Bibliography
I
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH EDITIONS42
ORIGINAL WORKS
(Nos. 1-19)
No. 1.
1884. STRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE.
Stories reconstructed from the Anvari-Soheïli, Baitál, Pachísí, Mahabharata, Pantchatantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewala, etc. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884, 16mo.
New Edition. London: Gay and Bird’s, 1902, Cr. 8vo.
New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1903, Cr. 8vo.
No. 2.
1885. GOMBO ZHÈBES. Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, selected from six Creole dialects. Translated into French and into English, with notes, complete index to subjects and some brief remarks upon the Creole idioms of Louisiana. New York: Will H. Coleman, 1885, 8vo.
No. 3.
1887. SOME CHINESE GHOSTS. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887, 16mo.
New Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1906, 12mo.
No. 4.
1889. CHITA: A Memory of Last Island. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1889, 12mo.
No. 5.
1890. YOUMA, The Story of a West-Indian Slave. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1890, 12mo.
The Same. London: Sampson, Low and Company, 1890, 8vo.
No. 6.
1890. TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1890, 8vo.
The Same. London: Harper and Brothers, 1890, 8vo.
New Edition. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1900, 8vo.
No. 7.
1894. GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894, 2 vols., 8vo.
The Same. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Company, 1894, 2 vols., 8vo.
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.
No. 8.
1895. “OUT OF THE EAST.” Reveries and Studies in New Japan. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895, 16mo.
The Same. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Company, 1895, 16mo.
New Edition. London: Gay and Bird’s, 1902, Cr. 8vo.
New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1903, Cr. 8vo.
No. 9.
1896. KOKORO: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896, 16mo.
The Same. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Company, 1896, 8vo.
New Edition. London: Gay and Bird’s, 1902, 8vo.
New Edition. London: Gay and Bird’s, 1903, 8vo.
New Edition. London: Gay and Bird’s, 1905, 8vo.
No. 10.
1897. GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS, Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897, 12mo.
The Same. London: Constable and Company, 1897, 8vo.
New Edition. London: Gay and Bird’s, 1902, 8vo.
New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1903, 8vo.
No. 11.
1898. EXOTICS AND RETROSPECTIVES. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1898, 16mo.
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.
No. 12.
1899. IN GHOSTLY JAPAN. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1899, 16mo.
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.
No. 13.
1900. SHADOWINGS. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1900, 12mo.
The Same. London: Sampson, Low and Company, 1900, 8vo.
New Popular Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1904, 16mo.
New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1905, Cr. 8vo.
No. 14.
1901. A JAPANESE MISCELLANY. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1901, 12mo.
The Same. London: Sampson, Low and Company, 1901, 8vo.
New Popular Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1904, 16mo.
New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1905, Cr. 8vo.
No. 15.
1902. JAPANESE FAIRY TALES. Tōkyō, Japan: T. Hasegawa (4 vols.), 16mo.
No. 16.
1902. KOTTŌ. Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs. New York: The Macmillan Company (London: Macmillan and Company, Ltd.), 1902, 8vo. Reprinted, April, 1903.
No. 17.
1904. KWAIDAN: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904, 12mo.
The Same. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1904, 12mo.
No. 18.
1904. JAPAN: An Attempt at Interpretation. New York: The Macmillan Company (London: Macmillan and Company, Ltd.), 1904, 8vo.
No. 19.
1905. THE ROMANCE OF THE MILKY WAY, and other Studies and Stories. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905, 12mo.
The Same. London: Constable and Company, 1905, Cr. 8vo.
TRANSLATIONS
(Nos. 20-21)
No. 20.
1882. ONE OF CLEOPATRA’S NIGHTS, and other Fantastic Romances. By Théophile Gautier. Faithfully translated by Lafcadio Hearn. New York: R. Worthington, 1882, 8vo.
New Edition. New York: Brentano’s, 1899, 12mo.
New Edition. New York: Brentano’s, 1906, 12mo.
CLARIMONDE. New York: Brentano’s, 1899, 16mo.
No. 21.
1890. THE CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD (Member of the Institute). By Anatole France. The Translation and Introduction by Lafcadio Hearn. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1890, 8vo.
II
FOREIGN EDITIONS
(Nos. 22-30)
DANISH
No. 22.
1902. FRA SKYGGERNES VERDEN (“From the World of the Shadows”). Complete and translated by Johanne Münther.
178 pages, one portrait. Gyldendalske book-trade, Copenhagen, 1902, 8vo.
FRENCH
No. 23.
1904. LE JAPON INCONNU. (esquisses psychologiques). Par Lafcadio Hearn. Traduit de l’anglais avec l’autorisation de l’auteur, par Mme. Léon Raynal. In 18 jésus, 111-354 p. Mayenne, impr. Colin, Paris, lib. Dujarric, 1904.
(Selections from “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan.”)
GERMAN
No. 24.
1905. KOKORO. Von Lafcadio Hearn. Einzig autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem Englischen von Berta Franzos. Mit vorwort von Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Buchschmuck von Emil Orlik. Frankfurt a Main: Rütten und Loening, 1905, 8vo.
No. 25.
1906. LOTUS. Blicke in das unbekannte Japan. Einzig autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem Englischen von Berta Franzos. Mit vorwort von Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Buchschmuck von Emil Orlik. Frankfurt a Main: Rütten und Loening, 1905, 8vo.
(Selections from “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan.”)
No. 26.
1907. Lafcadio Hearn’s Werke über Japan in künstlerischer Buchausstattung von Emil Orlik. Band I. Kokoro. Band II. Lotus. Band III. Izumo. Frankfurt a Main: Rütten und Loening, 1907.
SWEDISH
No. 27.
1903. EXOTICA. Noveller och studier från Japan, af Lafcadio Hearn. Bemyndigad öfversättning af Karin Hirn; med några notiser om författaren af Yrjö Hirn. Tredje Upplagen. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1903, 16mo., 2 end pages, pp. 227, decorated paper.
(Selections from “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan,” “Out of the East,” “Kokoro,” “Exotics and Retrospectives,” “In Ghostly Japan,” “Shadowings.”)
Reprint 1905.
No. 28.
1903. EXOTICA. Noveller och studier från Japan, af Lafcadio Hearn. Ny samling. Bemyndigad öfversättning af Karin Hirn. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1903, 16mo., 2 p. l., pp. 248, decorated paper.
(Selections from “Out of the East,” “Kokoro,” “Gleanings in Buddha-Fields,” “Exotics and Retrospectives,” “In Ghostly Japan,” “Shadowings,” “A Japanese Miscellany,” “Kottō.”)
No. 29.
1904. SPÖKEN OCH DRÖMMAR FRÅN JAPAN. (Exotica. Tredje Samlingen) af Lafcadio Hearn. Bemyndigad öfversättning från Engelskan af Karin Hirn. Wahlström & Widstrands, Förlag, Stockholm, MCMIV., 16mo., 1 end page, pp. 218, decorated paper.
(Selections from “Shadowings,” “A Japanese Miscellany,” “Kottō,” “Kwaidan.”)
No. 30.
1905. NATALIKA. (“Stray Leaves from Strange Literature”) af Lafcadio Hearn. Bemyndigad öfversättning af Karin Hirn. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 16mo., pp. 189, decorated paper.
(“Runes from the Kalewala” omitted.)
III
LIST, WITH DESCRIPTION, OF SEPARATE PUBLISHED WORKS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
(Nos. 1-21)
ORIGINAL WORKS
No. 1.
1884. STRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE. Stories reconstructed from the Anvari-Soheïli, Baitál Pachísí, Mahabharata, Pantchatantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewala, etc. By Lafcadio Hearn. (Publisher’s Monogram.) Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884.
16mo., pp. (16) 225, green cloth, black lettering, and decorations.
(5) Dedication:—
To my Friend
PAGE M. BAKER
Editor of the
New Orleans Times-Democrat
(7-11) Explanatory (Extract).
While engaged upon this little mosaic work of legend and fable, I felt much like one of those merchants told of in Sindbad’s Second Voyage, who were obliged to content themselves with gathering the small jewels adhering to certain meat which eagles brought up from the Valley of Diamonds. I have had to depend altogether upon the labour of translators for my acquisitions; and these seemed too small to deserve separate literary setting. By cutting my little gems according to one pattern, I have doubtless reduced the beauty of some; yet it seemed to me their colours were so weird, their luminosity so elfish, that their intrinsic value could not be wholly destroyed even by so clumsy an artificer as I.
