Chapter XVIII: Part III: The Shadow of the Tide

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_Je suis la vaste melee,--
Reptile, etant l onde; ailee,
Etant le vent,--
Force et fuite, haine et vie,
Houle immense, poursuivie
Et poursuivant._
--Victor Hugo.

Articles and Reviews:--

_Boston Evening Transcript, The_, November 2, 1889.

Hutson, Charles Woodward, _Poet-Lore_, Spring, 1905, vol. 16,
p. 53.

No. 5.

1890. YOUMA. The Story of a West-Indian Slave. By Lafcadio Hearn. (Publisher's Vignette.) New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1890.

12mo., 1 p. l., pp. 193, frontispiece illustration, red cloth.

(Published first in _Harper's Monthly_, January-February, 1890.)

(1) Dedication:--

To my friend
JOSEPH S. TUNISON.
The Same. London: Sampson, Low and Company, 1890, 8vo.

Articles and Reviews:--

_Athenaeum, The_, August 30, 1890, p. 284.

_Nation, The_, May 7, 1891, vol. 52, p. 385.

No. 6.

1890. TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES. By Lafcadio Hearn. Illustrated. (Publisher's Vignette.) New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1890. 8vo., pp. (12) 431, 38 full-page illustrations, 6 illustrations in the text, green cloth ornamental.

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"_La facon d'etre du pays est si agreable, la temperature si bonne, et l'on y vit dans une liberte si honnete, que je n'aye pas vu un seul homme, ny une seule femme, qui en soient revenus, en qui je n'aye remarque une grande passion d'y retourner._"--Le Pere Dutertre (1667).

(3) Dedication:--

A mon cher ami
LEOPOLD ARNOUX
Notaire a Saint Pierre, Martinique.

_Souvenir de nos promenades,--de nos voyages,--de nos causeries,--des sympathies echangees,--de tout le charme d'une amitie inalterable et inoubliable,--de tout ce qui parle a l'ame au doux Pays des Revenants._

(5-6) Preface (_Extract_).

The introductory paper, entitled "A Midsummer Trip to the Tropics" consists for the most part of notes taken upon a voyage of nearly three thousand miles, accomplished in less than two months. During such hasty journeying it is scarcely possible for a writer to attempt anything more serious than a mere reflection of the personal experiences undergone; and, in spite of sundry justifiable departures from simple note-making, this paper is offered only as an effort to record the visual and emotional impressions of the moment.

My thanks are due to Mr. William Lawless, British Consul at St. Pierre, for several beautiful photographs, taken by himself, which have been used in the preparation of the illustrations. L. H. Philadelphia, 1889.

(7) Contents:--

A Midsummer Trip to the Tropics (_Harper's Monthly_,
July-September, 1888)
Martinique Sketches:--
I. Les Porteuses (_Harper's Monthly_, July, 1889)
II. La Grande Anse (_Harper's Monthly_, November, 1889)
III. Un Revenant
IV. La Guiablesse
V. La Verette (_Harper's Monthly_, October, 1888)
VI. Les Blanchisseusses
VII. La Pelee
VIII. 'Ti Canotie
IX. La Fille de Couleur
X. Bete-ni-Pie
XI. Ma Bonne
XII. "Pa combine, che!"
XIII. Ye
XIV. Lys.
XV. Appendix: Some Creole Melodies

(9-10) Illustrations:--

The Same. London: Harper and Brothers, 1890, 8vo.

Articles and Reviews:--

_New York Times, The_, September 1, 1890.

No. 7.

1894. GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN. By Lafcadio Hearn. In two volumes. (Vignette.) Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (The Riverside Press, Cambridge), 1894.

8vo., 2 vols. pp. (x) 699, dull green cloth, silver lettering and design, gilt top.

(1) Dedication:--

To the Friends
whose kindness alone rendered possible
my sojourn in the Orient,--
to
PAYMASTER MITCHELL McDONALD, U. S. N.
and
BASIL HALL CHAMBERLAIN, ESQ.
_Emeritus Professor of Philology and Japanese in the
Imperial University of Tokyo_
I dedicate these volumes
in token of
Affection and Gratitude.

