Author:William Elliot Griffis
Appearance
Works
[edit]- The Mikado's Empire (1876)
- Many eds., W2 goes to 10th 1904, N to 14th
- Japanese Fairy World (1880) (external scan)
- Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (1880) (external scan)
- Asiatic History: China, Corea, and Japan (1881) (external scan)
- Corea, the Hermit Nation (1882) (2d ed., 1885) (external scan) (3d ed., 1888) (external scan)
- Arendt van Curler (1884)
- Corea, Without and Within (1885) (external scan)
- Matthew Calbraith Perry (1887) (external scan)
- The Lily among Thorns (1889) (external scan)
- Honda the Samurai (1890) (external scan)
- Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations (1891) (external scan)
- Japan in History, Folk-Lore, and Art (1892) (external scan) (rev. ed., 1900) (external scan)
- Brave Little Holland and What she Taught us (1894) (external scan) (rev. ed., 1922) (external scan)
- The Religions of Japan (1895)
- Townsend Harris: First American Envoy in Japan (1895) (external scan)
- The Romance of Discovery: A Thousand Years of Exploration and the Unveiling of Continents (1897) (external scan)
- The Romance of American Colonization: How the Foundation Stones of Our History Were Laid (1898) (external scan)
- Charles Carleton Coffin, War Correspondent, 1898 (external scan)
- The Pilgrims in their Three Homes: England, Holland, America (1898) (external scan)
- America in the East: A Glance at Our History, Prospects, Problems, and Duties in the Pacific Ocean (1899) (external scan)
- The American in Holland: Sentimental Rambles in the Eleven Provinces of the Netherlands (1899) (external scan)
- The Romance of Conquest: The Story of American Expansion Through Arms and Diplomacy (1899) (external scan)
- The Pathfinders of the Revolution: A Story of the Great March into the Wilderness and Lake Region of New York in 1779 (1900) (external scan)
- Verbeck of Japan, A Citizen of No Country: A LIfe Story of Foundation Work Inaugurated by Guido Fridolin Verbeck (1900) (external scan)
- In the Mikado's Service: A Story of Two Battle Summers in China (1901) (external scan)
- A Maker of the New Orient, Samuel Robbins Brown: Pioneer Educator in China, America, and Japan. The Story of his Life and Work (1902) (external scan)
- John Chambers: Servant of Christ and Master of Hearts and His Ministry in Philadelphia (1903) (external scan)
- Young People's History of Holland (1903) (external scan)
- Dux Christus: An Outline Study of Japan (1904) (external scan)
- The Japanese Nation in Evolution: Steps in the Progress of a Great People (1907) (external scan)
- The Fire-fly's Lovers and Other Fairy Tales of Old Japan (1908) (external scan)
- The Story of New Netherland (1909)
- China's Story in Myth, Legend, Art, and Annals (1911) (external scan) (2d ed. 1922) (external scan)
- The Unmannerly Tiger and Other Korean Tales (1911) (external scan)
- Belgium: The Land of Art: Its History, Legends, Industry and Modern Expansion (1912) (external scan)
- Mighty England: The Story of the English People (1912) (external scan)
- A Modern Pioneer in Korea (1912)
- Hepburn of Japan and His Wife and Helpmates: A Life Story of Toil for Christ (1913) (external scan)
- The House We Live In: Architect and Tenant (1914) (external scan)
- The Mikado: Institution and Person: A Study of the Internal Political Forces of Japan (1915)
- Millard Fillmore: Constructive Statesman, Defender of the Constitution, President of the United States (1915) (external scan)
- Bonnie Scotland and What We Owe Her (1916) (external scan)
- Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks (1918) (external scan)
- Belgian Fairy Tales (1919) (external scan)
- Swiss Fairy Tales (1920) (external scan)
- Young People's History of the Pilgrims (1920) (external scan)
- Welsh Fairy Tales (1921) (external scan)
- Korean Fairy Tales (1922) (external scan)
- An edition of The Unmannerly Tiger and Other Korean Tales (1911), with new matter
- Japanese Fairy Tales (1923) (external scan)
- An edition of The Fire-fly’s Lovers and Other Fairy Tales of Old Japan (1908), with new matter
- The Story of the Walloons: At Home, in Lands of Exile and in America (1923) (external scan)
- The American Flag of Stripes and Stars: Mirror of the Nation’s History; Symbol of Brotherhood and World Unity (1926) (external scan)
