Excerpt from The Crescent and the Cross, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel
A Churchman without bigotry, a scholar without pedantry, I dedicate these sketches of sacred and historic lands. In doing so, I take a final leave of this my first essay in Literature, as of an old friend to whom I have much reason to be grateful. If, in its present more popular form, my work should reach beyond the library and the drawing-room, to the factory and the farm-house, I shall feel more grateful still; for to amuse, if not to enlighten, some holiday hours of the working-man, or to cheer the weary leisure of his sick bed, is one of the privileges I should most value.
The "cheap excursions" that now open new sources of interest and information to the labouring classes are not confined to mere locomotion on the railroad or the river.
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