(V-X) Preface (_Extract_).

But the rare charm of Japanese life, so different from that of all other lands, is not to be found in its Europeanized circles. It is to be found among the great common people, who represent in Japan, as in all countries, the national virtues, and who still cling to their delightful old customs, their picturesque dresses, their Buddhist images, their household shrines, their beautiful and touching worship of ancestors. This is the life of which a foreign observer can never weary, if fortunate and sympathetic enough to enter into it,--the life that forces him sometimes to doubt whether the course of our boasted Western progress is really in the direction of moral development. Each day, while the years pass, there will be revealed to him some strange and unsuspected beauty in it. Like other life, it has its darker side; yet even this is brightness compared with the darker side of Western existence. It has its foibles, its follies, its vices, its cruelties; yet the more one sees of it, the more one marvels at its extraordinary goodness, its miraculous patience, its never-failing courtesy, its simplicity of heart, its intuitive charity. And to our own larger Occidental comprehension, its commonest superstitions, however contemned at Tokyo, have rarest value as fragments of the unwritten literature of its hopes, its fears, its experience with right and wrong,--its primitive efforts to find solutions for the riddle of the Unseen.

Contents:--

Volume I.

I. My First Day in the Orient
II. The Writing of Kobodaishi
III. Jizo
IV. A Pilgrimage to Enoshima
V. At the Market of the Dead (_Atlantic Monthly_,
September, 1891)
VI. Bon-Odori
VII. The Chief City of the Province of the Gods
(_Atlantic Monthly_, November, 1891)
VIII. Kitzuki: The Most Ancient Shrine in Japan
(_Atlantic Monthly_, December, 1891)
IX. In the Cave of the Children's Ghosts
X. At Mionoseki
XI. Notes on Kitzuki
XII. At Hinomisaki
XIII. Shinju
XIV. Yaegaki-Jinja
XV. Kitsune

Volume II.

XVI. In a Japanese Garden (_Atlantic Monthly_, July, 1892)
XVII. The Household Shrine
XVIII. Of Women's Hair
XIX. From the Diary of an English Teacher
XX. Two Strange Festivals
XXI. By the Japanese Sea
XXII. Of a Dancing Girl (_Atlantic Monthly_, July, 1893)
XXIII. From Hoki to Oki
XXIV. Of Souls XXV. Of Ghosts and Goblins
XXVI. The Japanese Smile (_Atlantic Monthly_, May, 1893)
XXVII. Sayonara!

Pages 695-99 Index.

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New Edition. London: Gay and Bird's, 1902, 2 vols., Cr. 8vo.

New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1903, 2 vols., Cr. 8vo.

Articles and Reviews:--

Bentzon, Th., _Revue des Deux Mondes_, June 1, 1904, vol. 21, p.
556.

Brandt, M. von, _Deutsche Rundschau_, October, 1900, vol. 27,
p. 68.

Challaye, Felicien, _Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale_, 1903,
vol. 11, p. 338.

Challaye, Felicien, _Revue de Paris_, December 1, 1904 vol. 6,
p. 655.

_Literary World, The_, October 20, 1894, vol. 25, p. 347.

Scott, Mrs. M. McN., _Atlantic Monthly_, June, 1895, vol. 75,
p. 830.

_Spectator, The_, November 17, 1894, vol. 73, p. 698.

No. 8.

1895. "OUT OF THE EAST." Reveries and Studies in New Japan. By Lafcadio Hearn.

"_As far as the east is from the west_"--

(Publisher's Vignette.) Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (The Riverside Press, Cambridge), 1895.

16mo., 2 p. 1., pp. 341, yellow cloth, silver lettering, yellow top.

