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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Since the realization of intellectual and civil freedom in the nineteenth century, the Jews have begun to emerge from their prolonged seclusion, and the contrast of ideals is renewed. But, though the contrast is again in evidence, let there be no conflict. Let the Jewish ideal, that of goodness and character, combine with the beauty and culture, which the western races have inherited from the Greeks, to form a single, solid basis upon which to lay the foundations of future greatness...
...annual volume, containing about 500 pages, will be the unit of publication. No articles will be continued from one number to another, even though it should be necessary to devote a whole issue to a single important contribution...
...gifts with which man is endowed. The world is greedy for leadership, so much so that it is easily imposed on by demagogues. It is all the more necessary then that you should become honest, straightforward leaders. A leader is only a high type of man; though he must go before his followers he must not be detached from them, that is, he must be human. He should be to the masses what a motive is to the individual; he stirs them up to motion; he seeks out the undeveloped capacity of each man. The demagogue, on the other hand...
...manner. He obviously aims at novelty of expression, and sometimes hits the mark. The author of "The Best of It," has, on the other hand, conspicuously failed. Turning to the morally pestilential life of a certain watering place, here called Nouvean Isle, he recounts with zest an incident which, though improbable, might have been made amusing. He is, however, so lacking in narrative skill that at the critical moment he does not present his leaf-clad personages vividly. Occasionally,--for example, when dwelling upon the physical peculiarities of middle age,--he comes perilously near coarseness. What is even worse...
Resisting the allurement of subjects which demand much experience and mature philosophy, Mr. D. M. Cheney wisely chooses to deal with incidents and emotions which, though not commonplace are well within his power. In "The Wizard of the Garden," he has a simple plot,--merely the growth of friendship between a lonely old man and an imaginative boy. Perhaps he has not always made the latter's talk sufficiently childlike, but possibly he was afraid thus to disturb the charming atmosphere of romanticism in which his characters dwell. His story has truth to human nature and beauty of expression...