[24] Lond., Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., 1920. _Morning Post_, July 16
and 17, 1920.
[25] See Isaac D'Israeli, "Curiosities of Literature," Vol. III., pp.
143-150.
[26] _Anabaptisticum_, etc. (1702). See particularly the tract entitled
_Erschroeckliche Bruderschafft der Alten und Neuen_.
[27] Preface to Schieferl's edition (Dresden, 1893).
[28] As a matter of fact, he was not the first worker in this field,
though he was the first literary ancestor of Nilus. The idea of the
dramatic treatment of a Jewish conspiracy against Christian Society was
worked out by the Polish poet Krassinsky in his _Nie-Boska Komedya_
("The Undivine Comedy"), published in 1834. It differs in scope and
detail from Goedsche. Its attack on the Jews was strongly censured by
Adam Mickiewicz.
[29] _Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon_ (1897), Vol. VII., _sub. voc._
Goedsche and Waldeck. _Stenographischer Bericht ueber die Verhandlungen
in der Anklage gegen Dr. Waldeck_ (Berlin, 1849).
[30] In four volumes, Berlin, 1868.
[31] It was a custom of some mediaeval German Jews to place the "first
fruits" of their cattle to grass in the cemeteries. This gave rise to a
popular belief that the idolatrous cultus of the Golden Calf still
lingered among them. (Schudt: _Juedische Merckwuerdigkeiten_ (1714), Vol.
II., p. 376.)
[32] _Biarritz_, Vol. I., pp. 130-180. Further characteristic
references to the Jewish question will be found in a later novel of the
Retcliffe series entitled _Um die Weltherrschaft_, Vol. I., pp.
309-310, 338, 360, 415; Vol. II., pp. 55, 56, 63; Vol. III., pp. 127,
130; Vol. IV., pp. 190-191, 467; Vol. V., pp. 22, 83-84, 206.
[33] _Berichte ueber die 3 Generalversammlung des Vereins zur Abwehr des
Antisemitismus_ (Vienna, 1893), pp. 8, 9.
[34] Hebrew for "Gentiles."
[35] _Stenographische Protokolle des Hauses der Abgeordneten des
Oesterreichischen Reichsrathes_ (1901), pp. 1282-1284.
[36] Wolski: _La Russie Juive_ (Paris, 1911), pp. 7-19.
[37] The text is quoted by Meister: _Judas Schuldbuch_, p. 155.
[38] "The Jewish Peril," p. III.
[39] _Ibid._, p. 88.
[40] _Berliner Tageblatt_, May 18, 1920. The story is repeated with
further variations, in the fourth edition, published in 1917, extracts
from which are given in the _Morning Post_, August 12, 1920. In this
edition Nilus quotes certain enigmatic statements of the late Theodor
Herzl as proof of a secret Jewish teaching. It happens that the
correspondence with Herzl on this subject is in the possession of the
present writer. It has nothing to do with a secret Jewish teaching.
[41] Fourth edit., cap. III. (Quoted by _Morning Post_, Aug. 12, 1920.)
[42] "The Jewish Peril," pp. 12, 13, 14, 32.
[43] Lond., 1898.
[44] Pobyedonoszeff: "Reflections" (English edit.), pp. 26, 27, 28.
Allowance must be made for the different styles and qualities of the
two translations.
[45] "The Jewish Peril," pp. 2, 5.
[46] Mautner: _Der Bolschewismus_ (Stuttgart, 1920), p. 95. See also
Landau-Aldanov: _Lenine_ (Paris, 1920), pp. 31-32. It is amusing to
note that the _Morning Post_ (July 21, 1920) counts almost all these
Jewish Mensheviks as Bolsheviks.
[47] The date of the original Russian edition is unknown to the present
writer, but a German edition was published at Zurich in 1918.
[48] Semenoff: "The Russian Government and the Massacres" (Lond.,
1907).
[49] "The Nikky-Willy Correspondence," _Times_, Sept. 4, 1917; _Daily
Telegraph_, Sept. 4, 27, and 29, 1917; and _Morning Post_, Sept. 15,
1917.
[50] For Russian text of Count Lamsdorf's proposal see Vol. VI. of
"Secret Documents," published by the Soviet Commissariat of Foreign
Affairs. An English translation with an introduction appears in Wolf:
"Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question" (London, 1919), pp. 54-62.
[51] These leaflets were very promptly withdrawn as soon as the
attention of His Majesty's Government was called to them.
[52] Besides Count Reventlow's article see a very light-giving article
entitled "Reventlow und die Weisen von Zion" in the _Berliner
Tageblatt_, May 18, 1920.