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Adulteration, in food and morals,ii:139–141.Æsthetics, Y. Hirn’s study of,ii:20,21.Africa, musical aptitudes of races of,i:284,353;transplantation of melodies of, to America,356,380,411.Ahriman, the Persian Spirit of Darkness,ii:118,126.Akizuki, teacher of Chinese at Kumamoto,i:125;ii:66,67,73,119,177.Albee, John,i:letters from Hearn to,i:276,277;ii:358-361;his Prose Idyls,360.Albee, Mrs. John,i:358,359,360.Alden, Henry Mills,i:286,378,405,428.Alexander the Great,i:161.Allen, Grant, Hearn’s comment on,i:394.Allen, James Lane,ii:377.Allingham, William,ii:522;a verse by,521.Amaron, lyrics of,i:368.Ama-terasu-Omi-Kami,ii:25.Amenomori, Nobushige,i:128,139,159;ii:217,346,353,380,390,391,392,394;photograph of,376.Amicis, Edmondo de, his Cuore,i:456;ii:102.Amiel, Henri Frédéric, his Journal Intime,ii:400.Ancestors, worship of,ii:28.Andersen, Hans, Hearn’s comment on,ii:251.Angelinus,i:256.Anglo-American alliance,ii:384.Anglo-Saxon race, future of,ii:137.Antæus,ii:454.Antilles.SeeWest Indies.Apes, treatment of, on board ship,i:413,414.Apollo, Temple of, at Levkas,i:3.Apollonius of Tyana,i:321,322.Arabia, hero-stories of,i:234,237.Aristocracies, value of,ii:248.Arnold, Edwin,i:282,335,454;his Light of Asia,291;Hearn’s opinion of,319;his translation of the story of Nala,402.Arnold, Matthew, Hearn’s comments on,i:318,319.Arnoux, ——,i:465,466;ii:347.Arrows, used in Japanese rice-fields,ii:6.Arrows of prayer,ii:6.Art, nature of antique,i:211;standards of,216–218;sacrifices and rewards of,237–239,242,243;return to antique,254;money considerations should not enter into,336;ghostliness of,ii:19,20;use of the distorted in,125–127secret of literary,345,346.Asai, Mr.,ii:298,299.Assyria, ghost-stories of,ii:251.Aston, William George,ii:484.Atlantic City, N. J.,i:451.Atlantic Monthly,i:293,317,321,397.Aubryet, Xavier,i:340.Augustin, Jean,i:70,71,363;ii:294.Austin, Alfred,ii:302.Azan, the muezzin’s call,i:280,281,283,309,317,321.Azukizawa, one of Hearn’s pupils,ii:68.Bacon, Francis, his idea of love,i:316;Hearn’s opinions of his Essays,328.Bagpipe, introduced by Romans into Scotland,i:182.Baker, Constance,ii:256,259,287,288, 292.Baker, Page M.,i:265,267,268,280,289,321,323,334,346,361,370;Hearn’s description of,70,71;ii:203;letters from Hearn to,i:87;ii:43–46,90–95,174–176,253–256,257–265,285–289,292–296.Baker, Mrs. Page M.,ii:265.Ball, Rev. Wayland D.,i:83;letters from Hearn to,250–267,342–348;Hearn’s advice to, regarding literary work,265,266,267,343,346.Ballads, a Japanese singer and seller of,ii:220;customs regarding,221.Balzac, Honoré de,ii:432;his Le Succube,i:201.Bamboula, music of,i:325,359.Bangor, North Wales, a private museum in,i:171,172.Banja, an African word,i:339.Banjo,i:310,311;use of, by Southern negroes,337.Baring-Gould, Sabine, his chapter on the Mountain of Venus,i:279.Barrera, Enrique,i:228.Barrie, James Matthew,ii:301;his Sentimental Tommy,318.Basutos, music of,i:353.Bath, the Japanese,ii:94.Bathing, at Grande Isle,i:90,91,92.Batokas, multiple pipe of the,i:297.Bats, adventures with,i:465–467.Baudelaire, Pierre Charles,i:197,211;his phrase regarding Gautier,82;Hearn’s desire to translate his Petits Poëmes en Prose,362.Beaulieu, Anatole Henri de,i:317.Beauty, hatred of the many for,i:27;nature of the first perception of,28–30;Hearn’s early love of,29,32,48.Bedloe, Edward,ii:408,438,439,440,443,448,454.Beecher, Henry Ward,i:52.Beetles, Japanese,ii:143.Behrens, Alice von,ii:411.Belief, Hearn’s philosophy of,i:296;origin of religious,347,348.Bellamy, Edward,ii:184.Bellesort, André,ii:352,353;his Société Japonaise,471,478,479,502.Bellesort, Mme.,ii:352,353,502.Bennett, James Gordon,i:54.Béranger, Pierre Jean de,ii:412.Bergerat, Auguste Emile,i:222,227.Berlioz, Hector,i:168.Bernhardt, Sarah,ii:435.Bhagavad-Gita,i:316,402.Bible, revised