1890. Amongst those present were witnesses of every stage of his

career, from his boyish days at the High School of Edinburgh downwards. His daughter, of course, was there, led by the faithful, peerless friend who was so soon to follow him into the Undiscovered Country.[79] She and his youngest nephew, with two cousins and a few old friends, followed his remains over the snow to the graveside. The epitaph subsequently inscribed on the tomb was penned by Yule himself, but is by no means representative of his powers in a kind of composition in which he had so often excelled in the service of others. As a composer of epitaphs and other monumental inscriptions few of our time have surpassed, if any have equalled him, in his best efforts. SIR GEORGE UDNY YULE, C.B., K.C.S.I.[80] George Udny Yule, born at Inveresk in 1813, passed through Haileybury into the Bengal Civil Service, which he entered at the age of 18 years. For twenty-five years his work lay in Eastern Bengal. He gradually became known to the Government for his activity and good sense, but won a far wider reputation as a mighty hunter, alike with hog-spear and double barrel. By 1856 the roll of his slain tigers exceeded four hundred, some of them of special fame; after that he continued slaying his tigers, but ceased to count them. For some years he and a few friends used annually to visit the plains of the Brahmaputra, near the Garrow Hills—an entirely virgin country then, and swarming with large game. Yule used to describe his once seeing seven rhinoceroses at once on the great plain, besides herds of wild buffalo and deer of several kinds. One of the party started the theory that Noah’s Ark had been shipwrecked there! In those days George Yule was the only man to whom the Maharajah of Nepaul, Sir Jung Bahadur, conceded leave to shoot within his frontier. Yule was first called from his useful obscurity in 1856. The year before, the Sonthals in insurrection disturbed the long unbroken peace of the Delta. These were a numerous non-Aryan, uncivilised, but industrious race, driven wild by local mismanagement, and the oppressions of Hindoo usurers acting through the regulation courts. After the suppression of their rising, Yule was selected by Sir F. Halliday, who knew his man, to be Commissioner of the Bhagulpoor Division, containing some six million souls, and embracing the hill country of the Sonthals. He obtained sanction to a code for the latter, which removed these people entirely from the Court system, and its tribe of leeches, and abolished all intermediaries between the Sahib and the Sonthal peasant. Through these measures, and his personal influence, aided by picked assistants, he was able to effect, with extraordinary rapidity, not only their entire pacification, but such a beneficial change in their material condition, that they have risen from a state of barbarous penury to comparative prosperity and comfort. George Yule was thus engaged when the Mutiny broke out, and it soon made itself felt in the districts under him. To its suppression within his limits, he addressed himself with characteristic vigour. Thoroughly trusted by every class—by his Government, by those under him, by planters and by Zemindars—he organised a little force, comprising a small detachment of the 5th Regiment, a party of British sailors, mounted volunteers from the districts, etc., and of this he became practically the captain. Elephants were collected from all quarters to spare the legs of his infantry and sailors; while dog-carts were turned into limbers for the small three-pounders of the seamen. And with this little army George Yule scoured the Trans-Gangetic districts, leading it against bodies of the Mutineers, routing them upon more than one occasion, and out-manœuvring them by his astonishing marches, till he succeeded in driving them across the Nepaul frontier. No part of Bengal was at any time in such danger, and nowhere was the danger more speedily and completely averted. After this Yule served for two or three years as Chief Commissioner of Oudh, where in 1862 he married Miss Pemberton, the daughter of a very able father, and the niece of Sir Donald MacLeod, of honoured and beloved memory. Then for four or five years he was Resident at Hyderabad, where he won the enduring friendship of