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THE POLITICAL SERVICE ON THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER OF

INDIA, 1838-99. By a Soldier and Student of the Frontier
AFGHANISTAN : THE KEY TO INDIA. By Archibald R. Colquhoun
FAMINE IN INDIA : PRECAUTION. By Ř. Carstairs, I.C.S.
THE BLUE BOOK ON GOVERNMENT CHURCHES IN INDIA.

Sir John Jardine, K.C.I.E.
THE REVOLT OF THE BOXERS” IN China.' E. H. Parker
THE POSSIBLE COLLAPSE OF MOROCCO AS AN INDEPENDENT

POWER. By Ion Perdicaris
A PLEA FOR THE INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA. By G. P. Pillai:
THE CONSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS OF ENGLAND AND HER DE-

PENDENCIES. By Sir Charles Roe, Kt.
THE “REFERENDUM IN AUSTRALIA. By G. B. Barton, Sydney
WAS 'ABDU-R-RAHİM THE TRANSLATOR OF BĀBAR'S MEMOIRS

INTO PERSIAN? By H. Beveridge
QUARTERLY REPORT ON SEMITIC STUDIES

ORIENTALISM
By Prof. Dr. E. Moniet
DESCENDANTS OF OLIVER CROMWELL IN CALCUTTA. Part 11. By

Principal C. R. Wilson, M.A.
CONTRIBUTION OF JAINISM TO Philosophy, History, and

PROGRESS. By Virchand R. Gandhi.
KOREA, THE PEARL OF THE ORIENT: Traditional, Historical,

Descriptive. By Charlotte M. Salwey, M.J.S.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE EAST INDIA ASSOCIATION
THE DESIRABILITY

DEFINITE RECOGNITION OF THE
RELIGIOUS ELEMENT IN GOVERNMENT EDUCATION IN INDIA.

By R. Maconachie
THE GARTON LECTURES ON INDIAN AND COLONIAL Agricul:

TURE IN EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY. By Prof. R. Wallace
THE CHINESE IMBROGLIO, AND HOW TO GET OUT OF IT. Ву

E. H. Parker
MISSIONARY TROUBLES In China. ' By Taw Sein Ko :
THE SULTAN AND CENTRAL AFRICA. By S. H. Fitzjohn
A GLIMPSE AT THE GOLD COAST. By Harold Bindloss
THE GÂTHAS. By Prof. L. H. Mills, D.D.
BRITISH LAND POLICY IN INDIA (AS REGARDS LANDLORDS).

By B. H. Baden-Powell, M.A., C.I.E..
THE CATHAYANS. By E. H. Parker
SIAM'S INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA. By Major G. E. Gerini
CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES, ETC.
Jahandar the Axe. - The New Indian Decoration.—The Plague in India,

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Wirth.—A History of Sanskrit Literature, by Arthur A. Mac-
donell, M.A., Ph.D., of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Boden
Professor of Sanskrit, and Fellow of Balliol. — The Mysteries of
Chronology, by F. F. Arbuthnot.-Innermost Asia : Travel and
Sport the Pamirs (with maps and illustrations), by Ralph P.
Cobbold, late 60th Rifles.—Ornaments of the Tajiks from the
Highlands of Darwaz, by Count A. Babrinski.—The Romance of
Australian Exploring (with maps and illustrations), by G. Firth
Scott.—The Dhammapada : being a Collection of Moral Verses in
Pali, edited by V. Fausböll.--Impressions of South Africa (third
edition, revised throughout), by James Bryce, M.P.-South Africa
of To-day (with illustrations), by Captain Francis Younghusband,
C.I.E., Indian Staff Corps. — The Races of Man: An Outline of
Anthropology and Ethnography (with 176 illustrations and two
maps), by T. Deniker, Sc.D. (Paris), Chief Librarian of the
Museum of Natural History, Paris, etc. --A Self-Verifying Chrono-
logical History of Ancient Egypt, from the Foundation of the
Kingdom to the Beginning of the Persian Dynasty: a Book of
Startling Discoveries, by Orlando P. Schmidt.-Southern Arabia,
by Theodore Bent, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., and Mrs. Theodore Bent,
with a portrait, maps, and illustrations.-My Jubilee Visit to
London, by Subadar Mohammad Beg, Sirdar Bahadur, ist Madras
Lancers; translated by K. Srinavasa Rao, B.A.; edited_by
Lieutenant-Colonel E. E. M. Lawford, ist Madras Lancers.—Two
Thousand Miles through South Africa ; or, The Transvaal from

Without, by Rev. W. T. McCormick
In Moorish Captivity : an Account of the Tourmaline Expedition to

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Asiatic Quarterly Review,

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AND ORIENTAL AND COLONIAL RECORD.

JULY, 1900.

THE POLITICAL SERVICE ON THE NORTH

WEST FRONTIER OF INDIA, 1838-1899. *

BY A SOLDIER AND STUDENT OF THE FRONTIER.

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In the hour of need England expects every man to do his duty; and every true man does it, as the history of the Anglo-Saxon all the world over can tell. When duty calls, political officer, civilian, doctor, every man of English blood, must fight for himself and his country. All honour to those who have fulfilled this duty when the call came ! The name Chitral is, and long will be, a monument of duty so

* Works consulted (among many others) :

1. “Chitral : the History of a Minor Siege,” by Sir George S. Robertson, K.C.S.I. London, 1898.

"The Chitral Campaign,” by H. C. Thomson. London, 1895. 3. "The Relief of Chitral,” by Captains G. J. and F. E. Younghusband. London, 1895.

4. “With Kelly to Chitral,” by Lieutenant W. G. L. Beynon. London, 1896.

5. "The History of the Indian Administration of Lord Ellenborough, in his Correspondence with the Duke of Wellington,” edited by Lord Colchester. London, 1874.

6. “Life of Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, Bart., G.C.B., G.C.S.l., Constable of the Tower,” by Charles Rathbone Low. London, 1873.

7. "Memoirs of Major-General Sir William Nott, G.C.B.,” by J. H. Stocqueler. London, 1854.

8. “An Official Account of the Chitral Expedition, 1895,” compiled by Captain W. R. Robertson. Calcutta, 1898.

9. “The Making of a Frontier,” by Col. A. Durand, C.B., C.I.E. 1900. 10. “Lord Lytton's Indian Administration," by Lady Betty Balfour. THIRD SERIES. VOL. X.

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