CONTENTS 



BOOK FOUR ( 1 900-1 906) 



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Chapter Twenty-six i 



1. Association of American Universities — Member- 

 ship — Eliot on medievalism — Uninformed 

 criticism 



2. Fishing in Japan — Annexation of Hawaii — 

 The Nuuanu Pali — First impressions — Stan- 

 ford helpers — Japanese students in America — 

 Effect of gentlemen's agreement — Abe's adven- 

 tures — Otaki — A social call — Dinner a la 

 Japonaise — High standards — Spooner's career 



— Cormorant fishing — A general feast — The 

 ancient fort a negligible barrier — Kikuchi and 

 Mitsukuri — Dinner at the Maple Club — Odd 

 protective tariffs — Ito and Yamagata — Base- 

 ball in Japan 



3. Picture Island — ■ Ebisu, the fisher god — Dai- 

 koku, another luck god — Friendliness — At 

 night — The tea house — 0-Cho-San's leave- 

 taking — Numazu — Fujiyama revealed — Tsu- 

 ruga — Godship no sinecure! — In Nagasaki 



— Formalin replaces alcohol — Mogi — 0-Mime- 

 San — English eccentricities — A superb trip 



— Unzen 



4. The lady repents — Too cordially welcomed! — 

 Putnam Weale — The salt of death — Berlin 

 intrigue — • The Kaiser's Huns — Prussian 

 atrocities — Stealing an observatory — Various 

 outrages — The Hoover cow — Misplaced 

 confidence — Romantic militarism — A self- 

 made general — "The Valor of Ignorance" — 

 The "Old Buddha's" trick 



5. Kawatana — Watches of the night — Kurume 

 and Funayado — Beautiful Miyajima — Hiro- 



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