“Dr. Healy’s work is not everywhere selfconsistent.”

+ —Nation. 81: 346. O. 26, ‘05. 1100w.

“A carefully written monograph.”

+Outlook. 81: 385. O. 14, ‘05. 140w.

Hearn, Lafcadio. [Exotics and retrospectives.] Shadowings. A. Japanese miscellany. In ghostly Japan, ea. $1.25. Little.

The general title, “Stories and sketches of Japan,” includes in popular form four volumes of the short papers written during the last few years of the author’s life. The volume entitled “A Japanese miscellany,” “would have fitted,” says the N. Y. Times, “the whole series excellently well for it is altogether Japanese.... Bits of antiquarian and ethnological investigation; little papers of research in all kinds of interesting matters relating to the people whom the author loved so well; Japanese stories retold from curious old Japanese books, with Mr. Hearn’s own version of traits and occurrences that have come under his observation; a few of the exquisitely artistic and suggestive tales, impressions, descriptions, which no one but a Hearn could write—these fill the four volumes with such a wealth of entertaining as well as valuable material that, in reading them, one constantly marvels how any one man found time or patience to gather and assimilate it all into one such orderly shape.”

“He does not so much attempt to define, as to convey by means of his charmingly expressed and equally charmingly conceived ideas, some notion of the other half of the world, and the ideals as well as the daily life of the East.”

+ +Int. Studio. 25: sup. 40. Ap. ‘05. 230w.

“Together they offer an extraordinary variety of apercus of Japanese character and customs and beliefs, subtly apprehended, and expressed in a style infused with sympathy, phantasy, and color.”

+ +Nation. 80: 68. Ja. 26, ‘05. 330w.