JULY AND OCTOBER NUMBERS, 1893. (For the Half-Year: April to end of September, 1893.) "One hand on Scythia, th' other on the More."-SPENSER. Woking: THE ORIENTAL UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE. CONTENTS. THE DEFENCE OF INDIA. By General the Right Hon. Lord IS INDIA SAFE? By Sir Lepel H. Griffin, K.C.S.I. THE FRANCO-SIAM IMPASSE. By "Resident" FRANCE AND SIAM. By Muang-Thai THE "HOME CHARGES" OF THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. By INDIANS IN ENGLAND AND THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE. By Dr. G. W. Leitner THE CAPABILITIES OF EASTERN IBEA. By Francis Parry, F.R.G.S. THE HISTORY OF TCHAMPA (NOW ANNAM OR COCHIN-CHINA). By Commandant E. Aymonier WHERE WAS MOUNT SINAI? By Prof. A. H. Sayce THE KELÁM-I-PIR AND ESOTERIC MUHAMMADANISM. By Dr. THE HILL STATIONS OF INDIA FOR RETIRED ANGLO-INDIANS. THE ORIENTAL WEATHER IN ENGLAND. By Pandit Indravarma "YAMATO DAMASHI-I," THE SPIRIT OF OLD JAPAN. By Arthur THE PELASGI AND THEIR MODERN DESCENDANTS: "The Pelasgic THE SPOLIATION OF LANDLORDS AND TENANTS IN BEHAR: THE GRADUAL EXTINCTION OF THE BURMESE RACE. By G. H. Le Maistre . AND THE COLONIES. By A. Silva 356 THE COW-KILLING RIOTS IN INDIA, THEIR CAUSES AND CURE. THE LAST PROPOSALS OF THE IMPERIAL BRITISH EAST AFRICA THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE White. ANTHROPOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON TWELVE DARDS AND KAFIRS IN MY SERVICE. By Dr. G. W. Leitner NOTE ON THE ABOVE. By Dr. J. Beddoe, F.R.S.. THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST: Pahlavi Texts and the TUSSUR SILK AND OUR Seri-Cultural OUTLOOK. (Illustrated.) Russianized Officialism in India (a reply, by A. Rogers, C.S. (ret.), late Member of the Bombay Legislative Council.-The Causes of the Australian Crisis, by Henniker Heaton, M.P.- Side-Lights on Australian Failures, by An Australian Land- owner.--California for Retired Anglo-Indians, An Anglo- American.-Proposed Changes in the Indian Army, A re- tired Bengal General.—Amir Abdurrahman and the Press, Anglo-Russian. - Racial Dwarfs in the Atlas and the Pyrenees, R. G. Haliburton, Q.C.-Chinese Progress-a Chinese Menu, A Chinese Mandarin.-A French View of the Siam-Cambodia Imbroglio, A Cambodian.-The late F. S. Growse, C.S., C.I.E.-Lord Chelmsford's Remarks in the House of Lords.-Last Publications of the Oriental Congress of 1891.-Facts about Siam.-Australian Pros- 410 Siam and Lord Salisbury: followed by a French Map of Siam showing the claims and possessions of France in Indo-China. -Arbitration-the Behring Sea and Newfoundland, C. D. Collet.-Cow-killing and Greased Cartridges, Nawab Abdur- rashid.-Food Regulations of Hindu Castes, Pandit Judge J. S. Gadgil, LL.B.-A Race of Hairy Savages in Tibet, D. MacRitchie.— The Covert Indian Frontier Policy : J. D.— Recrudescence of Leprosy owing to Vaccination, W. Tebb. Memoirs of my Indian Career, by Sir George Campbell, Danvers.-Primitive Religions, by G. T. Bettany, M.A.- The great Indian Religions, by G. T. Bettany, M.A.- A History of Currency in the British Colonies, by Robert Chalmers, B.A.-Epochs of Indian History: Ancient India, by Romesh Chander Dutt, C.I.E. Histoire du Peuple d'Israel, par Ernest Renan.-The English Baby in India, by Mrs. Howard Kingscote.-Indian Nights' Entertain- ment, by the Rev. C. Swynnerton, F.S.A.-The Anti-Foreign Riots in China, in 1891 (North China Herald office).