The Atlantic Monthly Volume 130 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...as by what he saw of drink degradation in Great Britain. These chapters are an entertaining contribution to the history of an important movement of which we are not overinformed on this side of the water. It would be easy to point out-minor errors of fact, and possibly graver errors of opinion, in this volume. None the less it is a valuable book within its limitations; and it is likely to arouse the minds of complacent readers, even those of lethargic intellects, to the perils to which American institutions are exposed if we go on underbreeding the race that created and supports them. Victor S. Clark. The Jews, by Hilaire Belloc. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1922. 8vo, xx+308 pp. $3.00. The entire argument of this essay flows from one premise, which can be stated in very simple terms. Mr. Belloc insists that a Jew is a Jew and can never become an Englishman, Frenchman, German, or American. Israel, he maintains, is a nation, cannot be fused with any other nation, must remain alien to every nation in which its people are domiciled, inevitably breeds hostility to itself as it acquires a dominant position within any other nation or among nations, and will invite persecution and injustice so long as its nationality remains legally and practically unrecognized. There is a Jewish problem, he maintains, because the Jews form an essentially and ineradicably foreign element wherever they may be. It is not a religious problem but a problem of race. The book is written as a contribution to a rational solution of the problem, for the avoidance of a shameful outcome. The first step, the only step on which the author insists with certainty, is to give up the 'Liberal fiction' with respect to the Jews. That Liberal fiction is sentimental and is not in accord w...