We  have  been  long  prepared,  by  the  copious  exUucts  from  this  volume  which  have
leached  us  from  time  to  time  in  the  London  joumak,  to  find  it  one  of  the  pleasantest  books
of  eastern  travel  that  has  appeared  for  many  years. Our  expectations  have  been  in  no  wise
disappointed. Refraining  from  all  details  of  geographical  discovery  or  antiqaarian  re-
search; from  all  display  of  *  sound  learning*  and  *  religious  knowledge;'  from  ail  histo-
rical and  scientific  illustrations;  from  all  statistics,  political  disquisitions,  and  elabomte
'moral  reflections ;'  the  author  has  yet  written  a  volume  which  bears  upon  every  page  the
stamp  of  truth  and  &ithfhlness,  and  which  conveys  vividly  to  the  minds  of  his  readera  the
In^pressions  which  he  receive^  in  his  eventful  rambles. The  egotism  of  a  traveller,  insepsr
rable  it  h^  always  seemed  to  us  from  a  narrative  such  as  this,  our  author  well  observes  can-
pot  fail  to  convey  some  true  ideas  of  the  country  through  which  he  has  passed. He  b  an
epitome  of  his  readers. Wb  habit  of  referring  the  whole  external  world  to  his  own  sense-
tk>ns,  compels  him  in  hip  writings  \0  observe  the  laws  pf  perspective :  he  tells  yon  of  ob-
jects as  they  seemed  to  him. The  people  and  the  things  that  most  concern  him  personally
take  laige  proportions  in  his  picture  because  they  stend  so  near  to  him. *He  shows  yott
his  dragoman,  and  the  gaunt  featpres  of  his  Arabs ;  his  tent,  his  kneeling  camel,  his  bag-
gage strewed  upon  th0  sand  ;*  and  by  these  tpuches,  dashed  in  with  a  rich  brush,  the  reader
>«t  length  finds  himself  forcibly  impressed  with  the  realities  of  eastern  travel. The  aulbor
of  *  Eothen'  constantly  reminds  us  of  our  countryman  Stxphevs. There  is  in  the  writirngs
of  each  a  kindred  vein  of  humor ;  both  write  without  apparent  labor  and  of  course  without
afiiictation ;  they  describe  what  they  enjoy  or  sufier  with  no  attempt  at  over^ writing ;  and
each  is  invariably  entertaining. 