In short, these fables, legends, parables, etc., are simply reconstructions of what impressed me as most fantastically beautiful in the most exotic literature which I was able to obtain. With few exceptions, the plans of the original narratives have been preserved....
This little collection has no claim upon the consideration of scholars. It is simply an attempt to share with the public some of those novel delights I experienced while trying to familiarize myself with some very strange and beautiful literatures.
... My gems were few and small: the monstrous and splendid await the coming of Sindbad, or some mighty lapidary by whom they may be wrought into jewel bouquets exquisite as those bunches of topaz blossoms and ruby buds laid upon the tomb of Nourmahal.
New Orleans, 1884.
(13-14) Bibliography.
(15-16) Contents:—
Stray Leaves
The Book of Thoth. From an Egyptian Papyrus.
The Fountain Maiden. A Legend of the South Pacific.
The Bird Wife. An Esquimaux Tradition.
Tales retold from Indian and Buddhist Literature
Tales retold from Indian and Buddhist Literature
The Making of Tilottama
The Brahman and his Brahmani
Bakawali
Natalika
The Corpse-Demon
The Lion
The Legend of the Monster Misfortune
A Parable Buddhistic
Pundari
Yamaraja
The Lotos of Faith
Runes from the Kalewala
Runes from the Kalewala
The Magical Words
The First Musician
The Healing of Wainamoinen
Stories of Moslem Lands
Stories of Moslem Lands
Boutimar, the Dove
The Son of a Robber
A Legend of Love
The King’s Justice
Traditions retold from the Talmud
Traditions retold from the Talmud
A Legend of Rabba
The Mockers
Esther’s Choice
The Dispute in the Halacha
Rabbi Yochanan ben Zachai
A Tradition of Titus
New Edition. London: Gay and Bird’s, 1902, Crown 8vo.
New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1903, Cr. 8vo.
Articles and Reviews:—
Charles W. Coleman, Jr., Harper’s Monthly, May, 1887, vol. 74, p. 855.
No. 2.
1885. GOMBO ZHÈBES. Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, selected from six Creole dialects. Translated into French and into English, with notes, complete index to subjects and some brief remarks upon the Creole idioms of Louisiana. By Lafcadio Hearn. New York: Will H. Coleman, Publisher, No. 70, Business Quarter, Astor House, 1885.
8vo., 6 p. l., pp. 42, brown cloth, design on cover.
(3-4) Introduction (Extract).
Any one who has ever paid a flying visit to New Orleans probably knows something about those various culinary preparations whose generic name is “Gombo”—compounded of many odds and ends, with the okra-plant, or true gombo for a basis, but also comprising occasionally “losé, zepinard, laitie,” and the other vegetables sold in bunches in the French market. At all events, any person who has remained in the city for a season must have become familiar with the nature of “gombo filé,” “gombo févi,” and “gombo aux herbes,” or as our coloured cook calls it “gombo zhèbes”—for she belongs to the older generation of Creole cuisinières, and speaks the patois in its primitive purity, without using a single “r.” Her daughter, who has been to school, would pronounce it gombo zhairbes:—the modern patois is becoming more and more Frenchified, and will soon be altogether forgotten, not only throughout Louisiana, but even in the Antilles. It still, however, retains originality enough to be understood with difficulty by persons thoroughly familiar with French; and even those who know nothing of any language but English, readily recognize it by the peculiar rapid syllabification and musical intonation. Such English-speaking residents of New Orleans seldom speak of it as “Creole”: they call it gombo, for some mysterious reason which I have never been able to explain satisfactorily. The coloured Creoles of the city have themselves begun to use the term to characterize the patois spoken by the survivors of slavery days. Turiault tells us that in the town of Martinique, where the Creole is gradually changing into French, the Bitacos, or country negroes who still speak the patois nearly pure, are much ridiculed by their municipal brethren:—Ça ou ka palé là, chè, c’est nèg;—Ça pas Créole! (“What you talk is ‘nigger,’ my dear:—that isn’t Creole!”) In like manner a young Creole negro or negress of New Orleans might tell an aged member of his race: Ça qui to parlé ça pas Créole; ça c’est gombo! I have sometimes heard the pure and primitive Creole also called “Congo” by coloured folks of the new generation.
The literature of “gombo” has perhaps even more varieties than there are preparations of the esculents above referred to;—the patois has certainly its gombo févi, its gombo filé, its “gombo zhèbes”—both written and unwritten. A work like Marbot’s “Bambous” would deserve to be classed with the pure “févi”;—the treatises of Turiault, Baissac, St. Quentin, Thomas, rather resemble that fully prepared dish, in which crabs seem to struggle with fragments of many well-stewed meats, all strongly seasoned with pepper. The present essay at Creole folklore, can only be classed as “gombo zhèbes”—(Zhèbes çé feuil-chou, cresson, laitie, bettrav, losé, zepinard); the true okra is not the basis of our preparation;—it is a Creole dish, if you please, but a salmagundi of inferior quality.
Needless to say, this collection is far from perfect;—the most I can hope for is that it may constitute the nucleus of a more exhaustive publication to appear in course of time. No one person could hope to make a really complete collection of Creole proverbs—even with all the advantages of linguistic knowledge, leisure, wealth, and travel. Only a society of folklorists might bring such an undertaking to a successful issue;—but as no systematic effort is being made in this direction, I have had no hesitation in attempting—not indeed to fill a want—but to set an example. Gouïe passé, difil sivré:—let the needle but pass, the thread will follow.
L. H.
(6) Creole Bibliography.
Pages 40-42 Indexes.
Articles and Reviews:—
Nation, The, April 23, 1885, vol. 40, p. 349.
No. 3.
1887. SOME CHINESE GHOSTS. By Lafcadio Hearn. (Chinese Characters.) Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. 16mo., p. (8) 185, brown cloth with Chinese mask on cover, red top.
Facing Title-page:—
If ye desire to witness prodigies and to behold marvels, be not concerned as to whether the mountains are distant or the rivers far away.
Kin-Kou-Ki-Koan.
(2) Dedication:—
To my Friend,
HENRY EDWARD KREHBIEL
The Musician,
who, speaking the speech of melody unto the
children of Tien-hia,—
unto the wandering Tsing-jin, whose skins
have the colour of gold,—
moved them to make strange sounds upon the
serpent-bellied San-hien;
persuaded them to play for me upon the
shrieking Ya-hien;
prevailed on them to sing me a song of their
native land,—
the song of Mohlí-hwa,
the song of the jasmine-flower.
(Sketch of Chinaman’s head.)
(Reverse) Chinese Character.
(3-4) Preface.
I think that my best apology for the insignificant size of this volume is the very character of the material composing it. In preparing the legends I sought especially for weird beauty; and I could not forget this striking observation in Sir Walter Scott’s “Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad”: “The supernatural, though appealing to certain powerful emotions very widely and deeply sown amongst the human race, is, nevertheless, a spring which is peculiarly apt to lose its elasticity by being too much pressed upon.” Those desirous to familiarize themselves with Chinese literature as a whole have had the way made smooth for them by the labours of linguists like Julien, Pavie, Rémusat, De Rosny, Schlegel, Legge, Hervey-Saint-Denys, Williams, Biot, Giles, Wylie, Beal, and many other Sinologists. To such great explorers indeed, the realm of Cathayan story belongs by right of discovery and conquest; yet the humbler traveller who follows wonderingly after them into the vast and mysterious pleasure-grounds of Chinese fancy may surely be permitted to cull a few of the marvellous flowers there growing,—a self-luminous hwa-wang, a black lily, a phosphoric rose or two,—as souvenirs of his curious voyage.
L. H.
New Orleans, March 15, 1886.
(5) Contents:—
The Soul of the Great Bell
The Story of Ming-Y
The Legend of Tchi-Niu
The Return of Yen Tchin-King
The Tradition of the Tea-Plant
The Tale of the Porcelain God
Appendix:—
Notes.