(1) Dedication:--

To
NISHIDA SENTARO
in dear remembrance of
Izumo days

(2) Contents:--

I. The Dream of a Summer Day
II. With Kyushu Students
III. At Hakata (_Atlantic Monthly_, October, 1894)
IV. Of the Eternal Feminine (_Atlantic Monthly_, December,
1893)
V. Bits of Life and Death
VI. The Stone Buddha
VII. Jiujutsu
VIII. The Red Bridal (_Atlantic Monthly_, July, 1894)
IX. A Wish Fulfilled (_Atlantic Monthly_, January, 1895)
X. In Yokohama
XI. Yuko: a Reminiscence

"The Dream of a Summer Day" first appeared in the _Japan Daily Mail_.

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New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1903, Cr. 8vo.

Articles and Reviews:--

_Athenaeum, The_, August 24, 1895, p. 249.

Brandt, M. von, _Deutsche Rundschau_, October, 1900, vol. 105,
p. 68.

Challaye Felicien, _Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale_, 1903,
vol. 11, p. 338.

Challaye, Felicien, _Revue de Paris_, December 1, 1904, vol. 6,
p. 655.

_Literary World, The_, April 20, 1895, vol. 26, p. 123.

Scott, Mrs. M. McN., _Atlantic Monthly_, June, 1895, vol. 75,
p. 830.

_Spectator, The_, October 12, 1895, vol. 75, p. 459.

No. 9.

1896. KOKORO: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. By Lafcadio Hearn. (Top of page "Kokoro" in Japanese.) (Sketch of Japanese Head.) Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (The Riverside Press, Cambridge), 1896.

16 mo., 3 p. l., pp. 388, green cloth, gold lettering, gilt top.

(1) Dedication:--

To my Friend
AMENOMORI NOBUSHIGE
poet, scholar, and patriot

(2) Note:--

(Japanese character)

The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan,--for which reason they have been grouped under the title, "Kokoro" (heart). Written with the above character, this word signifies also mind, in the emotional sense; spirit; courage; resolve; sentiment; affection; and inner meaning,--just as we say in English, "the heart of things."

Kobe, September 15, 1895.

(3) Contents:--

I. At a Railway Station
II. The Genius of Japanese Civilization (_Atlantic Monthly_,
October, 1895)
III. A Street Singer
IV. From a Travelling Diary (_Atlantic Monthly_, December,
1895)
V. The Nun of the Temple of Amida
VI. After the War (_Atlantic Monthly_, November, 1895)
VII. Haru
VIII. A Glimpse of Tendencies
IX. By Force of Karma
X. A Conservative
XI. In the Twilight of the Gods (_Atlantic Monthly_, June,
1895)
XII. The Idea of Preexistence
XIII. In Cholera-Time
XIV. Some Thoughts about Ancestor-Worship
XV. Kimiko
Appendix. Three Popular Ballads

The Same. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Company, 1896, 8vo.

New Edition. London: Gay and Bird's, 1902, Cr. 8vo.

New Edition. London: Gay and Bird's, 1903, Cr. 8vo.

Popular Edition. London: Gay and Bird's, 1905, Cr. 8vo.

Articles and Reviews:--

_Athenaeum, The_, August 8, 1896, p. 185.

Bentzon, Th., _Revue de Deux Mondes_, June 1, 1904, vol. 21, p.
556.

Brandt, M. von, _Deutsche Rundschau_, October, 1900, vol. 105,
p. 68.

Challaye Felicien, _Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale_, 1903,
vol. 11, p. 338.

Challaye Felicien, _Revue de Paris_, December 1, 1904, vol. 6,
p. 655.

Cockerill, Col. John A., _Current Literature_, June, 1896, vol.
19, p. 476.

Herzog, Wilhelm, _Die Nation_, January 6, 1906, vol. 23, p. 217.

_Literary World, The_, April 18, 1896, vol. 27, p. 116.

_Nation, The_, July 9, 1896, vol. 63, p. 35.

_Spectator, The_, May 23, 1896, vol. 76, p. 739.

Takayanagi, Tozo, _The Book Buyer_, May, 1896, vol. 13, p. 229.

No. 10.

1897. GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS, Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East. By Lafcadio Hearn. Lecturer on English Literature in the Imperial University of Japan. (Publisher's Vignette.) Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. (The Riverside Press, Cambridge.)

