Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England. VoL
(Spottiswoode, Ballantyne, and Co. £1 lie. 6d.)—There are as usual some very able papers in these Transactions. The most interesting of them, perhaps, is that in which Sir Lionel Abrahams discusses " The Economic and Financial Position of the Jews in Mediaeval England," and gives very good reasons for his view that the wealth of the Jews, before their expulsion by Edward I., was wildly exaggerated. Even Dr. Stubbs, the paragon of caution, seems to have been misled unconsciously by the fables of the chroniclers. Mr. Henriques argues " The Question whether a Jew can be Lord Chancellor of England," and contends, with Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Asquith, that he can, though Lord Halsbury's unofficial English Code, The Laws of England, declares that it would be unconstitutional for the King's conscience to be in the keeping of a Jew, or any other man who was not a Protestant.
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