ed the wondrous change, that tamed the rover of the desert,
and turned him into a husband and a rector? It is wonderful what woman
can do, yet even woman cannot accomplish everything. She cannot make the
Doctor get into a pulpit and preach a sober sermon in a sober way. She
cannot alter his wild and eccentric nature, which makes him an original,
almost a mountebank, which in another man would be intolerable. I must
candidly confess that with one or two exceptions no public man ventures
so near the verge of absurdity as Dr. Wolff.

My own opinion is, that the Doctor, as I have already stated, is the
Wandering Jew. It is only fair, however, to give facts which would lead
the reader to an opposite opinion. The Doctor tells us himself he was
born in 1796, in a little village in Bavaria, at which place his father
was a Rabbi. At an early age, long before the reasoning power was
developed, or before he had sufficient information to justify him in
taking the step, he renounced the religion of his fathers, and set up for
himself as a Roman Catholic. After wandering about the country, at times
working for a living, and at times subsisting on the charity of friends,
he made his way to Rome, and became a student, first at the Seminario
Pontifico, then at the Propaganda. The Doctor seems to have stumbled at
the doctrine of the Pope's infallibility, and to have been compelled to
leave in consequence, and tries to make out a case of hardship in his
dismissal. He says he was dismissed without a fair hearing. It does not
seem so. In writing to his friends, he had said he would always be an
enemy to the anti-Christian tyranny of Rome. No wonder then that Rome
dismissed him. After wandering about the Continent, and learning to read
and speak French as he rode on the rumble of Mr. Haldane's carriage from
Montauban to Calais, he arrived in London in June, 1819, and became
London Agent to the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews.
In order that he might be better fitted for his work, he spent some time
at Cambridge under the care of the late Dr. Lee. His journeyings and
perils have been great. He has been sold as a slave thrice, condemned to
death thrice. He has been attacked with cholera and typhus fever, and
almost every Asiatic fever. He has been bastinadoed and starved. He has
been carried away by pirates. For eighteen years he has traversed the
most barbarous countries of the world, and yet he looks as if