CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE [I Childhood and Youth] 1 [II First Visit to Japan] 8 [III Korea] 13 [IV His First Book, “Chosön”] 17 [V The Coup d’Etat and the Japanese March to the Sea] 20 [VI The Soul of the Far East] 29 [VII Second Visit to Japan] 41 [VIII Japan Again—the Shinto Trances] 52 [IX The Observatory at Flagstaff] 61 [X Mars] 76 [XI The Permanent Observatory—Interludes and Travels] 92 [XII Illness and Eclipse] 98 [XIII Mars and Its Canals] 107 [XIV The Solar System] 120 [XV Later Evolution of the Planets] 136 [XVI Interludes] 145 [XVII The Effect of Commensurate Periods] 157 [XVIII The Origin of the Planets] 168 [XIX The Search for a Trans-Neptunian Planet] 176 [XX Pluto Found] 195 [ Appendix I Professor Russell’s Later Views on the Size of Pluto] 203 [ Appendix II The Lowell Observatory by Professor Russell] 206