Having tracked Baedeker to his source, and restricting ourselves to the pages from which he quotes, it is worth comparing his version with the original. The omissions made are so serious as to spoil the beauty of the whole, for beautiful it assuredly is of its kind. The fault arises from Baedeker only reading down one of the two columns. Now the lines are alphabetical, and must be read across, not down the page. There are other faults; for instance _palace_ in the second line is a mistake for _house_, but the compiler may have used a slightly different version. In the one before me there is nothing to correspond to _For our great men who lie dead_. The rest of the lines are the same as in the book I am using. But note how the effect suffers by the loss of the half-lines to which I have referred. Thus Baedeker gives _For the priests who have stumbled_, but omits the complementary phrase _For our studies which were interrupted_. Again, Baedeker quotes _For the precious stones which are burned_, but fails to follow it up with _For loving ones that were separated_, a fine line which ought to have been retained in any abbreviation, however short. The only other passage quoted in Baedeker, “another antiphon” or responsive chant, is the following: _Leader_: We pray Thee, have mercy on Zion! _Response_: Gather the children of Jerusalem. _Leader_: Haste, haste, Redeemer of Zion! _Response_: Speak to the heart of Jerusalem. _Leader_: May beauty and majesty surround Zion! _Response_: Ah! turn Thyself mercifully to Jerusalem. _Leader_: May the kingdom soon return to Zion! _Response_: Comfort those who mourn over Jerusalem. _Leader_: May peace and joy abide with Zion! _Response_: And the branch (of Jesse) spring up in Jerusalem. Comparing this with the Hebrew original, there is no such mistake as in the previous case. The summarizer has correctly read the lines across the page. There are certain slips, and more than a half of the whole (which again runs in alphabetical sequence) is left out; but the shortening is here no loss, as the best lines have been selected. Besides these prayers, the Karaite book includes a large number of hymns. Among them, inappropriately enough, is the piyyut on the offering of Isaac. In the Sephardic service this properly belongs to the New Year; it goes to a swinging melody at Bevis Marks. True, the scene was Moriah, the temple hill. But the Karaite book gives no direction that the shofar is to be sounded. None the less, it finishes this piyyut with the prayer that God will hearken to the shofar sounds and say unto Zion: “The time of salvation has come.” Obviously, this is a fitting prelude to the blowing of the shofar on Rosh ha-Shanah. But it has no right where this Karaite book has transplanted it, although the bulk of the hymn suits well enough the liturgy of the Wailing Place. IMBER’S SONG