ABSTRACT
Five years of war, attended by anguish almost unparalleled in extent and poignancy, have been followed, not by peace—the true peace that is rooted in goodwill—but merely by a cessation of strife, itself but partial, by civil turmoil only one degree less disastrous than internecine conflict. The Observer has had the courage to admit the possibility of the Jew, rather than the Christian, being the real exemplar of the excellences which are usually deemed exclusively Christian and are so, specifically, designated. At any rate, the voluntary tribute of the Observer comes as a timely reminder that truth and fair play are not extinct qualities in England to-day, and that there are Christians ready to do justice to the Jew even at the cost of doing violence to their most tender susceptibilities.
