Voice, Colombat de l’Isère’s work on diseases of the,i:363.Voudoo, the word,i:360.Voudoo songs,i:192,193.Wagner, Richard,i:236;ii:15.Wales, Hearn removes to,i:8,12;music of,190;language of,190.Wall Street, New York City, romance of,ii:182.Wallace, Alfred Russel,i:438;ii:211,213,221.War, developing effects of,ii:509,510,511.Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,ii:301.Warner, Charles Dudley,i:342,392,451.Waseda University, professors of,i:149,150;Hearn accepts chair of English at,156.Watson, William,ii:215,402.Weight, close connection between ideas of value and,ii:74,75,76.Weill, Alexander, his reminiscences of Heine,i:341.Weiss, John,i:265,432.West Indies, dances of,i:297,307;transplantation of negro melodies to,356,360,411;Hearn’s plan to visit,382;letters relating to,409–419,422–424;literary material in,410,414,422,426;formative influences of climate of,441.Wetmore, Elizabeth (Bisland),ii:65,82,83,167,333,484;letters from Hearn to,i:82,388–392,403,404,408,409,412–421,445–457;ii:3–5,457–460,473–477,486–500,503–507,513–515;Hearn’s belief in her ability,i:391,414,450;her marriage,ii:62.White, Richard Grant,i:350.Whitman, Walt,ii:432;Hearn’s opinion of,i:271–274,320,432,433;Symonds’s praise of,292;his ideal of democracy,ii:512.Whitney, Charles,i:70,71.Wilde, Oscar, his comment on the plagiarizations of life and nature,i:96.Wilkins, Peter, his Voyages,i:212.“Will” and “shall,” Hearn’s use of the words,ii:224,225,246.Williams, Sir Monier, his translation of the story of Nala,i:402.Winckelmann, Johann Joachim,i:211,227.Windward Islands, Hearn visits,i:97.Women, physical magnetism of,i:401;as physicians, in France,441;Japanese,ii:35,61,87,88,90,91;compared with American,36;intellectual,98,99;Occidental attitude toward,112,123;revelations made by men to,189;marriage and the educated woman, in Japan,416–422;emotional,427.Wordsworth, William,ii:215.World, smallness of the,i:472.World, The (New York paper), J. Cockerill’s work on,i:54.Worship, phallic,ii:32.Worthington, Richard,i:246,248,253,276,321,376.Wundt, Wilhelm Max, his colour-theory,ii:320.Wüstenfeld, Heinrich Ferdinand, his edition of Al-Nawawi,i:331.Wycliffe, John,i:350.Yabase, Japan,ii:46,47,48,54,55.Yaegaki san, deities worshipped at Sakusa,ii:25.Yaidzu, Japan,ii:478,516;Hearn’s warning to M. McDonald regarding a visit to,447,448,449,450.Yakushi Nyorai, Hearn’s visits to the temple of,ii:17,18.Yasukochi, letter to,ii:464–466;his military experience,465.Yellow fever, in New Orleans,i:185,186,195;in Martinique,440.Yokogi, death of,ii:72.Yokohama, Japan, Hearn’s visits to M. McDonald at,ii:346,366,367,371,388,389,390,392,393,409,422,423,438,439,442,443.Yriarte, Charles Emile, his life of Giovanni Malatesta,i:271.Yucatan, significance of darkness to ancient inhabitants of,i:468.Zilliacus, Konni,ii:467.Zola, Emile,i:228;ii:503;his L’Argent,ii:65;his Rome,392.