WILEY & .UTNAM'S ADVERTISEMENT. 



XI. & XII. 



THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS: 



Or, Romance and Reali jes of Eastern Travel. By Eliot B. G Warburto», 



Esq. 2 vols., beautifully printed. Price 50 cents each 



•^ Eliot Warburton, vv^ho is known to be the author of those brilliaiitlT 

 •parkling papers, the ' Episodes of Eastern Travel,' which lit up our lart 

 November. His book ('The Crescent and the Cross') must, and will b« 

 capital."— FiWe " Eothen" page 179. 



" This is an account of a tour ir. the Levant, including Egypt, Palestine, 

 Syria, Constantinople, and Greece. The Author calls his work ' Romance 

 and Realities of Eastern Travel ;' and, to say the truth, the Romance is so 

 well imagined, and the Reality so well told, that we can hardly aflect to dis- 

 tinguish the one from the other. The book is vastly superior to the com- 

 mon run of narratives, and is, indeed, remarkable for the coloring power, 

 and the play of fancy with which its descriptions are enlivened. The 

 writing is of a kind that indicates abilities likely to command success in the 

 higher departments of literature. Almost every page teems with good feel- 

 ing ; and although that * catholic-heartedness,' tor which the Author takes 

 credit, permits him to view Mahometan doctrines and usages with a little 

 too much of indifferentism, yet, arriving in Palestine, he willingly becomes 

 the good pilgrim, and at once gives in his adherence to the ' religion of the 

 place' with all the zeal of a pious Christian The book, independently of 

 its value as an original narrative, comprises much useful and interesting 

 information." — Quarterly Review. 



" Nothing but the already overdone topics prevented Mr. Warburton's 

 Eastern sketches from rivalling Eothen in variety: in the mixture of story 

 with anecdote, information and impression, it perhaps surpasses it. Innu- 

 merable passages of force, vivacity, or humor, are to be found in the vo- 

 lumes." — Spectator. 



«* This delightful work is, from first to last, a splendid panorama of 

 Eastern Scenery, in the full blaze of its magnificence. The crowning merit 

 of the book is, that it is evidently the production of a gentleman, and a man 

 of the world, who has lived in the best society, and been an attentive ob- 

 server of the scenes and characters which have passed before him during 

 his restless and joyous existence. To a keen sense of the ludicrous, he 

 joins a power of sketching and grouping which are happily demonstrated." 

 •^J\£orning Post. 



" Mr. Warburton has fulfilled the promise of his title-page. The Re- 

 alities' of ' Eastern Travel' are described with a vividness which invests 

 them with deep and abiding interest ; while the ' Romantic' adventures 

 which the enterprising tourist met with in his course are narrated with a 

 spirit which shows how much he enjoyed these reliefs from the e7inui ot 

 e?ery-day life." — Globe. 



" The Author has been careful to combine with his own observation sich 

 information as he could glean from other sources ; and his volumes contain 

 a compilation jf much that w ii<»^f')l, wifk oriifjnfll '•*.nwrk.<i of hw ewu an 