Glossary.
New Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1906, 12mo.
Articles and Reviews:—
Charles W. Coleman, Jr., Harper’s Monthly, May, 1887, vol. 74, p. 855.
Nation, The, May 26, 1887, vol. 44, p. 456.
No. 4.
1889. CHITA: a Memory of Last Island. By Lafcadio Hearn
But Nature whistled with all her winds,
Did as she pleased, and went her way.”
—Emerson.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1889. 12mo., 3 p. l., pp. 204, terra-cotta cloth, decorated.
(Published first in Harper’s Monthly, April, 1888.)
(1) Dedication:—
To my Friend
DR. RODOLFO MATAS
of
New Orleans
(2) Contents:—
Part I
The Legend of L’île Dernière
Part II
Out of the Sea’s Strength
Part III
The Shadow of the Tide
(Reverse)
Je suis la vaste mêlée,—
Reptile, étant l onde; ailée,
Étant 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:—
Athenæum, 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.
(Reverse)
“La facon d’être du pays est si agréable, la température si bonne, et l’on y vit dans une liberté si honnête, que je n’aye pas vu un seul homme, ny une seule femme, qui en soient revenus, en qui je n’aye remarqué une grande passion d’y retourner.”—Le Père Dutertre (1667).
(3) Dedication:—
À mon cher ami
LEOPOLD ARNOUX
Notaire à Saint Pierre, Martinique.
Souvenir de nos promenades,—de nos voyages,—de nos causeries,— des sympathies échangées,—de tout le charme d’une amitié inaltérable et inoubliable,—de tout ce qui parle à l’âme 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 Vérette (Harper’s Monthly, October, 1888)
VI. Les Blanchisseusses
VII. La Pelée
VIII. ‘Ti Canotié
IX. La Fille de Couleur
X. Bête-ni-Pié
XI. Ma Bonne
XII. “Pa combiné, chè!”
XIII. Yé
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 Tōkyō
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 Tōkyō, 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.
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.”
Kobé, 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 Preëxistence
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:—
Athenæum, 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.
Challayé Félicien, Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 1903, vol. 11, p. 338.
Challayé Félicien, 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.
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.
Tōkyō, 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:—
Athenæum, 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, Tōkyō. 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 saë yumé no
Ukiyo nari-kéri.
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
Furisodé
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, Tōkyō, 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)
Tōkyō, 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 Samébito
Japanese Studies:—
I. Sémi
II. Japanese Female Names
III. Old Japanese Songs
Fantasies:—
I. Noctilucæ
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 brûler d’étranges pierres,
Jadis, dans les brasiers de la pensée.
Émile Verhaeren
The Same. London: Sampson, Low and Company, 1900, 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:—
Athenæum, 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.
Kinnosuké, 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 Tōkyō. 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 Umétsu Chūbei
VI. The Story of Kōgi 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.
New Popular Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1904, 16mo.
New Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1905, Cr. 8vo.
Articles and Reviews:—
Athenæum, 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, Tōkyō, Japan.
Four 16mo. books on Japanese folded crêpe paper, highly illustrated in colours.
No. 16.
1902. KOTTŌ (Japanese Characters). Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs. Collected by Lafcadio Hearn, Lecturer on English Literature in the Imperial University of Tōkyō, 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. Ikiryō
V. Shiryō
VI. The Story of O-Kamé
VII. Story of a Fly
VIII. Story of a Pheasant
IX. The Story of Chūgorō
A Woman’s Diary
Heiké-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-Shū,” “Hyaku Monogatari,” “Uji-Jūi-Monogatari-Shō,” and other old Japanese books, to illustrate some strange beliefs. They are only Curios.
The Same. Reprinted April, 1903.
Articles and Reviews:—
Athenæum, 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 Tōkyō, 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 Yasō-Kidan, Bukkyō-Hyakkwa-Zenshō, Kokon-Chomonshū, Tama-Sudaré and Hyaku-Monogatari. Some of the stories may have had a Chinese origin: the very remarkable “Dream of Akinosuké,” 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 Chōfu, Nishitamagōri, 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.
Tōkyō, Japan, January 20, 1904. L. H.
(4) Contents:—
Kwaidan
The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōichi (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 Akinosuké (Atlantic Monthly, March, 1904)
Riki-Baka
Hi-Mawari
Hōrai
Insect-Studies
Butterflies
Mosquitoes
Ants
(5) Notes on the Illustrations
The two drawings are by the Japanese artist, Keichū Takénouche. 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:—
Athenæum, 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 Tōkyō (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 Shintō
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 Shintō 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 Itō Norisuké (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. Athenæum, 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 Théophile Gautier. Faithfully translated by Lafcadio Hearn.
(Iii)
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 Théophile 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.
(1) Contents:—
Part I.
The Log.
Part II.
The Daughter of Clémentine.
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-DEMOCRAT43
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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 Maupassant.
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 Maupassant.
From Contes du Jour et de la Nuit.
No. 38. 8. In the Mountain of Marble. By Pierre Loti.
No. 39. 9. A Story of Quinine. By Chas. Baissac.
From Récits Créoles.
No. 40. 10. How Gerard Resigned His Tutorship. By Chas. Baissac.
From Récits Créoles.
No. 41. 11. A Vendetta. By Guy de Maupassant.
From Contes du Jour et de la Nuit.
No. 42. 12. A Coward. By Guy de Maupassant.
From Contes du Jour et de la Nuit.
No. 43. 13. The Titaness. By Jules Lermina.
From Le Figaro, April 25.
No. 44. 14. Reminiscences of Gustave Doré. By Albert Wolff.
From Le Figaro, March 2.
No. 45. 15. The Return. By Guy de Maupassant.
From “Yvette.”
No. 46. 16. Two Friends. By Guy de Maupassant.
No. 47. 17. Moloch, the Devourer. (The Sacrifice.) By Gustave Flaubert.
From “Salambo,” Ed. 1880.
No. 48. 18. The Ring. By N. de Semenow.
From Le Figaro, August 15.
No. 49. 19. The Phalanx in Battle. By Gustave Flaubert.
From “Salambo,” Ed. 1880.
No. 50. 20. The Little Sister. By Hector Malot.
Novel.
No. 51. 21. Riri’s Rag-Picking. By Jean Rameau.
From Le Figaro, October 31.
No. 52. 22. A Divorced Man’s New Year’s Day. By Frantz Jourdain.
From Le Figaro, January 2.
No. 53. 23. Especially Interesting Apropos of the Comet with the Sodium Tail. By Camille Flammarion.
From Le Voltaire, September 21.
No. 54. 24. Eaten Alive. By Camille Debans.
From Le Figaro, September 13.
No. 55. 25. The Christmas Tree. By Theodore Dostoievsky.
From Le Figaro.
No. 56. 26. “A Madman?” By Guy de Maupassant.
No. 57. 27. Tourgueneff. By Firmin Javel.
From L’Evénement, September 6.
Tourgueneff. By Maurice Guillemot.
From Le Figaro, September 5.
No. 58. 28. A Polish Regiment under Fire. By Hendrik Sienkiewicz.
From Nouvelle Revue.
No. 59. 29. In Oran. By Guy de Maupassant.
From Au Soleil.
No. 60. 30. En Voyage. By Guy de Maupassant.
From “Miss Harriet.”
No. 61. 31. “La Mère Sauvage.” By Guy de Maupassant.
From “Miss Harriet.”
No. 62. 32. The Adopted Child. By Guy de Maupassant.
From “Miss Harriet.”
No. 63. 33. The Child. By Guy de Maupassant.
From “Miss Harriet.”
No. 64. 34. The Minuet. By Guy de Maupassant.
From “Miss Harriet.”
No. 65. 35. My Uncle Jules. By Guy de Maupassant.
From “Miss Harriet.”
No. 66. 36. The Love Chamber. By Albert Delpit, 1884.
No. 67. 37. The Chair Mender. By Guy de Maupassant.
No. 68. 38. Coco. By Guy de Maupassant.
No. 69. 39. A Parricide. By Guy de Maupassant.
No. 70. 40. The Red Wolves. By Henry Leturque.
From Le Figaro, April 24.
No. 71. 41. Suicides. By Guy de Maupassant.
