Travels in Europe and the East: A Year in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Belgium, Holland Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. With Engravings. In Two Volumes.

Notes

In vol. 1: Firsthand impressions of Benjamin Disraeli observed at a literary club dinner event, held annually in London, where Disraeli presided (pp. [68]-72. For a Parliamentary debate in which Disraeli participated, see pp. [99]-104 passim; for Frankfurt and the Rothschilds, see pp. 318-19. Vol. 2 is informative of the Arch of Titus in Rome (pp. 116-17); American missionary efforts at Smyrna to convert the Jews (pp. 224-25); a visit with Rev. William Schauffler, a missionary at Constantinople (pp. 280-81); the legend of the Colossus of Rhodes sold to a Jew (p. 287); elderly religious Jews en route to Jerusalem in anticipation of their demise and burial (pp. 291-92). Chap. 24, "Land of Palestine," is highlighted by the author’s visit to the Samaritans and their synagogue at Nablus.