PREFACE OF DR. WOLFF. W01JFF lays now before the public, not an a.bridgment of his Travels and Adventures, but an edition, though in smaller type, enriched with many new remarks and notices. Every piece of information, the style and sentiments, the philosophical and theological views, the remarks on the heroes of his story, aloe his own throughout. They have been written down as he dictated them to kind friends who received them from his lips. As to the great object of this work, "N olff has to make the following remarks. The first reason of his giving it to the world, was that a wish for its publication had been expressed, not only by members of the Church of England, but by person·s belonging to other branches of the Catholic Church. In the second place, "Volff wished to prove to the world and to the Church, that the Lord is the Lord of VV oUf as much as he was of Paul; and that with GOD"S grace he is able to demonstrate to the Church at large that GOD has not casTable of Contents CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1; PAGE; Birth; Childhood; Talmudical Legend!"!; Early Education and; First Wanderings i ~"alk and Gothc ; Baptism 1; CHAPTER II; State of Religion ot Vienna; Five Religious Parties; C M IIoff~; bauer; His Life and Habits; Count Stolberg amI his Family 14; CHAPTER III; Prince Hohenlohe and his doings; Madame de Kl"udcncr, her great; influence; Route from Germany to Rome 31; CHArTER IV; Rome ana its Society; Pope and Ecclesiastics; Collegio Romano; and Propagancla; tbeir Discipline; is Expelle(l from Rome 44; CHAPTER V; lleturns to Vicnna; Monastic Life in Switzerland; Hcnry Drummond;; Becomes a Member of the Church of ~ngland; Lewis; Way, the Philanthropist; Studies at Cambridge ; Charles Simeon;; Is turned out of the Synagogue • 69; CHAPTER VI; Gibraltar; Argues with Jews; Malta, further arguments; Cleardo; Nauui; Alcxanuria; Argues with lInrpurgo; :Mr Salt; Sir Gardiner; Wilkinson; :Magic; Cairo; Messrs Carne