Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto

ng woman found herself in her kitchen she collapsed, sinking down on the lounge. The room seemed to have assumed a novel aspect, which brought home to her afresh that the bon

he child backward and forward, and intoning her words as Jewish women do over a grave, she went on: "Ai, you have no papa any more, Joeyelé! Yoselé

"You want Mr. Bernstein to leave you, too, do you? No mo

neighbours put in, resentfully. "Bu

as smart and ejecate as a lawyer? You would have got a match like that in Povodye, would you? I dare say a man like Mr. Bernstein would not have spoken to you there. You ought to say Psalms for your coming to America. It is only here that it is possible for a blacksmith's wife to marry a learned man,

vnik?" one of the neighbours interposed. "You

monstration of grief. Having let down the boy, she went on

self far from desolate, being conscious of the existence of a man who was to take care of her and her child, and even relishing the prospect of the new life in store for her. Already on her way from the rabbi's

n his inmost heart he was the reverse of eager to reach the City Hall. He was painfully reluctant to part with his long-coveted freedom so soon after it had at last been attained, and before he had had time to relish it. Still worse than this thirst for a taste of liberty was a feeling which was now gaining upon him, that, instead of a conqueror, he had emerged from the rabbi's house the victim of an ignominious defeat. If he could now have seen Gitl in her paroxysm of anguish, his heart would perhaps have swelled with a sense

me to a halt he wished the pause could be prolonged indefinitely; and when it resumed its pr

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ory throughout is splendid, and all aglow with color, movement, and vim. The style is as keen and

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chief and heroine, is delineated with a sweetness and a freshness, a naturalness and a certainty,

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modern fiction from the reproach it has brought upon itself.... The story

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s former books, and likely to be read with a keen enjoyment and a health

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ty of its style is delightful, and the adventures recorded in these 'Chronicles of Count Anton

tyle. The characters, drawn with such masterly handling, are not merely pictures and port

f a man who has the genius of narrative, making the varied incidents flow

'... Wonderfully strong, graphic, and compels the inter

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e the average novelist of the day in intellectua

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quaintance with the Dutch literature of fiction may so

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ack of imagination.... Shows a skillful and wide a

er; but he also lets his imagination travel through spiritual realms, and evidently delights in mystic speculation quite as much as in

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r. He knows the learned maps of the astrologers. He knows the work of Copernicus. He has made calcula

which to hang the romantic adventures of the central figures, who have all the daring ingenuity and luck of Mr. Verne's heroes. Mr. Astor

after to be explored, but the volume is intensely interesting, both as a product of imaginati

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one of the newer States. Revolutionary indeed has been the upturning of the old condition of affairs, and little remains thereof, and less will remain as each year goes by, until presently there will be only tradition of the Sioux and Comanches, the cowboy life, the wild horse, and the antelope. Histories, many of them, have been written about the Western c

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, author of "Pawnee Hero Stories," "Blackfoot Lo

attractive book, ... in large part one in which Indi

the reader directly to the camp-fire and the council, and shows us the American Indian as he really is.... A book whic

than that. While it is a true story, yet it is a story none the less abounding in picturesque description a

r with the various phases of his devotion to war and the chase, and finally the effects of encroaching civilization, are delineated with a certainty a

rican Indian. Long acquaintance and association with the Indians, and membership in a tribe, combined with a high degree of literary a

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