Chapter 17

Doré, Paul Gustave, Hearn’s article on,i:80,268;his knowledge of gipsies,201,202;his illustrations for Poe’s Raven,317.Dozy, Reinhart Pieter,i:374.Draper, John William,i:326.Drawing, Hearn’s defence of Japanese methods of,ii:331.Dreams,i:442,469.Dublin, Ireland, Hearn family removes to,i:7.Du Maurier, George,ii:302;his Trilby,187,221.Dumez, ——,i:205.Durham, Eng., Roman Catholic College at,i:34.Dutch East Indies,ii:218,219.Dutt, Toru, her translation of the story of Nala,i:402.Duveyrier, Henri, his Les Touâreg du Nord,i:353.Earthquakes, in Japan,ii:83,84.East, Shadows of the,ii:85,87.Ebers, Georg,i:226.Ebisu, Japanese deity, temple of, at Nishinomiya,ii:8;identified with Koto-shiro-nushi-no-Kami, in Matsue,13;in Mionoseki,37.Education, of the emotions,i:456;Hearn’s attitude toward scientific,ii:163,164,275;decline of, in Japan,216;ecclesiastical,310.Edwards, Bryan, his History of the West Indies,i:297,339.Edwards, Osman,ii:402,455;his Theatre in Japan,222.Eggs, eating of, in Japan,ii:96,97.Egypt, sistrum introduced into Italy by,i:166;musical instruments of,211,212,213,311,353;stories of the antique life of,226;an ancient melody of,286;ghost-stories of,ii:251.Eitel, Ernest John, his identification of Japanese and Indian divinities,ii:78.Electric light, G. M. Gould’s paper on,i:439.Electricity, story based on evolution of, by the human body,i:399.Eliot, George, her Silas Marner used as a reading-book in Kumamoto,ii:79.Emancipation, religious and political,ii:206.Emerson, Ralph Waldo,i:265;ii:174,183,441;his suggestiveness,i:432;ii:190.Emotions, education of,i:456.Endemann, Carl, music of the Basutos preserved by,i:353,354.Enemies, value of,i:153;ii:412,414.Engelmann, Willem Herman,i:374.England, distrust of American literary work in,i:361;revision of treaty between Japan and,ii:185,186;action of, after Chinese-Japanese War,262;effect of religious conservatism on education in,275;the reading public of,446.Environment,ii:239,240;moral adaptation to,136.Erse tongue,i:190.Eskimo music,i:330.Estes and Lauriat,i:250.Etymological dictionaries,i:374.Euterpe, a periodical,ii:472.Evolution, physical, Spencer’s conservatism regarding further,i:397;physical and moral,432,434–436;brain-growth a striking fact of,ii:245;psychological,231–233,238-243;popular effect of psychological, on fiction,267.Fairy-tales, Hearn’s project for a set of philosophical,ii:339,340.Family, Oriental and Occidental ideas of the,ii:112,113,116,117,147.Farny, H. F.,i:52,53,55,280,448.Fashion, deformities of,i:438.Fauche, Hippolyte, his translation of the Ramayana,i:402.Feldwisch, ——,i:221,232,292,293.Fenollosa, Ernest, letters from Hearn to,ii:381–384,412–414.Fenollosa, Mary McNeil,i:153;ii:381,383;letters from Hearn to,ii:401–403,437,440–442.Feuillet, Octave, his M. de Camors,ii:84.Fiction, Hearn’s desire to write,i:338,339,350,352,371,372,375,430;ii:246,341,342,348,349,378;Hearn’s theory of that which lives,i:454,455;popular effect of evolutional psychology on,ii:267;Hearn’s taste in,276;requirements for the writing of,341.Figs, Louisiana,i:170,177,178.Finck, Henry Theophilus, his Romantic Love and Personal Beauty,ii:193.Finland, music of,i:191,200;two epics of,235;seen through the Kalewala,ii:469;social and political changes in,469,470;views in, sent to Hearn,471,472.Fire-drill, for lighting the sacred fire,ii:10,12,13,15,23,26,29.Fiske, John,ii:107,190,221.FitzGerald, Edward, his translation of Omar Khayyám,ii:499.Flameng, Léopold,i:185.Flammarion, Camille, his Astronomie populaire,i:385.Flaubert, Gustave, his Salammbô,i:226,248,249;Hearn’s translation of his Tentation de Saint Antoine,247,249,251,362;his literary generosity,341.Fleas,ii:448,449,450.Flight into Egypt, a French painting of,i:318.Floods, in