ILLUSTRATIONS.

A Japanese Swimming-scene. Reproduced from a Painting by a Japanese Artist

Mr. Bassett has Decided

Mary

Mary Thinking what she would Like from Japan

Overland by Stage in the Olden Time

Overland by Rail in a Pullman Car

Cooking-range in the Olden Time

Cooking range on a Pullman Car

Change for a Dollar—Before and After

Kathleen's Expectations for Frank and Fred

Effie Waiting for Somebody

Good-bye

Watering-place on the Erie Railway

The Course of Empire

Valley of the Neversink

Starucca Viaduct

Niagara Falls, from the American Side

Entrance to the Cave of the Winds

From Chicago to San Francisco

Omaha

Attacked by Indians

Herd of Buffaloes Moving

An Old Settler

"End of Track"

Snow-sheds on the Pacific Railway

View at Cape Horn, Central Pacific Railway

Seal-rocks, San Francisco

Departure from San Francisco

Dropping the Pilot

The Golden Gate

In the Fire-room

The Engineer at his Post

The Wind Rising

Spouts

Whale-ship Outward Bound

Captain Spofford Telling his Story

New Bedford

Sperm-whale

"There she blows!"

Implements Used in Whaling

Whale "Breaching"

In the Whale's Jaw

Captain Hunting's Fight

A Game Fellow

A Free Ride

Captain Sammis Selling Out

Shooting at a Water-spout

Frank Studying Navigation

Working up a Reckoning

View in the Bay of Yeddo

Japanese Junk and Boats

A Japanese Imperial Barge

Japanese Government Boat

Yokohama in 1854

A Japanese Street Scene

Japanese Musicians

Japanese Fishermen

"Sayonara"

Japanese Silk-shop

Seven-stroke Horse

Female Head-dress

The Siesta

A Japanese at his Toilet for a Visit of Ceremony

A Japanese Breakfast

Mutsuhito, Mikado of Japan

Landing of Perry's Expedition

The Last Shogoon of Japan

Third-class Passengers

Japanese Ploughing

Japanese Roller

Manuring Process

How they Use Manure

Mode of Protecting Land from Birds

Storks, Drawn by a Native Artist

Flock of Geese

Forts of Shinagawa

A Jin-riki-sha

Japanese on Foot

An Express Runner

A Japanese Coolie

Pity for the Blind

View of Tokio, from the South

Japanese Lady Coming from the Bath

Fire-lookouts in Tokio

Too Much Sa-kee

Sakuradu Avenue in Tokio

Japanese Children at Play

The Feast of Dolls ("Hina Matsuri") in a Japanese House

A Barber at Work

A Transaction in Clothes

Ball-playing in Japan

Sport at Asakusa

Spire of a Pagoda

Belfry in Court-yard of Temple, showing the Style of a Japanese Roof

Shrine of the Goddess Ku-wanon

Praying-machine

Archery Attendant

A Japanese Flower-show. Night Scene

A Christening in Japan

A Wedding Party

Strolling Singers at Asakusa

View from Suruga Dai in Tokio

A Child's Nurse

Lovers Behind a Screen. A Painting on Silk Exhibited at the Tokio Fair

Blacksmith's Bellows

A Grass Overcoat

A High-priest in Full Costume

A Japanese Temple

A Wayside Shrine

The Great Kosatsu, near the Nihon Basin

Blowing Bubbles

Father and Children

Caught in the Rain

A Village on the Tokaido

A Party on the Tokaido

Beginning of Relations between England and Japan

Pilgrims on the Road

Threshing Grain

Peasant and his Wife Returning from the Field

A Japanese Sandal

The Great Dai-Boots

Salutation of the Landlord

The Head Waiter Receiving Orders

A Japanese Kitchen

Boiling the Pot

Frank's Inventory

How the Japanese Sleep

A Japanese Fishing Scene

"Breakfast is Ready"

