be respected. The method of transportation shall be decided as occasion arises.

Article IX.-Details regarding the actual performance of this Agreement shall be discussed by mutual agreement of the delegates appointed by the Military Authorities of the two countries concerned.

Article X.-Neither of the two countries shall disclose the contents of the Agreement and its appendix, and the same shall be treated as military secrets.

Article XI.-This Agreement shall become valid when it is approved by both governments after being signed by the military representatives of the two countries. As to the proper moment for the beginning of war operations, the same shall be decided by the highest organs of the two countries. The provisions of this Agreement and the detailed steps arising therefrom shall become null and void on the day the joint war measures against the enemy end.

Article XII.-Two copies of the Chinese and of the Japanese text of this Agreement shall be drawn, one of each shall be kept by China and Japan. The Chinese and Japanese texts shall be identical in meaning.

Selected Bibliography

1. BIBLIOGRAPHIES

There are no general bibliographies covering the Orient. The following are a few of the most important on special topics and countries:

Courant, M., Bibliographie Coréanne (3 Vols.,
Paris, 1896).

Select List of Books (with references to peri-
odicals) Relating to the Far East, and Select
List of References on Chinese Immigration,
compiled by A. P. C. Griffin, Library of Con-
gress, Washington, 1904.

Japan Year Book, bibliography (Tokyo).
Von Wenckstern, F., Bibliography of the Japa-
nese Empire (Vol. 1, Leiden, 1895; Vol. 2,
Tokyo, 1907).

Bibliographies appear at the end of each country in:

The Encyclopedia Britannica (11th edition,
London, 1910).

The New International Encyclopedia (2d edi-
tion, New York, 1914).

Statesman's Year Book (London).

For all books published on the subject in the British Empire consult:

British Museum Catalogues (London).

The Publishers' Circular ltd. (Fetter Lane, E. C.,
London).

For American publications consult:

Book Review Digest (monthly) and Record of Cumulative Book Index (annual), published by the H. W. Wilson Co., White Plains, N. Y.

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Publishers' Trade List Annual and The Pub-
lishers' Weekly, published by the R. R. Bow-
ker Co., New York City.

United States Catalogue of Books in Print (Jan.
I, 1912).

United States Library of Congress Catalogue.

II. SOURCES

Treaties, Documents, Government Reports, Memoirs, etc. :

Drage, Geoffrey, Russian Affairs, Appendix, 647-729 (London, 1904).

Hertlet, China Treaties: Treaties, etc., between Great Britain and China, and between China and Foreign Powers, 3d Edition, 2 Vols. (London, 1908).

McKenzie, F. A., The Tragedy of Korea, Appendix, 263-312 (New York, 1907).

Mannix, W. F., Memoirs of Li Hung Chang (New York, 1913).

Millard, Thomas F., Our Eastern Question, Ap-
pendix, 393-543 (New York, 1916).

Pooley, A. M., The Secret Memoirs of Count
Tadasu Hayashi (London, 1915).

Consult also the United States Statutes at Large,
Diplomatic Correspondence, Foreign Relations,
Consular and Trade Reports (Government
Printing Office, Washington).

The Bureau of Statistics has published:

Commercial China in 1904: Area, Population,
Production, Railways, Telegraphs, and Trans-
portation Routes, and Foreign Commerce and
Commerce of the United States with China
(Summary of Commerce and Finance, Jan-
uary, 1904).
Commercial Japan in 1904: Area, Population,
Production, Railways, Telegraphs, and Trans-
portation Routes, and Foreign Commerce and

Commerce of the Unitel States with Japan (Summary of Commerce and Finance, February, 1904).

Much source material will be found in the

British Parliamentary Papers, China.

British Foreign Office Reports on the Trade of
Korea, Annual Series.

British Annual Consular Reports (London). Chinese Imperial Customs Reports (Shanghai). Japanese Official Publications (Tokyo):

Constitution of the Empire of Japan (1889).
Financial and Economic Annual of Japan.
Reports of the Various Government Departments
(annual).

Returns of the Foreign Commerce and Trade of
Japan (annual).

The Japanese Government also publishes the following books primarily for the purpose of informing the Western public:

Annual Report on Reforms and Progress in
Chosen (Seoul).

Korea Year Book (Seoul).

An Official Guide to Eastern Asia: Vol. I., Manchuria and Chosen; Vols. II. and III., Japan; Vol. IV. China (Tokyo and London, 1916).

III. SECONDARY WORKS ON POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, ECONOMIC, AND DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS

A. Histories:

Boulger, Demetrius C., The History of China, revised edition (London, 1900).

Brinkley, Frank, Japan and China, 12 Vols. (London, 1903-1904).

Griffis, William Elliot, Corea, the Hermit Nation (New York, 1897).

The Mikado's Empire, 2 Vols. (New
York, 1904).

Hosic, Alexander, Manchuria: Its People, Re-
sources, and History (London, 1901).

Hulbert, H. B., The History of Korea, 3 Vols. (Seoul, 1905).

Longford, Joseph H., The Story of Old Japan (London, 1910).

The Story of Korea (New York, 1911).

Macgowan, J., A History of China from the
Earliest Days Down to the Present (London,
1897).

McLaren, Walter W., A Political History of
Japan During the Meiji Era, 1867-1912 (New
York, 1916).

Parker, Edward H., China, Past and Present
(London, 1903).

Williams, Samuel W., A History of China (New
York, 1897).

The Middle Kingdom, 2 Vols. (New
York, 1883).

B. American Relations with the Far East: Callahan, J. M., American Relations in the Pacific and the Far East (Baltimore, 1901). Colquhoun, A. R., Greater America (New York, 1904).

Coolidge, A. C., The United States as a World
Power (New York, 1908).

Fish, Carl Russell, American Diplomacy (New
York, 1915).

Foster, John W., American Diplomacy in the
Orient (New York, 1903).

Latane, J. H., America as a World Power
(American Nation, XXV., New York, 1907).

C. American-Japanese Relations Including the Question of Japanese Immigration, Naturalization in America, etc.

Flowers, Montaville, Japanese Conquest of
American Opinion (New York, 1916).