The principal instrument binding the United States with Of President Taft, tendered to Eussia on the 17th of December, 1911, brought to an end from and after January 1, 1913, Other organizations by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Eelations were soДЇull, and the arguments were presented in so convincing a manner, that the Congress was moved to take practically unanimousДЄction favoring the abrogation of the Treaty, which, by notice The hearings given to the American Jewish Committee and To this powerful voice, raised in the cause of justice and in deAMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOKДЇense of American citizenship, Congress gave willing heed. With rare exceptions, demanded the abrogation of the Treaty. Great Lakes to the Gulf, and from Washington to Florida,

When made familiar with theДЇacts, the newspapers from Maine to California, from the The public press, an incomplete collection of which numbers

Gathered from the multiplicity and variety of the articles in Was focussed upon the indignity which Russia, for more thanДЄ generation, had put upon American citizenship, may be Measure of the extraordinary extent to which public attention Of England, if it does not surpass them in importance. Jews in France and the removal of the disabilities of the Jews Rank with such historical events as the emancipation of the Little attention has hitherto been paid, and which should receive widespread notice, as the achievements recorded, together with much unsuccessful endeavor, are of a high order.ДЄfter the publication of this article, the ground will be takenДЇrom under the feet of those who contend that agriculture isДЄn occupation which has no attractions for the Jews.Д®asily first of the events last year in Jewry, not only of thisД¬ountry but of all the world, is the abrogation of the Treaty It is a contribution to the history of a phase of Jewish activity to which too Jews in America, with special reference to the experiments,ДЇailures, and successes in the United States. Robinson, of the Agricultural Activities of the The leading article in this, the fourteenth, issue of the THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMEEICA In six volumes, cloth bound, lor which I am to pay you ВҐ8.50, this being the s p e c i a l Kindly send me, e x p r e s s a g e p r e p a i d, a set of Graetz's 'History of the Jews,' THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA Resort to the volumes of Graetz.'-'Review ofRevitvit (New York). 'If one desires to study the history of the Jewish people under the direction of a scholarДЄnd pleasant writer who is in sympathy with his subject, because he is himself a Jew, he should Some time, perhaps decades.'-Preface to Index Volume. His work, at present theДЄuthority upon the subject of Jewish History, bids fair to hold its pre-eminent position for 'Professor Graetz is the historiographer par excellence of the Jews. Task with consummate skill.'-The Jewish Encyclopedia. Of this history a very difficult undertaking, and it cannot be denied that Graetz performed his The material for Jewish historyД«eing so varied, the sources so scattered in the literatures of all nations, made the presentation Literature-are in themselves proofs of the worth of the work. Of these translations have been edited three or four times-a very rare occurrence in Jewish Translated into English, Russian and Hebrew, and partly into Yiddish and French. 'Graetz's 'Geschichte der Juden1 has superseded all former works of its kind, and has been HANDSOMELY AND DURABLY BOUND IN SIX VOLUMESД¬ontains more than 4000 pages, a Copious Index of more than 8000 Subjects, andДIFFICULT TASK PERFORMED WITH CONSUMMATE SKILL HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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