Works by Wm. Elliot Griffis
Reading edition
THE MIKADO’S EMPIRE
JAPANESE FAIRY WORLD
COREA, THE HERMIT NATION
MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY
THE LILY AMONG THORNS
HONDA, THE SAMURAI
SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON
JAPAN: IN HISTORY, FOLK-LORE, AND ART
BRAVE LITTLE HOLLAND
THE RELIGIONS OF JAPAN
TOWNSEND HARRIS
A CITY IN COREA.
COREA
The Hermit Nation
I.—ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL HISTORY II.—POLITICAL AND SOCIAL COREA III.—MODERN AND RECENT HISTORY
BY WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS FORMERLY OF THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF TOKIO, JAPAN AUTHOR OF “THE MIKADO’S EMPIRE”
NINTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1911
Copyright, 1882, 1888, 1897, 1904, 1907, 1911 By CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
TO ALL COREAN PATRIOTS: WHO SEEK BY THE AID OF SCIENCE, TRUTH, AND PURE RELIGION, TO ENLIGHTEN THEMSELVES AND THEIR FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN, TO RID THEIR LAND OF SUPERSTITION, BIGOTRY, DESPOTISM, AND PRIESTCRAFT—BOTH NATIVE AND FOREIGN— AND TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY, INDEPENDENCE, AND HONOR, OF THEIR COUNTRY; THIS UNWORTHY SKETCH OF THEIR PAST HISTORY AND PRESENT CONDITION IS DEDICATED.