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386 mona followed the Moor, so Imogene Posthumus. That is woman's way. We may remark in Jessica a certain timid shame which she cannot overcome when she must put on a boy's dress. It may be that in this we recognise the remarkable chastity which is peculiar to her race, and which gives its daughters such a wonderfully lovely charm. The chastity of the Jews is perhaps the result of an opposition which they always maintained against that Oriental religion of sense and sensuality which once nourished among their neighbours the Egyptians, Phnicians, Assyrians, and Babylonians in rankest luxuriance, and which in continual transformation has survived to the present day. The Jews are a chaste, temperate, I might say an abstract race, and in purity of morals they are most nearly allied to the Germanic races. The chastity of the women among Jews and Germans is perhaps of no real value in itself, but its manifestation makes the most