The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 - Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
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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 Zarafshan. 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 Cyclopaedia_.)
---- Achin. (_Encycl. Brit._ 9th edition, 1875, I. pp. 95-97.)
---- Afghanistan. (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 Athenaeum_, No. 2559, 11th Nov. 1876.)
---- Review of _H. Howorth's History of the Mongols_, Part I. (The
Athenaeum, 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'Extreme-Orient au Moyen-Age_. (_The
Athenaeum_, No. 2598, 11th Aug. 1877, pp. 174-175.)
---- On P. Dabry de Thiersant's _Catholicisme en Chine_. (_The Athenaeum_,
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 Athenaeum_, No.
2634, 20th April, 1878, pp. 499-500.)
---- Kayal. (_The Athenaeum_, 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 Athenaeum_, 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 Athenaeum_, No. 2672, 11th Jan. 1879, pp. 42-44.)
---- Wellington College. (Letter to _Pall Mall Gazette_, 14th April,
1879.)
---- Dr. Holub's Travels. (_The Athenaeum_, 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 Athenaeum_, 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 Athenaeum_, No. 2724, 10th Jan. 1880.)
---- Prof. Max Mueller's Paper at the Royal Asiatic Society. (_The
Athenaeum_, No. 2731, 28th Feb. 1880, p. 285.)
---- The Temple of Buddha Gaya. (Review of _Dr. Rajendralala Mitra's
Buddha Gaya_.) (_Sat. Rev._, 27th March, 1870.)
---- Mr. Gladstone and Count Karoiyi. (Letter to _The Examiner_, 22nd May,
1880, signed TRISTRAM SHANDY.)
1880 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
Athenaeum_, No. 2762, 2nd Oct. 1880, pp. 425-427.)
---- _Verboten ist_, a Rhineland Rhapsody. (Printed for private
circulation only.)
---- Hindu-Kush. (_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 Athenaeum_, 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 deg. Settembre, MDCCCLXXXI, 8vo. pp. 8.
---- Hwen T'sang. (_Encyclop. Brit._ XII. 1881, pp. 418-419.)
---- Ibn Batuta. (Ibid. pp. 607-609.)
---- Kafiristan. (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 Athenaeum_, 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 Athenaeum_, No. 2837, 11th March, 1882; No.
2840, 1st April, 1882, p. 413.)
---- Lhasa. (_Encyclop. Brit._ XIV. 1882, pp. 496-503.)
---- _Wadono_. (_The Athenaeum_, No. 2846, 13th May, 1882, p. 602.)
---- Dr. John Brown. (_The Athenaeum_, No. 2847, 20th May, 1882, pp.
635-636.)
---- A Manuscript of Marco Polo. (_The Athenaeum_, No. 2851, 17th June,
1882, pp. 765-766.)
[About Baron Nordenskioeld's Facsimile Edition.]
---- Review of _Ancient India as described by Ktesias the Knidian_, etc.
By J. W. M'Crindle. (_The Athenaeum_, 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 Athenaeum_, 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 Chryse_. By A. R. Colquhoun. (_The Athenaeum_, 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 Chryse_. (_The Athenaeum_, 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.
---- Rue 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 [Greek: Maenin AEIDE]]
(_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 Athenaeum_, 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. (_Truebner's Record_, 3rd ser.
vol. i. pt. i. 1889, p. 2.)
To introduce notes by Dr. E Forchammer.
---- A Coincident Idiom. By H. Yule. (_Truebner'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 Societa 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 Athenaeum_, 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 Societe de Geographie_. Par M. Henri
Cordier. 1890, 8vo, pp. 4.
Meeting 17th Jan. 1890.
1889 Baron F. von Richthofen. (_Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft fuer
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.
[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.
I. OBSCURITIES IN THE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND BOOK. RAMUSIO'S STATEMENTS
Sec. 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
Sec. 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
Sec. 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 Kublai 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 Kublai
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
Sec. 23. Probable period of their establishment at S. Giovanni Grisostomo.
24. Relics of the Casa Polo in the Corte Sabbionera. 24a. Recent
corroboration as to traditional site of the Casa Polo.
V. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE WAR-GALLEYS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN STATES IN
THE MIDDLE AGES.
Sec. 25. Arrangement of the Rowers in Mediaeval 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
Sec. 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
Sec. 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
Sec. 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
Sec. 50. General Statement of what the Book contains. 51. Language of the
original Work. 52. Old French Text of the Societe de Geographie.
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
Sec. 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 Grynaeus,
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
Sec. 66. Grounds of Polo's Pre-eminence among Mediaeval 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.
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