Sir Salar Jung. “Everywhere he showed the same characteristic firm but benignant justice. Everywhere he gained the lasting attachment of all with whom he had intimate dealings—except tigers and scoundrels.” Many years later, indignant at the then apparently supine attitude of the British Government in the matter of the Abyssinian captives, George Yule wrote a letter (necessarily published without his name, as he was then on the Governor-General’s Council), to the editor of an influential Indian paper, proposing a private expedition should be organised for their delivery from King Theodore, and inviting the editor (Dr. George Smith) to open a list of subscriptions in his paper for this purpose, to which Yule offered to contribute £2000 by way of beginning. Although impracticable in itself, it is probable that, as in other cases, the existence of such a project may have helped to force the Government into action. The particulars of the above incident were printed by Dr. Smith in his _Memoir of the Rev. John Wilson_, but are given here from memory. From Hyderabad he was promoted in 1867 to the Governor-General’s Council, but his health broke down under the sedentary life, and he retired and came home in 1869. After some years of country life in Scotland, where he bought a small property, he settled near his brother in London, where he was a principal instrument in enabling Sir George Birdwood to establish the celebration of Primrose Day (for he also was “one of Mr. Gladstone’s converts”). Sir George Yule never sought ‘London Society’ or public employment, but in 1877 he was offered and refused the post of Financial Adviser to the Khedive under the Dual control. When his feelings were stirred he made useful contributions to the public press, which, after his escape from official trammels, were always signed. The very last of these (_St. James Gazette_, 24th February 1885) was a spirited protest against the snub administered by the late Lord Derby, as Secretary of State, to the Colonies, when they had generously offered assistance in the Soudan campaign. He lived a quiet, happy, and useful life in London, where he was the friend and unwearied helper of all who needed help. He found his chief interests in books and flowers, and in giving others pleasure. Of rare unselfishness and sweet nature, single in mind and motive, fearing God and knowing no other fear, he was regarded by a large number of people with admiring affection. He met his death by a fall on the frosty pavement at his door, in the very act of doing a kindness. An interesting sketch of Sir George Yule’s Indian career, by one who knew him thoroughly, is to be found in Sir Edward Braddon’s _Thirty Years of Shikar_. An account of his share in the origin of Primrose Day appeared in the _St. James’ Gazette_ during 1891. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] There is a vague tradition that these Yules descend from the same stock as the Scandinavian family of the same name, which gave Denmark several men of note, including the great naval hero Niels Juel. The portraits of these old Danes offer a certain resemblance of type to those of their Scots namesakes, and Henry Yule liked to play with the idea, much in the same way that he took humorous pleasure in his reputed descent from Michael Scott, the Wizard! (This tradition was more historical, however, and stood thus: Yule’s great grandmother was a Scott of Ancrum, and the Scotts of Ancrum had established their descent from Sir Michael Scott of Balwearie, reputed to be the Wizard.) Be their origin what it may, Yule’s forefathers had been already settled on the Border hills for many generations, when in the time of James VI. they migrated to the lower lands of East Lothian, where in the following reign they held the old fortalice of Fentoun Tower of Nisbet of Dirleton. When Charles II. empowered his Lord Lyon to issue certificates of arms (in place of the Lyon records removed and lost at sea by the Cromwellian Government), these Yules were among those who took out confirmation of arms, and the original document is still in the possession of the head of the family. Though Yules of sorts are still to be found in Scotland, the present writer is the only member of the Fentoun Tower family now left in the country, and of the few