rates which savor of the loan secured by the
pound of flesh) in which he does not live.
The famous and beautiful Ca' Doro now be-
longs to a Jewish family; and an Israelite,
the most distinguished physician in Venice,
occupies the appartamento signorile in the
palace of the famous Cardinal Bembo. The
Jew is a physician, a banker, a manufac-
turer, a merchant; and he makes himself
respected for his intelligence and his probity,
-- which perhaps does not infringe more
than that of Italian Catholics. He dresses
well, -- with that indefinable difference,
however, which distinguishes him in every-
thing from a Christian, -- and his wife and
daughter are fashionable and stylish. They
are sometimes, also, very pretty; and I have
seen one Jewish lady who might have stepped
out of the sacred page, down from the patri-
archal age, and been known for Rebecca,
with her oriental grace and delicate, sensi-
tive, high-bred look and bearing, -- no more
western and modern than a lily of Pales-
tine.

But it is to the Ghetto I want to take you
now (by the way we went one sunny day
late last fall), that I may show you some-
thing of the Jewish past, which has survived

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