The Life of Sir Richard Burton

Mrs. Burton had carried with her to England several books written by her husband in Brazil, and upon her arrival she occupied herself first in arranging for their publication, a...

Much of his time at Boulogne Burton devoted to fencing; and to his instructor, M. Constantin, he paid glowing tributes. He thoroughly mastered the art, defeated all antagonists,...

Lady Burton spent the year 1894 and part of 1895 at Baker Street and Mortlake, making occasional visits to friends. As at Trieste, she surrounded herself with a crowd of servant...

Having glanced through the Nights, let us now compare the two famous translations. As we have already mentioned, Burton in his Translator's Foreword did not do Mr. Payne complet...

71. The Thousand Nights and a Night. 1st Vol. 12th September 1885. 10th Vol. 12th July 1886. 72. Il Pentamerone. (Translated--not published till 1893). 73. Iracema or Honey Lips...

Sir Richard Burton, the famous traveller, linguist, and anthropologist--"the Arabian Knight"--"the last of the demi-gods"--has been very generally regarded as the most picturesq...

[Footnote 396: This goddess is adored as the patroness of the fine arts. See "A Hymn to Sereswaty," Poetical Works of Sir William Jones, Vol. ii., p. 123; also The Hindoo Panthe...

In social questions Burton took a keen interest. Indeed he was in many respects a man far in advance of his age. In denouncing various evils he betrays the earnestness of a Carl...

From London the Burtons proceeded first to Boulogne where Sir Richard visited the haunts of his early manhood and called upon his old fencing master, Constantin, who was hale an...

It was while staying at Bombay as Mr. Lumsden's guest that Burton, already cloyed with civilization, conceived the idea of journeying, via Zeila in Somaliland, to the forbidden...

On his arrival in London, Burton, in order to have an hour or two of peace, coolly told his people that he had been given an extra vacation, "as a reward for winning a double fi...

As we have seen, Burton had for some months shown signs of bodily decay; and he now daily grew weaker. His eyes, though still fierce and penetrating, were sunk into hollow cavit...

55. Sind Revisited. 1877. 56. The Gold Mines of Midian. 1878. 57. A.E.I. (Arabia, Egypt, India) by Isabel Burton. 1879. 58. Ogham Runes. 1879. 59. The Land of Midian Revisited....

Burton's health continuing weak, he again endeavoured to induce the Government to release him from his duties. Instead of that, they gave him what he calls "an informal sick cer...

During Burton's absence Isabel Arundell tortured herself with apprehensions and fears. Now and again a message from him reached her, but there were huge deserts of silence. Then...

The fame of a soldier having been denied him, Burton now turned his thoughts once more to exploration; and his eagerness for renown is revealed conspicuously in some verses writ...

In 1883 the Burtons removed from their eyrie near the Railway Station and took up their abode in a palazzone [378]--"the Palazzo Gosleth"--situated in a large garden, on the woo...

Burton wad dead. All that was mortal of him lay cold and motionless in the chapelle ardente. But his spirit? The spirits of the departed, can they revive us? The Roman poet Prop...

ANANGA RANGA (Stage of the Bodiless One) or THE HINDU ART OF LOVE (Ars Amoris Indica) Translated from the Sanskrit and annotated by A. F. F. and B. F. R.

On October 28th the Burtons went down to Hatfield, where there was a large party, but Lord Salisbury devoted himself chiefly to Burton. After they had discussed the Eastern Ques...

In May, Burton was back again in Edinburgh, preparing for the Iceland journey. He took many walks down Princes Street and up Arthur's Seat with Lady Stisted and his nieces, and...

60. Camoens, 6 vols. 1 and 2, the Lusiads. 1880. 3 and 4, Life of Camoens and Commentary. 1882. 5 and 6, The Lyrics. 1884. 61. The Kasidah. 1880. 62. Visit to Lissa and Pelagoza...