remaining out of it most are to be found in the Army List. [2] The literary taste which marked William Yule probably came to him from his grandfather, the Rev. James Rose, Episcopal Minister of Udny, in Aberdeenshire. James Rose, a non-jurant (_i.e._ one who refused to acknowledge allegiance to the Hanoverian King), was a man of devout, large, and tolerant mind, as shown by writings still extant. His father, John Rose, was the younger son of the 14th Hugh of Kilravock. He married Margaret Udny of Udny, and was induced by her to sell his pleasant Ross-shire property and invest the proceeds in her own bleak Buchan. When George Yule (about 1759) brought home Elizabeth Rose as his wife, the popular feeling against the Episcopal Church was so strong and bitter in Lothian, that all the men of the family—themselves Presbyterians—accompanied Mrs. Yule as a bodyguard on the occasion of her first attendance at the Episcopal place of worship. Years after, when dissensions had arisen in the Church of Scotland, Elizabeth Yule succoured and protected some of the dissident Presbyterian ministers from their persecutors. [3] General Collinson in _Royal Engineers’ Journal_, 1st Feb. 1890. The gifted author of this excellent sketch himself passed away on 22nd April 1902. [4] The grave thoughtful face of William Yule was conspicuous in the picture of a Durbar (by an Italian artist, but _not_ Zoffany), which long hung on the walls of the Nawab’s palace at Lucknow. This picture disappeared during the Mutiny of 1857. [5] Colonel Udny Yule, C.B. “When he joined, his usual _nomen_ and _cognomen_ puzzled the staff-sergeant at Fort-William, and after much boggling on the cadet parade, the name was called out _Whirly Wheel_, which produced no reply, till some one at a venture shouted, ‘sick in hospital.’” (_Athenæum_, 24th Sept. 1881.) The ship which took Udny Yule to India was burnt at sea. After keeping himself afloat for several hours in the water, he was rescued by a passing ship and taken back to the Mauritius, whence, having lost everything but his cadetship, he made a fresh start for India, where he and William for many years had a common purse. Colonel Udny Yule commanded a brigade at the Siege of Cornelis (1811), which gave us Java, and afterwards acted as Resident under Sir Stamford Raffles. Forty-five years after the retrocession of Java, Henry Yule found the memory of his uncle still cherished there. [6] Article on the Oriental Section of the British Museum Library in _Athenæum_, 24th Sept. 1881. Major Yule’s Oriental Library was presented by his sons to the British Museum a few years after his death. [7] It may be amusing to note that he was considered an almost dangerous person because he read the _Scotsman_ newspaper! [8] _Athenæum_, 24th Sept. 1881. A gold chain given by the last Dauphiness is in the writer’s possession. [9] Dr. John Yule (b. 176–, d. 1827), a kindly old _savant_. He was one of the earliest corresponding members of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and the author of some botanical tracts. [10] According to Brunet, by Lucas Pennis after Antonio Tempesta. [11] _Concerning some little-known Travellers in the East_. ASIATIC QUARTERLY, vol. v. (1888). [12] William Yule died in 1839, and rests with his parents, brothers, and many others of his kindred, in the ruined chancel of the ancient Norman Church of St. Andrew, at Gulane, which had been granted to the Yule family as a place of burial by the Nisbets of Dirleton, in remembrance of the old kindly feeling subsisting for generations between them and their tacksmen in Fentoun Tower. Though few know its history, a fragrant memorial of this wise and kindly scholar is still conspicuous in Edinburgh. The magnificent wall-flower that has, for seventy summers, been a glory of the Castle rock, was originally all sown by the patient hand of Major Yule, the self-sowing of each subsequent year, of course, increasing the extent of bloom. Lest the extraordinarily severe spring of 1895 should have killed off much of the old stock, another (but much more limited) sowing on the northern face of the rock was in that year made by his grand-daughter, the present writer, with the sanction and active personal help of the lamented General (then Colonel) Andrew Wauchope of Niddrie Marischal. In