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Citation Information
AGE, 60-66. RENAN—DR. JOHN BROWN —HOBSOIV JOBSON
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quoth " Ancient Law " to " Marco Polo." And here it may be
remarked that Yule so completely identified himself with his
favourite traveller that he frequently signed contributions to the
public press as MARCUS PAULUS VENETUS or M.P.V. His
more intimate friends also gave him the same sobriquet, and
once, when calling on his old friend, Dr. John Brown (the
beloved chronicler of I` ab and his Friends), he was introduced by
Dr. John to some lion-hunting American visitors as our Marco
Polo." The visitors evidently took the statement in a literal
sense, and scrutinised Yule closely."
In 1886 Yule published his delightful Anglo-Indian Glossary,
with the whimsical but felicitous sub-title of Hobson-- jobson (the
name given by the rank and file of the British Army in India
to the religious festival in celebration of Hassan and Husaïn).
This Glossary was an abiding interest to both Yule and the
present writer. Contributions of illustrative quotations came
from most diverse and unexpected sources, and the arrival
of each new word or happy quotation was quite an event, and
gave such pleasure to the recipients as can only be fully understood
by those who have shared in such pursuits. The volume was
dedicated in affecting terms to his elder brother, Sir George
Yule, who, unhappily, did not survive to see it completed.
In July 1885, the two brothers had taken the last of many
happy journeys together, proceeding to Cornwall and the Scilly
Isles. A few months later, on 13th January 1886, the end came
suddenly to the elder, from the effects of an accident at his own
door.'1
It may be doubted if Yule ever really got over the shock of
this loss, though he went on with his work as usual, and served
that year as a Royal Commissioner on the occasion of the
Indian and Colonial Exhibition of 1886.
From 1878, when an accidental chill laid the foundations of
an exhausting, though happily quite painless, malady, Yule's
strength had gradually failed, although for several years longer
his general health and energies still appeared unimpaired to a
casual observer. The condition of public affairs also, in some
70 The identification was not limited to Yule, for when travelling in Russia many years ago, the present writer was introduced by an absent-minded Russian savant to his colleagues as Mademoiselle Marco Paulovna!
71 See Note on Sir George Yule's career at the end of this Memoir.
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