History of Corea

In preparing this volume on Corea the author had to follow one of two courses. Either to cast the principal material at his disposal into the smallest possible bulk and to give a few essays on the history of the country or to present those materials in fuller detail, to be more literally exact if less interestingly written; and he has chosen the latter. The author would recommend the reader to begin with Chapter X and to become somewhat familiar with the Corean people, before beginning their past history in the rest of the book.