Page 1. The value of a name — The phenomenal success of the Rothschilds and their poor beginnings — Their reputation for unstinted benevolence — Persecutions to which the Jews have been subjected — The hatred of them still rampant in some countries — The spirit of intolerance dying out in England — What the world owes the J ews — Universal pre-eminence accorded to the works of their great lawyers and prophets Spinoza — Large number of Jews distinguished as musicians and composers, and likewise as dramatic and operatic artists Eminence of the Jews as mathematicians and astronomers The Jews in commerce and nuance — The Jews as lawyers and as politicians — Charges brought against the J ews — Misleading impressions regarding them — Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the honest Jew — Unimpeachable lives and characters of the Rothschilds and other prominent Jewish families — The secret of Jewish success — Sir Thomas Gresham — Queen Elizabeth Jewish pride of race.