Chapter VII: Preface: To Second Edition (4)

——— Cathay and the Way Thither, being a Collection of Mediæval
Notices of China. Translated and Edited by Col. H. Yule. With a
Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western
Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape route. London,
printed for the Hakluyt Society. M.DCCC.LXVI. 2 vols. 8vo.

1866 The Insurrection at Palermo. (_Times_, 29th Sep., 1866.)

——— Lake People. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2042, 15th Dec. 1866, p. 804.)

Letter dated Palermo, 3rd Dec. 1866.

1867 General Index to the third ten Volumes of the Journal of the Royal
Geographical Society. Compiled by Col. H. Yule. London, John
Murray, M.DCCCLXVII, 8vo, pp. 228.

——— A Week’s Republic at Palermo. (_Quarterly Review_, Jan. 1867.)

——— On the Cultivation of Sumach (_Rhus coriaria_), in the Vicinity of
Colli, near Palermo. By Prof. Inzenga. Translated by Col. H. Yule.
Communicated by Dr. Cleghorn. _From the Trans. Bot. Society_, vol.
ix., 1867–68, ppt. 8vo, p. 15.

Original first published in the _Annali di Agricoltura Siciliana,
redatti per l’Istituzione del Principe di Castelnuovo_. Palermo,
1852.

1868 Marco Polo and his Recent Editors. (_Quarterly Review_, vol. 125,
July and Oct. 1868, pp. 133 and 166.)

1870 An Endeavour to Elucidate Rashiduddin’s Geographical Notices of
India. (_Journal R. Asiatic Society_, N.S. iv. 1870, pp. 340–356.)

——— Some Account of the Senbyú Pagoda at Mengún, near the Burmese
Capital, in a Memorandum by Capt. E. H. Sladen, Political Agent at
Mandalé; with Remarks on the Subject, by Col. H. Yule. (_Ibid._
pp. 406–429.)

——— Notes on Analogies of Manners between the Indo-Chinese and the
Races of the Malay Archipelago. (_Report Fortieth Meeting British
Association, Liverpool_, Sept. 1870, p. 178.)

1871 The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the
Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. Newly translated and edited
with notes. By Col. H. Yule. In two volumes. With Maps and other
Illustrations. London, John Murray, 1871, 2 vols. 8vo.

——— The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the Kingdoms
and Marvels of the East. Newly translated and edited, with Notes,
Maps, and other Illustrations. By Col. H. Yule. Second edition.
London, John Murray, 1875, 2 vols. 8vo.

1871 Address by Col. H. Yule (_Report Forty-First Meeting British
Association, Edinburgh_, Aug. 1871, pp. 162–174.)

1872 A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus. By Captain John Wood,
Indian Navy. New edition, edited by his Son. With an Essay on the
Geography of the Valley of the Oxus. By Col. H. Yule. With maps.
London, John Murray, 1872. In–8, pp. xc.–280.

——— Papers connected with the Upper Oxus Regions. (_Journal_, xlii.
1872, pp. 438–481.)

——— Letter [on Yule’s edition of Wood’s _Oxus_]. (_Ocean Highways_,
Feb. 1874, p. 475.)

Palermo, 9th Jan. 1874.

1873 Letter [about the route of M. Polo through Southern Kerman].
(_Ocean Highways_, March, 1873, p. 385.)

Palermo, 11th Jan. 1873.

——— On Northern Sumatra and especially Achin. (_Ocean Highways_, Aug.
1873, pp. 177–183.)

——— Notes on Hwen Thsang’s Account of the Principalities of
Tokharistan, in which some previous Geographical Identifications
are reconsidered. (_Jour. Royal Asiatic Society_, N.S. vi. 1873,
pp. 92–120 and p. 278.)

1874 Francis Garnier (In Memoriam). (_Ocean Highways_, pp. 487–491.)
March, 1874.

——— Remarks on Mr. Phillips’s Paper [_Notices of Southern Mangi_].
(_Journal_, XLIV. 1874, pp. 103–112.)

Palermo, 22nd Feb. 1874.

——— [Sir Frederic Goldsmid’s] “Telegraph and Travel.” (_Geographical
Magazine_, April, 1874, p. 34; Oct. 1874, pp. 300–303.)

——— Geographical Notes on the Basins of the Oxus and the Zarafshán. By
the late Alexis Fedchenko. (_Geog. Mag._, May, 1874, pp. 46–54.)

——— [Mr. Ashton Dilke on the Valley of the Ili.] (_Geog. Mag._, June,
1874, p. 123.) Palermo, 16th May, 1874.

