1889 Sir Henry Yule (1820-1889).  By Coutts Trotter. (Dict. of National
     Biography, lxiii. pp. 405-407.)

1903 Memoir of Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., K.C.S.I., Corr.  Inst. 
     France, by his daughter, Amy Frances Yule, L.A.Soc.  Ant.  Scot., etc. 
     Written for third edition of Yule’s Marco Polo.  Reprinted for private
     circulation only.

[1] This list is based on the excellent preliminary List compiled by E.
    Delmar Morgan, published in the Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol.
    vi., pp. 97-98, but the present compilers have much more than doubled
    the number of entries.  It is, however, known to be still incomplete,
    and any one able to add to the list, will greatly oblige the compilers
    by sending additions to the Publisher.—­A.  F. Y.

SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.

MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.

INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.

I. OBSCURITIES IN THE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND BOOK.  RAMUSIO’S STATEMENTS

Sec. 1.  Obscurities, etc. 2.  Ramusio his earliest Biographer; his Account of Polo. 3.  He vindicates Polo’s Geography. 4.  Compares him with Columbus. 5.  Recounts a Tradition of the Traveller’s Return to Venice. 6.  Recounts Marco’s Capture by the Genoese. 7.  His statements about Marco’s liberation and marriage. 8.  His account of the Family Polo and its termination.

II.  SKETCH OF THE STATE OF THE EAST AT THE TIME OF THE JOURNEYS OF THE
POLO FAMILY

  Sec. 9.  State of the Levant. 10.  The various Mongol Sovereignties in Asia
  and Eastern Europe. 11.  China. 12.  India and Indo-China.

III.  THE POLO FAMILY.  PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLERS TILL THEIR FINAL
RETURN FROM THE EAST

Sec. 13.  Alleged origin of the Polos. 14.  Claims to Nobility. 15.  The Elder Marco Polo. 16.  Nicolo and Maffeo Polo commence their Travels. 17.  Their intercourse with Kublai Kaan. 18.  Their return home, and Marco’s appearance on the scene. 19.  Second Journey of the Polo Brothers, accompanied by Marco. (See App.  L. 1.) 20.  Marco’s Employment by Kublai Kaan; and his Journeys. 21.  Circumstances of the departure of the Polos from the Kaan’s Court. 22.  They pass by Persia to Venice.  Their relations there.

IV.  DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE MANSION OF THE POLO FAMILY AT S. GIOVANNI
GRISOSTOMO

  Sec. 23.  Probable period of their establishment at S. Giovanni Grisostomo.
  24.  Relics of the Casa Polo in the Corte Sabbionera. 24a.  Recent
  corroboration as to traditional site of the Casa Polo.

V. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE WAR-GALLEYS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN STATES IN
THE MIDDLE AGES.