THIRD SERIES-VOLUME VIII. Nos. 15 & 16. JULY-OCTOBER, 1899. "One hand on Scythia, th' other on the More."-SPENSER. Woking: THE ORIENTAL UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE. CONTENTS. PAGE THE RECENT FAMINE IN INDIA AND THE Report oF THE SECOND THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. By Guerilla. THE COVENANTED CIVIL SERVICE OF BRITISH INDIA. By former Indian Civilian. SIAM AND ITS NEIGHBOURS. By the Hon. John Barrett INTERCOURSE IN THE PAST BETWEEN CHINA AND FOREIGN KHOKAND AND CHINA. By E. H. Parker “THE BREAK-up of China-LORD CHARLES BERESFORD." By 126 129 135 BRITAIN IN AFRICA: A FORECAST. Bv Ma'colm Seton QUARTERLY REPORT ON SEMITIC STUDIES AND ORIENTALISM. THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST" SERIES: Vol. XXXI.— Parker. MISSION HYMNOLOGY IN THE BANTU LANGUAGES. By A. Werner 136, 383 142, 389 148 163 169 175 233 255 264 274 284 THE EARLY TURKS-RECENT DISCOVERIES. By E. H. Parker 314 327 338 MR. LE PASTEUR FESQUET'S NEW THEORY ON THE ORIGIN OF 386 THE EMANCIPATION OF EGYPTIAN WOMEN. By Kassem Amin Bey JAPANESE MONOGRAPHS-VI. "The Use of the Mirror." By Charlotte M. Salwey, M.J.S. PROCEEDINGS OF THE EAST INDIA ASSOCIATION CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES, ETC. Rack-renting of the Land in India. -The Soudan. -England, Russia, Rack-renting of the Land in India.-Delimitation of Nigeria.-The The Chronology of India, by C. Mabel Duff (Mrs. W. R. Rickmers).— The Rise of Portuguese Power in India, by R. S. Whiteway, B.C.S. (retired). In the Niger Country, by Harold Bindloss.-Man, Past and Present, by A. H. Heane, F.R.G.S.-The Story of Ahikár, by F. C. Conybeare, J. Rendel Harris, and Agnes Smith Lewis. -China and its Future, in the Light of the Antecedents of the Empire, its People and their Institutions, by James Johnston.- A Marriage in China, by Mrs. Archibald Little.-A History of Japanese Literature, by W. G. Aston, C. M. G., D. Lit. -Under the African Sun: a Description of Native Races in Uganda, Sporting Adventures, and other Experiences, by W. J. Ansorge -An Old Philosophy in 101 Quatrains, by The Modern Umar Khayam.- The Palestinian Syriac Lectionary of the Gospels, re-edited from two Sinai MSS. and from Paul de Lagarde's edition of the "Evan- geliarium Hierosolymitanum," by Agnes Smith Lewis, M.R.A.S, and Margaret Dunlop Gibson, M.R.A.S.-History of British India, by Sir William Hunter, LL.D.-Eastern Persian Irak, by General A. Houtum Schindler. -Raiders and Rebels in South Africa, by Elsa Goodwin Green. - Among the Wild Ngoni; being some Chapters in the History of the Livingstonia Mission in British Central Africa, by Dr. W. A. Elmslie, M. B., etc.-The Philippine Islands, by John Foreman, F. R. G.S.-With a Palette in Eastern Palaces, by E. M. Merrick.-The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline and Fall, from original sources, by Sir William Muir, K. C.S.I., LL.D., Lakhmi, the Rajput's Bride. A tale of Gujarat in Western India, by Alexander Rogers (late of the Bombay Civil Service).-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.-Imperial Rule in India, being an Examination of the Principles Proper to the Govern- ment of Dependencies, by Theodore Morison.-Enchanted India, by Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch. Translated from the French by Clara Bell.-Japan in Transition, by Stafford Ransome.-Chinese Customs, by E. H. Parker.-The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, by the Right Hon. F. Max Müller, K.M.-Russia on the Pacific and the Siberian Railway, by Vladimir.-The Founding of South Australia, as recorded in the Journals of Mr. Robert Gouger, First Colonial Secretary, edited by Edwin Hodder.-The Translation into Urdu of Dr. De Bon's "Civilization des Arabes," by Shams-ul 'Ulama, Syed Ali Belgrami, B.A., LL.B.—The Letters and Inscrip- tions of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about B. C. 2200, to which are added a series of Letters of other Kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon, by L. W. King, M.A., F.S.A-Oriental Wit and "The Laughable Stories," collected by Mâr Gregory John Bar-Hebræus, Maphrian of the East from A.D. 1264 to 1286. Translated from the Syriac by E. A. Wallace Budge, M.A., Litt. D., D.Lit.—The Making of Hawaii: A Study in Social Evolution, by William Fremont Blackman.-The Heart of Asia; a History of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the Earliest Times, by Francis Henry Skrine and Edward Denison Ross, Ph. D.-Asiatic Studies, Religious and Social (first and second series), by Sir Alfred C. Lyall, K.C.B.-Essai sur l'Histoire du Japon, par le Marquis de la Mazelière.—Saladin, and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, by Stanley Lane-Poole, M.A.-Russia in Asia: A Record and a Study, 1558-1899, by Alexis Krausse.-The Chronicles of Jerahmeel; or, the Hebrew Bible Historiale, translated for the first time from an unique manu- script in the Bodleian Library by M. Gaster, Ph. D.-Lord Clive: the Foundation of British Rule in India, by Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot, K.C.S.I., C.I, E.-The Rudiments of the Currency Question, explaining the Principal Terms used in the Controversy, SUMMARY OF EVENTS IN ASIA, AFRICA AND THE COLONIES PAGE 213, 418 213-224 418-437 . 228, 445 THE IMPERIAL AND Asiatic Quarterly Review, AND ORIENTAL AND COLONIAL RECORD. JULY, 1899. THE RECENT FAMINE IN INDIA AND THE REPORTS OF THE SECOND FAMINE COMMISSION.* BY SIR CHARLES ELLIOTT, K.C.S.I., LL.D. THE object of this paper is to give a concise sketch of the operations undertaken by the Government of India. for the relief of the recent famine, and a review of the conclusions drawn by the Commission which was appointed to report on those operations when the famine. had come to an end. It is probably very well known that after the last great famine of 1876-78, a Report was drawn up by the first Famine Commission, embodying the conclusions to be drawn as to the best methods of administering relief, and the preventive measures which might be adopted to lessen the severity of such calamities. The same course has been followed on this occasion, and in 1897 the second Famine Commission was created, under the presidency of Sir Jas. Lyall, former Lieut.-Governor of the Punjab, to examine how far recent experience had led to any modification or amplification of the recommendations of the first Commission. In a paper read before the Society of Arts in February, 1897, I explained what had been done to carry out those recommendations in the interval between 1880 and 1897, and in what state of pre * For the discussion of this paper, see "Proceedings of the East India Association," elsewhere in the Review.-ED. |