——— The _Atlas Sinensis_ and other Sinensiana. (_Geog. Mag._, 1st
July, 1847, pp. 147–148.)

——— Letter [on Belasaghun]. (_Geog. Mag._, 1st July, 1874, p. 167;
_Ibid._ 1st Sept. 1874, p. 254.)

Palermo, 17th June, 1874; 8th Aug. 1874.

1874 Bala Sagun and Karakorum. By Eugene Schuyler. With note by Col.
Yule. (_Geog. Mag._, 1st Dec. 1874, p. 389.)

——— M. Khanikoff’s Identifications of Names in Clavijo. (_Ibid._ pp.
389–390.)

1875 Notes [to the translation by Eugene Schuyler of Palladius’s
version of _The Journey of the Chinese Traveller, Chang Fe-hui_].
(_Geog. Mag._, 1st Jan. 1875, pp. 7–11.)

——— Some Unscientific Notes on the History of Plants. (_Geog. Mag._,
1st Feb. 1875, pp. 49–51.)

——— Trade Routes to Western China. (_Geog. Mag._, April, 1875, pp.
97–101.)

——— Garden of Transmigrated Souls [Friar Odoric]. (_Geog. Mag._, 1st
May, 1875, pp. 137–138.)

——— A Glance at the Results of the Expedition to Hissar. By Herr P.
Lerch. (_Geog. Mag._, 1st Nov. 1875, pp. 334–339.)

——— Kathay or Cathay. (_Johnson’s American Cyclopædia_.)

——— Achín. (_Encycl. Brit._ 9th edition, 1875, I. pp. 95–97.)

——— Afghânistân. (_Ibid._ pp. 227–241.)

——— Andaman Islands. (_Ibid._ II. 1875, pp. 11–13.)

——— India [Ancient]. (Map No. 31, 1874, in _An Atlas of Ancient
Geography, edited by William Smith and George Grove_. London, John
Murray, 1875.)

1876 Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet,
being a Narrative of Three Years’ Travel in Eastern High Asia.
By Lieut.-Col. N. Prejevalsky, of the Russian Staff Corps; Mem.
of the Imp. Russ. Geog. Soc. Translated by E. Delmar Morgan,
F.R.G.S. With Introduction and Notes by Col. H. Yule. With Maps
and Illustrations. London, Sampson Low, 1876, 8vo.

——— _Tibet_ ... Edited by C. R. Markham. Notice of. (_Times_, 1876,
——?)

——— Eastern Persia. Letter. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2559, 11th Nov.
1876.)

——— Review of _H. Howorth’s History of the Mongols_, Part I. (_The
_Athenæum, No. 2560, 18th Nov. 1876, pp. 654–656.) Correspondence.
(_Ibid._ No. 2561, 25th Nov. 1876.)

——— Review of _T. E. Gordon’s Roof of the World_. (_The Academy_, 15th
July, 1876, pp. 49–50.)

1876 Cambodia. (_Encycl. Brit._ IV. 1876, pp. 723–726.)

1877 Champa. (_Geog. Mag._, 1st March, 1877, pp. 66–67.)

Article written for the _Encycl. Brit._ 9th edition, but omitted
for reasons which the writer did not clearly understand.

——— _Quid, si Mundus evolvatur?_ (_Spectator_, 24th March, 1877.)

Written in 1875.—Signed MARCUS PAULUS VENETUS.

——— On Louis de Backer’s _L’Extrême-Orient au Moyen-Age_. (_The
Athenæum_, No. 2598, 11th Aug. 1877, pp. 174–175.)

——— On P. Dabry de Thiersant’s _Catholicisme en Chine_. (_The
Athenæum_, No. 2599, 18th Aug. 1877, pp. 209–210.)

——— Review of _Thomas de Quincey, His Life and Writings. By H. A.
Page_. (_Times_, 27th Aug. 1877.)

——— Companions of Faust. Letter on the Claims of P. Castaldi.
(_Times_, Sept. 1877.)

1878 The late Col. T. G. Montgomerie, R.E. (Bengal). (_R. E. Journal_,
April, 1878.) 8vo, pp. 8.

——— Mr. Henry M. Stanley and the Royal Geographical Society; being
the Record of a Protest. By Col. H. Yule and H. M. Hyndman B.A.,
F.R.G.S. London: Bickers and Son, 1878, 8vo, pp. 48.

——— Review of _Burma, Past and Present; with Personal Reminiscences of
the Country_. By Lieut.-Gen. Albert Fytche. (_The Athenæum_, No.
2634, 20th April, 1878, pp. 499–500.)

