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in 1850, and the volumes compiled by Charles MacFarlane in 1852[1] and by Richard Hildreth in 1855[2]. The four-volume Narrative of the Perry Expedition,[3] published in 1856, was also available, and two works by Bayard Taylor[4] and by Lt. J. W. Spalding[5] who were members of the Perry expedition. The translation into English of the Russian captain Golovnin's spirited memoirs of a long captivity in Yezo had also reached its third edition in 1852.[6] The compilations of Steinmetz[7] and of Kemish[8] were not yet published, nor the volumes issued by Englishmen who were either members of the diplomatic expedition headed by Lord Elgin or were subsequent sojourners in Japan.[9]
- ↑ Charles MacFarlane, Japan; an account, geographical and historical (London, 1862).
- ↑ Richard Hildreth, Japan as it was and is (London, 1855).
- ↑ F. L. Hawks, comp., Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854 (Washington, 1856), 4 vols.
- ↑ Bayard Taylor, A visit to India, China, and Japan in the year 1853 (New York, 1855).
- ↑ Lt. J. W. Spalding. The Japan expedition. Japan and around the world (New York, 1855).
- ↑ Captain Vasilii Mikhailovitch Golovnin, Japan and the Japanese (London, 1852), 2 vols. The first edition was in two parts, namely, Narrative of my captivity in Japan (London, 1818) and Recollections of Japan (London, 1819). The second edition, combining these two parts, was entitled Memoirs of a captivity in Japan; its place of publication was London, its date 1824.
- ↑ Andrew Steinmetz, Japan and her people (London, 1859).
- ↑ S. B. Kemish, The Japanese empire (London, 1860).
- ↑ Notably Laurence Oliphant, Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58 '59 (Edinburgh and London, 1859), 2 vols.; and Sir Rutherford Alcock, The capital of the tycoon: a narrative of three years' residence in Japan (London, 1863), 2 vols.
