evi Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {March, 
elucidation of many a dark and difficult passage which impeded 
the progress of my researches into the domain of Muslim Law, 
Theology and Literature, when others failed to throw light on 
them. Only a few months ago, Azoo and myself planned the 
publication for our Society, of the Khulasat-al-Fatawa, a valu- 
able collection of legal decisions, older, by at least half a 
century, than the celebrated Hidayah itself. Azoo’s intention 
was to make it a model of accurate editing for others to copy. 
Almost the last of his literary efforts was the chronogrammati- 
cal quatrain giving the date of the Coronation of H.I.M. George V. 
It combines the beauties of the famous lines of Al-Muta- 
nabbi in praise of Sayf-ad-Dowlah, and those of Nasif-al-Yaziji 
on the occasion of the coronation of Sultan Abdul Aziz, and is 
considered one of the finest products by competent authorities 
in the whole range of Arabic literature. But alas! let us not 
blind ourselves to the fact that, inspite of occasional showers of 
the titles of Stars and Suns of Learning, there is no apprecia- 
tion of genuine Arabic scholarship in India, Azoo was throwing 
pearls before swine. 
Although a devout Christian, he was a patriotic Ottoman. 
It was his ambition to enter the Turkish Parliament on his 
retirement from service and to make known to the world the 
literary treasures that lie buried in the libraries scattered over 
the Ottoman Empire. 
“The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley.”’ 
On the 16th October, 1911, he went to Darjeeling on leave 
to complete the Arabic Grammar undertaken by him and 
Harinath De for the Calcutta University. On 30th October, 
1911, he returned to Calcutta only to die. 
The following is the list of his published and projected 
works :-— 
Phillott (Lieut.-Col. D.C.), and Azoo (R. F.),—Some Arab Folk 
Tales from Hazramut, Journ., N.S., II, 9, 1906, 399. 
Phillott (Lieut.-Col. D. C.), and Azoo (R. F.), Chapters on Hunt- 
ing Dogs and Cheetas, being an extract from the ‘‘ Kitab- 
w’l-Bazyarah,’’ a treatise on Falconry, by Ibn Kushajim, 
prresas', writer of the Tenth century, Journ., N.S., III, 1, 
Phi:lott (Lieut.-Col. D. C.), and Azoo (R. F.), Some Birds and 
other animals that have been metamorphosed (being an 
extract from the Kitabu’]-Jamharah fi’ilmi’|-Baz yarah, an 
Arabic manuscript, No. 865, in the Library of the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal), Journ., N.S., III, 2, 1907, 139 
Phillott (Lieut.-Col. D. C.), and Azoo (R. F.),—The Bird’s com- 
plaint before Solomon: being an extract with a translation 
from the ‘* Kitabu’lJamharah fi’ilmi’lBazyarah,”’? Journ., 
NS., TT, 8, 1907, 173. 
