy. defeating the Jewish national cause.
There
have
been
questions
in
Par-
5,000 Zionists Celebrate.
which plastically is is based." In an-
liament about the panel. Members of
All our delinquencies can be charged to him. The em-
other place, Mr. Konody writes of the
Five thousand persons attended ex-
The vitriolic attack on the Reform rabbinate be-
the Hudson Memorial Committee have
ployer is deprived of his proper profit because the in- cause Rabbi Foster's statements is not at all justified ercises in Hamilton Fish Park,. New protested that the funds raised have panel that "it may have failed as an
instant popular success, but it will
competent immigrant is paid more than he earns, but or merited. A rabbi has the right to express his opinion York, to celebrate the opening of the been misapplied by the selection jury. prove
itself sculpture under the acid
Zionist Congress at Vienna last Tues-
Demands have been made on all sides,
this same incompetent, handicapped by linguistic in- without bringing down upon the Reform rabbinate a day.
test
of time."
even in Parliament, for its removal.
Mr. R. B. Cunninghame-Graham,
Flags of the United States and Pal-
ability, has caused sterilization of the native stocks by
Hyde
Park
is
a
public
garden,
the
prejudiced and intemperate tirade.
estine were hung in the park and the
the chairman of the Hudson Memor-
argument goes, and the public which
his competition with them. This immigrant of recent
What proof has the Day to offer which contradicts meeting was opened with the singing objects has the right to demand the ial Committee and the man who prob-
date is responsible for the downward trend of the stand-
of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and
ably had most to do with the selection
removal of the panel.
of Epstein to carry out the work, be-
ard of living, although we have been assured from the statements of Rabbi Foster? In the column dia- the "Hatikvah," the latter the nation-
Question time in the Commons he-
tribe
we
found
not
a
single
fact.
We
expected
a
hitter
al anthem of the Jews. Speeches were
ing, as he is, one of the chief support-
came practically a debate on the Ep-
many sources that the American standard is as high
made in Ilebrew, Yiddish and English
ers Epstein has had for some years
stein memorial. Lieutenant Colonel
today as ever. Perhaps Professor East has special in- controversial spirit to manifest itself since the Plumer
by Dr. S. Melamed, editor of The New
past, says: "I am surprised at the at-
Dalrymple White, M. P., asked the
be gained
Warheit; Dr. Abraham Coralnick, ed-
titude of Epstein's fello•-craftsmen.
formation on the subject and has been able to find an appointment but we fear that nothing will
home department whether it could not
itor of The Day; Maurice Samuel. a
Instead of rallying round him they
have "this disfigurement removed."
intimate connection between living standards and the by such methods.
writer; Morris Firth, the Rev. J. Buch
have
done as much as they possibly
Sir William Davison, M. P. asked if
alien. We wonder when the tendency started, for if it
and Lazor Rosenste. Each of the
can against him, losing sight of the
the minister in charge of the depart-
speakers
reviewed
the
plans
to
rebuild
fact
that
thereby they are incidentally
was after 1923 Southeastern Europe is not the culprit.
ment would take the trouble to stand
the homeland of the Jews.
doing injury to themselves."
in front of the memorial for a few
We are informed too that we have a foreign policy
A
curious
interlude in the whole af-
hours each day se that he might know
fair is that Sir John Lavery, one of
founded upon expediency and not sound principle be-
the feelings of the public about it.
Greets
Polish
Americana
the most conventional of artists, has
"Ask of Me, beautiful mouth,
Mr. E. Cadogan, M. P., wanted to
cause we have so many groups to placate. Any one
come out with a bold gesture of ap-
A delegation of Poles living in the
know whether the sanction of the De-
What does thou ask of Me?
with the faintest glimmering of knowledge of the sub-
proval of Epstein, by nominating him
United States who are members of the
partment of Public Works was "ulti-
For
thy
suppliant
cry
for membership of the Royal Acad-
"Sokol"
Athletic
Society
received
a
ject knows this to be sheer claptrap. Have the Irish,
mate and absolute." Lord Cavendish-
warm welcome when they arrived in
emy, "to silence," as he writes, "the
Bentinck,
Dr.