——— Kayal. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2634, 20th April, 1878, p. 515.)

Letter dated April, 1878.

——— Missions in Southern India. (Letter to _Pall Mall Gazette_, 20th
June, 1878.)

——— Mr. Stanley and his Letters of 1875. (Letter to _Pall Mall
Gazette_, 30th Jan. 1878.)

——— Review of _Richthofen’s China_, Bd. I. (_The Academy_, 13th April,
1878, pp. 315–316.)

——— [A foreshadowing of the Phonograph.] (_The Athenæum_, No. 2636,
4th May, 1878.)

1879 A Memorial of the Life and Services of Maj.-Gen. W. W. H.
Greathed, C.B., Royal Engineers (Bengal), (1826–1878). Compiled
by a Friend and Brother Officer. London, printed for private
circulation, 1879, 8vo, pp. 57.

——— Review of _Gaur: its Ruins and Inscriptions_. By John Henry
Ravenshaw. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2672, 11th Jan. 1879, pp. 42–44.)

——— Wellington College. (Letter to _Pall Mall Gazette_, 14th April,
1879.)

——— Dr. Holub’s Travels. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2710, 4th Oct. 1879,
pp. 436–437.)

——— Letter to Comm. Berchet, dated 2nd Dec. 1878. (_Archivio Veneto_
XVII. 1879, pp. 360–362.)

Regarding some documents discovered by the Ab. Cav. V. Zanetti.

——— Gaur. (_Encyclop. Brit._ X. 1879, pp. 112–116.)

——— Ghazni. (_Ibid._ pp. 559–562.)

——— Gilgit. (_Ibid._ pp. 596–599.)

——— Singular Coincidences. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2719, 6th Dec. 1879.)

1880 [Brief Obituary Notice of] General W. C. Macleod. (_Pall Mall
Gazette_, 10th April, 1880.)

——— [Obituary Notice of] Gen. W. C. Macleod. (_Proc. R. Geog. Soc._,
June, 1880.)

——— An Ode in Brown Pig. Suggested by reading Mr. Lang’s _Ballades
in Blue China_. [Signed MARCUS PAULUS VENETUS.] (_St. James’
Gazette_, 17th July, 1880.)

——— Notes on Analogies of Manners between the Indo-Chinese Races
and the Races of the Indian Archipelago. By Col. Yule (_Journ.
Anthrop. Inst. of Great Britain and Ireland_, vol. ix., 1880, pp.
290–301.)

——— Sketches of Asia in the Thirteenth Century and of Marco Polo’s
Travels, delivered at Royal Engineer Institute, 18th Nov. 1880.

[This Lecture, with slight modification, was also delivered on
other occasions both before and after. Doubtful if ever fully
reported.]

——— Dr. Holub’s Collections. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2724, 10th Jan.
1880.)

——— Prof. Max Müller’s Paper at the Royal Asiatic Society. (_The
Athenæum_, No. 2731, 28th Feb. 1880, p. 285.)

——— The Temple of Buddha Gaya. (Review of _Dr. Rajendralála Mitra’s
Buddha Gaya_.) (_Sat. Rev._, 27th March, 1870.)

——— Mr. Gladstone and Count Karolyi. (Letter to _The Examiner_, 22nd
May, 1880, signed TRISTRAM SHANDY.)

——— Stupa of Barhut. [Review of Cunningham’s work.] (_Sat. Rev._, 5th
June, 1880.)

——— From Africa: Southampton, Fifth October, 1880.

[Verses to Sir Bartle Frere.] (_Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine_,
Nov. 1880.)

——— Review of _H. Howorth’s History of the Mongols_, Part II. (_The
Athenæum_, No. 2762, 2nd Oct. 1880, pp. 425–427.)

——— _Verboten ist_, a Rhineland Rhapsody. (Printed for private
circulation only.)

——— Hindú-Kúsh. (_Encyclop. Brit._ XI. 1880, pp. 837–839.)

——— The River of Golden Sand, the Narrative of a Journey through China
and Eastern Tibet to Burmah, With Illustrations and ten Maps from
Original Surveys. By Capt. W. Gill, Royal Engineers. With an
Introductory Essay. By Col. H. Yule, London, John Murray, ...
1880, 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 95–420, 11–453.