As editor
[edit]- The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1891) (external scan)
- John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic (1898) (external scan)
- Also called The Student’s Motley
- The Siege of Leyden (1900) (external scan)
- Motley's Dutch Nation (1908) (external scan)
- J. de Hoop Scheffer, History of the Free Churchmen (1922) (external scan)
As reviser
[edit]- Alice Mabel Bacon: Japanese Girls and Women (1891, rev. ed. 1919)
- Bayard Taylor, Japan in Our Day (1892) (external scan)
- H. Satoh: Agitated Japan: The Life of Baron Ii Kamon-no-kami Naosuké (1896) (external scan)
Pamphlets
[edit]- “The New Japan Pictorial Primer” (1872)
- “The New Japan Primer, Number 1” (1872)
- “The New Japan Spelling Book” (1872)
- “The Tokio Guide” (1874)
- “The Yokohama Guide” (1874)
- “The Rutgers Graduates in Japan” (1886) (external scan)
- “The Growth and Fall of Feudalism” (1890)
- “The Influence of the Netherlands in the Making of the English Commonwealth and the American Republic” (1891) (external scan)
- “Massachusetts: A Typical American Commonwealth” (1893) (external scan)
- “Sunny Memories of Three Pastorates” (1903) (external scan)
- “In Remembrance of the Ceremonial Unveiling of the Pilgrim-Fathers’ Bronze Tablet” (1906)
- “The New Hampshire Brigade in the Sullivan Campaign” (1910) (external scan)
- “The Call of Jesus to Joy” (1912)
- “What I Saw in Japan” (1913)
- “The Story of Belgium” (1915)
- With George Warne Labaw and John Hart, “Rutgers College, Class of 1869, History to 1916” (external scan)
- “The Dutch of the Netherlands in the Making of America” (1921)
- “Proverbs of Japan: A Little Picture of the Japanese Philosophy of Life as Mirrored in Their Proverbs” (1924)
Articles
[edit]- “The Streets and Street-names of Yedo,” TASJ, 1, 20–29 (1872)
- “Inside Japan,” Lippincott’s Magazine, 12, 174–181 (1873) (external scan)
- “Japanese Fox-Myths,” Lippincott’s Magazine, 13, 57–64 (1874) (external scan)
- “A Japanese Merchant at Home,” Overland Monthly, 12, 31–35 (1874) (external scan)
- “The Games and Sports of Japanese Children,” TASJ, 2, 140–158 (1874)
- “A Call on a Bonze,” Lippincott’s Magazine, 13, 725–731 (1874) (external scan)
- “The Mythical Zoology of Japan,” Overland Monthly, 13, 139–145 (1874) (external scan)
- “New Year’s Eve in Tokio, 1872,” Overland Monthly, 13, 438–442 (1874) (external scan)
- “A Japanese Marriage in High Life,” Lippincott’s Magazine, 15, 176–183 (1875) (external scan)
- “The Recent Revolutions in Japan,” North American Review, 120, 281–315 (1875) (transcription project)
- “A Daimio’s Life,” Lippincott’s Magazine, 16, 199–204 (1875) (external scan)
- “In a Japanese Prison,” Overland Monthly, 15, 289–293 (1875) (external scan)
- “Japan: Geographical and Social,” Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, 10, 77–92 (1878) (external scan)
- “Japanese Rock-Crystal,” Harper’s Magazine, 59, 405–410 (1879) (external scan)
- “Satsuma Faïence,” Art Amateur, 2(3), 53–54 (1880) (external scan)
- “Old Hizen,” Art Amateur, 2(6), 122 (external scan); 3(1), 10 (1880) (external scan)
- “The Corean Origin of Japanese Art,” Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 25, 224–229 (1882) (external scan)
- “Japanese Art, Artists, and Artisans,” Scribner’s Magazine, 3(1), 108–121 (1888) (external scan)
- “Coercion in Japan,” Nation, 46, 129–131 (1888) (external scan)
- “Japanese Ivory Carvings,” Harper’s Magazine, 76, 709–714 (1888) (external scan)
- “Our Treaties with Japan,” Andover Review, 9, 605–610 (1888) (external scan)
- “Japanese Art Symbols,” Scribner’s Magazine, 5(1), 88–100 (1889) (external scan)
- “Representative Government in Japan,” Forum, 7, 404–414 (1889) (external scan)
- “Nature and People in Japan,” Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 39, 231–239 (1889) (external scan)
- “The Constitution of Japan,” Chautauquan, 12(5), 591–596 (1891) (external scan)
- “Political Progress in Japan,” Forum, 10, 701–707 (1891) (external scan)
- “Relations between the United States and Japan,” Magazine of American History, 27(6), 449–454 (1892) (external scan)
- “The Literary Phase of the Eastern War,” Literary World, 25, 264–265 (1894) (external scan)
- “China and Japan at War in Corea,” Chautauquan, 20(1), 70–74 (1894) (external scan)