version of the Old Testament,i:350;grammatical usages in,ii:75,76;Japanese hatred of some passages in,320.Bìlâl,i:280,281,282;Hearn’s article on,283,284,286,295;biography of,331.Bisland, Elizabeth.SeeWetmore, Elizabeth (Bisland).Bizet, Georges,i:385.Björnson, Björnstjerne,i:46.Black, William,ii:301.Blouet, Paul (Max O’Rell),i:445.Blue, significance of the colour,i:394.Boccaccio, Giovanni, his Decameron,i:256.Bodhisattvas, Japanese and Indian,ii:78.Bon-odori, a Japanese dance,ii:37,38,46,47,52,54.Book of Golden Deeds, as a reading-book in a Japanese school,ii:102.Books, Hearn’s dislike of borrowing,ii:432.Borrow, George,i:205,206,459;his Gypsies of Spain,201,202.Bourdillon, Francis, verses by,ii:525.Bourgault-Ducoudray, Louis Albert, his Souvenirs d’une mission musicale en Grèce,i:386.Bourget, Paul,ii:84.Bowditch, Thomas Edward,i:354.Brachet, Auguste,i:374.Brahma,i:210.Brahmins, example of magic given by,i:322.Brain, in civilized man and savages,ii:245.Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeilles, Seigneur de,i:256.Brenane, Mrs., Hearn adopted by,i:8,11,12,16;disposition of her property, 36,37.Bridges, Robert, his Pater Filio,ii:498.Brittany, songs of,i:189,190.Broca, Pierre Paul,i:339;ii:245.Brownell, William Crary, Hearn’s comment on his French Traits,i:457.Browning, Robert,ii:190.Brunetière, Ferdinand,ii:479.Buddhas, Japanese and Indian,ii:78.Buddhism, monistic idea in, strengthened by education,i:112;introduction of knowledge of, into America,265;the possible religion of the future,291,292;Christianity and,347;in the light of modern science,400;false teaching of,401;Hearn’s study of,ii:4;his love of,26;suppression of, in hotels of Kizuki,47;difficulty of study of, for foreigners,82;effect of, on the foreigner,85,86;some tenets of,135;theosophical and spiritualistic writers on,431.See alsoNichiren.Buddhist catechism, projected by Hearn,ii:269,270.Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, first Baron Lytton, his The House and the Brain,ii:371.Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert Lytton, first Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith), his The Portrait,ii:294.Bunchō, Japanese painter,ii:468.Buonarroti, Michelangelo,i:275.Burke, Edmund, his Essays as a reading-book in a Japanese school,ii:102.Burns, Mrs.,ii:368.Burns, Robert, a verse of,ii:527,528.Burthe, Honoré,i:70,71.Business, hypocrisy of,ii:109;morality of modern men and methods of,169–174,177–179,293;Hearn’s hatred of,294,353,354;extraordinary incidents of,303.Byron, George Gordon Noel, Baron Byron, French prose translations of,i:245.Byzantium, wind organs invented at,i:166.Cable, George Washington,i:212;his study of Creole music,175,337,359;his Grandissimes,228,229;character of his work,289,295,296;negro Pan’s pipe described by,355.Cæsar, Julius,i:161.Carlyle, Thomas and Jane,i:139.Carmen, the opera,i:201,202.Carpenter, Edward,ii:511.Castelar, Emilio,i:275.Castrén, Matthias Alexander, his work on Finnish mythology,i:233,235,236.Caterpillar, Hearn’s story of a,ii:436.Catholicism, Latin feeling surviving in,ii:312.See alsoRoman Catholic Church.Cats, Japanese,ii:55,56,58,59.Cephalonia, Island of,i:7.Ceram, Island of,ii:211,213.Cerigo, Island of,i:6.Cerigote, Rosa.SeeHearn, Rosa (Cerigote).Chalumeau, or multiple pipe,i:297.Chamberlain, Basil Hall,i:53;ii:63,107,306;his explanation of Hearn’s inconstancy to his friends,i:57–59;aid given to Hearn by,110,136;letters from Hearn to,130,131;ii:5–18,23–43,46–60,198–251,256,257,266–270,273,274,276–278;his Kojiki,6,9;his Things Japanese,60,76–79,90,212;Hearn’s suggestion for an illustrated edition of Kojiki,58;his knowledge of the Japanese language,117;project for a book on Japanese folk-lore by Hearn and,129;Japanese appreciation of,201;his version of the Kumamoto Rōjō,220,221;his paper on the