... Jews, as told in an old story. The old story thus irreverently alluded to is evidently the Book of Esther, and the Persian Shah is King Ahasuerus, whose gracious permission to the Jews to gather together and to stand for their life, to destroy, ...

... which we may see ourselves in the aggregate if not in detail as seen by foreigners from various points of the compass. A Persian Shah has been good enough to give ns apeep; from M. Taine and Max O'Hell we know something of the figure that we cut in Qallic ...