 I say this because, if it were all written in the manner of the first canto, I could not expect that it would be interesting to any great number of people.I have attempted in the progress of my work to speak to the common elementary emotions of the human heart, so that, though it is the story of violence and revolution, it is relieved by milder pictures of friendship and love and natural affections.The scene is supposed to be laid in Constantinople and modern Greece, but without much attempt at minute delineation of Mahometan manners.