Scotland, where the memory of this noble soldier is so greatly revered, some may like to know this little fact. May the wall-flower of the Castle rock long flourish a fragrant memorial of two faithful soldiers and true-hearted Scots. [13] Obituary notice of Yule, by Gen. R. Maclagan, R.E. _Proceedings, R. G. S._ 1890. [14] This was the famous “Grey Dinner,” of which The Shepherd made grim fun in the _Noctes_. [15] Probably the specimen from South America, of which an account was published in 1833. [16] Rawnsley, _Memoir of Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle_. [17] Biog. Sketch of Yule, by C. Trotter, _Proceedings, R.S.E._ vol. xvii. [18] Biog. Sketch of Yule, by C. Trotter, _Proceedings, R.S.E._ vol. xvii. [19] After leaving the army, Yule always used this sword when wearing uniform. [20] The Engineer cadets remained at Addiscombe a term (= 6 months) longer than the Artillery cadets, and as the latter were ordinarily gazetted full lieutenants six months after passing out, unfair seniority was obviated by the Engineers receiving the same rank on passing out of Addiscombe. [21] Yule, in _Memoir of General Becher_. [22] Collinson’s _Memoir of Yule_ in _R. E. Journal_. [23] The picture was subscribed for by his brother officers in the corps, and painted in 1880 by T. B. Wirgman. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1881. A reproduction of the artist’s etching from it forms the frontispiece of this volume. [24] In _Memoir of Gen. John Becher_. [25] General Patrick Yule (b. 1795, d. 1873) was a thorough soldier, with the repute of being a rigid disciplinarian. He was a man of distinguished presence, and great charm of manner to those whom he liked, which were by no means all. The present writer holds him in affectionate remembrance, and owes to early correspondence with him much of the information embodied in preceding notes. He served on the Canadian Boundary Commission of 1817, and on the Commission of National Defence of 1859, was prominent in the Ordnance Survey, and successively Commanding R.E. in Malta and Scotland. He was Engineer to Sir C. Fellows’ Expedition, which gave the nation the Lycian Marbles, and while Commanding R.E. in Edinburgh, was largely instrumental in rescuing St. Margaret’s Chapel in the Castle from desecration and oblivion. He was a thorough Scot, and never willingly tolerated the designation N.B. on even a letter. He had cultivated tastes, and under a somewhat austere exterior he had a most tender heart. When already past sixty, he made a singularly happy marriage to a truly good woman, who thoroughly appreciated him. He was the author of several Memoirs on professional subjects. He rests in St. Andrew’s, Gulane. [26] Collinson’s _Memoir of Yule_. [27] Notes on the Iron of the Khasia Hills and Notes on the Khasia Hills and People, both in Journal of the R. Asiatic Society of Bengal, vols. xi. and xiii. [28] Mr. (afterwards Sir) George Clerk, Political Officer with the expedition. Was twice Governor of Bombay and once Governor of the Cape: “A diplomatist of the true English stamp—undaunted in difficulties and resolute to maintain the honour of his country.” (Sir H. B. Edwardes, _Life of Henry Lawrence_, i. 267). He died in 1889. [29] Note by Yule, communicated by him to Mr. R. B. Smith and printed by the latter in _Life of Lord Lawrence_. [30] And when nearing his own end, it was to her that his thoughts turned most constantly. [31] Yule and Maclagan’s _Memoir of Sir W. Baker_. [32] Maclagan’s _Memoir of Yule, P.R.G.S._, Feb. 1890. [33] On hearing this, Yule said to him, “Your story is quite correct except in one particular; you understated the _amount_ of the fine.” [34] Yule and Maclagan’s _Memoir of Baker_. [35] It would appear that Major Yule had presented the Rodgers with some specimens of Indian scissors, probably as suggestions in developing that field of export. Scissors of elaborate design, usually damascened or gilt, used to form a most important item in every set of Oriental writing implements. Even long after adhesive envelopes had become common in European Turkey, their use was considered over familiar, if not actually disrespectful, for formal letters, and there was a particular traditional knack in cutting and folding the special envelope for each missive, which was