Burton had for several years been acquainted with the African traveller V. Lovett Cameron, [338] and in August 1881 they met accidentally at Venice. A geographical conference wa...

These Notes, indeed, are the great speciality of Burton's edition of the Nights. They are upon all manner of subjects--from the necklace of the Pleiades to circumcision; from ne...

18. Wanderings in West Africa. 2 vols. 1863. 19. Prairie Traveller, by R. B. Marcy. Edited by Burton 1863. 20. Abeokuta and the Cameroons. 2 vols. 1863. 21. A Day among the Fans...

In May 1882, Burton called on Mr. Payne, and the matter of The Arabian Nights was fully discussed. It then transpired that Burton's project was still entirely in nubibus. He tol...

[Footnote 18: It will be noticed, too, that in no case have I mentioned where these books are to be found. In fact, I have taken every conceivable precaution to make this partic...

39. Medinah and Meccah. 3 vols. in one, 1873. 40. Minas Geraes. 7th January 1873. J. A. I. 41. The Lands of the Cazembe. 1873. 42. The Captivity of Hans Stadt, 1874. 43. Article...

25. Speech before the Anthropological Society. 4th April 1865. 26. Wit and Wisdom from West Africa. 1865. 27. Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. 28. Psychic Facts, by Fra...

In November 1863 the welcome intelligence reached Burton that the British Government had appointed him commissioner and bearer of a message to Gelele, King of Dahomey. He was to...

As we learn from a letter to Mr. Payne, 8th November 1888, Burton began his "new version" of The Scented Garden, or as it is sometimes called, The Perfumed Garden, in real earne...

5. Goa and the Blue Mountains, 1851. 6. Scinde; or the Unhappy Valley, 2 vols., 1851. 7. Sindh, and the Races that Inhabit the Valley of the Indus, 1851. 8. Falconry in the Vall...

On 8th December 1874, Burton sent his wife to England to arrange for the publication of various of his works, and in May 1875, having obtained leave, he followed her, arriving i...

Author. Translator. 1. The Kama Sutra. 1883 Vatsyayana. Bhagvanlal Indraji. 2. The Ananga Ranga. 1885 Kullianmull. " 3. The Arabian Nights. 1885-1886. " Burton. 4. The Scented G...

1. Grammar of the Jataki Dialect, 1849. 2. Remarks on Dr. Dorn's Chrestomathy of the Afghan Tongue, 1849. 3. Reports on Sind addressed to the Bombay Government. 4. Grammar of th...

In July 1891 there appeared in Temple Bar an article by Miss Stisted, entitled "Reminiscences of Sir Richard Burton," and upon reading it, Lady Burton, who headed her letter "5...

[Footnote 180: This letter was given by Mrs. FitzGerald (Lady Burton's sister) to Mr. Foskett of Camberwell. It is now in the library there, and I have to thank the library comm...

Shortly after his return from India, Burton commenced a translation of the Orlando Furioso [296] of Ariosto, a poet, to whom, as we have seen, he had been drawn ever since those...

Arrived in England Burton went straight to his sister's at Norwood. His dejection was abysmal. Says Miss Stisted, "Strong, brave man though he was, the shock of his sudden recal...

Edward was then placed under a clergyman at Cambridge--The Rev. Mr. Havergal, whose name, to that gentleman's indignation, the brothers turned into "a peculiar form of ridicule....

[Footnote 304: Thus, Balzac, tried to discover perpetual motion, proposed to grow pineapples which were to yield enormous profits, and to make opium the staple of Corsica, and h...

The share that Sir Richard Burton had in the translation of the Priapeia has been the subject of dispute; but we are able to state positively that he was the author of the metri...

81. Morocco and the Moors, by Henry Leared, edited by Burton. 1891. 82. Il Pentamerone, published 1893. 83. The Kasidah (100 copies only). 1894. [Note.--In 1900 an edition of 25...

