Excerpt from Sketches of Palestine: Descriptive of the Visit of the Rev. Edward Payson Hammond, M. A., To the Holy Land

An opportunity was given me of reading these 'Sketches' before they were sent to press. I read them with intense interest, and, I can add, with profit, and I feel confident that my experience will be that of thousands.

There are few subjects on which we have such a plethora of literature as Palestine, and yet this volume will be found fresh and striking, and to possess features of interest and excellence entirely its own. The gifted author has cast his observations and reflections into verse, and though it cannot be said that every part of the book is of equal merit, the appreciative reader will not fail very often to realize that he is in the presence of a man of power. In the description of some of the scenes, imperishably associated with the life and sufferings of our Lord, one feels that the heart of the author is in sympathy with the subject, all his spiritual force and fire are called forth, and the creations of his imagination indicate poetic genius of a high order.

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