[August, 
^ 0 5 The Present State of the 
here so much mixed up with other matter that were the 
title, the table of contents, and the heads of chapters struck 
out,’ few persons, if any, would consider the work as an 
anti-viviseCtionist treatise. The author’s attention is con- 
tinually drawn off from his ostensible subject to the influence 
of the Jews in Germany, to their conduct in the Reichstag, 
in the Universities (where they appear to hold a number of 
professorships very high in proportion to the percentage 
which they form of the German nation), and in the political 
and literary press. It appears that there are in the German 
universities no fewer than seventy professors of unmixed 
Hebrew race — more than three times the number which 
might be expeded from the proportion of Jews in the 
empire. Concerning this faCt Prof. Zollner, like many 
Germans in all ranks of life, appears greatly exercised. Jo 
this subject he returns again and again, and no small portion 
of the work is taken up with remarks on Herr Lasker, a 
Jewish member of the German parliament, and of Lasalle, 
also a Jew, and the founder of social democracy in Germany. 
The space devoted to these two men seems — in view of their 
very remote and doubtful connection with the subject of the 
WO rk — surprising. Social democracy and Russian nihilism 
are also introduced, apparently in virtue of the circumstance 
that the would-be regicide, Nobiling, had enjoyed a medical 
education, and had possibly been a spectator of vivisections. 
Prof. Zollner is no admirer of the modern mania for the 
“ higher education ” of women and for the admission of 
female students to the medical schools. He i elates, with 
justifiable indignation, that at the University of Geneva two 
young ladies were busy with the dissection of the lower ex- 
tremities of a male subject, whilst two young men were at 
the same time engaged on the head and breast. There is 
also a notice of the scandalous career of the female students 
of the University of St. Petersburg, which we do not care 
to quote. The author returns to the subject in a subsequent 
portion of his work, and grows somewhat Rabelaisian 
thereon. We fully share his displeasure, but cannot repro- 
duce his remarks, humorous though they be. 
We find, also, certain interesting statistical results con- 
cerning the kingdom of Saxony, the region where it appears 
that the anti-vivisedtionist agitation is more rampant than 
in any other part of Germany. It appears that the total 
yearly number of condemned criminals has increased from 
11,001 in 1871 to 21,319 in i8 77> or a total increase of 
9379 P er cent, as a S ainst an increase in population of 7 per 
cent. Murders and other crimes of violence have multiplied 