“Les Soeurs Rondoli.”
No. 72. 42. The Cross. By Verax.
From Le Figaro, October 17.
No. 73. 43. The Art of Dancing. By Ignotus.
From Le Figaro, March 19.
No. 74. 44. Haikona’s Story. By Quatrelles.
From Le Figaro, January 3.
No. 75. 45. Forgotten on the Battle Field.
From Le Figaro, December 19.
No. 76. 46. The Folly of Armaments. By P.
From L’Evénement, June 13.
No. 77. 47. Japanese Theatricals. By Yedoko.
From Le Figaro, August 7, 1886.
No. 78. 48. On the Planet Mars. By Camille Flammarion.
From Le Figaro.
No. 79. 49. The Colonel’s Ideas. By Guy de Maupassant.
From “Yvette.”
No. 80. 50. Waterloo. By Léon Cladel.
From L’Evénement, April 26.
No. 81. 51. Terrifying a King. By XXX.
From Le Figaro, December 9.
No. 82. 52. The Secret of the Scaffold. By Comte de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam.
From Le Figaro, October 23.
No. 83. 53. Littre as a Physician. By Emile Zola.
From Le Voltaire, June 5.
No. 84. 54. Hugo and Littre. By Emile Zola.
From Le Figaro.
No. 85. 55. A Modern Combat of the Thirty. By Vigeant.
No. 86. 56. Algerian Warfare. By Ferdinand Hugonnet.
No. 87. 57. Orden’s Redoubt. By Adam Mickiewicz.
From Le Figaro.
No. 88. 58. Lasker’s Romance. By Aurelien Scholl.
From L’Evénement, February 26.
No. 89. 59. The Duel. By Aurelien Scholl.
From L’Evénement, March 2.
No. 90. 60. The Wife of Sobieski.
From Le Figaro Supplement, February 23.
No. 91. 61. Redemption. By Matilde Serao.
From Le Figaro.
No. 92. 62. The Rats of Paris. By Olivier de Rawton.
From Le Figaro Supplement.
No. 93. 63. The Story of Tse-I-La. By Comte de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam.
From Le Figaro Sunday Supplement.
No. 94. 64. Cremation in Paris. By Ignotus.
From Le Figaro, March 6.
No. 95. 65. Madame Auguste’s Lion. By Horace Bertin.
From Croquis de Province.
No. 96. 66. The Secret History of “Madame Bovary.” By Guy de Maupassant.
From L’Evénement, January 23.
No. 97. 67. Nissa. By Albert Delpit.
From Revue de Deux Mondes.
No. 98. 68. The Soudanian Marseillais.
No. 99. 69. Justice in the Soudan. After De Bisson. 1868.
No. 100. 70. Eaten by a Lion. By Louis Rousselet.
From La Peau du Tigre.
No. 101. 71. Chanzy. By Ignotus.
From Le Figaro, January 10.
No. 102. 72. Notes on Von Moltke. By Robert de Bonnieres.
From Le Figaro, August 17.
No. 103. 73. The Hunchback. By Chas. Richard.
From Le Figaro, August 29.
No. 104. 74. The Pacha of Audjelah. By H. Georges.
From Le Figaro, September 5.
No. 105. 75. The Umbrella. By Guy de Maupassant.
No. 106. 76. Gambling for a Wife. By A. de Colonne.
From Le Figaro, January 30.
No. 107. 77. Happiness. By Guy de Maupassant.
No. 108. 78. “Schmah Israel.” By Sacher Masoch.
From Revue Politique et Litteraire, November 7.
No. 109. 79. The Alfa-Gatherer. By Lieutenant Palat. (“Marcel Frescaly.”)
From Le Figaro, April 3.
No. 110. 80. He. By Guy de Maupassant.
No. 111. 81. ‘Toine. By Guy de Maupassant.
No. 112. 82. The Dowry. By Guy de Maupassant.
No. 113. 83. The Funeral of an Indian Prince. By Guy de Maupassant.
From Le Figaro, September 7.
No. 114. 84. The Jewelry. By Guy de Maupassant.
No. 115. 85. The Five Senses. By Harry Alis.
From Revue Politique et Litteraire, October 2.
No. 116. 86. A Bombshell. By Leon Tolstoi.
No. 117. 87. A Day at Lahore. By Robert de Bonnieres.
From Revue Politique et Litteraire.
No. 118. 88. Mario, Marquis of Candia. By Mario di Candia.
From Le Figaro, November 24.
No. 119. 89. My Tailor Abrahamek. By Sacher-Masoch.
From Revue Politique et Litteraire, May 22.
No. 120. 90. The Flesh-Eaters. By Olivier de Rawton.
From Le Figaro.
No. 121. 91. Palabra Suelta No Tiene Vuelta. By Ricardo Palma. (Lima, 1880.)
No. 122. 92. The Diva. By Luigi Gualdo.
No. 123. 93. The Story of the Unfortunate Merchant. By Rene Bassett.
No. 124. 94. Bamba. By Eugene Forgues.
From Nouvelle Revue.
No. 125. 95. “Notre Père Qui Etesaux Cieux.” By Chas. Baissac.
From Récits Créoles.
No. 126. 96. “Red Minette.” By Chas. Baissac.
From Récits Créoles.
No. 127. 97. Fight at the Mill. By Emile Zola.
No. 128. 98. Leo XIII. By Roman Correspondent.
From Le Figaro, February 27.
No. 129. 99. The Carp Herder. By Charles Richard.
From Le Figaro, December 15, 1883.
No. 130. 100. Fanny Elssler. By Viennese Correspondent.
From Le Figaro.
No. 131. 101. Lola Montes and Ludwig I. of Bavaria. By X.
From Le Figaro.
No. 132. 102. The Art of Being a Bore. By “De Ferney.”
From Le Voltaire, January 31.
No. 133. 103. Humanity of the Japanese.
From L’Illustration.
No. 134. 104. By the Balloon Post. By Alexis Bouvier.
From Le Figaro, January 29.
No. 135. 105. An Extraordinary Letter from Von Moltke. By Count Von Moltke.
From Le Voltaire, February 5.
No. 136. 106. Chinese Women. By Lydie Paschkoff.
From Le Figaro.
No. 137. 107. A Haul at Madagascar in 1717. By Chas. Baissac.
From Récits Créoles.
No. 138. 108. Pierrot. By Guy de Maupassant.
No. 139. 109. My Aunt Minon. By Chas. Baissac.
From Récits Créoles.
No. 140. 110. An Episode of the War in Soudan. By Victor Cherbuliez.
From an address before the Cinq Academies.
No. 141. 111. The Punishment of the Unfaithful Lover. By Sacher-Masoch.
From “The Mother of God.”
No. 142. 112. The Sorceress. The Comte d’Avesnes. By Michelet.
From “La Sorcière.”
No. 143. 113. The Great Fiddler of the Nineteenth Century. By “L’Homme Masque.”
From Le Voltaire, October 8.
No. 144. 114. The Duello. By Ignotus.
From Le Figaro, August 31.
No. 145. 115. How Balzac Found Names for his Novels. By Léon Gozlan.
From Le Figaro.
No. 146. 116. Tchernyschevsky and the Women of Nihilism. By Victor Tissot.
From “Les Pères du Nihilisme,” in L’Illustration.
No. 147. 117. Emile Zola on Style. By Emile Zola.
From Le Figaro.
No. 148. 118. The Man of the XVIth Century. By Victorien Sardou.
From Le Figaro, February 4.
No. 149. 119. The Forest Growing in the Heart of Paris. By Camille Flammarion.
From Le Voltaire, June 25.
No. 150. 120. The Tomb of Nichelet. By An Old Parisian.
From Le Figaro, July 10.
No. 151. 121. A Master Wizard. By Un Vieux Parisien.
From Le Figaro, October 6.
No. 152. 122. By Rail Across the Sahara. By Charles de Maurceley.
From Le Voltaire, January 23 and 27.
No. 153. 123. In the House of Mahomet. By Ignotus.
From Le Figaro, October 20.
No. 154. 124. The Chinese in Pnom-Penh, Cambodia. By Albert de Chenclos.
From La Revue Liberale.
No. 155. 125. Algeria. By Ignotus.
