Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . revealed to an astonished public the strange liffe of the Desert, of the mysterious vastness whence swept forth the tribes who became the Moors of Spain and the Jews of Palestine. Disraeli, however, stood in no category, and established no precedent. But when Miss Aguilars stories began to appear, they were eagerly welcomed by a public with whom she had already won reputation and favor as the defender and interpreter of her youngest child of a rich and refined household. Grace Aguilar was born in 1816 at Hackney, near Londo
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . revealed to an astonished public the strange liffe of the Desert, of the mysterious vastness whence swept forth the tribes who became the Moors of Spain and the Jews of Palestine. Disraeli, however, stood in no category, and established no precedent. But when Miss Aguilars stories began to appear, they were eagerly welcomed by a public with whom she had already won reputation and favor as the defender and interpreter of her youngest child of a rich and refined household. Grace Aguilar was born in 1816 at Hackney, near London, of that historic strain of Spanish-Jewish blood which for generations had produced not only beauty and artistic sensibility, but intellect. Her ancestors were refugees from persecution. and in her burned that ardor of faith which persecution kindles. Fragile and sensitive. she was educated at home, by her cultivated father and mother, under whose solicitous training she developed an alarming precocity. At the age of twelve she had written a heroicI—15. Grace Aguilar 2 26 GRACE AGUILAR drama on her favorite hero, Gustavus Vasa. At fourteen she hadpublished a volume of poems. At twenty-four she accomplished herchief work on the Jewish religion, *The Spirit of Judaism, a bookrepublished in America with preface and notes by a well-knownrabbi, Dr. Isaac Leeser of Philadelphia. Although the orthodox priestfound much in the book to criticize, he was forced to commend itsability. It insists on the importance of the spiritual and moralaspects of the faith delivered to Abraham, and deprecates a super-stitious reverence for the mere letter of the law. It presents Judaismas a religion of love, and the Old Testament as the inspiration of theteachings of Jesus. Written more than half a century ago, the bookis widely read to-day by students of the Jewish religion. Four years later Miss Aguilar published < The Jewish Faith: ItsSpiritual Consolation, Moral Guidance, and Immortal Hope, a
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