years under the stimulus of the modern healing movement in religion, it has begun to take on new life. Its historic purpose however cannot be overlooked.

"In the Eighteenth Century, it was the creative force that brought into the dry bones of Rabbinism the stream of religious enthusiasm" (Jewish Encyc.) Nor can the purity and sincerity of Baal Shem Tob be questioned. He was a Jew of Jews, who honestly sought the welfare of his people. He was also a spiritual heir of the teachings of Moses and the Prophets. The truth of Jewish Science was found by him in the word of God, as expressed in the Jewish Scriptures. What had been taught in the Golden Age of ancient Israel, was merely taken up and repeated by him. Underlying his whole teaching was the central Jewish conviction that God alone is the King of the Universe, and the Healer of the Sick. When Jewish Science is once more recognized and restored, Baal Shem Tob will be given complete recognition in the Jewish Hall of Fame, as a true teacher in Israel, the friend of the meek and the lowly, the healer of the sick of his people. A reading of Zangwill's sketch will convince anyone that this tribute is not overdrawn. Writing as an imaginary disciple of Besht, the brilliant author concludes his masterly monograph with this exquisite thought, the facts of which are entrenched in Jewish History, and confirmed by the recognized authority on Judaism the Jewish Encyclopedia -- "But above all let the memory of the Master himself be to them a melody and a blessing: he whose life taught me to understand