AUTHOR OF "KOBO: A STORY OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR"
"TOM BURNABY" "BOYS OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE" ETC.
Illustrated by William Rainey, R.I.
G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1906
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
--_Tennyson's Ulysses_.
_My dear Raymond,_
_Last year I wove a romance about the early incidents of the great war
now happily at an end; this year I have chosen its later incidents as
the background for my hero's adventures. But while in "Kobo" the
struggle was viewed from the Japanese stand-point, in "Brown of Moukden"
(which is in no sense a sequel) you will find yourself among the
Russians, looking at the other side of the shield. It is not the
romancer's business to be a partisan; and we British people were at
first, perhaps, a little blind to the fact that the bravery, the
endurance, the heroism, have not been all on the one side._
_As a boy preparing for the Navy, you would have liked, I dare say, to
see Jack Brown in the thick of the great naval battle at Tsushima. But
I had three reasons for giving no space to that famous victory. First,
Jack could not possibly have seen it. Secondly, sea-fights had a very
good turn in "Kobo". Thirdly, I hope some day to give you sea-dogs a
whole book to yourselves--but that, as Mr. Kipling somewhere says, will
be another story. Meanwhile, if you get half as much fun in reading
this book as I have had in writing it, I shall count myself very lucky
indeed._
_Yours sincerely,_
_HERBERT STRANG._
_September, 1905._
*Contents*
_Chapter_ I
IVAN IVANOVITCH BROWN
_Chapter_ II
MR. WANG AND A CONSTABLE
_Chapter_ III
DEPORTED
_Chapter_ IV
THE GREAT SIBERIAN RAILWAY
_Chapter_ V
A DEAL IN FLOUR
_Chapter_ VI
IN FULL CRY
_Chapter_ VII
A DAUGHTER OF POLAND
_Chapter_ VIII
A CUSTOM OF CATHAY
_Chapter_ IX
AH LUM
_Chapter_ X
THE HIRED MAN
_Chapter_ XI
WAR-LOOK-SEE
_Chapter_ XII
THE RETREAT FROM LIAO-YANG
_Chapter_ XIII
MR. BROWN'S HOUSE
_Chapter_ XIV
A NIGHT WITH SOWINSKI
_Chapter_ XV
COSSACK AND CHUNCHUSE
_Chapter_ XVI
FIRE PANIC
_Chapter_ XVII
THE WAR GAME
_Chapter_ XVIII
A FIGHT IN THE HILLS
_Chapter_ XIX
CAPTAIN KARGOPOL FINDS THE CHUNCHUSES
_Chapter_ XX
THE BATTLE OF MOUKDEN
_Chapter_ XXI
AH LUM AT BAY
_Chapter_ XXII
CAPTURING A LOCOMOTIVE
_Chapter_ XXIII
FROM MAO-SHAN TO IMIEN-PO
_Chapter_ XXIV
LIEUTENANT POTUGIN IN PURSUIT
_Chapter_ XXV
THE PRESSURE-GAUGE
_Chapter_ XXVI
A DOUBLE QUEST
_Chapter_ XXVII
SAKHALIN
_Chapter_ XXVIII
THE EMPTY HUT
_Chapter_ XXIX
THE HEART OF THE HILL
_Chapter_ XXX
CROWDED MOMENTS
_Chapter_ XXXI
ENTENTE CORDIALE
*Glossary*
*List of Illustrations*
_Plate_ I
HERR SCHWAB UNDER FIRE . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
_Plate_ II
A SEARCH PARTY
_Plate_ III
JACK SAVES AH FU
_Plate_ IV
SOWINSKI'S VISITOR
_Plate_ V
AT FULL TILT
_Plate_ VI
"RECALL YOUR LAST WORD!"
*Maps and Plans*