——— The River of Golden Sand: Being the Narrative of a Journey through
China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah. By the late Capt. W. Gill, R.E.
Condensed by Edward Colborne Baber, Chinese Secretary to H.M.’s
Legation at Peking. Edited, with a Memoir and Introductory Essay,
by Col. H. Yule. With Portrait, Map, and Woodcuts. London, John
Murray, 1883, 8vo., pp. 141–332.

——— Memoir of Captain W. Gill, R.E., and Introductory Essay as
prefixed to the New Edition of the “River of Golden Sand.” By Col.
H. Yule. London, John Murray, ... 1884, 8vo. [Paged 19–141.]

1881 [Notice on William Yule] in Persian Manuscripts in the British
Museum. By Sir F. J. Goldsmid.

(_The Athenæum_, No. 2813, 24th Sept. 1881, pp. 401–403.)

——— Il Beato Odorico di Pordenone, ed i suoi Viaggi: Cenni dettati dal
Col. Enrico Yule, quando s’inaugurava in Pordenone il Busto di
Odorico il giorno, 23° Settembre, MDCCCLXXXI, 8vo. pp. 8.

——— Hwen T’sang. (_Encyclop. Brit._ XII. 1881, pp. 418–419.)

——— Ibn Batuta. (_Ibid._ pp. 607–609.)

——— Kâfiristân. (_Ibid._ XIII. 1881, pp. 820–823.)

——— Major James Rennell, F.R.S., of the Bengal Engineers. [Reprinted
from the _Royal Engineers’ Journal_], 8vo., pp. 16.

(Dated 7th Dec. 1881.)

1881 Notice of Sir William E. Baker. (_St. James’ Gazette_, 27th Dec.
1881.)

——— Parallels [Matthew Arnold and de Barros]. (_The Athenæum_, No.
2790, 16th April, 1881, pp. 536.)

1882 Memoir of Gen. Sir William Erskine Baker, K.C.B., Royal Engineers
(Bengal). Compiled by two old friends, brother officers and
pupils. London. Printed for private circulation, 1882, 8vo., pp.
67.

By H. Y[ule] and R. M. [Gen. R. Maclagan].

——— Etymological Notes. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2837, 11th March, 1882;
No. 2840, 1st April, 1882, p. 413.)

——— Lhása. (_Encyclop. Brit._ XIV. 1882, pp. 496–503.)

——— _Wadono_. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2846, 13th May, 1882, p. 602.)

——— Dr. John Brown. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2847, 20th May, 1882, pp.
635–636.)

——— A Manuscript of Marco Polo. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2851, 17th June,
1882, pp. 765–766.)

[About Baron Nordenskiöld’s Facsimile Edition.]

——— Review of _Ancient India as described by Ktesias the Knidian_,
etc. By J. W. M’Crindle. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2860, 19th Aug.
1882, pp. 237–238.)

——— The Silver Coinage of Thibet. (Review of Terrien de Lacouperie’s
Paper.) (_The Academy_, 19th Aug. 1882, pp 140–141.)

——— Review of _The Indian Balhara and the Arabian Intercourse with
India_. By Edward Thomas. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2866, 30th Sept.
1882, pp. 428–429.)

——— The Expedition of Professor Palmer, Capt. Gill, and Lieut.
Charrington. (Letter in _The Times_, 16th Oct. 1882.)

——— Obituary Notice of Dr. Arthur Burnell. (_Times_, 20th Oct. 1882.)

——— Capt. William Gill, R.E. [Notice of]. (_The Times_, 31st Oct.
1882.)

See _supra_, first col. of this page.

——— Notes on the Oldest Records of the Sea Route to China from Western
Asia. By Col. Yule. _Proc. of the Royal Geographical Society, and
Monthly Record of Geography_, Nov. No. 1882, 8vo.

_Proceedings_, N.S. IV. 1882, pp. 649–660. Read at the
Geographical Section, Brit. Assoc., Southampton Meeting, augmented
and revised by the author.

1883 Lord Lawrence. [Review of _Life of Lord Lawrence_. By R. Bosworth
Smith.] (_Quarterly Review_, vol. 155, April, 1883, pp. 289–326.)

——— Review of _Across Chrysé_. By A. R. Colquhoun. (_The Athenæum_,
No. 2900, 26th May, 1883, pp. 663–665.)

——— La Terra del Fuoco e Carlo Darwin. (Extract from Letter published
by the _Fanfulla_, Rome 2nd June, 1883.)

——— How was the Trireme rowed? (_The Academy_, 6th Oct. 1883, p. 237.)

——— _Across Chrysé_. (_The Athenæum_, No. 2922, 27th Oct. 1883.)

——— Political Fellowship in the India Council. (Letter in _The Times_,
15th Dec. 1883.) [Heading was not Yule’s.]

——— Maldive Islands. (_Encyclop. Brit._ XV. 1883, pp. 327–332.)

——— Mandeville. (_Ibid._ pp. 473–475.)

1884 A Sketch of the Career of Gen. John Reid Becher, C.B., Royal
Engineers (Bengal). By an old friend and brother officer. Printed
for private circulation, 1884, 8vo, pp. 40.

——— Ruc Quills. (_The Academy_, No. 620, 22nd March, 1884, pp.
204–205.) Reprinted in present ed. of Marco Polo, vol. ii. p. 596.

——— Lord Canning. (Letter in _The Times_, 2nd April, 1884.)

——— Sir Bartle Frere [Letter respecting Memorial of]. (_St. James’
Gazette_, 27th July, 1884.)

——— Odoric. (_Encyclop. Brit._ XVIII. 1884, pp. 728–729.)

——— Ormus. (_Ibid._ pp. 856–858.)

1885 Memorials of Gen. Sir Edward Harris Greathed, K.C.B. Compiled by
the late Lieut.-Gen. Alex. Cunningham Robertson, C.B. Printed for
private circulation. (With a prefatory notice of the compiler.)
London, Harrison & Sons, ... 1885, 8vo, pp. 95.

The Prefatory Notice of Gen. A. C. Robertson is by H. Yule, June,
1885, p. iii.–viii.

——— Anglo-Indianisms. (Letter in the _St. James’ Gazette_, 30th July,
1885.)

——— Obituary Notice of Col. Grant Allan, Madras Army. (_From the Army
and Navy Gazette_, 22nd Aug. 1885.)

——— Shameless Advertisements. (Letter in _The Times_, 28th Oct. 1885.)

1886 Marco Polo. (_Encyclop. Brit._ XIX. 1885, pp. 404–409.)

——— Prester John. (_Ibid._ pp. 714–718.)

——— Brief Notice of Sir Edward Clive Bayley. Pages ix.–xiv. [Prefixed
to _The History of India as told by its own Historians: Gujarat_.
By the late Sir Edward Clive Bayley.] London, Allen, 1886, 8vo.

——— Sir George Udny Yule. In Memoriam (_St. James’ Gazette_, 18th Jan.
1886.)

——— Cacothanasia. [Political Verse, Signed Μηνιν ἈΕΙΔΕ.] (_St. James’
Gazette_, 1st Feb. 1886.)

——— William Kay, D.D. [Notice of]. (Letter to _The Guardian_, 3rd Feb.
1886.)

——— Col. George Thomson, C.B., R.E. (_Royal Engineers’ Journal_, 1886.)

——— Col. George Thomson, C.B. [Note]. (_St. James’ Gazette_, 16th Feb.
1886.)

——— Hidden Virtues [A Satire on W. E. Gladstone]. (Letter to the _St.
James’ Gazette_, 21st March, 1886. Signed M. P. V.)

——— Burma, Past and Present. (_Quart. Rev._ vol. 162, Jan. and April,
1886, pp. 210–238.)

——— Errors of Facts, in two well-known Pictures.

(_The Athenæum_, No. 3059, 12th June, 1886, p. 788.)

——— [Obituary Notice of] Lieut.-Gen. Sir Arthur Phayre, C.B.,
K.C.S.I., G.C.M.G. (_Proc. R.G.S._, N.S. 1886, VIII. pp. 103–112.)

——— “Lines suggested by a Portrait in the Millais Exhibition.”

Privately printed and (though never published) widely circulated.
These powerful verses on Gladstone are those several times
referred to by Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, in his published
Diaries.

——— Introductory Remarks on _The Rock-Cut Caves and Statues of
Bamian_. By Capt. the Hon. M. G. Talbot. (_Journ. R. As. Soc._
N.S. XVIII. 1886, pp. 323–329.)

——— Opening Address. (_Ibid._ pp. i.–v.)

——— Opening Address. (_Ibid._ xix. pp. i.–iii.)

——— Hobson-Jobsoniana. By H. Yule (_Asiatic Quarterly Review_, vol. i.
1886, pp. 119–140.)

——— HOBSON-JOBSON: Being a Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words
and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms; etymological, historical,
geographical, and discursive. By Col. H. Yule, and the late Arthur
Coke Burnell, Ph.D., C.I.E., author of “The Elements of South
Indian Palaeography,” etc., London, John Murray, 1886. (All rights
reserved), 8vo, p. xliii.–870. Preface, etc.