Interior of a Tea-garden

The Path in Enoshima

A Group of Japanese Ladies

Specimen of Grotesque Drawing by a Japanese Artist

Bettos, or "Grooms," in Full Dress

A Japanese Loom

Artists at Work

Coopers Hooping a Vat

Crossing the River

Mother and Son

A Fishing Party

The Man they Met

Travelling by Cango

Japanese Norimon

Frank's Position

Hot Bath in the Mountains

A Japanese Bath

The Lake of Hakone

Antics of the Horses

A Near View of Fusiyama

In a Storm near Fusiyama

Ascent of Fusiyama

The Four Classes of Society

Two-sworded Nobles

A Samurai in Winter Dress

Beheading a Criminal

Japanese Court in the Old Style

Japanese Naval Officer

Japanese Steam Corvette

A Japanese War-junk of the Olden Time

A Japanese Wrestler

A Pair of Wrestlers and their Manager

The Clinch

Japanese Actor Dressed as a Doctor

The Samisen

Playing the Samisen

Scene from a Japanese Comedy.—Writing a Letter of Divorce

Scene from a Japanese Comedy.—Love-letter Discovered

Telling the Story of Bumbuku Chagama

Frank's Purchase

Japanese Pattern-designer

Fan-makers at Work

Chinese Cloisonné on Metal

Japanese Cloisonné on Metal

Japanese Bowl

Cover of Japanese Bowl

Chinese Metal Vase

Modern Japanese Cloisonné on Metal

Japanese Metal Cloisonné

Chinese Porcelain Cloisonné

Group Carved in Ivory

Japanese Pipe, Case, and Pouch

Japanese Artist Chasing on Copper

A Japanese Village.—Bamboo Poles Ready for Market

A Japanese Lady's-maid

Bride and Bridesmaid

Merchant's Family

Mysteries of the Dressing-room

Lady in Winter Walking-dress

A Girl who had never Seen a Dressing-pin

Ladies' Hair-dresser

Ladies at their Toilet

Japanese Ladies on a Picnic

Ladies and Children at Play

Flying Kites

A Village in the Tea District

Tea-merchants in the Interior

The Tea-plant

Firing Tea

Hiogo (Kobe)

The Junk at Anchor

The Helmsman at his Post

Japanese Sailors at Dinner

Junk Sailors on Duty

View from the Hotel

The Castle of Osaka

Vignette from the National Bank-notes

Imperial Crest for Palace Affairs

Imperial Crest on the New Coins

Old Kinsat, or Money-card

Ichi-boo

Vignette from Bank-note

Vignette from Bank-note

Men Towing Boats near Osaka

Mode of Holding the Tow-ropes

The Ferry-boat

The Hotel-maid

A Japanese Landscape

Dikes along the River

Night Scene near Fushimi

Women of Kioto

Ladies of the Western Capital

Restaurant and Tea-garden at Kioto

An Artist at Work

Lantern-maker at Kioto

A Japanese Archer

Temple Bell at Kioto

Reeling Cotton

Japanese Temple and Cemetery

Handcart for a Quartette

Horse Carrying Liquid Manure

The Paternal Nurse

Picnic Booth Overlooking Lake Biwa

A Maker of Bows

The Inland Sea near Hiogo

Approaching Simoneseki

Dangerous Place on the Suwo Nada

Pappenberg Island

Women of Nagasaki

A Christian Village in the Sixteenth Century

Monuments in Memory of Martyrs

A Path near Nagasaki

Hollander at Deshima Watching for a Ship

The Rain Dragon

The Wind Dragon

The Thunder Dragon

A Typhoon

Course of a Typhoon

Caught near the Storm's Centre

The Woosung River

Chinese Trading-junk on the Woosung River

Shanghai

A Coolie in the Streets of Shanghai

A Tea-house in the Country

Smoking Opium

Opium-pipe

Man Blinded by the Use of Opium

Chinese Gentleman in a Sedan

Canal Scene South of Shanghai

A Chinese Family Party

A Gentleman of Chin-kiang

Chinese Spectacles

Ploughing with a Buffalo

Threshing Grain near Chin-kiang

Carrying Bundles of Grain

A River Scene in China

A Nine-storied Pagoda

Little Orphan Rock

Entrance to Po-yang Lake

Tae-ping Rebels

General Ward

The Gate which Ward Attacked

General Burgevine

Fishing with Cormorants

A Street in Han-kow

Wo-chang

The Governor-general and his Staff

Attack on the Pei-ho Forts

Temple of the Sea-god at Taku

A Chinese Beggar

Signing the Treaty of Tien-tsin

Mode of Irrigating Fields

The Doctor's Bedroom

Part of the Wall of Pekin

A Pekin Cab

A Composite Team

A Chinese Dragon

A Pavilion in the Prohibited City

Temple of Heaven

Pekin Cash

Traditional Likeness of Confucius

God of War

God of Literature

God of Thieves

A Mandarin Judge Delivering Sentence

Squeezing the Fingers

Squeezing the Ankles

A Bed of Torture

Four Modes of Punishment

Standing in a Cage

Hot-water Snake

Carrying Forth to the Place of Execution

Just Before Decapitation

Military Candidates Competing with the Bow and Arrow

Walking on Stilts

Juggler Spinning a Plate

Gambling with a Revolving Pointer

Fortune-telling by Means of a Bird and Slips of Paper

Fortune-telling by Dissecting Chinese Characters

Chinese Razor

Barber Shaving the Head of a Customer

Bridge of the Cloudy Hills

The God of the Kitchen

A Lama

The Hills near Chan-kia-kow

Specimen of Chinese Writing

Four Illustrations of the Chinese Version of "Excelsior"

Barracoons at Macao

Coolies Embarking at Macao

Enraged Coolie

A Deadly Fall

Firing Down the Hatchway

The Writing in Blood

The Interpreters

Hong-kong

Fac-simile of a Hong-kong Mille, Dime, and Cent

Fort in Canton River

Gateway of Temple near Canton

Street Scene in Canton

Five-storied Pagoda

Horseshoe or Omega Grave

Presenting Food to the Spirits of the Dead

A Leper

A Literary Student

A Literary Graduate in his Robes of Honor

A Sedan-chair with Four Bearers

A Small Foot with a Shoe on it

Peasant-woman with Natural Feet

A Tablet Carved in Ivory

"Good-bye!"