Haden
Guest,
Sir
hen-
Math
ascended
on
high
Russians and Germans, despite their pleas and insistent
Warsaw•. The party includes 255
ridiculous ones who look upon the R.
ry Craik and Captain Eden all joined
Inclining My ear to thy plea."
demands, impressed the state department?
men and 118 women, who will partici-
A. as a hallmark." Lavery an admir-
in to heckle or support Mr. Locker-
er of Epstein! How strange it sounds
pate
in
the
celebration
of
the
society's
Lampson, the minister in charge.
Then too, these immigrants have prevented the
twenty-fifth
anniversary.
to
one who knows the work of both.
Liuetenant
Colonel
and
Hon.
Cuthbert
"First With the lion we met,
emergence of a unified, national culture.
Before the World War this society
It is not probable that Epstein will be
James, M. P., perpetrated the inevit-
Next came the leopard's leap.
If the K. K. K. moving picture, Main Street, Day-
constituted a form of secret prepara-
elected—for one thing there is nn va-
able had joke of suggesting because of
We were fain to take flight
tion of the Polish people for military
cancy among the R. A.'s, and there
Epstein's name (as if the bearer of
ton, Tenn., banalities are evidences of a uniform nation-
service so that they might be ready
may be none for some years yet. But
such a name could not be anything but
From our garden's delight
al culture we thank the immigrants for saving us. If
for the day when it would be possible
the gesture is certainly a fine and out-
a foreigner) whether "the sculptor
And into a hiding place creep.
standing one, and it will certainly
to fight for independence. Today the
prohibitory, standardized, censored, joyless puritanism
owing to his inadequate knowledge of
organization is widely extended among
have created a profound impression on
English thought he had to produce a
is to be the mark of our distinctive culture we are happy
the masses and its object now is to
the sheeplike ones, who without under-
sculpture dealing with birds and erect-
"Hardly these creatures had passed.
that the immigrant has invaded our shores.
improve the physical strength of the
standing follow names.
ed a scarecrow."
Sated
with
Judah's
spoil,
What is the truth about the Epstein
nation.
Finally, we are informed in commandment ten, and
The correspondence columns of the
memorial?
Than
the
wild
ass
we
feared
newspapers
are
flooded
with
letters
this is the most important, that immigration when forc-
As I see it, there is no ground for
pro and con. Most of the newspapers
Out of midnight appeared
ed by economic necessity tends to lower the biologic
An Unusual Fall.
either the wild abuse or the fiery par-
have had more than one editorial on
To trample and dwell on our soil.
tisanship which make up the present
quality of the race. The argument to prove this is truly
1.ittle Moe Klein, two years old,
the subject.
controversy. Epstein is one of the
leaned from a window in his home on
Epstein himself, who in the past
ingenious: There are 25 per cent of the people of the
few important sculptors living today
the third floor, New York City, lost
has always kept silence when attacked,
"Ismael's offspring command
country who may be classed as undesirables, that is
and these can be numbered on the fin-
his balance and fell out. A woman
contenting himself with the enigmat-
Back to his Arab land,
gers of one hand. He is not as monu-
those who are unable to adjust themselves to the com-
from a window above saw Moe drop
ic remark, "I rest silent in my work,"
mental and vital as the French Hour-
and screamed. The scream came one-
has this time come out into the open
As his mother of old
plexities of our civilization. Europe, however, shows
delle, or as massive and impressive as
fiftieth of • second after Moe started
to defend himself. His admirers are
To her mistress was told
an even larger percentage. We are not told what pro-
the Serb Mestrovic, nor as epochmak-
his descent. An unidentified man who
interviewed, they write to the press,
ing as was Rodin or as was the Bel-
To return and submit to her hand."
portion of the undesirables are immigrants, or what
was passing, looked up, reached out
and make speeches to explain why
gian Meunier. And although Konody,
his arms and waited for Moe to reach
they think Epstein right and the pub-
number are natives. But we are told that those who
a noted admirer of both, places him
him.
Moe
fell
safely
into
his
arms.
lic
and
the
press
wrong.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL
have come in recent years shows a lower grade mental-
with Glicenstein as the greatest artists
Then the rescuer disappeared without
Never do I remember a controversy
Translated by Israel Zang.rW
leasing his card.
ity than those who are here. So far, so good. We are
(Jewish Publication Society.)
so violent and general about a piece
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