THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS;
OR,
ROMANCE AND REALITIES OF EASTERN TRAVEL.
BY ELIOT WARBURTON, ESQ.
CRITICAL OPINIONS ON THIS WORK.
From the SPECTATOR.
Nothing but the already overdone topics prevented Mr. Warburton’s Eastern sketches from rivalling Eōthen in variety: in the mixture of story with anecdote, information and impression, it perhaps surpasses it. Innumerable passages of force, vivacity, or humour are to be found in the volumes.
From the MORNING POST.
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 observer 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.