included in the instruction given by every competent _Khoja_ as the present writer well remembers in the quiet years that ended with the disasters of 1877. [36] Collinson’s _Memoir of Yule, Royal Engineer Journal_. [37] Extract from Preface to _Ava_, edition of 1858. [38] The present whereabouts of this picture is unknown to the writer. It was lent to Yule in 1889 by Lord Dalhousie’s surviving daughter (for whom he had strong regard and much sympathy), and was returned to her early in 1890, but is not named in the catalogue of Lady Susan’s effects, sold at Edinburgh in 1898 after her death. At that sale the present writer had the satisfaction of securing for reverent preservation the watch used throughout his career by the great Marquess. [39] Now in the writer’s possession. It was for many years on exhibition in the Edinburgh and South Kensington Museums. [40] Article by Yule on Lord Lawrence, _Quarterly Review_ for April, 1883. [41] Messrs. Smith & Elder. [42] Preface to _Narrative of a Mission to the Court of Ava_. Before these words were written, Yule had had the sorrow of losing his elder brother Robert, who had fallen in action before Delhi (19th June, 1857), whilst in command of his regiment, the 9th Lancers. Robert Abercromby Yule (born 1817) was a very noble character and a fine soldier. He had served with distinction in the campaigns in Afghanistan and the Sikh Wars, and was the author of an excellent brief treatise on Cavalry Tactics. He had a ready pencil and a happy turn for graceful verse. In prose his charming little allegorical tale for children, entitled _The White Rhododendron_, is as pure and graceful as the flower whose name it bears. Like both his brothers, he was at once chivalrous and devout, modest, impulsive, and impetuous. No officer was more beloved by his men than Robert Yule, and when some one met them carrying back his covered body from the field and enquired of the sergeant: “Who have you got there?” the reply was: “Colonel Yule, and better have lost half the regiment, sir.” It was in the chivalrous effort to extricate some exposed guns that he fell. Some one told afterwards that when asked to go to the rescue, he turned in the saddle, looked back wistfully on his regiment, well knowing the cost of such an enterprise, then gave the order to advance and charge. “No stone marks the spot where Yule went down, but no stone is needed to commemorate his valour” (Archibald Forbes, in _Daily News_, 8th Feb. 1876). At the time of his death Colonel R. A. Yule had been recommended for the C.B. His eldest son, Colonel J. H. Yule, C.B., distinguished himself in several recent campaigns (on the Burma-Chinese frontier, in Tirah, and South Africa). [43] Baker went home in November, 1857, but did not retire until the following year. [44] Nothing was more worthy of respect in Yule’s fine character than the energy and success with which he mastered his natural temperament in the last ten years of his life, when few would have guessed his original fiery disposition. [45] Not without cause did Sir J. P. Grant officially record that “to his imperturbable temper the Government of India owed much.” [46] Yule’s colour-blindness was one of the cases in which Dalton, the original investigator of this optical defect, took special interest. At a later date (1859) he sent Yule, through Professor Wilson, skeins of coloured silks to name. Yule’s elder brother Robert had the same peculiarity of sight, and it was also present in two earlier and two later generations of their mother’s family—making five generations in all. But in no case did it pass from parent to child, always passing in these examples, by a sort of Knight’s move, from uncle to nephew. Another peculiarity of Yule’s more difficult to describe was the instinctive association of certain architectural forms or images with the days of the week. He once, and once only (in 1843), met another person, a lady who was a perfect stranger, with the same peculiarity. About 1878–79 he contributed some notes on this obscure subject to one of the newspapers, in connection with the researches of Mr. Francis Galton, on Visualisation, but the particulars are not now accessible. [47] From Yule’s verses on her grave. [48] Lord Canning to Lady Clanricarde: Letter dated Barrackpoor, 19th Nov. 1861, 