From Le Figaro, June 15.
No. 156. 126. The Drum. By Guy de Maupassant.
From “Contes de la Bécasse.”
No. 157. 127. Henry Charles Read. By Maxime du Camp.
From “Souvenirs Litteraires.”
No. 158. 128. Recollections of Baudelaire. By Maxime du Camp.
From “Souvenirs Litteraires.”
No. 159. 129. A Converted Libertine. By Ricardo Palma. (Lima, 1880.)
No. 160. 130. Women of Fashionable Paris Society. By Emile Zola.
From Le Figaro, June 27.
No. 161. 131. La Parisienne. By Adrien Marx.
From Le Figaro, May 13.
No. 162. 132. At Sea. By Guy de Maupassant.
From “Contes de la Bécasse.”
No. 163. 133. “Aunt Ess.” By Arnold Mortier.
From Le Figaro’s “Contes d’Été,” August 23.
No. 164. 134. Pasteur.
From Le Figaro, November 23.
No. 165. 135. A Ghost. By Parisis.
From Le Voltaire, October 23.
No. 166. 136. Matrimonial Agencies at Paris. By Ignotus.
From Le Figaro, April 20.
No. 167. 137. Liszt. By Ignotus.
From Le Figaro, May 25.
No. 168. 138. The Stranglers of Paris, etc. By George Grison.
From Le Figaro, May 23.
No. 169. 139. The Lights of the Wedding. By R. M.
From La Epoca, January 10.
No. 170. 140. The Foundation of Skadra (Scutari). By W. Stephanowitsch.
From French translation.
No. 171. 141. The Last Hideous Days of the Flatters Mission.
From Le Figaro, September 23.
No. 172. 142. The Two Neighbours. By Julia de Asensi.
From La Epoca, April 18.
No. 173. 143. Candita. By “Almaviva.”
From La Epoca, October 18.
No. 174. 144. A Drunken Lion. By Hector de Callias.
From Le Figaro, June 30.
No. 175. 145. The Song of Love Triumphant. By Ivan Tourgueneff.
From Le Figaro.
No. 176. 146. A Rich Man’s Death. By Emile Zola.
From Le Figaro, August 1.
No. 177. 147. Germanillo. By “Juan Manuel de Capua.”
From La Epoca, December 27.
No. 178. 148. Simon’s Papa. By Guy de Maupassant.
From “La Maison Tellier.”
No. 179. 149. “Las Hechas Y Por Hacer.” By Ricardo Palma. (Lima, 1879.)
No. 180. 150. The Bishop’s Twenty Thousand Godos. By Ricardo Palma.
No. 181. 151. “Los Postres del Festin.” By Ricardo Palma.
From La Raza Latina, February 29.
No. 182. 152. The Blessed Bread. By François Coppée.
From Le Figaro, March 6.
No. 183. 153. The Invitation to Sleep. By François Coppée.
From Le Figaro’s “Contes d’Été.”
No. 184. 154. Cousin Rosa. By “Almaviva.”
From La Epoca, March 17.
No. 185. 155. The Chemise of Margarita Pareja. By Ricardo Palma.
From La Raza Latina.
No. 186. 156. The Just Man. By F. Luzel.
From Luzel’s Collection.
No. 187. 157. Saint Peter’s Betrothed. By De Luzel.
No. 188. 158. Fantic Loho. By Luzel.
From “Breton Legends.”
No. 189. 159. The Adventures of Walter Schnaffs. By Guy de Maupassant.
From “Contes de la Bécasse.”
No. 190. 160. L’Abandounado. By René Maizeroy.
From “The Love That Bleeds.”
No. 191. 161. Flaubert at Sparta. By Maxime du Camp.
From Revue des Deux Mondes.
No. 192. 162. Daddy Goat and Daddy Tiger. By Pa Lindor.
From Le Courrier des Opelousas.
No. 193. 163. The Great Chinese Vase. By Edmond de L.
From Le Figaro, February 17.
No. 194. 164. The Two Porcelain Vases. By Charles Richard.
From Le Figaro.
No. 195. 165. A Bit of Jewish Folk Lore. By Leopold Kompert.
From “Scenes du Ghetto.”
No. 196. 166. A Story of the Ghetto. By Leopold Kompert.
From “Scenes du Ghetto.”
No. 197. 167. A Legend of Rabbi Loeb. By Daniel Stauben.
No. 198. 168. Loulou. By Lucien Griveau.
No. 199. 169. The Cabecilla; the Story of the Carlist War. By Alphonse Daudet.
No. 200. 170. Tried, Condemned, Executed. By P. Didier.
No. 201. 171. The Man with the Golden Brain. By Alphonse Daudet.
From “Ballades en Prose.”
No. 202. 172. The Death of the Dauphin, etc. By Alphonse Daudet.
No. 203. 173. My First Duel. By Carle de Perrières.
From “Paris-Joyeux.”
No. 204. 174. My Two Cats. By Emile Zola.
No. 205. 175. The Khouans. By N. Ney.
From L’Illustration, July 30.
No. 206. 176. The Dead Wife.
After S. Juhens’ French translation from Chinese.
No. 207. 177. Scenes of Polish Life. By Krazewski.
From “Jermola,” Le Figaro.
No. 208. 178. Memory of Algeria. By Alphonse Daudet.
From “Tartarin de Tarascon,” Nouvelle Revue.
No. 209. 179. Anecdote of Baudelaire. “Les Fantaisites.” By Pierre Quiroul.
From Le Figaro, August 15.
No. 210. 180. Adelaide Neilson.
From L’Illustration, August 21.
No. 211. 181. A Morning with Baudelaire. By “Theodore de Grave.”
No. 212. 182. “L’Enfant de la Balle.” By François Coppée.
From Le Figaro.
No. 213. 183. Poetical Illusions. By Maxime du Camp.
From “Souvenirs Litteraires.”
No. 214. 184. The Moon’s Blessings. By Charles Baudelaire.
No. 215. 185. Patti and Her New Home. By “Adrien Marx.”
From Le Figaro.
No. 216. 186. The Ghostly Mass. By Luzel.
From “Veillees Bretonnes.”
No. 217. 187. Solitude. By Guy de Maupassant.
From “Monsieur Parent.”
No. 218. “Fantastics.”
1. “Aida.” 2. Hiouen-Thsang. 3. El Vomito. (?) 4. The
Devil’s Carbuncle. 5. A Hemisphere in a Woman’s Hair. 6. The
Clock. 7. The Fool and Venus. 8. The Stranger.
No. 219. The winter of 1877, Mr. Hearn contributed from New
Orleans, a series of letters to the Cincinnati Commercial under the
name of “Ozias Midwinter.”
V
MAGAZINE STORIES AND PAPERS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER44
(Nos. 220-275)
No. 220. The Scenes of Cable’s Romances.
The Century Magazine, November, 1883, vol. 27 (N. S. Vol. 5), p. 40.
No. 221. Quaint New Orleans and its Habitants.
Harper’s Weekly, December 6, 1884, vol. 28, p. 812.
No. 222. New Orleans Exposition.
Harper’s Weekly, January 3, 1885, vol. 29, p. 14.
No. 223. The Creole Patois.
Harper’s Weekly, January 10, 1885, vol. 29, p. 27.
No. 224. The Creole Patois.
Harper’s Weekly, January 17, 1885, vol. 29, p. 43.
No. 225. New Orleans Exposition.
Harper’s Weekly, January 31, 1885, vol. 29, p. 71
No. 226. The East at New Orleans.
Harper’s Weekly, March 7, 1885, vol. 29, p. 155.
No. 227. Mexico at New Orleans.
Harper’s Weekly, March 14, 1885, vol. 29, p. 167.
No. 228. The New Orleans Exposition. Some Oriental Curiosities.
Harper’s Bazaar, March 28, 1885, vol. 18, p. 201.
No. 229. The New Orleans Exposition. Notes of a Curiosity Hunter.
Harper’s Bazaar, April 4, 1885, vol. 18, p. 218
No. 230. The Government Exhibit at New Orleans.
Harper’s Weekly, April 11, 1885, vol. 29, p. 234.
No. 231. The Legend of Tchi-Niu. A Chinese Story of Filial Piety.
