EOTHEN^: 



OR, 



TRACES OF TRAVEL 



^rougl^t Some from tijc ^ast. 



BY 



ALEX. WM. KINGLAKE, , 



One "Volume. ISnao. 333 pages, ^l.SS. 



" 1 nose wno have read the ' History of the Invasion of the Crimea,' and have 

 wondered whence came the vivid personal interest with which the author invested 

 East(!ni affairs, will find in this little book the secret source of his magical pow 

 er. A. little more than thirty years ago, when the present grave and earnest his- 

 torian was an equally earnest, but by no means so grave a man, he journeyed 

 through the countries of the Orient, seeking in a quaint, and absolutely peculiar 

 way, to temper himself in body and mind for the work that awaited him. Keep- 

 in? with a vigor and tenacity which are prominent elements in his subsequent 

 Wyrks, the tranquil poise of a sincere and decided personality, unshalien by the 

 gusty currents of the proprieties, unmoved by the absurdities of respectability, 

 and disregarding with persistent nonchalance the most solemn injunctions of 

 generally acknowledged duty, it is not strange that this hale and hearty seeker 

 should have been able to give us a delightful book by simply telling the truth; 

 nor that, dealing with them in such freedom, he should have received and trans- 

 mitted with refreshing fidelity the weird influences of the East. We remember 

 but three instances — think of it, O ye dilettanti Howadji !— on which he mentions 

 books ; once when he gives the name of Tennyson as the author of an expression 

 familiar as household words, once when he quotes the diary of Lady Stanhope, 

 In describing an interview with that lady, and once when he refers to Elliott 

 Warburton's ' Sketches of Eastern Travels.' Of course we do not reckon his talk 

 about the Iliad, which is not a book, but a song, the music of whose perpetual 

 echoes is caught up by successive generations, and lives in our memory as does 

 the sound of the surf. 



"We owe a debt of gratitude to Messrs. Oakley & Mason for having given to the 

 American public of this day, this rich and racy book of travel. Few men have the 

 simplicity and good sense to speak so frankly and exclusively of their own im- 

 pressions, and few men have minds capable of receiving impressions of such a 

 pungent and singular character. The reader cannot fail to enjoy the book for its 

 hearty sincerity, its gleam of poetic feeling and description, its singularly pure 

 »nd \igorous English, and above all for its r.carching fidelity."— .BrooWyn Union. 



MASON, BAKER cC PBATT, Puhlishers, 



NEW YORK. 



