[210] Ibid. See also a summary of this period under title “The Jews in Roumania” in The Standard, Sept. 30, 1902.
[211] J. Morley, Life of W. E. Gladstone, Vol. iii. p. 475 (1891).
[212] The story is related at length by Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Ch. xxvi.
[213] One example will suffice. The peasant word for a convivial gathering is written sedatore, and pronounced shezetoare.
[214] Alexander A. Landesco, in The Century Magazine, May, 1906, p. 160.
[215] The Vienna correspondent of The Times, June 10, 1902.
[216] Carmen Sylva, “The Jews in Roumania,” The Century Magazine, March, 1906.
[217] See statistics of population in the Jewish Year Book for 1902–03. Cp. the Statesman’s Year Book for 1906.
[218] Report from Bucharest, published in the Pester Lloyd, see The Standard, Sept. 27, 1902. Cp. the article “Oath More Judaico” in the Jewish Encyclopedia, ix. p. 367.
[219] The Vienna correspondent of The Standard, Sept. 19, 1902.