CONTENTS.

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 R. Carstairs, I.C.S.

THE BLUE BOOK ON GOVERNMENT CHURCHES IN INDIA. By
Sir John Jardine, K.C.I.E. .

THE REVOLT OF THE "BOXERS" IN CHINA. By 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-RAHIM THE TRANSLATOR OF BABAR'S MEMOIRS
INTO PERSIAN? By H. Beveridge

QUARTERLY REPORT ON SEMITIC STUDIES AND ORIENTALISM
By Prof. Dr. E. Montet

DESCENDANTS OF OLIVER CROMWELL IN CALCUTTA. Part II. 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 OF A 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.
E. H. Parker

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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 GATHAS. By Prof. L. H. Mills, D.D.
BRITISH LAND POLICY IN INDIA (AS REGARDS

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,
and how to get rid of it.-Japan, its Commerce.-Egypt and the
Soudan.-South Africa, its People and Trade

Open Letters to Lord Curzon on Famines and Land Assessments in India. --Famines and Land Assessments in India. -Uganda Protectorate.-Uganda Railway.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES
Palestinian Syriac Texts.-Ainslie's Ju-Ju, by Harold Bindloss.-Greater
Canada The Past, Present, and Future of the Canadian North-
West, by E. B. Osborn, B.A., with a map.-The "Oxford English
Dictionary" on Historical Principles; founded mainly on the
materials collected by the Philological Society. Edited by Dr.
James A. H. Murray, with the assistance of many scholars and men
of science.-Geschichte Sibiriens und der Mandschurei, by Albert

187-193

405-412

194, 413

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 in 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. Fausboll.-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 J. 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, 1st Madras
Lancers; translated by K. Srinavasa Rao, B.A.; edited_by
Lieutenant-Colonel E. E. M. Lawford, 1st 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
Sus, 1897-98, by Henry M. Grey, a member of the expedition.-
A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics, translated from the
original Pali of the Dhamma-Sangani by Caroline A. F. Rhys
Davids, M.A.-Mythologie des Buddhismus in Tibet und der
Mongolei, by Dr. A. Grünwedel.-Variétés Sinologiques, No. 17.
Inscriptions Juives de K'ai-fong Fu, by Rev. Jerôme Tobar, S.J.-
Petit Dictionnaire Français-Chinois, by P. A. Debesse, S.J.-The
Oxford English Dictionary: a New English Dictionary on Historical
Principles, founded mainly on the Materials collected by the Philo-
logical Society, edited by Dr. James A. H. Murray, with the
assistance of many scholars and men of science.-China in Decay,
by Alexis Krausse. -The Civilization of India, by Romesh C. Dutt,
C.I.E.-China, by Professor Robert K. Douglas.--Early Babylonian
History down to the end of the Fourth Dynasty of Ur. To which
is appended an Account of the E. A. Hoffman Collection of Baby-
lonian Tablets in the General Theological Seminary, New York,
U.S.A. By the Rev. Hugo Radan, A.M., B.D., Ph.D.-The
Siege of Mafeking: a Patriotic Poem, by E. Gilbert Highton,
M.A. Cantab. et Oxon., F.R.S. L., Barrister-at-Law. -The South
African Conspiracy, or the Aims of Afrikanderdom, by Fred
W. Bell, F.S.S.-Sport in War, by Major-General R. S. S. Baden-
Powell, F.R.G.S.--Voices in the Night, by Mrs. F. A. Steel.—
Am Euphrat und Tigris, by E. Sachau.-Hinduism, Ancient and
Modern, by Rai Bahadur Lala Baijnath Rai, B.A.-Origin of the
Anglo-Boer War Revealed: the Conspiracy of the Nineteenth
Century Unmasked, by C. H. Thomas, of Belfast, Transvaal,
formerly Orange Free State Burgher.-Facts and Fancies about
Java, by Augusta de Wit. -The Vedanta-Sutras with the Sri
Bhashya of Rāmānuja Acharya, translated into English by
M. Rangacharya, M. A., and M. B. Varadaraja Aiyangar, B.A.,
B. L., vol. i.-Keshub: the Reconciler of Pure Hinduismi and Pure
Christianity, by Pandit Gour Gobind Roy Upadhyaya. -Village
Life in China: a Study in Sociology, by Arthur H. Smith, D.D.,
author of "Chinese Characteristics."-Le Haut Yang-tsze, by Rev.
S. Chevalier, S.J.-Open Letters to Lord Curzon on Famines and
Land Assestments in India, by Romesh C. Dutt, C.I.E., Lecturer
on Indian History at University College, London, etc.-Fort St.
George, Madras, by Mrs. Frank Penny

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Asiatic Quarterly Quarterly Review,

AND ORIENTAL AND COLONIAL RECORD.

JULY, 1900.

THE POLITICAL SERVICE ON THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER OF INDIA, 1838-1899.*

BY A SOLDIER AND STUDENT OF THE FRONTIER.

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.

2. "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.I., 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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