le
Alhambra, it has its own charm, and it is rather a shame to drag it in
beside the buildings of Northern India; how little it seems, its
architecture, and ornament, and its stories, compared with these Mogul
palaces, forts, and gardens, and the love and war associated with them.
I see I have page after page in my journal of attempts to describe the
Taj Mahal and its gardens, and now I find them very difficult to
understand; so I think it would not be wise to try to put them down
here, at the end of rather a rag-tag journal--to try to describe perhaps
the most perfectly beautiful thing in the world. No--it is too
beautiful, to be treated of in the last pages of a journal.

... If I were asked what three scenes in the world pleased me most,
they would all be white.--A ring, miles wide, of square-topped icebergs
in the Antarctic, rose pink in the midnight sun, refracted and reflected
in a calm, lavender sea--the white marble court and white domes of the
Pearl Mosque of Agra, and the blue overhead in stillness of hot mid-day,
and the Taj Mahal in late afternoon, with its marble growing grey, and
the flowers in the gardens closing to sleep.

[Illustration: SHA JEHAN,

Builder of the Taj Mahal.]

Glossary

ACADEMICAL PRIVILEGES, 80
Academy teachers, 177
Aden, 58
Aden, Barren Rocks of, 59
Adyar River, 213
AEolian bells, 243
African coast, 24
Agra, 392
Akbar, 397
Alhambra, 400
Ampthill, Lady, 84
Apollo Bundar, 65
Ananda Temple, 272
Antarctic, 97
Ants, 195
Arctic, 97
Argo, 19
Ariakan Mountains, 268
Arsikere, 160, 187
Art, 46
Atlas Mountains, 24
Auld Reekie, 2

BADMINTON, 133
Balearic Isles, 29
Bangalore, 150, 166
Bank manager, 192
Barbara, 26
Bassein, 251
Belgaum, 118
Benares, 382
Bhamo, 320
Black Buck, 392
Bombay, 63
Bonita, 19
Bugle call, 10

CAFE BASSO, 33
Callum Bhouie, 49
Cargo steamers, 295
Carlos Place, 8
Carmichael, Alex, 71
Carmina Gadelica, 71
Catamaran, 211
Cauvery River, 179
Cavalry, 209
Caves of Elephanta, 86
Channapatna, 186
China, 361
China Street, 322
Chins, 318
Chittagong, 310
Club, 133
Club boat-house, 216
Coburg, 4, 8
Cocoa-nuts, 182
Cockburnspath, 4
Colaba, 100
Columba, 192
Coquelin, 34
Corregio, 23
Crete, 45
Criterion, 7
Crawford market, 103
Crow, 105
Curzon, Lord, 93
Cyrano, 33

DAGON PAGODA, 244
Dak bungalow,