The First of the Mikados How Civilization Came to Japan Yamato-Dake, a Hero of Romance Jingu, the Amazon of Japan The Decline of the Mikados How the Taira and Minamoto Fought for Power The Bayard of Japan The Hojo Tyranny The Tartar invasion of Japan Nobunaga and the Fall of the Buddhists How a Peasant Boy Became Premier The Founder of Yedo and Modern Feudalism The Progress of Christianity in Japan The Decline and Fall of Christianity in Japan The Captivity of Captain Golownin The Opening of Japan The Mikado Comes to His Own Again How the Empire of China Arose and Grew Confucius, the Chinese Scholar The Founder of the Chinese Empire Koatsou and the Dynasty of the Hans The Empress Poisoner of China The Invasion of the Tartar Steppes The 'Crimson Eyebrows' The Conquest of Central Asia The Siege of Sinching From the Shoemaker's Bench to the Throne Three Notable Women The Reign of Taitson the Great A Female Richelieu The Tartars and Ghenghis Khan How the Friars Fared Among the Tartars The Siege of Sianyang The Death-Struggle of China The Palace of Kublai Khan The Expulsion of the Mongols The Rise of the Manchus The Manchu Conquest of China The Career of a Desert Chief The Raid of the Goorkhas How Europe Entered China The Burning of the Summer Palace The Great Christian Movement and its Fate Corea and it Neighbors The Battle of the Iron-Clads Progress in Japan and China