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...Melford E. Spiro A Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ava in 1865 . Compiled by Henry Yule . With an introduction by Hugh Tinker. London : Oxford University Press , 1968 . xlvi, 391 pp. Illustrations, Appendix. $31.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970...

..., there came painstaking scholars, such as Marsden, Pauthier, Murray, Yule and Cordier, Benedetto, Orlandini, and Moule and Pelliot who devoted themselves untiringly to painful research, so that the Great Traveller and his book gradually have come into much clearer light. Up to date, one hundred and nineteen...

... of the nineteenth century and later, there came painstaking scholars, such as Marsden, Pauthier, Murray, Yule and Cordier, Benedetto, Orlandini, and Moule and Pelliot who devoted themselves untiringly to painful research, so that the Great Traveller and his book gradually have come into much clearer light. Up...

... Henry Yule's edition, p. 58). Dr. Hart's eagerness to make Marco Polo a "definite, sharply-etched personality" sometimes leads him astray; and involves him in minor incon- sistencies. In one sentence he remarks that no extant records confirm Marco Polo's marriage in China. Yet later, he dwells...

..." in this capacity.) Yule's interest in ethnographic detail is underscored in the above example by his extended comment. Many equally interesting observations might escape the inattentive reader because they are mentioned in a passing sentence or relegated to a one line footnote his comments, for example...

.... Of Marco he writes (p. 336), "In a trice he learned the four languages that were in use at the court of the Great Khan: Mongolian, Chinese, Uighur, and Persian." Both Yule (one of his own authorities) and Cordier reject the assumption that he knew Chinese (Yule-Cordier, The book of Ser Marco Polo, 3d ed...

... British managing agencies packed up after 1947, many others remained. Even in I960 Calcutta had Bird and Company, Andrew Yule, the Inchcape group, Shaw Wallace, Gillanders, and others that were still under British control, and the expatriate community continued to enjoy the privilege of sunbathing...

... version, published in 1821, just three years before the First Anglo-Burmese War, when tension between the two countries was mounting, that provided the material for later historians, Bayfield, Yule, and Harvey (and even Hall in his Europe and Burma). These 636 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY writers inferred...

..., Yule, and Harvey (and even Hall in his Europe and Burma). These ...

... the later nineteenth century to the interwar period. These included, for example, Jardine Skinner; Andrew Yule and Co.; Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Co.; Bird and Co.; Shaw Wallace and Co.; and Burn and Co. As she notes, "By 1880 these firms had secured control over a wide range of financial and commercial...

... State University of New Yor\, Stony Broo\ A Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ava in 1865. COMPILED BY HENRY YULE. With an introduction by Hugh Tinker. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. xlvi, 391 pp. Illustrations, Appendix. $31.00. : Oxford University Press is to be congratu- ...

..., e.g., Yule's Mission to Ava, is not a beautiful book. I hardly see why our good friends at Paragon, one of the best equipped Asian bookshops in the U. S., should bother to reprint it. FRANK N. TRAGER New Yor\ University Underdevelopment and Economic Nationalism in Southeast Asia. BY FRANK H. GOLAY...

... in the context of the contemporaneous Tharrowaddy revolution occurring at the Burma capital. Separate descriptive reports on the Shan country by Yule, Pilcher and Bernard carry the disconnected story down to the eve of the British conquest. Hilderbrand and Scott were the principal actor-rivals during...

... occurring at the Burma capital. Separate descriptive reports on the Shan country by Yule, Pilcher and Bernard carry the disconnected story down to the eve of the British conquest. Hilderbrand and Scott were the principal actor-rivals during the annexation period. Materials are drawn from the journals...

... Burney and Henry Yule, to name the most prominent constitute a collection of unique interest, and often of literary distinction. Captain Begbie's book belongs to this class. He was an officer in the Madras Artillery and his book was published in Madras in 1834. He describes it as "an attempt to exhibit...

... Raffles, Michael Symes, John Leyden, R. B. Pemberton, John Crawfurd, Henry Burney and Henry Yule, to name the most prominent constitute a collection of unique interest, and often of literary distinction. Captain Begbie's book belongs to this class. He was an officer in the Madras Artillery and his book...

...) place him, as Professor Hall remarks, "not among the great builders or administrators of British India, but among the great ambassadors sent to establish understanding between it and its neighbors" (p. x). Others of those ambassadors, such as Crawfurd, Phayre, and Yule, deserve some of the same careful...

... 19th century titles, e.g., Yule's Mission to Ava, is not a beautiful book. I hardly see why our good friends at Paragon, one of the best equipped Asian bookshops in the U. S., should bother to reprint it. FRANK N. TRAGER New Yor\ University Underdevelopment and Economic Nationalism in Southeast Asia...

... Thorner Daniel , Investment In Empire , Philadelphia , 1950 , pp. 44 – 64 . 27 Ibid., March n, 1844. 26 Bengal Hurkaru , February 2, 1844. 25 Ms. “History of the Bengal Coal Company,” Andrew Yule and Company, Calcutta. 24 Bengal Hurkaru , April 17, 1848...

... the great ambassadors sent to establish understanding between it and its neighbors" (p. x). Others of those ambassadors, such as Crawfurd, Phayre, and Yule, deserve some of the same careful illumination Professor Hall has provided for Burney. Students of Southeast Asian history will also find in the book...