Miss Numè of Japan: A Japanese-American Romance
MISS NUMÈ OF JAPAN.
ONOTO WATANNA.
A Japanese-American Romance
ONOTO WATANNA
Author of Natsu-San, Yuri-San and Okiku-San, A Half Caste, etc.
Chicago and New York: RAND, McNALLY & COMPANY. PUBLISHERS.
Copyright, 1899, by Rand, McNally & Co.
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO MY FRIEND, HELEN M. BOWEN BECAUSE I LOVE HER SO
The fate of an introduction to a book seems not only to fall short of its purpose, but to offend those whose habit it is to criticise before they read. Once I heard an old man say, It is dangerous to write for the wise. They strike warm hands with form, but shrug a cold shoulder at originality. I do not think, though, that this book was written for the wise, for the men and women whose frosty judgment would freeze the warm current of a free and almost careless soul. It was written for the imaginative, and they alone are the true lovers of story and song. Onoto Watanna plays upon an instrument new to our ears, quaintly Japanese, an air at times simple and sweet, as tender as the chirrup of a bird in love, and then as wild as the scream of a hawk. Mood has been her teacher; impulse has dictated her style. She has inherited the spirit of the orchard in bloom. Her art is the grace of the wild vine, under no obligation to a gardener, but with a charm that the gardener could not impart. A monogram wrought by nature's accident upon the golden leaf of autumn, does not belong to the world of letters, but it inspires more feeling and more poetry than a library squeezed out of man's tired brain. And this book is not unlike an autumn leaf blown from a forest in Japan.
OPIE READ.
Onoto Watanna
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INTRODUCTION.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
CHAPTER I. PARENTAL AMBITIONS.
CHAPTER II. CLEO.
CHAPTER III. WHO CAN ANALYZE A COQUETTE?
CHAPTER IV. THE DANCE ON DECK.
CHAPTER V. HER GENTLE ENEMY.
CHAPTER VI. A VEILED HINT.
CHAPTER VII. JEALOUSY WITHOUT LOVE.
CHAPTER VIII. THE MAN SHE DID LOVE.
CHAPTER IX. MERELY A WOMAN.
CHAPTER X. "WATCHING THE NIGHT."
CHAPTER XI. AT THE JOURNEY'S END.
CHAPTER XII. THOSE QUEER JAPANESE!
CHAPTER XIII. TAKASHIMA'S HOME-COMING.
CHAPTER XIV. AFTER EIGHT YEARS.
CHAPTER XV. NUMÈ.
CHAPTER XVI. AN AMERICAN CLASSIC.
CHAPTER XVII. "STILL A CHILD."
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MEETING.
CHAPTER XIX. CONFIDENCES.
CHAPTER XX. SINCLAIR'S INDIFFERENCE.
CHAPTER XXI. "ME? I LIG' YOU."
CHAPTER XXII. ADVICE.
CHAPTER XXIII. AFRAID TO ANSWER.
CHAPTER XXIV. VISITING THE TEA HOUSES.
CHAPTER XXV. SHATTERED HOPES.
CHAPTER XXVI. CONSCIENCE.
CHAPTER XXVII. CONFESSION.
CHAPTER XXVIII. JAPANESE PRIDE.
CHAPTER XXIX. SECLUSION.
CHAPTER XXX. FEMININE DIPLOMACY.
CHAPTER XXXI. A BARBARIAN DINNER.
CHAPTER XXXII. THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE.
CHAPTER XXXIII. WHAT CAN THAT "LUF" BE?
CHAPTER XXXIV. CONSPIRATORS.
CHAPTER XXXV. A RESPITE FOR SINCLAIR.
CHAPTER XXXVI. THOSE BAD JINRIKISHA MEN.
CHAPTER XXXVII. THOSE GOOD JINRIKISHA MEN.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. DISPROVING A PROVERB.
CHAPTER XXXIX. LOVE!
CHAPTER XL. A PASSIONATE DECLARATION.
CHAPTER XLI. A HARD SUBJECT TO HANDLE.
CHAPTER XLII. A STORY.
CHAPTER XLIII. THE TRUTH OF THE PROVERB.
CHAPTER XLIV. NUMÈ BREAKS DOWN.
CHAPTER XLV. TRYING TO FORGET.
CHAPTER XLVI. AN OBSERVANT HUSBAND.
CHAPTER XLVII. MATSUSHIMA BAY.
CHAPTER XLVIII. A REJECTED LOVER.
CHAPTER XLIX. THE ANSWER.
CHAPTER L. THE BALL.
CHAPTER LI. THE FEARFUL NEWS.
CHAPTER LII. THE TRAGEDY.
CHAPTER LIII. A LITTLE HEROINE.
CHAPTER LIV. SINCLAIR LEARNS THE TRUTH AT LAST.
CHAPTER LV. LOVERS AGAIN.
CHAPTER LVI. THE PENALTY.
CHAPTER LVII. THE PITY OF IT ALL.
CHAPTER LVIII. MRS. DAVIS'S NERVES.
CHAPTER LIX. CLEO AND NUMÈ.