Japan,ii:307.Florenz, Karl Adolf,ii:284,311,329.Florida, Hearn’s visit to,i:341.Flower, Sir William Henry,i:438;his Hunterian Lectures,314.Flutes, antique,i:185;double,213.Food, Japanese,ii:32,91,92;not suited to strain of higher education,103,104,292.SeeDaikon;Sake.Force, Oriental theory of the nature of,ii:339.Forces, our knowledge limited to,ii:243,244.Fort-de-France, Martinique,i:453.Fox-superstition,ii:24,29,30.Foxwell, E. E., II:384;letters to,455–457.France, Anatole,i:361;ii:491;Hearn’s translation of his Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard,i:102;quotation from,ii:345.Freedom, love of Northern races for,ii:229.Freemasons, Hearn’s effort to join,ii:500.Free will,i:435.Friends, the danger from,i:153;ii:412–414.Friendship, college,ii:197;basis of,332,333;nationality and,432.Fuji-san, climbing of,ii:375,390,391,392;effect of a typhoon upon,394;pilgrims to,448.Fujisaki, H., letter from Hearn to,ii:515–517.Funeral rite, Shintō,ii:59.Gaelic tongue,i:190.Galton, Francis,ii:229.Gate of Everlasting Ceremony,ii:33,317.Gautier, Judith,ii:362.Gautier, Théophile,i:227,231;Hearn’s admiration for,61,82,394,430,431;ii:44,221,222;translations of,i:61,62,72,73,80–82,213,245,248,252,253,268,269,275,276,376,396;Hearn’s comment on his poetry,253,255,269;pantheism of,255,256;his style,269,275,324;his portrait,318;posthumous poetry of,327;his services ignored by Hugo,340;his literary generosity,341;his idea of art,437;his Avatar,252,362,442,443;his Emaux et Camées,82,259,260,275;his Histoire du Romantisme,i:317;ii:222;his Mademoiselle de Maupin,248,251,254,256,257,258,259;his Roman de la Momie,226,253;his Spectre de la Rose,244.Geisha,ii:22,73,82,95,114;Gell, Sir William, his Pompeiana,i:213.Genghis Khan,i:329.Germans, in Japan,ii:199,206,207.Germany, musical instruments furnished to the Romans by,i:166;education in,ii:271.Gessner, Salomon,i:184.Ghostology, Egyptian and Assyrian,ii:251.Ghosts, Hearn’s interest in,i:15.Gibb, George Duncan,i:339.Giglampz, Ye, Hearn’s work on,i:52,53.Gilder, Richard Watson,i:342.Gipsies, Hearn’s interest in,i:201,205,206;language of,202.Girls, liberty allowed to, in England and America,ii:522.Gita-Govinda,i:327.Go-Daigo, Emperor of Japan,ii:186,187.Gods, pagan, teaching of the early church regarding,i:26;Hearn’s early interest in,26,27.Goethe,ii:173,266,508.Gongs, Chinese,i:171,172.Gorresio, Gaspare, his translation of the Ramayana,i:402.Gōshō, one of Hearn’s pupils,ii:465.Goto,ii:119.Gottschalk, Louis Moreau,i:229,356;his Bamboula,325,337;Creole musical themes used by,359.Gould, George Milbry,i:97,102;letters from Hearn to,393–403,421–443,457–468;his pamphlet on the Colour-Sense,394;Hearn’s advice as to literary work,426;his capacity for work,457,458.Gould, H. F., wife of G. M.,i:468.Gould, Jay,ii:173,353;Hearn’s defence of,109,110.Government positions, exacting nature of,i:383.Gowey, John F.,ii:369.Grace, a savage quality,i:438.Grand Anse, Martinique,i:422,423,465.Grande Isle,i:350,414,446;Hearn’s description of,87–95;destruction of,96;ii:155.Grant, Ulysses Simpson,i:52.Greece, musical instruments furnished to the Romans by,i:166.Greeks, Hearn’s love of the mythology of,i:26,27,28,31;chastity of,219,220;sculpture of,227;legends of,227,228;poetry of,ii:520.Griffith, Ralph Thomas Hotchkin, his translation of the Ramayana,i:402.Griots, music of,i:354,355,356,377.Grueling, ——,i:282.Guiana, British, Hearn’s visit to,i:97;a mocking-bird of,357,358.Gulf of Mexico, Creole archipelagoes of,i:333;bathing in,341.Gulistan, Saadi’s,i:280.Hadramaut,i:356.Hadrian, Roman emperor,i:328.Hahaki, ancient name of modern Hōki,ii:58.Halévy, Ludovic,ii:395.Hall, Dr.,ii:347,348,350,374,389,405,422,428,429.Handwriting, Hearn’s efforts to read character from,i:340,349.Harper, Hearn’s