THE ROMANCE OF THE ROTHSCHILDS.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1
Sra,—My attention having been drawn to a review which appeared recently in your journal of a book on the Rothschild family, I was astonished to read that the reviewer thinks that there were instances, in the careful system of intermarriage practised in that family, of uncles marrying nieces. Surely a statement of this kind should either be substantiated or sup-
f Our correspondent appears to misunderstand our inter- jection of the words "we think." The author of "The Romance of the Rathschilds " gives the names of uncles in. the Rothschild family who married their nieces, and being uncertain whether he had mentioned two or more eases, we wrote of "uncles (in two cases, we think) marrying nieces." The word " think " qualified the number of cases, not the fact
of - such marriageiliving.taken place, for it did not occur! to us to doubt the author's accuracy us to the fact. Does our correspondent mean that such marriages are prohibited among Jews, and that the author is wrong ? In Germany marriages between uncles and nieces are certainly fairly common.—ED. Spectator.]
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