st
to reverse its meaning. Anti-Semitism in Germany, and especially in
Prussia, has kept the Jews far from any positions of importance in
university life, on the bench, and in all state and military affairs.
And to add that the war "will crush out most of this anti-Semitic
tendency" is to fly in the very face of well-ascertained and
authenticated facts of very recent occurrence. In _Harper's Weekly_
for February 6th of this year (p. 122), a series of such facts is
adduced. Nor can Mr. Schiff forget that forced conversion away from
the Jewish faith and communion has nowhere taken on the dangerous
proportions it has in the Fatherland. Russia, it is true, has martyred
many Jewish bodies; German "Kultur" has quenched too many Jewish
souls. History will have to decide which has done the greater hurt to
the Jewish cause.]

O Sweet Anemones

BY JESSIE E. SAMPTER

_This Song is one of a series put into the mouth of a nationalist
Pharisee of Jerusalem living through the times of the coming of Jesus
to Jerusalem and the later development or perversion of Jesus' ideals
by Paul._

O sweet anemones on Sharon's plain,
Light dancing seraphim of sun and rain,
Was he not one of us, was he not ours?
And yet he saved not us, O crimson flowers!

As stars that bloom in heaven, full-bloom and still,
As native stags that leap from hill to hill,
As you, dear blossom-stars, on native plains,
So planted here, with God, our home remains.

I, too, would perish here, where he has died,
But felled by horse and spear, not crucified;
I, man of peace, would pour, O Rock of God,
My freedom or my blood on Zion's sod.

When pagans sweep thy fields with withering blast,
My heart is sanctified to death at last;
Its taste is honey-sweet within my mouth,
For we that drink with God can dread no drouth.

O sweet anemones on Sharon's plain,
A spring shall come for us, to bloom again,--
To God a day, to us a thousand years,--
Who still remembers, lives, refreshed with tears.

"Paths of Pleasantness"

_The Study of the Jewish Law_

BY DAVID WERNER AMRAM

"_Her paths are paths of pleasantness, and all her ways are peace. She
is a tree of life to those that lay fast hold on her, and happy is
every one that retaineth her."--Prov. 3:17, 18._

[Illustration: _DAVID WERNER AM