A new edition is in preparation under the editorship of Mr.
William Crooke (1902).

1886 John Bunyan. (Letter in _St. James’ Gazette_, _circa_ 31st Dec.
1886. Signed M. P. V.)

——— Rennell. (_Encyclop. Brit._ XX. 1886, pp. 398–401.)

——— Rubruquis (_Ibid._ XXI. 1886, pp. 46–47.)

1887 Lieut.-Gen. W. A. Crommelen, C.B., R.E. (_Royal Engineers’
Journal_, 1887.)

——— [Obituary Notice] Col. Sir J. U. Bateman Champain. (_Times_, 2nd
Feb. 1887).

——— “Pulping Public Records.” (_Notes and Queries_, 19th March, 1887.)

——— A Filial Remonstrance (Political Verses). Signed M. P. V. (_St.
James’ Gazette_, 8th Aug. 1887.)

——— Memoir of Major-Gen. J. T. Boileau, R.E., F.R.S. By C. R. Low,
I.N., F.R.G.S. With a Preface by Col. H. Yule, C.B., London,
Allen, 1887.

——— The Diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges),
during his Agency in Bengal; as well as on his voyage out and
return overland (1681–1687). Transcribed for the Press, with
Introductory Notes, etc., by R. Barlow, Esq., and illustrated by
copious extracts from unpublished records, etc., by Col. H. Yule.
Pub. for Hakluyt Society. London, 1887–1889, 3 vols. 8vo.

1888 Concerning some little known Travellers in the East. (_Asiatic
Quarterly Review_, V. 1888, pp. 312–335.)

No. I.—George Strachan.

——— Concerning some little known Travellers in the East. (_Asiatic
Quarterly Review_, VI. 1888, pp. 382–398.)

No. II.—William, Earl of Denbigh; Sir Henry Skipwith; and others.

——— Notes on the St. James’s of the 6th Jan. [A Budget of
Miscellaneous interesting criticism.] (Letter to _St. James’
Gazette_, 9th Jan. 1888.)

——— Deflections of the Nile. (Letter in _The Times_, 15th Oct. 1888.)

——— The History of the Pitt Diamond, being an excerpt from Documentary
Contributions to a Biography of Thomas Pitt, prepared for issue
[in Hedges’ Diary] by the Hakluyt Society. London, 1888, 8vo. pp.
23.

Fifty Copies printed for private circulation.

1889 The Remains of Pagan. By H. Yule. (_Trübner’s Record_, 3rd ser.
vol. i. pt. i. 1889, p. 2.)

To introduce notes by Dr. E Forchammer.

——— A Coincident Idiom. By H. Yule. (_Trübner’s Record_, 3rd ser. vol.
i. pt. iii. pp. 84–85.)

——— The Indian Congress [a Disclaimer]. (Letter to _The Times_, 1st
Jan. 1889.)

——— Arrowsmith, the Friend of Thomas Poole. (Letter in _The Academy_,
9th Feb. 1889, p. 96.)

BIOGRAPHIES OF SIR HENRY YULE.

——— Colonel Sir Henry Yule, K.C.S.I., C.B., LL.D., R.E. By General
Robert Maclagan, R.E. (_Proceed. Roy. Geog. Soc._ XII. 1890, pp.
108–113.)

——— Colonel Sir Henry Yule, K.C.S.I., C.B., LL.D., R.E., etc. (With a
Portrait). By E. Delmar Morgan. (_Scottish Geographical Magazine_,
VI. 1890, pp. 93–98.) Contains a very good Bibliography.

——— Col. Sir H. Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I., by Maj.-Gen. T. B.
Collinson, R.E., _Royal Engineers’ Journal_, March, 1890. [This is
the best of the Notices of Yule which appeared at the time of his
death.]

——— Sir Henry Yule, K.C.S.I, C.B., LL.D., R.E., by E. H. Giglioli.
Roma, 1890, ppt. 8vo, pp. 8.

Estratto dal _Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana_,
Marzo, 1890.

——— Sir Henry Yule. By J. S. C[otton]. (_The Academy_, 11th Jan. 1890,
No. 923, pp. 26–27.)

——— Sir Henry Yule. (_The Athenæum_, No. 3245, 4th Jan. 1900, p. 17;
No. 3246, 11th Jan. p. 53; No. 3247, 18th Jan. p. 88.)

——— _In Memoriam_. Sir Henry Yule. By D. M. (_The Academy_, 29th
March, 1890, p. 222.)

