Concerning Lafcadio Hearn Part 36

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 pa.s.sion 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 Inst.i.tute). 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 grat.i.tude, of natural kindness, of gentle self-sacrifice, is surely more ent.i.tled 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.

(1) Contents:--

Part I.

The Log.

Part II.

The Daughter of Clementine.

The Fairy The Little Saint-George

Articles and Reviews:--

_Literary World_, The, February 15, 1890, vol. 21, p. 59.

IV

TRANSLATIONS PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES-DEMOCRAT[43]

[43] Hearn failed to give the years in which these translations were published, and often also the days and months.

(Nos. 31-218)

No. 31. 1. Crucifying Crocodiles. By Cousot.

From _Le Figaro_, February 7.

No. 32. 2. The Last of the Great Moguls. By Ali.

From _Le Nouvelle Revue_, March 1.

No. 33. 3. Killed by Rollin's Ancient History. By Chas. Baissac.

No. 34. 4. Mohammed Fripouille. By Guy de Maupa.s.sant.

From "Yvette."

No. 35. 5. The Eldest Daughter. By Jules Lemaitre.

From _Le Figaro_.

No. 36. 6. The Burnt Rock. By "Carmen Sylva," Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania.

From _Le Figaro_.

No. 37. 7. The Confession. By de Maupa.s.sant.

From _Contes du Jour et de la Nuit_.

No. 38. 8. In the Mountain of Marble. By Pierre Loti.