MEMOTR x1 be found for both Jew and Gentile: here also two of his former private tutors had settled. In the University of Pesth, and in spite of his limited means, young Edersheim soon made for him- self a position analogous to that which he had occupied in Vienna. His linguistic attainments easily procured for him pupils, while at the same time he actively pursued his own studies, and passed his further examinations. At this time, also, his first literary attempt, in the shape of a romantic story, entitled ‘Heinrich,’ appeared in the sheets of the Pannonia, a Pressburg paper, and was accompanied and followed by other and more ambitious exploits. These writings drew down on him the warning of the censorship for their ‘dangerous tendency,’ and were probably rashly indicative of that love of entire liberty which he always retained. The turning-point in young Edersheim’s life—z.e. his conversion to Christianity—was brought about by those very circumstances which had seemed to be untoward and disastrous. Through the introduction of one of his tutors he had become acquainted with those Presbyterian Scottish ministers who, under the protection of the Archduchess Maria Dorothea (by