“The book before us will be of value to every American who would keep in touch with our own commercial development; nor less does it deserve a place in the alcove devoted to books of travel.” Thomas H. MacBride.
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“The book is a useful one for its descriptions of the countries and people which we ought to know much more about than we do and for the trade and industrial facts and figures it contains.”
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“It embodies ... a serious and commendable effort to enlighten the American public as a matter of National concern.” George R. Bishop.
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Perez, Isaac Loeb. Stories and pictures; tr. from the Yiddish by Helena Frank. $1.50. Jewish pub.
The translator makes note of the fact that fully to understand these sketches one needs to know intimately the life of the Russian Jews who figure here, and to be familiar with the love of the Talmud and the Kabbalah which color their talk. These stories are “intensely Jewish” but are told in the spirit of the author’s broad views and wide sympathies.
“The author possesses the master-power which enables him to impart to commonplace and even sordid happenings that deep human interest which lifts his work above the plane of mediocrity to that of genius.” Amy C. Rich.