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.

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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

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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.

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