Harper’s Bazaar, October 31, 1885, vol. 18, p. 703. “Some Chinese Ghosts,” 1887.
No. 232. The Last of the Voudoos.
Harper’s Weekly, November 7, 1885, vol. 29, p. 726.
No. 233. New Orleans Superstitions.
Harper’s Weekly, December 25, 1886, vol. 30, p. 843.
No. 234. Rabyah’s Last Ride. A tradition of Pre-Islamic Arabia.
Harper’s Bazaar, April 2, 1887, vol. 20, p. 239.
No. 235. Chita.
Harper’s Monthly, April, 1888, vol. 76, p. 733. “Chita,” 1890.
No. 236. A Midsummer Trip to the West Indies.
Harper’s Monthly, July-September, 1888, vol. 77, pp. 209, 327, 614. “Two Years in the French West Indies,” 1890.
No. 237. La Vérette and the Carnival in St. Pierre, Martinique.
Harper’s Monthly, October, 1888, vol. 77, p. 737. “Two Years in the French West Indies,” 1890.
No. 238. Les Porteuses.
Harper’s Monthly, July, 1889, vol. 79, p. 299. “Two Years in the French West Indies,” 1890.
No. 239. At Grand Anse.
Harper’s Monthly, November, 1889, vol. 79, p. 844. “Two Years in the French West Indies,” 1890.
No. 240. A Ghost.
Harper’s Monthly, December, 1889, vol. 80, p. 116.
No. 241. Youma.
Harper’s Monthly, January-February, 1890, vol. 80, pp. 218, 408. “Youma,” 1890.
No. 242. Karma.
Lippincott’s Magazine, May, 1890, vol. 45, p. 667.
No. 243. A Study of Half-Breed Races in the West Indies.
The Cosmopolitan, June, 1890, vol. 9, p. 167.
No. 244. West Indian Society of Many Colourings.
The Cosmopolitan, July, 1890, vol. 9, p. 337.
No. 245. A Winter Journey to Japan.
Harper’s Monthly, November, 1890, vol. 81, p. 860.
No. 246. At the Market of the Dead.
Atlantic Monthly, September, 1891, vol. 68, p. 382. “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan,” 1894.
No. 247. The Chief City of the Province of the Gods.
Atlantic Monthly, November, 1891, vol. 68, p. 621. “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan,” 1894.
No. 248. The Most Ancient Shrine in Japan.
Atlantic Monthly, December, 1891, vol. 68, p. 780. “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan,” 1894.
No. 249. In a Japanese Garden.
Atlantic Monthly, July, 1892, vol. 70, p. 14. “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan,” 1894.
No. 250. Of a Dancing Girl.
Atlantic Monthly, March, 1893, vol. 71, p. 332. “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan,” 1894.
No. 251. The Japanese Smile.
Atlantic Monthly, May, 1893, vol. 71, p. 634. “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan,” 1894.
No. 252. Of the Eternal Feminine.
Atlantic Monthly, December, 1893, vol. 72, p. 761. “Out of the East,” 1895.
No. 253. The Red Bridal.
Atlantic Monthly, July, 1894, vol. 74, p. 74. “Out of the East,” 1895.
No. 254. At Hakata.
Atlantic Monthly, October, 1894, vol. 74, p. 510. “Out of the East,” 1895.
No. 255. From my Japanese Diary.
Atlantic Monthly, November, 1894, vol. 74, p. 609.
No. 256. A Wish Fulfilled.
Atlantic Monthly, January, 1895, vol. 75, p. 90. “Out of the East,” 1895.
No. 257. In the Twilight of the Gods.
Atlantic Monthly, June, 1895, vol. 75, p. 791. “Kokoro,” 1896.
No. 258. The Genius of Japanese Civilization.
Atlantic Monthly, October, 1895, vol. 76, p. 449. “Kokoro,” 1896.
No. 259. After the War.
Atlantic Monthly, November, 1895, vol. 76, p. 599. “Kokoro,” 1896.
No. 260. Notes from a Travelling Diary.
Atlantic Monthly, December, 1895, vol. 76, p. 815. “Kokoro,” 1896.
No. 261. China and the Western World.
Atlantic Monthly, April, 1896, vol. 77, p. 450.
No. 262. A Trip to Kyōto.
Atlantic Monthly, May, 1896, vol. 77, p. 613. “Gleanings in Buddha-Fields,” 1897.
No. 263. About Faces in Japanese Art.
Atlantic Monthly, August, 1896, vol. 78, p. 219. “Gleanings in Buddha-Fields,” 1897.
No. 264. Out of the Street: Japanese Folk-Songs.
Atlantic Monthly, September, 1896, vol. 78, p. 347. “Gleanings in Buddha-Fields,” 1897.
No. 265. Dust.
Atlantic Monthly, November, 1896, vol. 78, p. 642, “Gleanings in Buddha-Fields,” 1897.
No. 266. A Living God.
Atlantic Monthly, December, 1896, vol. 78, p. 833. “Gleanings in Buddha-Fields,” 1897.
No. 267. Notes of a Trip to Izumo.
Atlantic Monthly, May, 1897, vol. 79, p. 678.
No. 268. The Story of Mimi-Nashi Hōïchi.
Atlantic Monthly, August, 1903, vol. 92, p. 237. “Kwaidan,” 1904.
No. 269. The Dream of Akinosuké.
Atlantic Monthly, March, 1904, vol. 93, p. 340. “Kwaidan,” 1904.
No. 270. A Letter from Japan.
Atlantic Monthly, November, 1904, vol. 94, p. 625. “The Romance of the Milky Way,” 1905.
No. 271. The Story of Itō Norisuké.
Atlantic Monthly, January, 1905, vol. 95, p. 98. “The Romance of the Milky Way,” 1905.
No. 272. Stranger than Fiction.
Atlantic Monthly, April, 1905, vol. 95, p. 494. “The Romance of the Milky Way,” 1905.
No. 273. The Romance of the Milky Way.
Atlantic Monthly, August, 1905, vol. 96, p. 238. “The Romance of the Milky Way,” 1905.
No. 274. Ultimate Questions.
Atlantic Monthly, September, 1905, vol. 96, p. 391. “The Romance of the Milky Way,” 1905.
No. 275. Two Memories of a Childhood.
Atlantic Monthly, October, 1906, vol. 98, p. 445.
VI
ARTICLES BY HEARN TRANSLATED IN FOREIGN MAGAZINES
(Nos. 276-280)
No. 276. Le Sourire japonais.
Traduction de Madame Léon Raynal, Revue de Paris, July 15, 1900, Year 7, vol. 4, p. 429.
No. 277. Une Danseuse japonais.
Traduction de Madame Léon Raynal, Revue de Paris, March 15, 1901, Year 8, vol. 2, p. 330.
No. 278. Le Nirvâna, étude de Bouddhisme Synthétique.
Traduite par M. & Mme. Charles-Marie Garnier, Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 1903, Year 11, p. 352.
No. 279. Kitsonné (superstition japonaise).
Traduction de Madame Léon Raynal, Revue de Paris, November 1, 1903, Year 10, vol. 6, p. 188.
No. 280. Cimètieres et Temples japonais (Jizō).
Traduction de Madame Léon Raynal, Revue de Paris, April 15, 1904, Year 11, vol. 2, p. 829.
VII
UNPUBLISHED WORKS
(Nos. 281-282)
No. 281.
1885. AVATAR. Par Gautier, Translation by Lafcadio Hearn. Unable to find a publisher, Hearn destroyed the manuscript.
No. 282.
THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY, by Gustave Flaubert; translated from the Fifth Paris Edition, Vols. I-II. (Manuscript copy in the possession of Dr. Gould.) The half-page containing, at one time, probably, the translator’s name, is cut off. The title-page is preceded by a half-page, printed, of directions to the printer, regarding size of type, etc.
The volumes are 6 x 9-1/2 inches, opening at the end. The writing is in pencil, and the letters large, even for an ordinary handwriting, but remarkably so for that of Hearn, who, when writing with a pen, made his letters very small. The paper has the yellow tint habitually used by him.
