2 NOVEMBER 1912, Page 13

Jewish Legends of the Middle Ages. By Wolff Pascheles and

others. Selected and translated by Claud Field. Illustrated by May Mulliner. (Robert Scott. 2s. 6d.)—It is interesting to see something of the Middle Ages (this term is here used vaguely) from the Jewish point of view, and to learn, as we can in some of these little stories, of the kindliness that often formed part of the relations between ordinary Jews and Christians, even when the rulers were ill-treating the former people. "The Massacre at Prague" reminds one by its horror of tales of Russian pogroms, while the chapter called "The Pound of Flesh" is worth reading, if only from the fact that "The Merchant of Venice" is said to be derived from it. Some of tho stories might be read to children if the reader exercises a certain discretion.