- “American Relations with the Far East,” New England Magazine, New Series, 11(3), 257–272 (1894) (external scan)
- “Japan as an Industrial Power,” Chautauquan, 24(2), 201–205 (1896) (external scan)
- “Japanese National Holidays,” Independent, 49, 837–838 (1897) (external scan)
- “Was John Alden an Irishman?” Independent, 49, 1645–1646 (1897) (external scan)
- “Bottles and Battle-Ships,” Independent, 50, 402 (1898) (external scan)
- “The Folk-Lore of Japan” (pp. 294–303), in The International Folk-Lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July, 1893 (1898)
- “Cromwell: The Hero of the Commonwealth,” Independent, 51, 1142–1144 (1899) (external scan)
- “The Century’s Changes in China and Japan” (pp. 99–111), in The 19th Century: A Review of Progress (1901) (external scan)
- “The August Elections in Japan,” Independent, 54, 2295–2300 (1902) (external scan)
- “The Development of Political Parties in Japan,” North American Review, 175, 676–690 (1902) (external scan)
- “The National Exposition in Japan,” Outlook, 74, 801–807 (1903) (external scan)
- “Our War with One Gun,” New England Magazine, New Series, 28(6), 662–678 (1903) (external scan)
- Introduction to Nitobe Inazō, Bushido: The Soul of Japan (10th ed. 1905 and later editions)
- “The Elder Statesmen of Japan: The Power behind the Portsmouth Treaty,” North American Review, 182, 215–227 (1906) (external scan)
- “Rembrandt: Interpreter of the Twentieth Century,” North American Review, 183, 98–109 (1906) (external scan)
- Introduction to Ernest Wilson Clement (ed.), Hildreth’s “Japan as it Was and Is” (1907)
- Preface to Matilda Chaplin Ayrton, Child-life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories (1909)
- “The Statesmanship of Ito,” North American Review, 191, 114–127 (1910) (external scan)
- “Japan’s Absorption of Korea,” North American Review, 192, 516–526 (1910) (external scan)
- “Mutsuhito the Great,” North American Review, 196, 328–338 (1912) (external scan)
- “Are the Japanese Mongolian?” North American Review, 197, 721–733 (1913) (external scan)
- “The Phi Beta Kappa Key in Japan,” Phi Beta Kappa Key, 2(4), 165–169 (1914) (external scan)
- “Our Honor and Shame with Japan,” North American Review, 200, 566–575 (1914) (external scan)
- See also a response, “‘Our Honor without Shame with Japan,’” North American Review, 200, 952–954 (1914) (external scan)
- “Woman’s Progress in Japan,” Missionary Review of the World, 38(7), 497–505 (1915) (external scan)
- “The Statesmanship of Yuan Shi Kai,” North American Review, 204, 70–74 (1916) (external scan)
- “Okuma and the New Era in Japan,” North American Review, 204, 681–690 (1916) (external scan)
- “Japan in the World War,” North American Review, 208, 722–728 (1918) (external scan)
- “What the Pilgrim Fathers Accomplished,” North American Review, 213, 44–51 (1921) (external scan)
- “Japan’s Civilian Premiers,” North American Review, 215, 32–37 (1922) (external scan)
- “The Empire of the Risen Sun,” National Geographic Magazine, 44(4), 415–443 (1923) (external scan)
- “Japan’s Progress in Rebuilding an Empire,” Current History, 27(5), 681–686 (1928) (external scan)
Articles in The American Cyclopædia
[edit]- "Japan," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Kanagawa," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Matsumae," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Mikado," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Nagasaki," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Nikko," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Nippon," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Nobunaga," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Ozaka," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Saga," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Saghalien," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Tokio," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Tomomi Iwakura," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Yezo," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Yokohama," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
Articles in The New International Encyclopædia