Volume I contains 364 pages; Volume II, numbered consecutively, the balance of a total of 679 pages. Five pages of addenda follow, containing notes upon passages, with original texts, etc., which the American publisher would hardly dare to put forth.
Hearn’s synopsis (printed) of the “St. Anthony” accompanies the text of the translation, and is reproduced herewith:—
ARGUMENT
Frailty
Sunset in the desert. Enfeebled by prolonged fasting, the hermit finds himself unable to concentrate his mind upon holy things. His thoughts wander: memories of youth evoke regrets that his relaxed will can no longer find strength to suppress;—and, remembrance begetting remembrance, his fancy leads him upon dangerous ground. He dreams of his flight from home,—of Ammonaria, his sister’s playmate,—of his misery in the waste,—his visit to Alexandria with the blind monk Didymus,—the unholy sights of the luxurious city.
Involuntarily he yields to the nervous dissatisfaction growing upon him. He laments his solitude, his joylessness, his poverty, the obscurity of his life: grace departs from him; hope burns low within his heart. Suddenly revolting against his weakness, he seeks refuge from distraction in the study of the Scriptures.
Vain effort! An invisible hand turns the leaves, placing perilous texts before his eyes. He dreams of the Maccabees slaughtering their enemies, and desires that he might do likewise with the Arians of Alexandria;—he becomes inspired with admiration of King Nebuchadnezzar;—he meditates voluptuously upon the visit of Sheba’s queen to Solomon;—discovers a text in the Acts of the Apostles antagonistic to principles of monkish asceticism,—indulges in reveries regarding the riches of the Biblical Kings and holy men. The Tempter comes to tempt him with evil hallucinations for which the Saint’s momentary frailty has paved the way; and with the Evil One comes also—
The Seven Deadly Sins
Phantom gold is piled up to excite Covetousness; shadowy banquets appear to evoke Gluttony. The scene shifts to aid the temptations of Anger and of Pride....
Anthony finds himself in Alexandria, at the head of a wild army of monks slaughtering the heretics and the pagans, without mercy for age or sex. In fantastic obedience to the course of his fancy while reading the Scriptures a while before, and like an invisible echo of his evil thoughts, the scene changes again. Alexandria is transformed into Constantinople.
Anthony finds himself the honoured of the Emperor. He beholds the vast circus in all its splendour, the ocean of faces, the tumult of excitement. Simultaneously he beholds his enemies degraded to the condition of slaves, toiling in the stables of Constantine. He feels joy in the degradation of the Fathers of Nicæa. Then all is transformed.
It is no longer the splendour of Constantinople he beholds under the luminosity of a Greek day; but the prodigious palace of Nebuchadnezzar by night. He beholds the orgies, the luxuries, the abominations;—and the spirit of Pride enters triumphantly into him as the spirit of Nebuchadnezzar....
Awakening as from a dream, he finds himself again before his hermitage. A vast caravan approaches, halts; and the Queen of Sheba descends to tempt the Saint with the deadliest of all temptations. Her beauty is enhanced by Oriental splendour of adornment; her converse is a song of witchcraft. The Saint remains firm.... The Seven Deadly Sins depart from him.
The Heresiarchs
But now the Tempter assumes a subtler form. Under the guise of a former disciple of Anthony,—Hilarion,—the demon, while pretending to seek instruction seeks to poison the mind of Anthony with hatred of the fathers of the church. He repeats all the scandals amassed by ecclesiastical intriguers, all the calumnies created by malice;—he cites texts only to foment doubt, and quotes the Evangels only to make confusion. Under the pretext of obtaining mental enlightenment from the wisest of men, he induces Anthony to enter with him into a spectral basilica, wherein are assembled all the Heresiarchs of the third century. The hermit is confounded by the multitude of tenets,—horrified by the blasphemies and abominations of Elkes, Corpocrates, Valentinus, Manes, Cerdo,—disgusted by the perversions of the Paternians, Marcosians, Serpentians,—bewildered by the apocryphal Gospels of Eve and of Judas, of the Lord and of Thomas.
And Hilarion grows taller.
The Martyrs
Anthony finds himself in the dungeons of a vast amphitheatre, among Christians condemned to the wild beasts. By this hallucination the tempter would prove to the Saint that martyrdom is not always suffered for purest motives. Anthony finds the martyrs possessed of bigotry and insincerity. He sees many compelled to die against their will; many who would forswear their faith could it avail them aught. He beholds heretics die for their heterodoxy more nobly than orthodox believers.
He finds himself transported to the tombs of the martyrs. He witnesses the meeting of Christian women at the sepulchres. He beholds the touching ceremonies of prayer change into orgie,—lamentations give place to amorous dalliance.
The Magicians
Then the Tempter seeks to shake Anthony’s faith in the excellence and evidence of miracles. He assumes the form of a Hindoo Brahmin, terminating a life of wondrous holiness by self-cremation;—he appears as Simon Magus and Helen of Tyre,—as Apollonius of Tyana, greatest of all thaumaturgists, who claim superiority to Christ. All the marvels related by Philostratus are embodied in the converse of Apollonius and Damis.
The Gods
Hilarion reappears, taller than ever, growing more gigantic in proportion to the increasing weakness of the Saint. Standing beside Anthony he evokes all the deities of the antique world. They defile before him a marvellous panorama;—Gods of Egypt and India, Chaldæa and Hellas, Babylon and Ultima Thule,—monstrous and multiform, phallic and ithyphallic, fantastic and obscene. Some intoxicate by their beauty; others appal by their foulness. The Buddha recounts the story of his wondrous life; Venus displays the rounded daintiness of her nudity; Isis utters awful soliloquy. Lastly the phantom of Jehovah appears, as the shadow of a god passing away for ever.
Suddenly the stature of Hilarion towers to the stars; he assumes the likeness and luminosity of Lucifer; he announces himself as—
Science
And Anthony is lifted upon mighty wings and borne away beyond the world, above the solar system, above the starry arch of the Milky Way. All future discoveries of Astronomy are revealed to him. He is tempted by the revelation of innumerable worlds,—by the refutation of all his previous ideas of the nature of the Universe,—by the enigmas of infinity,—by all the marvels that conflict with faith. Even in the night of the Immensity the demon renews the temptation of reason; Anthony wavers upon the verge of pantheism.
Lust and Death
Anthony, abandoned by the Spirit of Science, comes to himself in the desert. Then the Tempter returns under a two-fold aspect: as the Spirit of Fornication and the Spirit of Destruction. The latter urges him to suicide,—the former to indulgence of sense. They inspire him with strong fancies of palingenesis, of the illusion of death, of the continuity of life. The pantheistic temptation intensifies.
The Monsters
Anthony in reveries meditates upon the monstrous symbols painted upon the walls of certain ancient temples. Could he know their meaning he might learn also something of the secret lien between Matter and Thought. Forthwith a phantasmagoria of monsters commence to pass before his eyes:—the Sphinx and the Chimera, the Blemmyes and Astomi, the Cynocephali and all creatures of mythologic creation. He beholds the fabulous beings of Oriental imagining,—the abnormities described by Pliny and Herodotus,—the fantasticalities to be adopted later by heraldry,—the grotesqueries of future mediæval illumination made animate;—the goblinries and foulnesses of superstitious fancy,—the Witches’ Sabbath of abominations.
Metamorphosis
The multitude of monsters melts away; the land changes into an Ocean; the creatures of the briny abysses appear. And the waters in turn also change; seaweeds are transformed to herbs, forests of coral give place to forests of trees, polypous life changes to vegetation. Metals crystallize; frosts effloresce, plants become living things, inanimate matter takes animate form, monads vibrate, the pantheism of nature makes itself manifest. Anthony feels a delirious desire to unite himself with the Spirit of Universal Being....
The vision vanishes. The sun arises. The face of Christ is revealed. The temptation has passed; Anthony kneels in prayer.
L. H.
VIII
BOOKS ABOUT HEARN
(Nos. 283-284)
No. 283.
1906. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN. By Elizabeth Bisland. With Illustrations. In two volumes. (Publisher’s Vignette.) Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (The Riverside Press, Cambridge), 1906.
8vo., 2 vols., pp. (VIII), 475, 554, black cloth, Japanese characters on small red disc, gold lettering, gilt top.
Volume I.
