Concerning Lafcadio Hearn Part 32

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 j.a.pan. (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 G.o.d (_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 j.a.panese Art (Atlantic Monthly, August, 1896) VI. Ningyo-no-Haka VII. In osaka VIII. Buddhist Allusions in j.a.panese 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 ill.u.s.trations, 13 ill.u.s.trations 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 Friends.h.i.+p_

(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 t.i.tle should explain why they have been arranged independently of that fact. To any really scientific imagination, the curious a.n.a.logy 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 cl.u.s.ter of "Retrospectives." These are offered merely as intimations of a truth incomparably less difficult to recognize than to define.

Tokyo, j.a.pan, 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 Ill.u.s.trations.

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 j.a.pAN. 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 ill.u.s.trations, 5 ill.u.s.trations 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_