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PREFACE TO THIS EDITION

Has a novelist a right to alter his novel after its publication, to

condense it, to add to it, to hten its situations, and

otherwise so to change it that to all outward appearance it is

practically a new book? I leave this point in literary ethics to the

consideration of those whose business it is to discuss such questions,

and contentthe reader the history of the present

story

About ten years ago I went to Russia with so a book that should deal with the racial struggle

which culminated in the eviction of the Jews from the holy cities of

that country, and the scenes of tyrannical administration which I

witnessed there hts of the day often followed ht, and after a more

than usually terrible revelation of official cruelty, I had a dream of a

Jeoman as induced to denounce her husband to the Russian

police under a promise that they would spare his life, which they said

he had forfeited as the leader of a revolutionary movement The husband

came to knoho his betrayer had been, and he cursed his wife as his

worst enemy She pleaded on her knees that fear for his safety had been

the only ain His cause was