--- The Simple Adventures of a Mem Sahib, by Sarah Jeannette Duncan.-The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art, by Edward Berdoe.-Recollection of an Egyptian Princess, by Her English Governess, Miss E. Chennells.-Arabic-English Dictionary, by the late W. T. Wortabet, with the collabora- tion of J. Wortabet, M.D., and H. Porter, Ph.A.-The Sanskrit Monthly Magazine. Vidyodaya.-The Chinese Classics, by James Legge, Professor of Chinese in the University of Oxford.- Where Three Empires Meet, by Our Indian Protectorate, by C. L. Tupper, I.C.S.-Ceylon in 1893, by John Fergusson.-Round the Black Man's Garden, by Zélie Colville, F.R.G.S.-Lord Auckland, by Captain L. J. Trotter.-Lord Clive, by Colonel G. B. Malleson, C.S.I.-Aurungzib, by Stanley Lane Poole, B.A.- Lord Wellesley, by the Rev. W. A. Hutton, M.A. - The Book of Enoch, by R. H. Charles, M. A.-The Story of Abibal the Tsourian, by Val C. Prinsep, A.R.A.-The Life and Enterprise of Ferdinand de Lesseps, by G. Barnett Smith.-Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern, by Eliza- beth A. Reed.-Canadian Poems and Lays, by W. D. Lighthall, M.A.-The Story of a Dacoity, etc., by G. K. Betham. Parthia, by Prof. George Rawlinson, M.A., F.R.G.S.-Hindustani, as it Ought to be Spoken, by J. Tweedie, Beng.C.S.-Études économiques sur la republique de Nicaragua, by Desiré Pector.-The Great Palace of Constantinople, by Dr. A. G. Paspates.-Chips by an Old Chum (Cassell and Co.).-The Spoilt Child, by Peary Chand Mitter.-Herodotus, by E. S. Shuckburgh, M.A.- A Short History of China, by Demetrius C. Boulger.- Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Medinah and Meccah, by Captain Sir Richard Burton.-The Life of Sir R. F. Burton, K.C.M.G., by his wife (Lady) Isabel Burton. -The Chronicles of Budgepore, by Iltudus Pritchard, F.S.S., F.R.G.S.-Abridgment of the History of India, by J. C. Marshman, C.S.I.-The Indian Mutiny: Selections from State Papers, by G. W. Forrest, B.A.-A Practical Arabic 241-264 THE IMPERIAL AND Asiatic Quarterly Review, AND ORIENTAL AND COLONIAL RECORD. JULY, 1893. THE DEFENCE OF INDIA. BY GENERAL THE RIGHT HON. LORD CHELMSFORD, G.C.B. THE despatch from the Government of India, dated 2 November, 1892, lately laid before Parliament, in anticipation of the debate on the "Madras and Bombay Armies Bill," indirectly opens up once more the important question of the "Defence of India." It is therein clearly laid down that, in the event of Russia approaching closer to our Indian frontier with hostile intent, it is the deliberate opinion of our Rulers in India that we must adopt what is called a "Forward Policy." We are to deliberately ignore the extraordinary natural strength of our North West Frontier; and, leaving it behind us, to move forward, for the fifth time, into that country which, as Dost Mahomed said, " contains only men and stones." The following extracts from the despatch in question will bear out what I have just stated. 10th Para. "The necessity confronting us of providing an efficient force for service against an European enemy beyond the frontier." 66 12th Para. The necessity for this is now brought the more prominently before us, in view of the possibility that the next great operations our army may be called on to undertake may be against a more formidable enemy than it has ever yet encountered, and in a rigorous climate, in NEW SERIES. VOL. VI. A |