12mo., pp. 296, blue cloth, gold lettering, gilt top.

Contents:--

I. A Living God (_Atlantic Monthly_, December, 1896)
II. Out of the Street (_Atlantic Monthly_, September, 1896)
III. Notes of a Trip to Kyoto (_Atlantic Monthly_, May, 1896)
IV. Dust (_Atlantic Monthly_, November, 1896)
V. About Faces in Japanese Art (Atlantic Monthly, August, 1896)
VI. Ningyo-no-Haka
VII. In Osaka
VIII. Buddhist Allusions in Japanese Folk-Song
IX. Nirvana
X. The Rebirth of Katsugoro
XI. Within the Circle

The Same. London: Constable and Company, 1897, 8vo.

New Edition. London: Gay and Bird's, 1902, Cr. 8vo.

New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1903, 8vo.

Articles and Reviews:--

_Academy, The_, November 13, 1897, vol. 52, p. 395.

_Athenaeum, The_, November 13, 1897, p. 664.

Challaye, Felicien, _Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale_, 1903,
vol. 11, p. 338

_Critic, The_, April 9, 1898, vol. 29, p. 248.

_Independent, The_, November 24, 1898, vol. 50, p. 1508.

_Literary World, The_, November 13, 1897, vol. 28, p. 389.

_Nation, The_, February 3, 1898, vol. 66, p. 97.

_Outlook, The_, October 16, 1897, vol. 57, p. 435.

_Public Opinion_, November 25, 1897, vol. 23, p. 694.

_Spectator, The_, November 20, 1897, vol. 79, p. 736.

Wagner, John Harrison, _The Book Buyer_, June, 1898, vol. 16, p.
437.

No. 11.

1898. EXOTICS AND RETROSPECTIVES. By Lafcadio Hearn. Lecturer on English Literature in the Imperial University, Tokyo. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, MDCCCXCIX.

16mo., 4 p. l., pp. 299, 4 full-page illustrations, 13 illustrations in the text. Green cloth, decorated, gold lettering, gilt top.

(1) Dedication:--

To Dr. C. H. H. Hall, of Yokohama (late U. S. Navy) _In Constant Friendship_

(2) (Prefatory Note)

All but one of the papers composing this volume appear for the first time. The little essays, or rather fantasies, forming the second part of the book, deal with experiences in two hemispheres; but their general title should explain why they have been arranged independently of that fact. To any really scientific imagination, the curious analogy existing between certain teachings of evolutional psychology and certain teachings of Eastern faith,--particularly the Buddhist doctrine that all sense-life is Karma, and all substance only the phenomenal result of acts and thoughts,--might have suggested something much more significant than my cluster of "Retrospectives." These are offered merely as intimations of a truth incomparably less difficult to recognize than to define.

Tokyo, Japan, L. H. February 15, 1898.

(3) Contents:--

Exotics:

I. Fuji-no-Yama
II. Insect-Musicians
III. A Question in the Zen Texts
IV. The Literature of the Dead
V. Frogs VI. Of Moon-Desire

Retrospectives:

I. First Impressions
II. Beauty is Memory
III. Sadness in Beauty
IV. Parfum de Jeunesse
V. Azure Psychology (_Teikoku Bungaku_, Yokohama)
VI. A Serenade
VII. A Red Sunset
VIII. Frisson
IX. Vespertina Cognitio
X. The Eternal Haunter

(4) List of Illustrations.

The Same. London: Sampson, Low and Company, 1898, 16mo.

New Edition. London: Sampson, Low and Company, 1899, 8vo.

New Popular Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1904, 16mo.

New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1905, 8vo.

Articles and Reviews:--

_Athenaeum, The_, January 6, 1900, p. 11.

Bentzon, Th., _Revue des Deux Mondes_, June 1, 1904, vol. 21,
p. 556.

_Dial, The_, July 16, 1899, vol. 27, p. 52.

_International Studio, The_, 1905, vol. 25, p. XL.

_Nation, The_, January 26, 1905, vol. 80, p. 68.

No. 12.