recollections of a Welsh,i:13–15.Harper and Brothers, their commissions to Hearn,i:97,102;Hearn severs his contracts with,109;his series of Southern sketches for,268;their encouragement to Hearn,338.Harper’s Magazine, Hearn’s contributions to,i:381.Harps, of the Nyam-Nyams,i:310.Harris, Joel Chandler,i:337.Harris, Mrs. Lylie,i:80.Hart, Jerome A., his first acquaintance with Hearn,i:80;letters from Hearn to,244–250.Harte, Francis Bret,ii:41.Hartmann, Eduard,ii:235.Hartmann, Robert,i:297; his studies of African music,353,354.Hastings, Warren,i:160.Hastings, battle of,i:191.Hat, highest evolution of,i:94.Hatakeyama, Yuko, story of,ii:142,181,268,269; monument to,277.Hauck, Minnie,i:201.Havana, Cuba, music of,i:202.Health, influence of, on spiritual life,ii:34,35.Hearn, Surgeon-Major Charles Bush, father of Lafcadio,i:5,6,9,429;opposition to his marriage,6;his elopement,7;his return to Dublin,7;his separation from his wife,7,8,8n.;his second marriage,8.Hearn, Elizabeth (Holmes), grandmother of Lafcadio,i:6.Hearn, James, brother of Lafcadio,i:7;letter from Hearn to,9–11.Hearn, Lafcadio, a native of Santa Maura,i:3,7,429;influence of the place upon,4,5;his ancestry,5,6;removes to Wales,8,12;effect of domestic conditions upon,8,9;his memory of his mother,9,10,11;of his father,11;his youthful characteristics,15;autobiographical fragments left by,15–32,37–39,41–45,45–49,100,101,159,160;his interest in the weird,15,16,17,18;his experience with “Cousin Jane,”18–25;his love of beauty,29,32,148;his early religious instruction,16,17,19,20,32,33;his interest in mythology,26,27,28,31;his education,34,34n.,35,36;becomes blind in one eye,35,36,429;his poverty,36,37,40,100,102;goes to New York,39,40;an incident of his early New York life,42–45;goes to Cincinnati,45,49;an incident ofthe journey,46–49;becomes type-setter, proof-reader, private secretary,50;his work on the Cincinnati Enquirer,50–52,53;on Ye Giglampz,52,53;character of his newspaper work,55;his friendships,55–59;his admiration for Spencer,58,85,86,365,374,375,392,394,430,431,438,459;ii:20,26,44,221,222;for Gautier,i:61,82,394,430,431;ii:44,221,222;goes to New Orleans,i:65,66,67;his letters to Krehbiel,67;his work in New Orleans,68,72,73,167,176,197,280,363;his investments,69,198,199,230,336;ii:353;his library,i:70,278,283,290,314,336,339,350,352,364;ii:305,308;his associates on the Times-Democrat,i:70,71;his personal appearance and characteristics,77–80,428;ii:466;his visit to Grande Isle,i:87–95;his visits to and descriptions of the French West Indies,97,98,100,101,409–419,422–424;goes to Japan,102;his early impressions of Japan,103,104,107–109,115;ii:35;his love of the tropics,i:105,415,420,425,449,469;ii:64,211,213,217,281;his work for Japan,i:106;ii:281;severs contracts with his publishers,i:109;ii:4;his friendship with M. McDonald,i:109,110,153;ii:107;his work at Matsue,i:110–113;ii:16,30,43,46;his kindness of heart,i:114,118;his marriage,116,117;ii:44,60;his visits to Kizuki,i:115,122;ii:7–11,43;his Japanese name,i:117;ii:270,292,293,299;his obligations as a Japanese citizen,i:117,136;ii:44,64,81,158,191,265,270,278,279,298;his household pets,i:117,118,119;ii:460;his popularity,i:119,120;his disregard of money,122,148,336;his dislike of forms and restraints,122,123,148;his study of Japanese with his wife,123,124;his appointment at Kumamoto,124;ii:63,65;his life and work there,i:125–128;ii:93,94,100,102,103,110;birth of his first child,i:127;ii:115,116,128,149,150,156;enters the service of the Kōbe Chronicle,i:128,129;his growing indifference to externals,129–131,137;ii:194,195;his mastery of English,i:132;facsimile of a first draft of his MS.,133,134;goes to the University of Tōkyō,136–138,283;his methods of writing,140,141,239,373,391;ii:89,272,273,396;his