X11 MEMOIR birth a princess of the house of Wurtemberg, and a Protestant), had come to Pesth, nominally to act as chaplains to the Scotch colony engaged in construct- ing the great suspension-bridge across the Danube, but in reality to found a mission among the Jews. Into the peculiar and most interesting history of this mission this is not the place to enter, except in so far as it affected the destiny of Alfred Edersheim. At its head stood John Duncan, LL.D., afterwards Professor of Oriental Languages in the ‘ New College ’ of Edin- burgh; a man distinguished not only for his rare genius and learning, but for the piety and simplicity of his life and faith. Such a man could not fail to attract and influence the young student, and an intimacy begun with him was continued with his delegates, Mr. Wingate and Mr. Smith, when Dr. Dunean, for reasons of health, was compelled to retire to Italy. These two missionaries, on whom the weight of Dr. Duncan’s undertakings now fell, employed young Edersheim as their teacher in the German language, and it was in the opportunities thus offered for a further and thorough study of the New Testament and of Christianity that the teacher became a learner, and finally a true and full convert to Christianity.