See end of _Memoir_ in present work.

——— Le Colonel Sir Henry Yule. Par M. Henri Cordier. Extrait du
_Journal Asiatique_. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, MDCCCXC, in–8,
pp. 26.

——— The same, _Bulletin de la Société de Géographie_. Par M. Henri
Cordier. 1890, 8vo, pp. 4.

Meeting 17th Jan. 1890.

1889 Baron F. von Richthofen. (_Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für
Erdkunde zu Berlin_, xvii. 2.)

——— Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I. Memoir by General R.
Maclagan, _Journ. R. Asiatic Society_, 1890.

——— Memoir of Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I., LL.D.,
etc. By Coutts Trotter. (_Proceedings of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh_, 1891. p. xliii. to p. lvi.)

1889 Sir Henry Yule (1820–1889). By Coutts Trotter. (_Dict. of National
Biography_, lxiii. pp. 405–407.)

1903 Memoir of Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I., Corr.
Inst. France, by his daughter, Amy Frances Yule, L.A. Soc. Ant.
Scot., etc. Written for third edition of Yule’s Marco Polo.
Reprinted for private circulation only.

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[1] This list is based on the excellent preliminary List compiled by E.
Delmar Morgan, published in the _Scottish Geographical Magazine_,
vol. vi., pp. 97–98, but the present compilers have much more than
doubled the number of entries. It is, however, known to be still
incomplete, and any one able to add to the list, will greatly
oblige the compilers by sending additions to the Publisher.—A. F. Y.

SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.

MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.

INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.

PAGE
I. OBSCURITIES IN THE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND BOOK. RAMUSIO’S
STATEMENTS _1_

§ 1. Obscurities, etc. 2. Ramusio his earliest Biographer;
his Account of Polo. 3. He vindicates Polo’s Geography. 4.
Compares him with Columbus. 5. Recounts a Tradition of the
Traveller’s Return to Venice. 6. Recounts Marco’s Capture
by the Genoese. 7. His statements about Marco’s liberation
and marriage. 8. His account of the Family Polo and its
termination.

II. SKETCH OF THE STATE OF THE EAST AT THE TIME OF THE JOURNEYS OF
THE POLO FAMILY _8_

§ 9. State of the Levant. 10. The various Mongol Sovereignties
in Asia and Eastern Europe. 11. China. 12. India and
Indo-China.

III. THE POLO FAMILY. PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLERS TILL THEIR
FINAL RETURN FROM THE EAST _13_

§ 13. Alleged origin of the Polos. 14. Claims to Nobility. 15.
The Elder Marco Polo. 16. Nicolo and Maffeo Polo commence
their Travels. 17. Their intercourse with Kúblái Kaan. 18.
Their return home, and Marco’s appearance on the scene. 19.
Second Journey of the Polo Brothers, accompanied by Marco.
(See App. L. 1.) 20. Marco’s Employment by Kúblái Kaan; and
his Journeys. 21. Circumstances of the departure of the Polos
from the Kaan’s Court. 22. They pass by Persia to Venice.
Their relations there.

IV. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE MANSION OF THE POLO FAMILY AT S.
GIOVANNI GRISOSTOMO _26_

§ 23. Probable period of their establishment at S. Giovanni
Grisostomo. 24. Relics of the Casa Polo in the Corte
Sabbionera. 24_a_. Recent corroboration as to traditional
site of the Casa Polo.

V. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE WAR-GALLEYS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
STATES IN THE MIDDLE AGES _31_

§ 25. Arrangement of the Rowers in Mediæval Galleys; a separate
Oar to every Man. 26. Change of System in 16th Century.
27. Some details of 13th-Century Galleys. 28. Fighting
Arrangements. 29. Crew of a Galley and Staff of a Fleet. 30.
Music and miscellaneous particulars.

VI. THE JEALOUSIES AND NAVAL WARS OF VENICE AND GENOA. LAMBA
DORIA’S EXPEDITION TO THE ADRIATIC; BATTLE OF CURZOLA; AND
IMPRISONMENT OF MARCO POLO BY THE GENOESE _41_

§ 31. Growing Jealousies and Outbreaks between the Republics.
32. Battle in Bay of Ayas in 1294. 33. Lamba Doria’s
Expedition to the Adriatic. 34. The Fleets come in sight of
each other at Curzola. 35. The Venetians defeated, and Marco
Polo a Prisoner. 36. Marco Polo in Prison dictates his Book
to Rusticiano of Pisa. Release of Venetian Prisoners. 37.
Grounds on which the story of Marco Polo’s capture at Curzola
rests.

