: Japan and the Pacific and a Japanese View of the Eastern Question by Inagaki Manjiro - Europe History 1871-1918; Eastern question (Balkan); Japan Politics and government

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England and Asia--The Persian war--The Chinese war--Russian diplomacy in China--Singapore and Hong Kong--Labuan and Port Hamilton--Position of Japan; its resources--Importance of Chinese alliance to England--Strength of English position in the Pacific at present--Possible danger from Russia through Mongolia and Manchooria--Japan the key of the Pacific; her area and people; her rapid development; her favourable position; effect of Panama Canal on her commerce--England's route to the East by the Canadian Pacific Railway--Japanese manufactures--Rivalry of Germany and England in the South Pacific--Imperial Federation for England and her colonies--Importance of island of Formosa--Comparative progress of Russia and England--The coming struggle.

The Spanish Empire, its power, and its decline--Commercial rivalry of England and Holland--The ascendency of France; threatened by the Grand Alliance--The Spanish succession and the Bourbon league--England's connection with the war of the Austrian succession--The Seven Years' War--Revival of the Anglo-Bourbon struggle in the American and Napoleonic wars.

FOREIGN POLICY OF RUSSIA DURING THE REIGNS OF PETER, CATHERINE, AND ALEXANDER 95

THE NEW EUROPEAN SYSTEM 114

GREEK INDEPENDENCE 120

THE CRIMEAN WAR 131

THE BLACK SEA CONFERENCE 164

French influence destroyed by the Franco-Prussian War--Russia annuls the Black Sea clauses of the Treaty of Paris--Condition of Europe prevents their enforcement by the Powers--London Conference; Russia secures the Black Sea; England's mistake--Alsace and Lorraine destroy the balance of power.

THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR OF 1878 172

Bulgarian atrocities--The Andrassy Note; England destroys its effect--The Berlin Memorandum; England opposes it--Russia prepares for a Turkish war--Conference of Constantinople--New Turkish Constitution--Russo-Turkish War--Treaty of San Stefano--Intervention of the Powers--The Berlin Congress--Final treaty of peace.

REMARKS ON TREATY OF BERLIN 195

The position of affairs--The Salisbury-Schouvaloff Memorandum and its disastrous effect on the negotiations at Berlin--Russia's gain--England and Austria the guardians of Turkey--Austria's vigorous and straightforward Balkan policy--Thwarted in Servia but triumphant in Bulgaria--Relations of Greece to Austria--Solution of the Crete question--Neutrality of Belgium threatened--Importance of Constantinople to Russia; the Anglo-Turkish Convention--England's feeble policy in Asia Minor--The question of Egypt--A new route to India by railway from the Mediterranean to Persian Gulf--England's relation to Constantinople.

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