_MEMORIES_ [Illustration: _King Edward the VIIth._ _Photographed by the Author at Balmoral. October 1904._] _Memories. :: By Lord Redesdale, G.C.V.O., K.C.B._ _With two photogravure plates and 16 other illustrations_ VOL. II _LONDON: HUTCHINSON & CO. PATERNOSTER ROW ... 1915_ CONTENTS VOL. II CHAP. PAGE XX.—JAPAN. AN ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY 397 XXI.—JAPAN. CIVIL WAR 413 XXII.—JAPAN. MUKASHI 435 XXIII.—JAPAN. THE MIKADO 447 XXIV.—JAPAN. SENSATION DIPLOMACY 462 XXV.—BETWIXT OLD AND NEW JAPAN 473 XXVI.—JAPAN. THE RECEPTION OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH 495 XXVII.—HOME AGAIN 512 XXVIII.—LORD CLARENDON AND LORD GRANVILLE 523 XXIX.—1870 551 XXX.—DAMASCUS AND RICHARD BURTON 558 XXXI.—GARIBALDI 577 XXXII.—WESTWARD 586 XXXIII.—THE MORMONS AND BRIGHAM YOUNG 614 XXXIV.—THE BLACK OPAL 640 XXXV.—LORD BEACONSFIELD 661 XXXVI.—THE OFFICE OF WORKS 683 XXXVII.—BATSFORD, AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 710 XXXVIII.—SIR JOSEPH HOOKER 734 XXXIX.—ANURADHAPURA 739 XL.—KING LEOPOLD II. 754 XLI.—THE VISIT OF THE FRENCH FLEET IN 1905 761 XLII.—BAYREUTH IN 1912 769 XLIII.—A LAST WORD 793 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOL. II HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII. (_photogravure_) _Frontispiece_ _From a photograph by the Author._ THE AUTHOR, AGED TWENTY-EIGHT _Facing page_ 398 _By Samuel Lawrence._ OLD JAPAN ” 412 _From a water-colour drawing by C. Wirgman._ OLD JAPAN ” 474 _From a water-colour drawing by C. Wirgman._ GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI ” 578 FACSIMILE INSCRIPTION BY GARIBALDI ” 580 LORD BEACONSFIELD AND LORD ROWTON ” 668 _From the “Vanity Fair” cartoon (“Spy”)._ MEMORIES CHAPTER XX JAPAN. AN ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY