Excerpt from The Romance of Palestine: A History for Young People, Containing Over One Hundred and Fifty Original Photographs and Pen Pictures of the Castles, Temples, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Battle-Fields, Classic Groves, Enchanted Gardens and Great People, Which Illustrate the History, LiThe eyes of the world at present are turned toward Palestine. The Emperor of Germany is now making great preparations to be present in Jeru salem during the Easter season of 1898. There is a peculiar interest felt everywhere in the development amongst the Jews of the tendency known as Zionism, which found expression recently at the Congress of Jews at Bale, Switzerland, where one wealthy Israelite offered to contribute fifty million dollars for the purchase of Palestine from the Sultan of Turkey. Wealthy in the Western world, poor and down-trodden in the East, the Jews remain a notable factor in the civilization of mankind. If, as seems probable, the Jews of the West help the Jews of the East to migrate to the home of their race, there will be accomplished one of the most startling events in history. Almost every power in Europe has some interest in Palestine, and would be immediately concerned in the migration. In these pages readers will find just the information they want regarding the conditions of the Holy Land to-day in respect to this problem.The land of the Bible remains, and is likely to remain, the most inter esting tract on the surface of the globe. Its history since Abraham moved westward from the Euphrates and settled on the uplands beside Hebron is a grand epic, touching every chord that vibrates in the human breast.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.