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1897. GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS, Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East. By Lafcadio Hearn. Lecturer on English Literature in the Imperial University of Japan. (Publisher's Vignette.) Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. (The Riverside Press, Cambridge.)
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I. A Living God (_Atlantic Monthly_, December, 1896) II. Out of the Street (_Atlantic Monthly_, September, 1896) III. Notes of a Trip to Kyôto (_Atlantic Monthly_, May, 1896) IV. Dust (_Atlantic Monthly_, November, 1896) V. About Faces in Japanese Art (Atlantic Monthly, August, 1896) VI. Ningyô-no-Haka VII. In Ôsaka VIII. Buddhist Allusions in Japanese Folk-Song IX. Nirvâna X. The Rebirth of Katsugorô XI. Within the Circle
The Same. London: Constable and Company, 1897, 8vo.
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1898. EXOTICS AND RETROSPECTIVES. By Lafcadio Hearn. Lecturer on English Literature in the Imperial University, Tôkyô. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, MDCCCXCIX.
16mo., 4 p. l., pp. 299, 4 full-page illustrations, 13 illustrations in the text. Green cloth, decorated, gold lettering, gilt top.
To Dr. C. H. H. Hall, of Yokohama (late U. S. Navy) _In Constant Friendship_
All but one of the papers composing this volume appear for the first time. The little essays, or rather fantasies, forming the second part of the book, deal with experiences in two hemispheres; but their general title should explain why they have been arranged independently of that fact. To any really scientific imagination, the curious analogy existing between certain teachings of evolutional psychology and certain teachings of Eastern faith,--particularly the Buddhist doctrine that all sense-life is Karma, and all substance only the phenomenal result of acts and thoughts,--might have suggested something much more significant than my cluster of "Retrospectives." These are offered merely as intimations of a truth incomparably less difficult to recognize than to define.