Mahomet 88 (Originally Secs. xxii-xxiii, later, Secs. 1-3, Chap. XI.) Truths, sensible and obvious 93 (Original Secs. i-vi.) Soul, of the 96 (Original Secs. i-vii.) Demons, of Spirits called 101 (Original Secs. i-vii.) Appendicitis 107 Mahomet, Edition "En Suisse," 1793 107 De Tribus Impostoribus, Edition MDIIC 111 (A literal translation of Latin reprint by E. Weller, 1876.) Cornell University 145 Translations of Latin in the Text 146 The Gentle Reader--Quixotism 149 ERRATA. P. 5, 2d paragraph, 1st line, Werner should read Weller. P. 12, line 5, sermonen should read sermonem. Original Mss., A. D. 1716, Contains-- Dissertation, pp. 26-36, 3300 words French. Treatise, pp. 37-101, 19800 words French. ----- Total, 23100 words. Weller's reprint, 1876, Edition, 1598 contains 5800 words Latin. NOTES [1] The History of the Three Infamous Impostors of this Age. 1. Padre Ottomano, a pretended son of the Sultan of Turkey who flourished about 1650, and who latterly, under the above title, became a Dominican Friar. 2. Mahomed Bei, alias Joannes Michael Cigala, who masqueraded as a Prince of the Ottoman family, a descendant of the Emperor Solyman the Magnificent, and in other characters about 1660. 3. Sabbatai Sevi, the pretended Messiah of the Jews, "the Only and First-borne Son of God," who amused the Jews and Turks about 1666. [2] La vie et l'esprit de M. Benoit de Spinosa was published without the author's name, in Amsterdam 1719. In the "Preface du Copiste" it is stated that the author of it is not known, but that if a conjecture might be permitted it might be said, perhaps with certitude, that the book is the work of the late Mr. Lucas, so famous for his Quintessences and for his manners and way of living. Kuno Fischer, in his Descartes und seine Schule. Zweiter Theil, Heidelberg, 1889, p. 101, says: "The real author of the work is not known with entire certainty; probably the author was Lucas, a physician at the Hague, notorious in his own day; others name as author a certain Vroese." Freudenthal, in his Die Lebensgeschichte Spinoza's. Leipzig, 1899, writing of the various conjectures as to the authorship of the book, states that W. Meyer has lately sought to prove that Johan Louckers, a Hague attorney, was the author, but that the authorship had not been settled. Oettinger in his Bibliographie Biographie Universelle, Bruxelles 1854, p. 1707, gives Lucas Vroese as the author. It has also been suggested that Lucas and Vroese were two men and together wrote the book. The authority for ascribing the book to Vroese, of whose life no particulars seem to have been recorded, appears to be the following passage in the Dictionnaire Historique, par Prosper Marchand, à la Haye, 1758, v. 1., p. 352: