Not wishing my readers to be falsely impressed on perusing this novel, I wish to inform them that this is a story of the impossible, and is placed in the future for the sake of convenience. Were England other than she is, however, it would not be so impossible to issue such an edict as I have here introduced; and therefore it is a matter of congratulation and deep thankfulness to both Jew and Gentile that the attitude of our country towards her Jewish subjects is that of justice, toleration, and friendliness. At the same time, the poisonous seeds of anti-Semitism are so subtle and so easily instilled, that a warning—even in the form of fiction—may not be out of place.

With regard to the practical side of the story, I claim the author’s privilege of imagination; since this is not a treatise on Zionism, but merely a novel.

Violet Guttenberg.

London, 1904.

CONTENTS

BOOK I
THE GATHERING OF THE STORM
CHAP. PAGE
IOF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE[11]
IITHE MONTELLAS[20]
IIIPATRICIA[29]
IVTHE MASKED BALL[39]
VTHE STORY OF FERDINAND[50]
VIA HOUSE OF MOURNING[59]
VIITHE UNEMPLOYED[68]
VIIILADY CHESTERWOOD’S SECRET[80]
IXTHE ZIONISTS[90]
XPREMIER AND PEERESS[98]
XITHE PREMIER OUTWITTED[108]
XIIMONTELLA’S OLD NURSE[119]
XIIIA DIFFICULT ALTERNATIVE[130]
BOOK II
THE LAND OF THEIR FATHERS
IPURIM IN HAIFA[141]
IITHE TOURIST AND RAIE[152]
IIIA GIRL IN LOVE[161]
IVGOVERNOR OF HAIFA[168]
VTHE COMING OF ZILLAH[179]
VITHE CAVE OF ELIJAH[186]
VIIEL KÛDS[197]
VIIIAMID SACRED SCENES[205]
IXMEMORABLE MOMENTS[213]
XTHE BLOW FALLS[223]
XIFAREWELL[237]
XIIRAIE’S DILEMMA[244]
XIIITHE EMPTY HOUSE[254]
XIVIN THE LIGHT OF THE MOON[266]
BOOK III
THE LAST OF THE EDICT
IENGLAND ONCE MORE[279]
IIAN ANTI-SEMITE STILL[288]
IIITHE MIND OF THE PREMIER[299]
IVLADY PATRICIA’S CONQUEST[308]
V“THE SKIRT OF A JEW”[317]

Period.—The Future

BOOK I
“Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word amongst all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.”—Deut. xxviii. 37.

A MODERN EXODUS

CHAPTER I
OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE