answering, listening, enlarging, learning with a view to
teach, learning with a view to act, enabling one's teacher to become
wiser, thoroughly understanding what one hears, and repeating every
dictum in the name of him who uttered it." I recommend this list of
qualifications to the consideration of modern teachers and students as
well as to those who are concerned with the preparation of a code of
legal ethics for the profession.

The Jews loved the law and respected it and they honored its
expounders and administrators. They do not believe that the world can
be made over or made better by any man or by any preaching. They are
by instinct conservative, holding on with tenacity to the ideas and
institutions that have grown up in past times and that are expressions
of the needs of society and of its adjustment to the forces that play
upon it. This is why the law, which is the embodiment of these
conservative forces, meets with their respect and allegiance, why its
study was cultivated with such zeal in the past, and why in our own
day it still finds so large a percentage of votaries among the sons of
our people.

[Illustration: Signature: D.W. Amram]

The Jewish Genius in Literature

_A Study of Three Modern Men of Letters_

BY EDWARD CHAUNCEY BALDWIN

[Illustration: _EDWARD CHAUNCEY BALDWIN (born in Cornwall, Conn.,
1870), Assistant Professor of English in the University of Illinois,
has taken a special and scholarly interest in the contributions of the
Jews to civilization, on which subject he has written a notable book
entitled "Our Modern Debt to Israel," besides articles in various
periodicals. He is an honorary member of the Illinois Menorah Society,
evincing a warm sympathy with the Menorah aims and actively
cooeperating in the Menorah work._]

A study of great Jewish names in modern literature has impressed me
with the fact that every Jewish man of letters has attained his fame
by virtue of qualities that are essentially Jewish. In other words, we
cannot fully understand the work of even modern Jewish literary men
unless we know the fundamental qualities of Jewish genius. To
illustrate what is meant by this assertion, we may consider briefly
the work of three nineteenth century Jewish authors--Heine,
Beaconsfield, and Zangwill. These men are apparently wholly different;
and yet they attained literary eminence through qualities or mind and
heart which we have learned to associate with the race f