VII. RUSTICIANO OR RUSTICHELLO OF PISA, MARCO POLO’S
FELLOW-PRISONER AT GENOA, THE SCRIBE WHO WROTE DOWN THE
TRAVELS _55_

§ 38. Rusticiano, perhaps a Prisoner from Meloria. 39. A Person
known from other sources. 40. Character of his Romance
Compilations. 41. Identity of the Romance Compiler with
Polo’s Fellow-Prisoner. 42. Further particulars regarding
Rusticiano.

VIII. NOTICES OF MARCO POLO’S HISTORY AFTER THE TERMINATION OF HIS
IMPRISONMENT AT GENOA _64_

§ 43. Death of Marco’s Father before 1300. Will of his Brother
Maffeo. 44. Documentary Notices of Polo at this time. The
Sobriquet of _Milione_. 45. Polo’s relations with Thibault
de Cepoy. 46. His Marriage, and his Daughters. Marco as
a Merchant. 47. His Last Will; and Death. 48. Place of
Sepulture. Professed Portraits of Polo. 49. Further History
of the Polo Family. 49 _bis_. Reliques of Marco Polo.

IX. MARCO POLO’S BOOK; AND THE LANGUAGE IN WHICH IT WAS FIRST
WRITTEN _80_

§ 50. General Statement of what the Book contains. 51. Language
of the original Work. 52. Old French Text of the Société de
Géographie. 53. Conclusive proof that the Old French Text is
the source of all the others. 54. Greatly diffused employment
of French in that age.

X. VARIOUS TYPES OF TEXT OF MARCO POLO’S BOOK _90_

§ 55. Four Principal Types of Text. _First_, that of the
Geographic or Oldest French. 56. _Second_, the Remodelled
French Text; followed by Pauthier. 57. The Bern MS. and two
others form a sub-class of this type. 58. _Third_, Friar
Pipino’s Latin. 59. The Latin of Grynæus, a Translation at
Fifth Hand. 60. _Fourth_, Ramusio’s Italian. 61. Injudicious
Tamperings in Ramusio. 62. Genuine Statements peculiar to
Ramusio. 63. Hypothesis of the Sources of the Ramusian
Version. 64. Summary in regard to Text of Polo. 65. Notice of
a curious Irish Version.

XI. SOME ESTIMATE OF THE CHARACTER OF POLO AND HIS BOOK _104_

§ 66. Grounds of Polo’s Pre-eminence among Mediæval Travellers.
67. His true claims to glory. 68. His personal attributes
seen but dimly. 69. Absence of scientific notions. 70. Map
constructed on Polo’s data. 71. Singular omissions of Polo in
regard to China; historical inaccuracies. 72. Was Polo’s Book
materially affected by the Scribe Rusticiano? 73. Marco’s
reading embraced the Alexandrian Romances. Examples. 74.
Injustice long done to Polo. Singular Modern Example.

XII. CONTEMPORARY RECOGNITION OF POLO AND HIS BOOK _116_

§ 75. How far was there diffusion of his Book in his own day?
76. Contemporary References to Polo. T. de Cepoy; Pipino;
Jacopo d’Acqui; Giov. Villani. 77. Pietro d’Abano; Jean
le Long of Ypres. 78. Curious borrowings from Polo in the
Romance of Bauduin de Sebourc. 78 _bis._ Chaucer and Marco
Polo.

XIII. NATURE OF POLO’S INFLUENCE ON GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE _129_

§ 79. Tardy operation, and causes thereof. 80. General
characteristics of Mediæval Cosmography. 81. Roger Bacon
as a Geographer. 82. Arab Geography. 83. Marino Sanudo
the Elder. 84. The Catalan Map of 1375, the most complete
mediæval embodiment of Polo’s Geography. 85. Fra Mauro’s
Map. Confusions in Cartography of the 16th Century from
the endeavour to combine new and old information. 86.
Gradual disappearance of Polo’s nomenclature. 87. Alleged
introduction of Block-printed Books into Europe by Marco Polo
in connexion with the fiction of the invention of Printing
by Castaldi of Feltre. 88. Frequent opportunities for such
introduction in the Age following Polo’s.

XIV. EXPLANATIONS REGARDING THE BASIS ADOPTED FOR THE PRESENT
TRANSLATION _141_

§ 89. Texts followed by Marsden and by Pauthier. 90. Eclectic
Formation of the English Text of this Translation. 91. Mode
of rendering Proper Names.

THE BOOK OF MARCO POLO.