the contrary, they supplied another and a very curious link in the chain of evidence. For is it not remarkable that one of the sets of parallels quoted by me appeared in the same year as Joly's book, and that within the space of nine years no less than four parallels to the Protocols should have been discovered? Let us recapitulate the events of this decade in the form of a table and the proximity of dates will then be more apparent:
| 1859. | Crétineau Joly's book published containing documents of Haute Vente Romaine (parallels quoted by me). |
|---|---|
| 1860. | Alliance Israëlite Universelle founded. |
| 1864. | 1st Internationale taken over by Karl Marx. |
| " | Alliance Sociale Démocratique of Bakunin founded (parallels quoted by me). |
| " | Maurice Joly's Dialogue aux Enfers published (parallels quoted by Times ). |
| 1866. | 1st Congress of Internationale at Geneva. |
| 1868. | Goedsche's Biarritz (parallels quoted by Mr. Lucien Wolf). |
| 1869. | Gougenot Des Mousseaux's Le Juif , etc. |
| " | Bakunin's Polémique contre les Juifs . |
It will be seen, then, that at the moment when Maurice Joly wrote his Dialogues, the ideas they embodied were current in many different circles. It is interesting, moreover, to notice that the authors of the last two works referred