1899. IN GHOSTLY JAPAN. By Lafcadio Hearn. Lecturer on English Literature in the Imperial University, Tokyo. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, MDCCCXCIX.

16mo., 5 p. l., pp. 241, 4 full-page illustrations, 5 illustrations in the text. Blue cloth, ornamented with white cherry-blossoms, gold lettering, gilt top.

(1) Dedication:--

To
Mrs. Alice Von Behrens
_For Auld Lang Syne_

(2)

In Ghostly Japan
_Yoru bakari
Miru mono nari to
Omou-nayo!
Hiru sae yume
no Ukiyo nari-keri._

_Think not that dreams appear to the dreamer only at night: the
dream of this world of pain appears to us even by day_.

Japanese Poem.

(3) Contents:--

Fragment
Furisode
Incense
A Story of Divination
Silkworms
A Passional Karma
Footprints of the Buddha
Ululation
Bits of Poetry
Japanese Buddhist Proverbs
Suggestion
Ingwa-Banashi
Story of a Tengu
At Yaidzu

(4) List of Illustrations.

The Same. London: Sampson, Low and Company, 1899, 8vo.

New Popular Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1904, 16mo.

New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1905, Cr. 8vo.

Articles and Reviews:--

Inouye, Jukichi, _Atlantic Monthly_, September, 1900, vol. 86,
pp. 399.

_International Studio, The_, 1905, vol. 25, p. XL.

_Nation, The_, January 26, 1905, vol. 80, p. 68.

No. 13.

1900. SHADOWINGS. By Lafcadio Hearn. Lecturer on English Literature in the Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1900.

12mo., pp. (IV) 268, cloth.

(I.) Dedication:--

To Paymaster Mitchell McDonald
U. S. Navy

My dear Mitchell,--

Herein I have made some attempt to satisfy your wish for "a few
more queer stories from the Japanese." Please accept the book as
another token of the writer's affection.

Lafcadio Hearn
(Koizumi Yakumo)
Tokyo, Japan,
January 1, 1900.

(II.) Contents:--

Stories from Strange Books:--

I. The Reconciliation
II. A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu
III. The Screen-Maiden
IV. The Corpse-Rider
V. The Sympathy of Benten
VI. The Gratitude of the Samebito

Japanese Studies:--

I. Semi
II.Japanese Female Names
III. Old Japanese Songs

Fantasies:--

I. Noctilucae
II. A Mystery of Crowds
III. Gothic Horror
IV. Levitation
V. Nightmare-Touch
VI. Readings from a Dream-Book
VII. In a Pair of Eyes

(III.) Illustrations.

(IV.) Bastard title-page:--

Il avait vu bruler d'etranges pierres,
Jadis, dans les brasiers de lapensee.
Emile Verhaeren

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New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1905, Cr. 8vo.

Articles and Reviews:--

_Athenaeum, The_, January 5, 1901, p. 15.

Bentzon, Th., _Revue des Deux Mondes_, June 1, 1904, vol. 21, p. 556.

F. T. C., _The Bookman_, February, 1901, vol. 12, p. 582.

_Dial, The_, January 1, 1901, vol. 30, p. 19.

_International Studio, The_, 1905, vol. 25, p. XL.

Kinnosuke, Adachi, _The Critic_, January, 1901, vol. 38, p. 29.

_Nation, The_, November 8, 1900, vol. 71, p. 372.

_Nation, The_, January 26, 1905, vol. 80, p. 68.

_Public Opinion_, October 18, 1900, vol. 29, p. 504.

No. 14.

1901. A JAPANESE MISCELLANY. By Lafcadio Hearn. Lecturer on English Literature in the Imperial University of Tokyo. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, MDCCCCI.

12mo., 5 p. l., pp. 305, 2 full-page illustrations, 6 plates, 5 illustrations in the text. Green cloth, decorated, gold lettering, gilt top.

