ome on.

_Jessica_ No! No!

_Shylock_ Resist no more, my child.

_Jessica_ Oh, father, we may never meet again;
Your age and suffering cannot endure
The shock of this disgrace.

_Shylock_ 'Tis better so.
I pray for death. It cannot come too soon.
Farewell.

_Jessica_ Farewell. (_Throws her arms around him_)
Yet not a long farewell,
I shall not far survive. It is no sin
To end a life of misery and shame.

_Isaac_ (_behind scenes_) Where is my master? Where has Shylock gone?
(_Enter Isaac._)

_Gratiano_ Here fellow, here he is. With Jessica
He poses like a model for the arts.

_Isaac_ Great news and wonderful. His ship is here
And laden full of gold. The mine is found
And Issachar and he are princely rich.
This cargo is the greatest that has come
To Venice since the city first began.

_Antonio_ I do rejoice to hear it. Truly Jew
I have no wish to do thy body harm
But thou and thy relations are well known
To be so deep in craft and villainy
That to recover what is justly due
We Christians must resort to rigid means.
Go freely with thy daughter. Later on
When ev'rything's in order I'll return
And you may pay me what the balance is.

(_Exit Antonio and Gratiano, followed by Isaac. Shylock
still stands expressionless with Jessica's arms around
him._)

[Illustration: Signature: Wmln. Blatt]

Jewish Students in European Universities

BY HARRY WOLFSON

(_Concluded_)

_Judaism and Jewish Students in France_

The decadence of native Judaism in France has become proverbial. The
original French Jews never amounted to much; and the Alsatian
immigrants, while still supplying rabbis for the pulpits, have of late
begun to disappear from the pews. You may state it is an axiom that
the synagogue will have to go a-begging for a quorum wherever
church-going is unpopular. But French Judaism has recently been
gaining reinforcement by the influx of newcomers from Eastern Europe.
Paris might be considered next to London the greatest centre of Jewish
immigration in Europe. In fact, Paris as well as some large cities in
the Low Countries, and to some ext