private life in Tōkyō,i:141–152;ii:295,309;gives up his professorship,i:154;ii:368,490,493;lectures at Cornell proposed and abandoned,i:154;ii:487,488,490,492,495;accepts chair of English in Waseda University,i:156;lectures in London and Oxford proposed,156;his death,156;buried according to Buddhist rites,157–159;tributes to,158,159;his interest in primitive music,165–167,190,231,330,339,353,354,358–360,380,411;ii:15;effect of Southern climate upon,i:169,170,177,195,196,288,319,421,422,423,424,425,427,440,445;descriptions of his home in New Orleans,172–174,196,222;his interest in gipsies,201,202,205,206;his fantastics,220,221,226,230,231,278;his proposed series of French translations,252,362,363;of Oriental stories,278,295;of musical legends,286;of strange facts,298;of Arabesque studies,321,328,331,396,403;of legends of strange faiths,328;his ambition regarding his style,276,324,364,374,379,383,393;ii:359;his dread of cold,i:279,298,379,448;ii:188,211;his pursuit of the odd,i:290,291,294;change in his literary inclinations,293,294;his desire to travel,294,295,398,424;ii:351;his outline of an imaginary series of musical volumes,i:299–304,309;his use of classic English literature,328;his ignorance of modern history,329;his visits to the Gulf archipelagoes,333;his study of Spanish,334;thinks of studying medicine,338;his desire to write fiction,338,339,350,352,371,372,375,430;ii:246,341,342,348,349,378;his visit to Florida,i:341;his health,344,348,366,367,371,406,407;ii:14,24,25,67,73,74,129,196,197,280,292,303,304,490,493,495,506;result of his study of comparative mythology,i:345;his admiration for Viaud (P. Loti),377,378,396,427,452,453;his efforts to learn Chinese,404;his dread of New York,405;ii:182,476,484;his desire to return to America,ii:4,175,176,202,203,473,474,475,476,477,480–482,484,490,493,496,497,498,499,504,505;translations of his books,22,466,467,468,469,472,473,485;finds literary work in Japan difficult,35,60,63,89;his attitude toward missionaries,44,45,68,109,110,311,442;his legal seal,46;difficulties of his position in Japan,107-110,175,202,252,348,490,493,497;his project for a book with B. H. Chamberlain,129;his dislike of New Japan,154,161;his method of teaching,159,160;his literary success,193,277,296,297,398;his dissatisfaction with his work,246,277,286,333,356,375,377,380;criticisms of his work,256,257,377,466,490;dislike of women for,265;his work at the University of Tōkyō,283,298,305,306,310,311,314,327,328,357,427,429,444,481,482,486,487;his ignorance of every-day life,340,341,399;a manuscript history of his eccentricities,350;his avoidance of foreigners,395,397,406,456,457;forces arrayed against,404,405,493,494,496;his nose,408;necessary conditions of work for,412-114,424,451,452;his method of teaching,481,486,487;protests against his treatment in Tōkyō,490,493,506;profits from his books,491;birth of a daughter to,506.Writings:Chita,i:69,86,101,371,378,393,394,396,403,404,405,411,422,430,451;first form of,96;actual incidents related in,96,97,426,427;success of,96,97;criticisms of,98,99,445.Dead Love, A,i:74–76.Dream of a Summer Day, quoted,i:4,5.Exotics and Retrospectives,i:139;ii:333,401,429;translations of,467.Gleanings in Buddha-Fields,i:129,131,139;ii:466,471.Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japanii:217,270,356,359;quotedi:103,111–113,114,115,124,125;criticisms of,ii:187,198,209,223;translations of,467,468.Gombo Zhêbes, a dictionary of Creole Proverbs,i:83,278,295,335,346.Idolatry, quoted,i:26-32.Illusion, an autobiographical fragment,i:159,160.In Ghostly Japan,i:139;ii:409,411,445.In Vanished Light, an autobiographical fragment,i:100,101.Intuition, an autobiographical fragment,i:41–45.Japan: an Interpretation,i:115,141,155,156;ii:499,504,505,506,514,515.A Japanese Miscellany,i:140;ii:513.Jiujutsu,i:126.Juvenilia (proposed),ii:500.Kokoro,i:129,131;ii:193,279,289,299,300,359,471.Kotto,i:140,146;ii:501.Kwaidan,i:141;quoted,12,156,157.Mountain of Skulls,ii:383.My First Romance, an autobiographical fragment,i:45–49.My Guardian Angel, an autobiographical fragment,i:16–25.Naked Poetry, his lecture on,i:137;text of, as taken down by T. Ochiai,ii:519–529.Notebook of an Impressionist (proposed),i:364,383.Out of the East,i:127;ii:360;quoted,i:107,108,125,126,209;impression made by, in England,ii:193;its title,212.Pipes of Hameline,i:274.Rabyah’s Last Ride,i:388,389,396.Retrospectives.SeeExotics and Retrospectives.Romance of the Milky Way,i:159.Shadowings,i:140.Some Chinese Ghosts,ii:43,367,469;dedication of,i:60,371;characteristics of,61,73,381,388,389,405;difficulties regarding publication of,83–85,364,370,371,375, 378;reception of,407.Stars, an autobiographical fragment,i:37–39.Stray Leaves from Strange Literature,i:73,83,335,340,344,346,371,376.Torn Letters, afterward expanded into Chita,i:96,333.Two Years in the French West Indies,i:98,102;criticisms of,98,99;his difficulties in writing it,ii:58.With Kyūshū Students,i:126.Youma,ii:347,466.Translations:Flaubert’s Tentation de Saint Antoine,i:247,249,278.France’s Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard,i:102;ii:347,348.Gautier’s Une nuit de Cléopâtre, etc.,i:61,62,73,213,245,269,275,376,396,442,443;estimates of,80–82,248,268,276.Hearn, Richard, painter,i:6.Hearn, Rosa (Cerigote), mother of Lafcadio,i:9;her meeting with Dr. Hearn,6;her marriage,7;her separation from her husband,7,8,8n.;her second marriage,8,429.Hearn family,i:5,6;physical characteristics of,11,12.Hearnian dialect,ii:62,63,81,82.Heck, Emile, a Jesuit priest,ii:284,285,310,311,312,316,320.Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,i:438.Heine, Heinrich, French prose translations of,i:245;ii:529;Weill’s reminiscences of,i:341;poems of,ii:523.Hell-shoon, superstition regarding,i:313.Hendrick, Ellwood,i:102;letters from Hearn to,ii:60–65,80–90,98–101,106–118,120–129,134–141,149,167–174,177–180,182–186,187–191,193–198,251,252,270–273,280–285,299–303,305–327,332–340,386–388,398–401,479–485;his marriage,358.Hendrick, Josephine,ii:332,336.Heracles,i:316.Heredity, Hearn’s reflections on,i:131,399,400; in the tropics,429; law of,ii:227–231,232,234,237–243.Heretic, fate of the modern,ii:107.Herodias,i:249.Hershon, Paul Isaac, his Talmudic Miscellany,i:287.Hideyoshi,ii:77.Hindola,i:388.Hindoos, legends of,i:227,228.Hirata,i:6.Hirn, Yrjö,ii:502;letters to,19–23,466–472,478,479;his Origins of Art,19–21,468;his personal appearance,467.Hirn, Mrs., her translations of Hearn,ii:22,466,467,468,469,501,502;letters to,472,473,501–503;Hearn’s comments on one of her translations,472,473.Hiruko, Japanese deity,ii:7,8,37.Hobson, Richmond Pearson,ii:426,427.Hoffman, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm,i:200.Hōki, the modern name of ancient Hahaki,ii:58.Hokusai,i:103;ii:4.Holmes, Edmund,i:6.Holmes, Elizabeth.SeeHearn, Elizabeth (Holmes).Holmes, Rice,i:6.Holmes, Sir Richard,i:6.Homer,i:272.Homing instinct, G. M. Gould’s paper on,i:439,440.Hommyōji, Nichiren temple of,ii:186.Hōnen-odori, a Japanese dance,ii:38.Hoppin, James Mason, his Old England,i:234.Houses, furnishings of Japanese,ii:93,94.Houssaye, Arsène,i:361.Howard, ——, and the Louisiana lottery,i:205.Howells, William Dean,i:332.Hueffer, Francis, his Troubadours,i:361.Hugo, Victor, his style,i:269,275;his selfishness,340,341;his Chant de Sophocle à Salamine,ii:215,216.Hugolâtres,i:168.Huxley, Thomas Henry,ii:190,204,221,234,235,266,404,409;his Evolution and Ethics,ii:189.


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