Category: Biographies
In the course of the preparation of these volumes there was gradually accumulated so great a number of the letters written by Lafcadio Hearn during twenty-five years of his life, and these letters proved of so interesting a nature, that eventually the plan of the whole work wa...
In the course of the preparation of these volumes there was gradually accumulated so great a number of the letters written by Lafcadio Hearn during twenty-five years of his life...
2. CHAPTER ILafcadio Hearn was born on the twenty-seventh of June, in the year 1850. He was a native of the Ionian Isles, the place of his birth being the Island of Santa Maura, which is co...
3. CHAPTER IIIt is more than doubtful if any individual amid the hurrying multitudes swarming in the streets of New York in 1869 and 1870 ever noticed with interest--though many of them must...
4. CHAPTER IIIIt was characteristic of the oddity of Hearn's whole life that his way to the Farthest East should have led through the Farthest West, and that his way to a land where one's fir...
5. CHAPTER IVWith methods of work such as those of which the foregoing examples give suggestion, with increasing indifference to the external details of life, and growing concentration of es...
6. Part II. The Touareg of the Greater Desert. Part III.7. Part II. Melodies of Valley dwellers and inhabitantsVol. IV. Race-Temper as Evidenced in the Popular Music of Various Peoples. Part I. The Melancholy Tendency. Part II. The Joyous Temperament. Part III. Ferocity. Part IV. etc., e...
8. Part II. Spanish. Creole music and the history of its formationVol. IX-X-XI. Melodies of African Races. (This highly important work contains no less than 5000 different melodies, and a complete description of all African musical instruments...
9. letter I never received. Did you read his "Roman d'un Spahi"? I thoughtyou would like it. If you do not, let me know why,--because Loti has had much literary influence upon me, and I want to know his faults as well as his merits. With love to you,