7 A.M., printed in _Two Noble Lives_, by A. J. C. Hare, and here reproduced by Mr. Hare’s permission. [49] Lord Canning’s letter to Lady Clanricarde. He gave to Yule Lady Canning’s own silver drinking-cup, which she had constantly used. It is carefully treasured, with other Canning and Dalhousie relics, by the present writer. [50] Many years later Yule wrote of Lord Canning as follows: “He had his defects, no doubt. He had not at first that entire grasp of the situation that was wanted at such a time of crisis. But there is a virtue which in these days seems unknown to Parliamentary statesmen in England—Magnanimity. Lord Canning was an English statesman, and he was surpassingly magnanimous. There is another virtue which in Holy Writ is taken as the type and sum of all righteousness—Justice—and he was eminently just. The misuse of special powers granted early in the Mutiny called for Lord Canning’s interference, and the consequence was a flood of savage abuse; the violence and bitterness of which it is now hard to realise.” (_Quarterly Review_, April, 1883, p. 306.) [51] During the next ten years Yule continued to visit London annually for two or three months in the spring or early summer. [52] Now in the writer’s possession. They appear in the well-known portrait of Lord Canning reading a despatch. [53] Lord Canning’s recommendation had been mislaid, and the India Office was disposed to ignore it. It was Lord Canning’s old friend and Eton chum, Lord Granville, who obtained this tardy justice for Yule, instigated thereto by that most faithful friend, Sir Roderick Murchison. [54] I cannot let the mention of this time of lonely sickness and trial pass without recording here my deep gratitude to our dear and honoured friend, John Ruskin. As my dear mother stood on the threshold between life and death at Mornex that sad spring, he was untiring in all kindly offices of friendship. It was her old friend, Principal A. J. Scott (then eminent, now forgotten), who sent him to call. He came to see us daily when possible, sometimes bringing MSS. of Rossetti and others to read aloud (and who could equal his reading?), and when she was too ill for this, or himself absent, he would send not only books and flowers to brighten the bare rooms of the hillside inn (then very primitive), but his own best treasures of Turner and W. Hunt, drawings and illuminated missals. It was an anxious solace; and though most gratefully enjoyed, these treasures were never long retained. [55] Villa Mansi, nearly opposite the old Ducal Palace. With its private chapel, it formed three sides of a small _place_ or court. [56] He also at all times spared no pains to enforce that ideal on other index-makers, who were not always grateful for his sound doctrine! [57] He saw a good deal of the outbreak when taking small comforts to a friend, the Commandant of the Military School, who was captured and imprisoned by the insurgents. [58] After 1869 he discontinued sea-bathing. [59] This was Yule’s first geographical honour, but he had been elected into the Athenæum Club, under “Rule II.,” in January, 1867. [60] Garnier took a distinguished part in the Defence of Paris in 1870–71, after which he resumed his naval service in the East, where he was killed in action. His last letter to Yule contained the simple announcement “_J’ai pris Hanoï_” a modest terseness of statement worthy of the best naval traditions. [61] One year the present writer, at her mother’s desire, induced him to take walks of 10 to 12 miles with her, but interesting and lovely as the scenery was, he soon wearied for his writing-table (even bringing his work with him), and thus little permanent good was effected. And it was just the same afterwards in Scotland, where an old Highland gillie, describing his experience of the Yule brothers, said: “I was liking to take out Sir George, for _he_ takes the time to enjoy the hills, but (plaintively), the Kornel is no good, for he’s just as restless as a water-wagtail!” If there be any _mal de l’écritoire_ corresponding to _mal du pays_, Yule certainly had it. [62] The Russian Government in 1873 paid the same work the very practical compliment of circulating it largely amongst their officers in Central Asia. [63] “Auch in den Literaturen von Frankreich, Italien, Deutschland und