KOREA* 



IN 







lone of tin places in the far KJ 



gained for more than seven ml 





K , ' .i-l ..,'! . ..! , 



I- M. in Delaware. 



IW7. a r I that 



!, 1MB8, two in- v I* open to 



tiampo. on the north- 



'.and Mokpo, in th, 



.tern pitrt .-f fh,,i;, 



' .re the al 

 n.l. the King assumed the 



nil r r 



Btiata, 'drill in%iru<-t<>r. U'gan tho 



an army utruc- 



with 7 officers, to be future commanders. 



t'.--ii uniformed in i: 



me. 

 er of 1-on-i^n 



re*, signed an 



Korean ftoanoi 



i n /. 



ntrl in 

 i, a*fl i 



he was able 



r ' hi -'![ mo ' ' !. 



itinue in his office. 



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with amazing pomp and spectacular 

 . i M. -nil of the late Queen, unit 

 as held in Seoul T 

 At day break the coffin was laid away 



mands for their products. In 

 ML164, ' 





the foreign 

 and 64 - 



.rr- Ml . ^ ' 



Hjl? BnssMii. 14. AM Unuh. 1 



^American. On Jar 

 ports, the number of J spa ness residents was about 



ooosist mainly of beam 

 (for manure), oow hides, ginseng, paper, rice, and sea* 



I - r , .-.>.*. 



> is earned on 



The 

 by a r!o*0 attention to Korean tastsi 



in the penituula. The n" 



e ports in 1806 w M 6*< 



the value of Japanese cotton goods imported was 

 IM56.196 

 goods L17S^4: 

 I INI: MI i: i \MI i 



-ar than 



1896, the totl number recorded befog 4jM8, a fall- 



were new 



books and 757 new editions, as compared 

 new books and 5U new editions the year previous: 

 .::-.- . '. . . / ; . , j . 



lish and other foreign au were menu far- 



ther*, imported bound or in sheets. As regards the 

 . of new books, the most marked falling off 

 was in the depa literary history and mis- 



v. in ti< tion. in |-- try. and in books of Sports 

 and atnuftcmcnta. while the only increase was in 

 works on nile books. 



in books . iind moral as well as physical 



and mathematical science, and in biographv 

 fur the gr, 



booses wa.- :.e Utter half of the year, and 



many of the books announced failed to make their 



appearance and will doubtless swell the record of 



year. More books of permanent value were 



ed than in many previous years, and espe- 



entllv to be commended was the interest shown in 



::.. I:. -.>.'.: mwi period ' .:--. 



Biography. i^tnie at the close of toe rear ap- 

 peared Audui-.n and his Journals.** the first 



enden. dich meets in the pa- 



ng near ili.-..!. i Mone gateway.at 

 Korea formrrlr acknowledged 

 has built Independent 



.- ; ' M i: - ' . - 



upttbUsbed binl drawings, and are sp- 



plied with so8kioal and other notes by Elliott 



ill 





lo. ami 21 



, 



:. \ IV ol 



e an-h. nix) i* >m- f the (Inest pieces of masonry 



i In- kiiii;dom. 



A debate was held in th,- ^M rember 



U 



'-: 



,.. --. 

 hi* 



subject M Resolved, that slavery is a 

 Mtirally. ii 



facts concerning slavenr in Korea 



tluence of the American pnxOamation of 



md a native grntlc- 



man who had just manumit let! 31 slaves took part, 

 i Trade. Little or no incentive to star* 

 TV. or tnimv N-\ .-nd what was necessary 



ilitary rlasses hare preyed upon the people, 



.d loans with no |nw|*x<t f pav- 



mont \ en the farmers of remote districts 



are stimulated to greater activity through the do- 



BMSJSjd 



spondenceof Rofw K :... ..-.:-. i t 

 . , , -. -u- :- ... 



I ..-% fc'n.*l;tt Il%.wn MMila^i 



oy Aoram nngiisa orown, suppiBBw 



neata Old Rooftree*> bringing the early 

 l*tn..t fathers before os in narrative* traditional 

 with 



.1 Homesteads an<i 

 ,n..n Harland. " The Pounders of 

 lony.- a carrftil r>-arch 



of the earliest records of many of the foremost 

 *rt tlrr of the New Kngland colony, was compiled 

 >rah Sannders Smith, while ~ Samuel ^ wall 

 and the workl he : wore presented by 



theR.'x \ II < 'hamberiain. largely in excerpts from 

 Srwair* diaries. -Southern Statesmen of the Old 

 rt dealt with in -i\ lectures upon 

 Jefferson. Randolph, Oalboun, fies- 