As regards religion, Burton had in early life, as we have seen, leaned to Sufism; and this faith influenced him to the end. For a little while he coquetted with Roman Catholicis...

Owing to his wounds Burton had to return to England, and, on his first opportunity, he gave an account of his explorations before the Royal Geographical Society. Little, however...

[Footnote 655: Mr. T. Douglas Murray, the biographer of Jeanne d'Arc and Sir Samuel Baker, spent many years in Egypt, where he met Burton. He was on intimate terms of friendship...

[Footnote 630: Not the last page of the Scented Garden, as she supposed (see Life, vol. ii., p. 410), for she tells us in the Life (vol. ii., p. 444) that the MS. consisted of o...

William Forsell Kirby, F.L.S., F.E.S., is the son of Samuel Kirby, banker, and his wife Lydia, nee Forsell; nephew of William Kirby, well-known in connection with the London Orp...

The last consists of a preface and ten chapters. "These leaves," we are told, "are the compendium of a treatise written by the Ema'n Fakhr-al-din Al-Ra'zy--may God overwhelm him...

183. Lady Burton at Eastbourne 184. Death of Lady Burton, 22nd March 1896 185. Miss Sitsted's True Life 186. Mr. Wilkins's Work 187. Burton's Friends Verses on the Death of Rich...

[Footnote 168: We have given the stanza in the form Burton first wrote it--beginning each line with a capital. The appearance of Mombasa seems to have been really imposing in th...

116. The Anana Ranga 117. The Beharistan 118. The Gulistan 119. The Nigaristan 120. The "1884" Letters to Payne 121. At Sauerbrunn, 12th August, 1884 122. Burton's Circulars 123...

90. The New Joseph, March 1877 91. More Advice to "Lazybones" 92. Haji Wali again 93. Graffiti 94. Letter to Sir Henry Gordon, 4th July 1878 95. Death of Maria Stisted, 12th Nov...

162. In Switzerlant, 15th October 1888 163. Mr. Letchford, August and September 1889 164. To Dr. Tuckey 165. To Mr. Kirby, 15th May 1889 166. Tunis and Algiers, 20th December 18...

56. Archbishop Manning and the Odd Fish 57. 3rd Consulate: Damascus 58. Jane Digby el Mezrab 59. To Tadmor 60. Palmer and Drake, 11th July 1870 61. Khamoor 62. The Shazlis 63. T...

152. Meeting with Mr. Swinburne and others 153. H. W. Ashbee 154. Bacon causes Sparks 155. The Gipsy Lore Society, August 1888 156. The Supplemental Nights, 1st December, 1886-1...

29. The Arabian Nights, October 1854 30. From Zeila to Harar, 27th November 1854 31. At Harar, 2nd January, 1855 32. From Harar to Berbera, 13th January 1855 33. The Fight at Be...

64. With Sir H. Stisted at Norwood 65. Reduced to L15 66. An Orgie at Lady Alford's, 2nd November 1871 67. The Tichborne Trial 68. Khamoor at the Theatre, November 1871

69. In Edinburgh Again, 4th June, 1872 70. Wardour Castle, 5th July 1872 71. St. George and Frederick Burton 72. At the Athenaeum 73. Jane Digby again 74. His Book on Zanzibar

108. Anecdotes of Burton 109. Burton and Mrs. Disraeli 110. "I am an Old English Catholic" 111. Burton begins his Translation, April 1884 112. The Battle over the Nights 113. Co...

147. The Population Question 148. New Projects 149. Mr. A. G. Ellis and Professor Blumhardt, June 1886-April 1887 150. Dr. Leslie and Dr. Baker, April 1887; Anecdotes 151. Three...

8. To Bombay, 18th June 1842 9. Baroda: The Bubu 10. Narachi: Love of Disguise 11. A Dangerous Mission, 1845 12. The Persian Beauty 13. A Simian Dictionary 14. Duality