andere Ländern ist der mächtig treibende Einfluss der Yuleschen Methode, welche wissenschaftliche Grundlichkeit mit anmuthender Form verbindet, bemerkbar.” (_Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin_, Band XVII. No. 2.) [64] This subject is too lengthy for more than cursory allusion here, but the patient analytic skill and keen venatic instinct with which Yule not only proved the forgery of the alleged _Travels of Georg Ludwig von ——_ (that had been already established by Lord Strangford, whose last effort it was, and Sir Henry Rawlinson), but step by step traced it home to the arch-culprit Klaproth, was nothing less than masterly. [65] This is probably the origin of the odd misstatement as to Yule occupying himself at Palermo with photography, made in the delightful _Reminiscences_ of the late Colonel Balcarres Ramsay. Yule never attempted photography after 1852. [66] She was a woman of fine intellect and wide reading; a skilful musician, who also sang well, and a good amateur artist in the style of Aug. Delacroix (of whom she was a favourite pupil). Of French and Italian she had a thorough and literary mastery, and how well she knew her own language is shown by the sound and pure English of a story she published in early life, under the pseudonym of Max Lyle (_Fair Oaks, or The Experiences of Arnold Osborne, M.D._, 2 vols., 1856). My mother was partly of Highland descent on both sides, and many of her fine qualities were very characteristic of that race. Before her marriage she took an active part in many good works, and herself originated the useful School for the Blind at Bath, in a room which she hired with her pocket-money, where she and her friend Miss Elwin taught such of the blind poor as they could gather together. In the tablet which he erected to her memory in the family burial-place of St. Andrew’s, Gulane, her husband described her thus:—“A woman singular in endowments, in suffering, and in faith; to whom to live was Christ, to die was gain.” [67] Mary Wilhelmina, daughter of F. Skipwith, Esq., B.C.S. [68] Collinson’s _Memoir of Yule_. [69] See _Notes from a Diary_, 1888–91. [70] The identification was not limited to Yule, for when travelling in Russia many years ago, the present writer was introduced by an absent-minded Russian _savant_ to his colleagues as _Mademoiselle Marco Paulovna_! [71] See Note on Sir George Yule’s career at the end of this Memoir. [72] Addressed to the Editor, _Royal Engineers’ Journal_, who did not, however, publish it. [73] Debate of 27th August, 1889, as reported in _The Times_ of 28th August. [74] Yule had published a brief but very interesting Memoir of Major Rennell in the _R. E. Journal_ in 1881. He was extremely proud of the circumstance that Rennell’s surviving grand-daughter presented to him a beautiful wax medallion portrait of the great geographer. This wonderfully life-like presentment was bequeathed by Yule to his friend Sir Joseph Hooker, who presented it to the Royal Society. [75] Knowing his veneration for that noble lady, I had written to tell her of his condition, and to ask her to give him this last pleasure of a few words. The response was such as few but herself could write. This letter was not to be found after my father’s death, and I can only conjecture that it must either have been given away by himself (which is most improbable), or was appropriated by some unauthorised outsider. [76] So Sir M. E. Grant Duff well calls it. [77] _Academy_, 19th March, 1890. [78] He was much pleased, I remember, by a letter he once received from a kindly Franciscan friar, who wrote: “You may rest assured that the Beato Odorico will not forget all you have done for him.” [79] F.-M. Lord Napier of Magdala, died 14th January, 1890. [80] This notice includes the greater part of an article written by my father, and published in the _St. James’ Gazette_ of 18th January, 1886, but I have added other details from personal recollection and other sources.—A. F. Y. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIR HENRY YULE’S WRITINGS COMPILED BY H. CORDIER AND A. F. YULE[1] 1842 Notes on the Iron of the Kasia Hills. (_Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal_, XI. Part II. July–Dec. 1842, pp. 853–857.) Reprinted in _Proceedings of the Museum of Economic Geology_, 1852. 