Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn
Letters from the Raven
Being the Correspondence of
LAFCADIO HEARNwithHENRY WATKIN
Edited byMILTON BRONNER
12mo, Half Cloth, Gilt Top, $1.25 net
Chicago Record Herald:—“All who have felt the delight of Lafcadio Hearn’s ‘sinuous, silvery, poetical prose’ ... will treasure the little volume ... containing Hearn’s correspondence with Watkin, the Cincinnati printer, who was his one lifelong friend. Out of that rare friendship grew this volume of letters, which does more than else to reveal the shy, sensitive, restless soul of Lafcadio Hearn.... The whole volume is worth reading again and again, merely for its verbal melody and the weird originality of its figures.”
The Globe:—“One of the most interesting series of letters that has yet been published out of the large correspondence of the late Lafcadio Hearn.”
New York Press:—“A distinct addition to the knowledge we now have of this extraordinary man.”
Troy Times:—“This collection of letters gives a wonderful insight into that mystery, beauty and charm which pervade the writings of Lafcadio Hearn, and by their very intimacy and frankness picture his mood and the development of those inborn emotions at a time when they were clamoring for expression.”
Louisville Times:—“These letters give the only insight obtainable into the personality of Hearn.”
Indianapolis News:—“A wonderfully interesting book.... These letters of Lafcadio Hearn are a fascinating, psychological study. They are in such beautiful English they are a delight to the ear. His picturesque and trenchant references to art, literature, and religion make the letters doubly interesting. This is one of the most significant of recent publications.”
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