In _Jewish Fancies_ there are many _Hebrew_ phrases, also in the _Melon Seller_ and in the _Two Camels_. In _Rabbi Ben Ezra_ and _The Doctor_ the reader will find essentially Jewish thoughts. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809‒1892) also read the Bible in the original _Hebrew_. Lady Tennyson (1813‒1896) writes in her journal in 1867: “A.” (meaning her husband Alfred) “is reading _Hebrew_ (_Job_ and the Song of _Solomon_ and _Genesis_). He talked much of his _Hebrew_. He brought down to me his psalm-like poem ‘Higher Pantheism.’” John Bright’s (1811‒1889) sublime oratory was avowedly based on the Bible; from it, not from the classics of Paganism, came the inspiration of his highest eloquence. The memorable party nickname, “_The Adullamites_,” which he conferred on the Liberal seceders on the Franchise Bill in 1866, shows his familiarity with the details of Bible history and the readiness with which he could adapt his knowledge to political illustrations. How minutely he knew the Old Testament is apparent to any reader of his speeches. Hence among the Puritans there were many earnest admirers of “God’s Ancient People,” and Cromwell himself joined in this admiration. It was by this Biblical _Hebrew_ movement that public opinion in England had been prepared for a sympathetic treatment of the idea of a readmission of the Jews into England. Illustration: THE CONFERENCE BETWEEN MANASSEH BEN-ISRAEL AND OLIVER CROMWELL (1655) _From the painting at the Jews’ College, Queen Square House, London_ CHAPTER III. THE RE-ADMISSION OF THE JEWS INTO ENGLAND Manasseh Ben-Israel――Aaron Levi _alias_ Antony Montezinos ――Moses Wall――Leonard Busher――David Abrabanel [Manuel Martinez Dormido]――Oliver St. John. MANASSEH BEN-ISRAEL (1606‒1657), the Amsterdam Jewish preacher and _Hebrew_-Spanish author, was the chief promoter of the readmission of the Jews to England and the leading figure in the history of that great event. He had all the virtues and accomplishments of a leader. He was a man of fine intellect and high moral character, unselfish in thought, word and deed, straightforward and sincere, extraordinarily endowed and irresistibly attractive, at the same time a faithful religious believer and a practical man of action. All the sorrows and all the hopes of the old Jewish nation were in him, and all the beauty of the Bible was in his visions.