1844 Notes on the Kasia Hills and People. By Lieut. H. Yule. (_Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal_, XII. Part II. July–Dec. 1844, pp. 612–631.) 1846 A Canal Act of the Emperor Akbar, with some notes and remarks on the History of the Western Jumna Canals. By Lieut. Yule. (_Jour. Asiatic Society Bengal_, XV. 1846, pp. 213–223.) 1850 The African Squadron vindicated. By Lieut. H. Yule. Second Edition. London, J. Ridgway, 1850, 8vo, pp. 41. Had several editions. Reprinted in the Colonial Magazine of March, 1850. ——— L’Escadre Africaine vengée. Par le lieutenant H. Yule. Traduit du _Colonial Magazine_ de Mars, 1850. (_Revue Coloniale_, Mai, 1850.) 1851 Fortification for Officers of the Army and Students of Military History, with Illustrations and Notes. By Lieut. H. Yule, Blackwood, MDCCCLI. 8vo, pp. xxii.–210. (There had been a previous edition privately printed.) ——— La Fortification mise à la portée des Officiers de l’Armée et des personnes qui se livrent à l’étude de l’histoire militaire (avec Atlas). Par H. Yule. Traduit de l’Anglais par M. Sapia, Chef de Bataillon d’Artillerie de Marine et M. Masselin, Capitaine du Génie. Paris, J. Corréard, 1858, 8vo, pp. iii.–263, and Atlas. 1851 The Loss of the _Birkenhead_ (Verses). (_Edinburgh Courant_, Dec. 1851.) Republished in Henley’s _Lyra Heroica_, a Book of Verse for Boys. London, D. Nutt, 1890. 1852 Tibet. (_Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine_, 1852.) 1856 Narrative of Major Phayre’s Mission to the Court of Ava, with Notices of the Country, Government, and People. Compiled by Capt. H. Yule. Printed for submission to the Government of India. Calcutta, J. Thomas, ... 1856, 4to, pp. xxix. + 1 f. n. ch. p. l. er. + pp. 315 + pp. cxiv. + pp. iv. and pp. 70. The last pp. iv.–70 contain: Notes on the Geological features of the banks of the River Irawadee and on the Country north of the Amarapoora, by Thomas Oldham ... Calcutta, 1856. ——— A Narrative of the Mission sent by the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava in 1855, with Notices of the Country, Government, and People. By Capt. H. Yule. With Numerous Illustrations. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1858, 4to. 1857 On the Geography of Burma and its Tributary States, in illustration of a New Map of those Regions. (_Journal, R.G.S._, XXVII. 1857, pp. 54–108.) ——— Notes on the Geography of Burma, in illustration of a Map of that Country. (_Proceedings R.G.S._, vol. i. 1857, pp. 269–273.) 1857 An Account of the Ancient Buddhist Remains at Pagân on the Iráwadi. By Capt. H. Yule. (_Jour. Asiatic Society, Bengal_, XXVI. 1857, pp. 1–51.) 1861 A few notes on Antiquities near Jubbulpoor. By Lieut.-Col. H. Yule. (_Journal Asiatic Society, Bengal_, XXX. 1861, pp. 211–215.) ——— Memorandum on the Countries between Thibet, Yunân, and Burmah. By the Very Rev. Thomine D’Mazure (_sic_), communicated by Lieut.-Col. A. P. Phayre (with notes and a comment by Lieut.-Col. H. Yule). With a Map of the N. E. Frontier, prepared in the Office of the Surveyor-Gen. of India, Calcutta, Aug. 1861. (_Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal_, XXX. 1861, pp. 367–383.) 1862 Notes of a brief Visit to some of the Indian Remains in Java. By Lieut.-Col. H. Yule. (_Jour. Asiatic Society, Bengal_, XXXI. 1862, pp. 16–31.) ——— Sketches of Java. A Lecture delivered at the Meeting of the Bethune Society, Calcutta, 13th Feb. 1862. ——— Fragments of Unprofessional Papers gathered from an Engineer’s portfolio after twenty-three years of service. Calcutta, 1862. Ten copies printed for private circulation. 1863 _Mirabilia descripta_. The Wonders of the East. By Friar Jordanus, of the Order of Preachers and Bishop of Columbum in India the Greater (_circa_ 1330). Translated from the Latin original, as published at Paris in 1839, in the _Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires_, of the Society of Geography, with the addition of a Commentary, by Col. H. Yule, London. Printed for the Hakluyt Society, M.DCCC.LXIII, 8vo, p. iv.–xvii.–68. ——— Report on the Passes between Arakan and Burma [written in 1853]. (_Papers on Indian Civil Engineering_, vol. i. Roorkee.) 1866 Notices of Cathay. (_Proceedings, R.G.S._, X. 1866, pp. 270–278.) ——— 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.