[25] See Isaac D'Israeli, "Curiosities of Literature," Vol. III., pp. 143-150.
[26] _Anabaptisticum_, etc. (1702). See particularly the tract entitled _Erschröckliche Bruderschafft der Alten und Neuen_.
[27] Preface to Schieferl's edition (Dresden, 1893).
[28] As a matter of fact, he was not the first worker in this field, though he was the first literary ancestor of Nilus. The idea of the dramatic treatment of a Jewish conspiracy against Christian Society was worked out by the Polish poet Krassinsky in his _Nie-Boska Komedya_ ("The Undivine Comedy"), published in 1834. It differs in scope and detail from Goedsche. Its attack on the Jews was strongly censured by Adam Mickiewicz.
[29] _Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon_ (1897), Vol. VII., _sub. voc._ Goedsche and Waldeck. _Stenographischer Bericht über die Verhandlungen in der Anklage gegen Dr. Waldeck_ (Berlin, 1849).
[31] It was a custom of some mediæval German Jews to place the "first fruits" of their cattle to grass in the cemeteries. This gave rise to a popular belief that the idolatrous cultus of the Golden Calf still lingered among them. (Schudt: _Jüdische Merckwürdigkeiten_ (1714), Vol. II., p. 376.)
[32] _Biarritz_, Vol. I., pp. 130-180. Further characteristic references to the Jewish question will be found in a later novel of the Retcliffe series entitled _Um die Weltherrschaft_, Vol. I., pp. 309-310, 338, 360, 415; Vol. II., pp. 55, 56, 63; Vol. III., pp. 127, 130; Vol. IV., pp. 190-191, 467; Vol. V., pp. 22, 83-84, 206.
[33] _Berichte über die 3 Generalversammlung des Vereins zur Abwehr des Antisemitismus_ (Vienna, 1893), pp. 8, 9.
[35] _Stenographische Protokolle des Hauses der Abgeordneten des Oesterreichischen Reichsrathes_ (1901), pp. 1282-1284.
[36] Wolski: _La Russie Juive_ (Paris, 1911), pp. 7-19.
[37] The text is quoted by Meister: _Judas Schuldbuch_, p. 155.
[40] _Berliner Tageblatt_, May 18, 1920. The story is repeated with further variations, in the fourth edition, published in 1917, extracts from which are given in the _Morning Post_, August 12, 1920. In this edition Nilus quotes certain enigmatic statements of the late Theodor Herzl as proof of a secret Jewish teaching. It happens that the correspondence with Herzl on this subject is in the possession of the present writer. It has nothing to do with a secret Jewish teaching.