(1) Dedication:--

To
Mrs. Elizabeth Bisland Wetmore

(2) Contents:--

Strange Stories:
I. Of a Promise Kept
II. Of a Promise Broken
III. Before the Supreme Court
IV. The Story of Kwashin Koji
V. The Story of Umetsu Chubei
VI. The Story of Kogi the Priest

Folklore Gleanings:

I. Dragon-Flies (_illustrated_)
II. Buddhist Names of Plants and Animals
III. Songs of Japanese Children (_illustrated_)

Studies Here and There:

I. On a Bridge
II. The Case of O-Dai
III. Beside the Sea (_illustrated_)
IV. Drifting
V. Otokichi's Daruma (_illustrated_)
VI. In a Japanese Hospital

(3) Illustrations.

The Same. London: Sampson, Low and Company, 1901, 8vo.

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New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1905, Cr. 8vo.

Articles and Reviews:--

_Athenaeum_, December 21, 1901, p. 833.

_International Studio, The_, 1905, vol. 25, p. XL.

_Literary World, The_, December 1, 1901, vol. 32, p. 207.

_Nation, The_, January 9, 1902, vol. 74, p. 39.

_Nation, The_, January 26, 1905, vol. 80, p. 68.

No. 15.

1902. JAPANESE FAIRY TALES. Rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn. Published by T. Hasegawa, Publisher and Art-Printer, Tokyo, Japan.

Four 16mo. books on Japanese folded crepe paper, highly illustrated in colours.

No. 22. The Goblin Spider
No. 23. The Boy Who Drew Cats
No. 24. The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling
No. 25. Chin Chin Kobakama

No. 16.

1902. KOTTO (Japanese Characters). Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs. Collected by Lafcadio Hearn, Lecturer on English Literature in the Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan. With illustrations by Genjiro Yeto. New York: The Macmillan Company (London: Macmillan & Company, Ltd.), 1902.

8vo., 4 p. l., pp. 251, brown cloth, decorated, gold lettering, gilt top.

(1) Dedication:--

To SIR EDWIN ARNOLD in grateful remembrance of kind words

(2) Contents:--

Old Stories:

I. The Legend of Yurei-Daki
II. In a Cup of Tea
III. Common Sense
IV. Ikiryo
V. Shiryo
VI. The Story of O-Kame
VII. Story of a Fly
VIII. Story of a Pheasant
IX. The Story of Chugoro

A Woman's Diary
Heike-Gani
Fireflies
A Drop of Dew
Gaki
A Matter of Custom
Revery
Pathological
In the Dead of the Night
Kusa-Hibari
The Eater of Dreams

(3)

Old Stories

_The following nine tales have been selected from the "Shin-Chomon-Shu," "Hyaku Monogatari," "Uji-Jui-Monogatari-Sho," and other old Japanese books, to illustrate some strange beliefs. They are only Curios._

The Same. Reprinted April, 1903.

Articles and Reviews:--

_Athenaeum, The_, January 17, 1903, p. 77.

_Book Buyer, The_, December, 1902, vol. 25, p. 416.

More, Paul Elmer, _Atlantic Monthly_, February, 1903, vol. 91,
p. 204.

_Nation, The_, March 26, 1903, vol. 76, p. 254.

No. 17.

1904. KWAIDAN: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.--Lafcadio Hearn, Lecturer on English Literature in the Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan (1896-1903). Honorary Member of the Japan Society, London. (Japanese Characters.) Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, MDCCCCIV. (Published April, 1904.)

12mo., 6 p. 1., pp. 240, illustrated, 2 plates, dark green cloth, decorated, gold lettering, gilt top.

(1) Introduction by Publisher:--

(3) Prefatory Note:--

Most of the following _Kwaidan_, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,--such as the _Yaso-Kidan_, _Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho_, _Kokon-Chomonshu_, _Tama-Sudare_ and _Hyaku-Monogatari_. Some of the stories may have had a Chinese origin: the very remarkable "Dream of Akinosuke," for example, is certainly from a Chinese source. But the Japanese story-teller in every case, has so recoloured and reshaped his borrowing as to naturalize it.... One queer tale, "Yuki-Onna," was told me by a farmer of Chofu, Nishitamagori, in Musashi province, as a legend of his native village. Whether it has even been written in Japanese I do not know; but the extraordinary belief which it records used certainly to exist in most parts of Japan, and in many curious forms.... The incident of "Riki-Baka" was a personal experience; and I wrote it down almost exactly as it happened, changing only a family-name mentioned by the Japanese narrator.

