I.
DR. DURBIN'S OBSERVATIONS IN THE EAST.
Observations in the East, chiefly in Egypt, the Desert,
Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, and Constantinople. By
John P. Durbin, D.D. 2 vols. 12mo. Engravings. Muslin
gilt. $2 00.
It is a most rich, intellectual feast. —Buffalo Advocate.
The volumes are, without exaggeration, equal in interest and graphic
effect to the best books of modern travel with which we are acquainted.
There is an off-hand frankness and spirit about the sketches, which are
always marked by caution and discrimination, so that the statements are
as reliable as they are attractively interesting.—Spirit of the Times.
This book is curious, attractive, and instructive; the author has avoided
all useless lumber, and recorded in simple, unaffected language, his
observations upon what met his eye. His book shows the scholar, the
Christian, the philosophical observer, and the American patriot, but not
a bit of the pedant or the bore; a more agreeable companion or guide
could scarcely be found than Dr. Durbin.—Buffalo Com. Advertiser.
