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CAPTAIN JAMES ABBOTT. 

 Narrative of a Journey from Herat to Khiva, Moscow, and St 



Petersburjgfh during the late Russian invasion at Khiva. With Map 



and Portrait. 2 vols., demy 8vo, 24s. 

 The real interest of the work consists in it^s store of spirited anecdote, its enter- 

 taining sketches of individual and national character, its graphic pictures of Eastern 

 life and manners, its simply told tales of peril, privation, and suflfering encountered and 

 endured with a soldier's courage. Over the whole narrative, the naiveU and frank- 

 ness of the writer cast a charm that far more than covers its occasional eccentricities 

 of style and language. It has seldom fallen to our lot to read a more interesting 

 narrative of personal adventure. Rarely, indeed, do we find an author whose 

 constant presence, through almost the whole of two large volumes, is not only 

 tolerable, but welcome. Few readers will rise from a perusal of the narrative 

 without a strong feeling of personal sympathy and interest in the gallant Major ; even 

 though here and there unable to repress a smile at some burst of ecstasy, some abrupt 

 apostrophe, such as would never have been perpetrated by a practical writer, and a 

 man of the world. 



SIR E. C. BAYLEY. 



The Local Muhammadan Dynasties, Gujarat. Forming a Sequel 

 to Sir H. M. Elliott's ** History of the Muhammadan Empire 

 of India." Demy 8vo, 21s. 



"The value of the work consists in the light which it serves to throw upon dis- 

 puted dates and obscure transactions. As a work of reference it is doubtless useful. 

 Regarding the way in which its learned translator and editor has acquitted himself 

 of his task it is scarcely necessary to write ; a profound scholar and painstaking in- 

 vestigator, his labours are unusually trustworthy, and the world of letters will doubt- 

 less award him that meed of praise, which is rarely withheld from arduous and con- 

 scientious toil, by assigning him, in death, a niche in the temple of fame, side by side 

 with his venerated master. Sir Henry Elliott." — Academy. 



" This book may be considered the first of a series designed rather as a supplement 

 than complement to the ' Histor3' of India as Told by its own Historians.' Following 

 the Preface, a necessarily brief biographical notice — written in the kindly and appre- 

 ciative spirit which ever characterises the style of the learned editor of Marco Polo, 

 whose initials are scarcely needed to confirm his identity— explains how on Professor 

 Dowson's death. Sir Edward Clive Bajiey was induced to undertake an editorship for 

 which he was eminently qualified by personal character and acquaintance with the 

 originator of the project which constituted his raison d'etre. But the new editor did 

 not live to see the actual publication of his first volume. Scarcelj- had he completed 

 it for the press, when his career was brought to a close. A singular fatality seems to 

 have attended the several able men who have taken the leading part in preserving thia 

 particular monument of genuine history. Henry Elliott, John Dowson, Edward Clive 

 Bayley, and more recently still (during the current year), Edward Thomas, the high- 

 class numismatist, all have passed away, with hands upon the plough in the very field 

 of Oriental research. Without asking to whose care the preparation of any future 

 volumes may be entrusted, let us be thankful for the work, so far completed and — at 

 this time especially— for the instalment which has just appeared." — Athenaeum. 



SIR GEORGE BIRD WOOD, M.D. 



Report on the Old Records of the India Office, with Maps and 

 Illustrations. Royal 8vo, 12s. 6d. 



" Those who are familiar with Sir George Birdwood's literary method will appreciate 

 the interest and the wealth of historical Illustration with which he invests these topics." 

 —Times, Feb. 26, 1891. 



" Sir George Bird wood has performed a Herculean task in exploring, sorting, and 

 describing the masses of old India Office records, which Mr Danvers has now got into 

 a state of admirable arrangement, so that, with the help of Sir George's Index, they 

 may be readily and profitably consulted by students." — Scotsman. 



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