Tokyo, Japan, January 20, 1904. L. H.

(4) Contents:--

Kwaidan

The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi (_Atlantic Monthly_,
August, 1903)
Oshidori
The Story of O-Tei
Ubazakura
Diplomacy
Of a Mirror and a Bell
Jikininki
Mujina
Rokuro-Kubi
A Dead Secret
Yuki-Onna
The Story of Aoyagi
Jiu-Roku-Zakura
The Dream of Akinosuke (_Atlantic Monthly_, March, 1904)
Riki-Baka
Hi-Mawari
Horai

Insect-Studies

Butterflies
Mosquitoes
Ants

(5) Notes on the Illustrations

The two drawings are by the Japanese artist, Keichu Takenouche. The frontispiece illustrates the scene in the story "Yuki-Onna" described on page 113, and the drawing facing page 180 illustrates the Butterfly Dance, described on page 203.

The Same. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1904, 12mo.

Articles and Reviews:--

_Athenaeum, The_, September 17, 1904, p. 373.

_Atlantic Monthly_, June, 1904, vol. 93, p. 857.

_Bookman, The_, November, 1904, vol. 20, p. 159.

No. 18.

1904. (Japanese Characters.) JAPAN: An Attempt at Interpretation. By Lafcadio Hearn. Honorary Member of the Japan Society, London; formerly Lecturer in the Imperial University of Tokyo (1896-1903), and Fourteen Years a Resident of Japan.

"Perhaps all very marked national characters can be traced back
to a time of rigid and pervading discipline."
--Walter Bagehot.

New York: The Macmillan Company (London: Macmillan and Company, Ltd.), 1904. (Published, September, 1904.)

8vo., 2 p. l., pp. 541, coloured frontispiece, brown cloth, black and gold lettering, gilt top.

(1) Contents:--

I. Difficulties
II. Strangeness and Charm
III. The Ancient Cult
IV. The Religion of the Home
V. The Japanese Family
VI. The Communal Cult
VII. Developments of Shinto
VIII. Worship and Purification
IX. The Rule of the Dead
X. The Introduction of Buddhism
XI. The Higher Buddhism
XII.The Social Organization
XIII. The Rise of the Military Power
XIV. The Religion of Loyalty
XV. The Jesuit Peril
XVI. Feudal Integration
XVII. The Shinto Revival
XVIII. Survivals
XIX. Modern Restraints
XX. Official Education
XXI. Industrial Danger
XXII. Reflections
Bibliographical Notes
Index

The Same. London: Macmillan and Company, Ltd., 1904, 8vo.

Articles and Reviews:--

Buckley, Edmund, _The American Journal of Sociology_, January
1905, vol. 10, p. 545.

Griffis, William Elliot, _The Critic_, February, 1905, vol. 46,
p. 185.

Griffis, William Elliot, _The Dial_, December 1, 1904, vol. 36,
p. 368.

_Independent, The_, October 27, 1904, vol. 57, p. 976.

_Nation, The_, December 8, 1904, vol. 79, p. 465.

_Public Opinion_, October 27, 1904, vol. 37, p. 537.

_Review of Reviews_, November, 1904, vol. 30, p. 561.

Shore, W. Teignmouth, _The Academy_, December 10, 1904, vol. 67,
p. 584.

_Spectator, The_, January 14, 1905, vol. 94, p. 54.

Thurston, S. J., Herbert, _The Messenger_, January, 1906,
vol. 45, p. 1.

No. 19.

1905. THE ROMANCE OF THE MILKY WAY, and other Studies and Stories. By Lafcadio Hearn. Houghton, Mifflin and Company: Boston and New York, 1905. (Published October, 1905.)

12mo., pp. (XIV) 209, decorated title-page, grey cloth with yellow trimmings, yellow top.

