39. Quatremère, Étienne. His translations and other works on Oriental subjects abound in valuable indirect illustrations of M. Polo; but in Notices et Extraits des MSS. de la Bibliothèque du Roi, tom. xvi. Pt. i. pp. 281–286, Paris, 1843, there are some excellent remarks both on the work itself and on Marsden’s Edition of it.
40. Macfarlane, Charles. Romance of Travel. London, C. Knight. 1846.
A good deal of intelligent talk on Marco Polo.
41. Meyer, Ernst H. F. Geschichte der Botanik. Königsberg, 1854–57.
In vol. iv, there is a special chapter on Marco Polo’s notices of plants.
42. Thomas, Professor G. M. Zu Marco Polo, aus einem Cod. ital. Monacensis in the Sitzungsberichten der Münchner Akademie, 4th March, 1862, pp. 261–270.
43. Khanikoff, Nicolas de. Notice sur le Livre de Marco Polo, édité et commenté par M. G. Pauthier. Paris, 1866. Extracted from the Journal Asiatique. I have frequently quoted this with advantage, and sometimes have ventured to dissent from it.
44. Cahier, Père. Criticism of Pauthier’s Marco Polo, and reply by G. Pauthier, in Études Littéraires et Religieuses of 1866 and 1867. Paris.
45. Barthélemy St. Hilaire. A series of articles on Marco Polo in the Journal des Savants of January–May, 1867, chiefly consisting of a reproduction of Pauthier’s views and deductions.
46. De Gubernatis, Prof. Angelo. Memoria intorno ai Viaggiatori Italiani nelle Indie Orientali, dal secolo XIII. a tutto il XVI. Firenze, 1867.