which he had
brought with him testified this interest, such as different kinds of coin,
engravings, plans of cities, etc. We have found, on an examination
necessarily cursory, the commendatory remarks of the Berlin
_Gesellschafter_ upon this work to be well deserved: 'We see in the
individual expressions almost every where the evidence of its being the
production of immediate observation. There prevails through the whole a
noble simplicity and singleness of purpose, a genuinely German sound mode
of thinking; here and there is not wanting a humorous and pithy remark.
The author sees in every place nature and men without spectacles, and
thence it arises that we acquire from his book a more living and actual
view of foreign countries, especially of Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey,
than was the case from the travelled labors of many a learned and
celebrated man. Frequently, nay almost always, it is a fact, that the
learned are destitute of the opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of the
real life of the people, while it is exactly here that the greatest
peculiarity of the manners and customs of foreigners is to be found. Our
honest hand-worker lived among the people, and therefore possessed the
best means to describe them in graphic characters.' There is something
very forcible and comprehensive in the subjoined passage from the author's
preface. It is indeed a sort of compendium of the most interesting portion
of the writer's journeyings:

'From my youth up, it was my most living desire to see the world.
When I heard or read of foreign lands, I became sad at heart, and
thought: 'Wert thou but of years that thou couldst travel!' Now
are all the wishes of my youth fulfilled. I have made the attempt
by land and water, and that in three quarters of the world. I have
wandered several times through GERMANY, POLAND, HUNGARY, and
WALLACHIA; I was a long time in BUDAPEST and CONSTANTINOPLE; and
undertook, with the money which I had saved there, a pilgrimage
through EGYPT to the HOLY LAND. I kneeled at the BIRTH-PLACE and
the SEPULCHRE of the SAVIOUR; stood in adoration on the holy MOUNT
ZION, on TABOR, GOLGOTHA, and the MOUNT OF OLIVES; bathed in
JORDAN; washed myself in the LAKE OF GENNESARETH; looked in vain
around me on the DEAD SEA for living objects; was in the workshop
of ST. JOSEPH; and in many other holy places of which the sacred
Scriptures make mention. Thence I re