(V) Contents:--

The Romance of the Milky Way (_Atlantic Monthly_, August, 1905)
Goblin Poetry
"Ultimate Questions" (_Atlantic Monthly_, September, 1905)
The Mirror Maiden
The Story of Ito Norisuke (_Atlantic Monthly_, January, 1905)
Stranger than Fiction (_Atlantic Monthly_, April, 1905)
A Letter from Japan (_Atlantic Monthly_, November, 1904)

(VII-XIV) Introduction by F. G.

The Same. London: Constable and Company, 1905, Cr. 8vo.

Articles and Reviews:--

_Academy, The_, December 2, 1905, vol. 69, p. 1257. _Athenaeum,
The_, March 31, 1906, p. 389.

_Dial, The_, November 1, 1905, vol. 39, p. 276.

Griffis, W. E., _The Critic_, March, 1906, vol. 48, p. 222.

_Independent_, The, December 21, 1905, vol. 59, p. 1478.

_Nation, The_, December 21, 1905, vol. 81, p. 510.

_Outlook, The_, November 9, 1906, vol. 84, p. 503.

TRANSLATIONS

No. 20.

1882. ONE OF CLEOPATRA'S NIGHTS, and other Fantastic Romances. By Theophile Gautier. Faithfully translated by Lafcadio Hearn.

Contents:--

One of Cleopatra's Nights
Clarimonde
Arria Marcella: A Souvenir of Pompeii
The Mummy's Foot
Omphale: A Rococo Story
King Candaules

New York: R. Worthington, 770 Broadway, 1882.

8vo., pp. (IX) 321, red cloth, gilt top. Head Gautier as Frontispiece.

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_The love that caught strange light from death's own eyes,
And filled death's lips with fiery words and sighs,
And half asleep, let feed from veins of his,
Her close red warm snake's-mouth, Egyptian-wise:
And that great night of love more strange than this,
When she that made the whole world's bale and bliss
Made king of the whole world's desire a slave
And killed him in mid-kingdom with a kiss._
Swinburne.

"_Memorial verses on the death of Theophile Gautier._"

(V-IX) To the Reader (_Extract_).

It is the artist, therefore, who must judge of Gautier's creations. To the lovers of the loveliness of the antique world, the lovers of physical beauty and artistic truth,--of the charm of youthful dreams and young passion in its blossoming,--of poetic ambitions and the sweet pantheism that finds all Nature vitalized by the Spirit of the Beautiful,--to such the first English version of these graceful fantasies is offered in the hope that it may not be found wholly unworthy of the original.

New Orleans, 1882. L. H.

Pages 317-21 Addenda.

New Edition. New York: Brentano's, 1899, 12mo. New Edition. New York: Brentano's, 1906, 12mo. CLARIMONDE. New York: Brentano's, 1899, 16mo.

Articles and Reviews:--

Brandt, M. von, _Deutsche Rundschau_, October, 1900, vol. 105, p. 68.

Coleman, Charles W., Jr., _Harper's Monthly_, May, 1887, vol. 74, p. 855.

_Dayton (Ohio) Journal_, September 30, 1904.

_Literary World, The_, February 14, 1891, vol. 22, p. 56.

No. 21.

1890. THE CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD (Member of the Institute). By Anatole France. The Translation and Introduction by Lafcadio Hearn. (Publisher's Vignette.) New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1890.

8vo., pp. (IX) 281, paper.

(V-IX) Introduction (_Extract_).

But it is not because M. Anatole France has rare power to create original characters, or to reflect for us something of the more recondite literary life of Paris, that his charming story will live. It is because of his far rarer power to deal with what is older than any art, and withal more young, and incomparably more precious: the beauty of what is beautiful in human emotion. And that writer who touches the spring of generous tears by some simple story of gratitude, of natural kindness, of gentle self-sacrifice, is surely more entitled to our love than the sculptor who shapes for us a dream of merely animal grace, or the painter who images for us, however richly, the young bloom of that form which is only the husk of Being.

L. H.

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