_Jessica_ Farewell. (_Throws her arms around him_) Yet not a long farewell, I shall not far survive. It is no sin To end a life of misery and shame. _Isaac_ (_behind scenes_) Where is my master? Where has Shylock gone? (_Enter Isaac._) _Gratiano_ Here fellow, here he is. With Jessica He poses like a model for the arts. _Isaac_ Great news and wonderful. His ship is here And laden full of gold. The mine is found And Issachar and he are princely rich. This cargo is the greatest that has come To Venice since the city first began. _Antonio_ I do rejoice to hear it. Truly Jew I have no wish to do thy body harm But thou and thy relations are well known To be so deep in craft and villainy That to recover what is justly due We Christians must resort to rigid means. Go freely with thy daughter. Later on When ev'rything's in order I'll return And you may pay me what the balance is. (_Exit Antonio and Gratiano, followed by Isaac. Shylock still stands expressionless with Jessica's arms around him._) [Illustration: Signature: Wmln. Blatt] Jewish Students in European Universities BY HARRY WOLFSON (_Concluded_) _Judaism and Jewish Students in France_ The decadence of native Judaism in France has become proverbial. The original French Jews never amounted to much; and the Alsatian immigrants, while still supplying rabbis for the pulpits, have of late begun to disappear from the pews. You may state it is an axiom that the synagogue will have to go a-begging for a quorum wherever church-going is unpopular. But French Judaism has recently been gaining reinforcement by the influx of newcomers from Eastern Europe. Paris might be considered next to London the greatest centre of Jewish immigration in Europe. In fact, Paris as well as some large cities in the Low Countries, and to some extent even London, have since the beginning of the Jewish movement towards the United States, become the refuge of a considerable number who straggled behind the migratory columns and were unable to reach their final destination. Free from any official molestations and rather welcomed by the native Jews, the foreign Jewish community in Paris has flourished in its own way. It numbers by this time about twenty-five thousand souls, a large proportion of whom were born and brought up in the French capital.