Abstract
THE preface is signed “Noah Brooks,” and the little book is prepared specially for young readers. The plan is excellent, and well carried out. Selected extracts from Yule's “Book of Ser Marco Polo” are accompanied and woven together by a pleasantly written commentary, which seems to have been designed to interest the young people of the United States and the United Kingdom. Nothing could be better for the purpose. The extraordinary fidelity of many of Marco Polo's descriptions to fact is pointed out, and the incredulity with which they were received in a credulous age is duly dwelt on: a few of the more fanciful passages are also given, and the antiquity of these old stories noted. Probably many older people will see with surprise the minute exactness with which Marco Polo, six hundred years ago, described some of the most marvellous stock tricks of the modern Indian conjurers. The illustrations are not numerous, but very graceful and well selected. A map would have been a desirable addition.
The Story of Marco Polo.
With Illustrations. Pp. xiv + 248. (London: John Murray, 1898.)
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M., H. The Story of Marco Polo. Nature 59, 75 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059075c0
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