[edit]- "Borneo," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- With Henry Gannett, Edwin A. Start, Alexander F. Chamberlain, and uncredited others: "Chinese Empire," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Chu-hi," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- With Robert Lilley, W. J. McGee, and uncredited others: "Japan," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- With Robert Lilley and W. J. McGee: "Java," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
Articles in The Encyclopedia Americana
[edit]- "China," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "China and Japan," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Chinese Language, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Chinese Literature," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Delfshaven," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Dutch in America, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Harris, Townsend," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Japan/History of Japan, 1889–1919," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Japan/Japanese Language, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Japan/Japan in the World War," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Japanese Students in America," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Japanese Waifs in America," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Korea," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Lafayette at Barren Hill," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Walloons," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
Reviews
[edit]- P. J. Blok, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Volk, American Historical Review, 2(1), 122–125 (1896) (external scan)
- George Granville Bradley, Lectures on Ecclesiastes, American Journal of Theology, 3(1), 161 (1899) (external scan)
- Robert E. Speer, Missions and Politics in Asia, American Journal of Theology, 3(4), 841–842 (1899) (external scan)
- Edgar C. S. Gibson, The Book of Job, American Journal of Theology, 4(3), 587–588 (1900) (external scan)
- Frederick W. Holls, The Peace Conference at the Hague, and Its Bearings on International Law and Policy, and Thomas Willing Balch, Éméric Crucé, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 17, 116–119 (1901) (external scan)
- Azel Ames, The May-Flower and Her Log, July 15, 1620–May 6, 1621 American Historical Review, 7(2), 367–369 (1902) (external scan)
- Captain F. Brinkley, Japan and China, American Historical Review, 8(4), 795–797 (1903) (external scan)
- Sidney L. Gulick, Evolution of the Japanese, Social and Psychic, American Historical Review, 10(1), 138–139 (1904) (external scan)
- Henry Martyn Dexter and Morton Dexter, The England and Holland of the Pilgrims, American Historical Review, 11(3), 654–656 (1906) (external scan)
- P. J. Blok, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Volk, American Historical Review, 12(4), 890–892 (1907) (external scan)
- Petrus Johannes Blok, History of the People of the Netherlands, Part IV, Frederick Henry, John De Witt, William III, American Historical Review, 13(3), 573–574 (1908) (external scan)
- William Edmund Lampe, The Japanese Social Organization, Economic Bulletin, 3(4), 432–433 (1910) (external scan)
- Helen C. Gunsaulus, Japanese Sword-Mounts, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 45, 88–91 (1925) (external scan)
- Karl Haushofer, Japan und die Japaner, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 46, 81–82 (1926) (external scan)
Works about Griffis
[edit]- "Griffis, William Elliot," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891)
- "Griffis, William Elliot," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- “Griffis, William Elliot” (2:655), in Herringshaw’s Library of American Biography (1909)
- "Griffis, William Elliot," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Griffis, William Elliott," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
- “Dr. Griffis’s Japanese Record” (1927) (external scan)
- “Three Phi Beta Kappa Worthies: William Elliot Griffis,” Phi Beta Kappa Key, 7(2), 93–95 (1929) (external scan)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1931.
This author died in 1928, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 97 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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