Loochoo Islands,273,274.Charcot, Jean Martin,i:441;story based on researches of,399.Châteaubriand, François René Auguste, Vicomte de,i:191.Châteauneuf, Agricole Hippolyte de Lapierre de,i:256.Chatto and Windus,i:251,253.Chenières, Les, destruction of,i:96.Chinese gongs,i:171,172.Choctaw Indians,i:188;no longer a musical people,166.Chōzuba-no-Kami,ii:32,33.Christening ceremony, Shintō,ii:59.Christern, F. W.,i:189.Christian Band, The,ii:142.Christianity, Buddhism and,i:347;Oriental characteristics of,400,401;moral value of,ii:87;courtesy and,132,133;the higher,146.Cincinnati, Ohio, Hearn sets out for,i:45;his first employment in,49;his departure from,63,66;as an art centre,182.Cincinnati Enquirer, Hearn’s work on,i:50–52,154.Civilization, immoral side of Occidental,ii:111,112;transmission of, from one race to another,245;effect of American, on literature,301.Clapperton, Hugh,i:354.Clarke, James Freeman, sectarian purpose of his work on religions,i:345.Clifford, William Kingdon,ii:152,190,221.Clive, Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey,i:160.Coatlicue, Mexican goddess of flowers,i:436.Cockerill, John, Hearn’s sketch of,i:53,54.Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,i:377.Colombat, Marc (Colombat de l’Isère), his work on diseases of the voice,i:363.Colour, æsthetic symbolism of,i:394;sense of,397.Columbian Exposition, Chicago,ii:150,152.Comparative mythology, results of a study of,i:345.Comparetti, Domenico, author of The Traditional Poetry of the Finns,ii:502.Concept, analysis of a mathematical,ii:241,242.Conder, Josiah,ii:117,118.Confession, Hearn’s account of an experience at,i:32,33.Confucianism,ii:27.Congo, a Creole dance,i:336.Congo tribes, a superstition of,i:313.Coolies, West Indian,i:415,416,433.Corinthians, strait between Santa Maura and Greece cut by,i:3.Cornell University, lectures by Hearn proposed and abandoned by,ii:487–489,490,492,495.Cornilliac, Jean Jacques,i:441.Cosmopolitan, The (magazine),i:452,455.Coulanges, Numa Denis Fustel de,i:202.Courtesy, Oriental and Occidental,ii:180;effect of industrialism on,183.Crawford, Francis Marion,ii:301,377.Creole sketches, Hearn’s project for,i:224.Creoles, Hearn’s collection of proverbs of,i:83;patois of,83,189,232,417;music and songs of,175,188,189,337,338,356,357,359;of Louisiana,188;Hearn’s project for collecting legends of Louisiana,193;cruelty of French,203;dances of,297,307,336.Crosby, Ernest,i:85;letter from Hearn to,ii:509–513.Crosby, Oscar,i:85.Cruise of the Marchesa,ii:218,219.Cuba, African influence on music of,i:380.Curiosités des Arts, extract translated from,i:165,166.Curtis, George William, his Howadji in Syria,i:196.Cyrano de Bergerac, Rostand’s,ii:435,436.Dai sen, mountain,ii:23.Daikoku, Japanese deity, identified with Oho-Kuni-nushi-no-Kami, in Matsue,ii:13.Daikon,ii:57.Daily Item (New Orleans), Hearn’s work on,i:68.Daimyōs, downfall of, in Japan,i:116.Dances, Creole,i:297,307,336;Greek choral,385,386;Japanese,ii:21,22,31,468.See alsoBon-odori,Hōnen-odori,Miko-kagura.Dancing-girls, Japanese.SeeGeisha.Dardanas,i:167.Darfur, Africa,i:277.Darwin, Charles Robert,i:292;ii:266;his hypothesis as to sexual æsthetic sensibilities in animals,ii:20;his contribution to the theory of evolution,235.Davitt, Michael,i:361.Death, Hearn’s feeling about,ii:379.Decadent school,ii:187,188.Deir-el-Tiu, monastery of,i:328.Deland, Margaret,ii:301,489;her Philip and his Wife,167,222;her Story of a Child,222.Delpit, Albert,i:361.Demerara, gold-mines of,i:413.Dening, Walter,ii:77.De Quincey, Thomas, his mastery of English,i:132,135;his Flight of a Tartar Tribe,329.Dictionaries, etymological,i:374.Dimitris, The, of Russia,i:329.Divinity, weight of the popular idea of a,ii:78.Dobson, Austin,i:253;ii:215.Don Juan, not an Oriental type,ii:114.


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