im to
take walks of 10 to 12 miles with her, but interesting and lovely as
the scenery was, he soon wearied for his writing-table (even bringing
his work with him), and thus little permanent good was effected. And
it was just the same afterwards in Scotland, where an old Highland
gillie, describing his experience of the Yule brothers, said: "I was
liking to take out Sir George, for _he_ takes the time to enjoy the
hills, but (plaintively), the Kornel is no good, for he's just as
restless as a water-wagtail!" If there be any _mal de l'ecritoire_
corresponding to _mal du pays_, Yule certainly had it.

[62] The Russian Government in 1873 paid the same work the very practical
compliment of circulating it largely amongst their officers in Central
Asia.

[63] "Auch in den Literaturen von Frankreich, Italien, Deutschland und
andere Laendern ist der maechtig treibende Einfluss der Yuleschen
Methode, welche wissenschaftliche Grundlichkeit mit anmuthender Form
verbindet, bemerkbar." (_Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft fuer Erdkunde
zu
Berlin_, Band XVII. No. 2.)

[64] This subject is too lengthy for more than cursory allusion here, but
the patient analytic skill and keen venatic instinct with which Yule
not only proved the forgery of the alleged _Travels of Georg Ludwig
von ----_ (that had been already established by Lord Strangford, whose
last effort it was, and Sir Henry Rawlinson), but step by step traced
it home to the arch-culprit Klaproth, was nothing less than masterly.

[65] This is probably the origin of the odd misstatement as to Yule
occupying himself at Palermo with photography, made in the delightful
_Reminiscences_ of the late Colonel Balcarres Ramsay. Yule never
attempted photography after 1852.

[66] She was a woman of fine intellect and wide reading; a skilful
musician, who also sang well, and a good amateur artist in the style
of Aug. Delacroix (of whom she was a favourite pupil). Of French and
Italian she had a thorough and literary mastery, and how well she knew
her own language is shown by the sound and pure English of a story she
published in early life, under the pseudonym of Max Lyle (_Fair Oaks,
or The Experiences of Arnold Osborne, M.D._, 2 vols., 1856). My mother
was partly of Highland descent on both sides, and many of her fine
qualities were very characteristic of that race. Be