TO MRS. FLORA S. D. SASSOON.

Dear Mrs. Sassoon,

It is indeed a great privilege to becounted among your friends and a still greater to obtaina glimpse of those high qualities of heart and mind withwhich you have been so generously endowed. Your widesympathies, your deep understanding, your profound re-ligious feeling and above all your scholarship and extra-ordinary familiarity with our literature and the poetry ofour past have created for you a unique position in our midst.

I am sure that a publication like the present will appealstrongly to you. You will scan its pages and whilst re-joicing in the faith, piety and wisdom of our sages, youwill gather the flowers that have grown in the enchantedgarden of ancient dreams and ancient aspirations.

Will you, therefore, allow me to inscribe your name inthis book as a small token of my respect and admiration?

Very sincerely yours,

M. GASTER