religious. This is to say with all possible emphasis to
the Jew :
Marry within the circle of your own raea. The tragedy of the story is the fate of Ellen. She marries a Jew, a very first-class Jew
indeed; she becomes a proselyte ; but the union ends in disaster.
She loses, so to speak, all capacity of religious feeling. That is a quite natural result. What else can follow when a woman changes her creed either for love or for ambition ? All this is vigorously described. And the satire is powerful. Mr. Gordon does not spare the vulgarities of such people as Mrs. Louisson, and 'Julius her son, and the financier Adolphus. But if the characters are well drawn, the story is naught. The sham elope- ment is absurd.
The Blue Dryad. By G. H. Powell. (Grant Richards. is.)— The first of these short stories is a very vigorous little tale. A
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