(V-VIII) Preface by E. B.
Cahiers de la Quinzaine
No. 391. “Impressions sur la vie japonaise,” par Félicien Challayé, June, 1902, 3rd Series, 17th Cahier.
CHALLAYÉ, FÉLICIEN
No. 391. Cahiers de la quinzaine, “Impressions sur la vie japonaise,” June, 1902, 3rd Series, 17th Cahier.
No. 392. Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale. “Un Philosophe japonisant, Lafcadio Hearn,”45 1903, vol. 11, p. 338.
No. 393. Revue de Paris, “Lafcadio Hearn et le Japon,”45 December 1, 1904, vol. 6, p. 655.
REVUE DES DEUX MONDES
No. 390. “Un Peintre du Japon: ‘Lafcadio Hearn,’”46 par Th. Bentzon, June 1, 1904, vol. 21, p. 556.
REVUE DE MÉTAPHYSIQUE ET DE MORALE
No. 392. “Un Philosophe japonisant, Lafcadio Hearn,”46 par Félicien Challayé, 1903, vol. 11, p. 338.
REVUE DE PARIS
No. 393. “Lafcadio Hearn et le Japon,”46 par Félicien Challayé, December 1, 1904, vol. 6, p. 655.
GERMAN
BRANDT, M. VON
No. 394. Deutsche Rundschau “Lafcadio Hearn: Volksglaube und Volkssitte in Japan,” October, 1900, vol. 105, p. 68.
DEUTSCHE RUNDSCHAU
No. 394. “Lafcadio Hearn: Volksglaube und Volkssitte in Japan,” von M. von Brandt, October, 1900, vol. 105, p. 68.
HERZOG, WILHELM
No. 395. Die Nation, a review of “Kokoro,”46 January 6, 1906, vol. 23, p. 217.
HIRN, PROFESSOR YRIÖ
No. 396. Neue Freie Presse, “Lafcadio Hearn,” March 26, 1905, vol. 31, p. 14580.
NATION, Die
No. 395. A review of “Kokoro,”46 von Wilhelm Herzog, January 6, 1906, vol. 23, p. 217.
NEUE FREIE PRESSE
No. 396. “Lafcadio Hearn,” von Professor Yrjö Hirn, March 26, 1905, vol. 31, p. 14580.
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No. 397. “Ein englischer Japaner,” von Th. Bentzon. (Deutsche von Leo Fried.) A condensation of Mme. Bentzon’s article in Revue des deux Mondes. October 22-29, 1904, Year 7, Nr. 43, 44, pp. 987, 1001.
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No. 398. Ord od Bild, 1905.
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No. 398. Mrs. Karin Hirn, 1905.
XI
SUPPLEMENTAL LIST
(Nos. 399-424)
No. 399. The Last of the New Orleans Fencing Masters, Southern Bivouac, Louisville, Ky., New Series, vol. 2, Nov., 1886.
Speaks of the Story of Jean Louis, from Vigeant’s Un Maître d’armes sous la restauration, and tells the tale of Don José Llulla. Six double column, 8vo. pages, size and style of Atlantic Monthly.
No. 400. The Legend of Skobeleff. Looks like an editorial in T.-D.47 (No date, etc.)
No. 401. A Voudoo Dance. In style of T.-D. and of Hearn; unsigned, undated, was evidently in T.-D.
No. 402. The Future of France in the Orient. Editorial, doubtless in T.-D., undated.
No. 403. Pierre Loti. Translation by Hearn. “From the Original Manuscript,” signed by “Pierre Loti” and “Translated by Lafcadio Hearn.” Subheading: “Fragments from my Diary.” Undated. Probably in T.-D.
No. 404. Death of the Great Danseuse of the Century. Unsigned and undated. Not in type of editorial, but of contributed matter in T.-D. Probably by Hearn.
No. 405. The First Muezzin. With Arabic Sub-title, under which is “Bilâl,” and 15-line poetic excerpt from Edwin Arnold. Contains a musical setting of Prayer by Villoteau, Description de l’Egypte: Vol. XIV. Probably in T.-D. Without date, etc.
No. 406. Dorodom the Last. Editorial, probably in T.-D. Undated.
No. 407. The Naval Engagements of the Future. Translation from Le Figaro.
No. 408. Cable and the Negroes. Editorial, probably in T.-D. and by Hearn. No date.
No. 409. The Most Original of Modern Novelists (Loti). Editorial, probably in T.-D. Undated.
No. 410. Heroic Deeds at Sea. Editorial in T.-D. Undated.
No. 411. Study and Play. Editorial in T.-D. Undated.
No. 412. Arabian Women. Article contributed probably to T.-D. Undated.
No. 413. The Roar of a Great City. Editorial contributed probably to T.-D. Undated.
No. 414. Some Fossil Anthropology. Editorial probably by Hearn, and probably in T.-D. Undated.
No. 415. A Word for the Tramps. Editorial possibly by Hearn, and probably in T.-D.
No. 416. Torn Letters. Signed original story in T.-D. Undated. Later enlarged and published as “Chita.”
No. 417. Death and Resurrection in the Soudan. Editorial, probably in T.-D. Undated.
No. 418. A Memory of Two Fannies (Fanny Elssler, and Fanny Cerrito). Editorial, probably in T.-D. Undated.
No. 419. Shapira. Editorial, probably in T.-D. Undated.
No. 420. To the Fountain of Youth. Original, signed contribution: T.-D., May 24, 1885.
No. 421. The Creole Doctor. Some Curiosities of Medicine in Louisiana. From an Occasional Correspondent of The Tribune, New Orleans, Dec. 28th. Probably in New York Tribune. Undated. Signed Contribution.
No. 422. A Story of Hands. The Hand and its Gestures. Translation, Eugene Mouton, “From advance sheets.” Undated.
No. 423. The Legend of the Tea-Plant. Original contribution, probably to the T.-D. Undated. Published later in “Some Chinese Ghosts,” 1887.
No. 424. Academical Triumphs. Editorial, probably by Hearn, T.-D., Dec. 20, 1885.
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Some of the illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so they correspond to the text, thus the page number of the illustration no longer matches the page number in the List of Illustrations.
On page 8, “ludricrous” was replaced with “ludicrous”.
On page 28, “Lokis’” was replaced with “Loki’s”.
On page 55, “An E volutional History” was replaced with “An Evolutional History”.
On page 56, the œ ligature was replaced with “OE”.
On page 85, “As, mine are” was replaced with “As mine are”.
On page 91, “it it incapable” was replaced with “it is incapable”.
On page 97, the single quotation mark after “What insect stings so!” was changed to a double quotation mark.
On page 129, “gnored” was replaced with “ignored”.
On page 133, “refocussed” was replaced with “refocused”.
On page 159, “la belle negrésse” was replaced with “la belle négresse”.
On page 188 through 190, there is a long quotation that is marked by a single set of quotation marks, which differs than the quotation scheme used elsewhere in the book. This inconsistency was not corrected.
On page 236, a quotation mark was removed from before “His book is a re-reading”.
On page 252, “Karin Kirn” was replaced with “Karin Hirn”.
On page 259, “n aye” was replaced with “n’aye”.
On page 278, the closing single quotation mark after “Madame Bovary” was replaces with a closing double quotation mark.
On page 286, in the item No. 277, the period after “Raynal” was replaced with a comma, to be in agreement with the previous item.
On page 293, in the item 307, “p.” was added before the page number.
On page 295, in the item 334, a quotation mark was added after “Exotics and Retrospectives,”.
On page 295, in the item 341, a period was added after the date December 1, 1906.
On page 298, in the item 366, a stray comma was deleted after the word “February”.
On page 299, in the item 387, a single quotation mark was replaced with a double quotation mark.
On page 301, in the item 390, the unmatched quotation marks were corrected.
Notes
42 For the English Editions, the English Catalogue of Books has been followed.
43 Hearn failed to give the years in which these translations were published, and often also the days and months.
44 If published also in book-form, the title of the book is given.
45 Translations by M. B. Easton, unpublished, in MSS., in the possession of Dr. Gould.
46 Translations by M. B. Easton, unpublished, in MSS., in the possession of Dr. Gould.
47 The New Orleans Times-Democrat.