LIBRAR VOL. C. NINA BALATKA: THE STORY OF A MAIDEN OF PRAGUE. PART 1. HIGAN THE PERSONS OF THE STORY. STEPHEN TRENDELLSOHN,-A Jew in Prague. ANTON TRENDELLSOHN,-His Son. KARIL ZAMENOY,-A Christian Merchant of Prague. MADAME ZAMENOY,-His Wife. ZISKA ZAMENOY,-Their Son. JOSEF BALATKA,A Broken Merchant of Prague, also a Christian NINA BALATKA,-His Daughter. RUTH JACOBI, Granddaughter of the Jew. REBECCA LOTH,--A Jewess. FATHER JEROME,-A Priest. RAPINSKI, A Jeweller. LOTTA LUXA,-Servant to Madame Zamenoy. CHAPTER I. NINA BALATKA was a maiden of Prague, born of Christian parents, and herself a Christian-but she loved a Jew; and this is her story. Nina Balatka was the daughter of one Josef Balatka, an old merchant of Prague, who was living at the time of this story; but Nina's mother was dead. Josef, in the course of his business, had become closely connected with a certain Jew named Trendellsohn, who lived in VOL C.-NO. DCIX. a mean house in the Jews' quarter in Prague-habitation in that oneallotted portion of the town having been the enforced custom with the Jews then, as it still is now. In business with Trendellsohn, the father, there was Anton, his son and Anton Trendellsohn was the Jew whom Nina Balatka loved. Now it had so happened that Josef Balatka, Nina's father, had drifted out of a partnership with Karil |