Note 262 — BOOK V THE RISE AND COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (continued 2)

No really good, full, and popular descriptive history, with maps and illustrations, of early and medieval China, nor of the Mongol (Hun) and Turkish peoples, seems to exist in the English language. The writer has consulted Skrine and Ross’s Heart of Asia, Hirth’s Ancient History of China, S. Wells Williams’ History of China, A Thousand Years of the Tartars, by E. H. Parker, H. H. Howorth’s History of the Mongols, and has found much useful material scattered through Ratzel and Helmolt. He has later on made a useful section from Watters’ translation and commentary upon the Travels of Yuan Chwang, supplemented by the Life of Yuan Chwang, edited by L. Cranmer Byng. Yule’s edition of Marco Polo has also been a very inspiring source of material.