Volume 2 — INDEX
Reading edition
Adulteration, in food and morals, ii: 139–141.
Æsthetics, Y. Hirn’s study of, ii: 20, 21.
Africa, musical aptitudes of races of, i: 284, 353; transplantation of melodies of, to America, 356, 380, 411.
Ahriman, the Persian Spirit of Darkness, ii: 118, 126.
Akizuki, teacher of Chinese at Kumamoto, i: 125; ii: 66, 67, 73, 119, 177.
Albee, John, i: letters from Hearn to, i: 276, 277; ii: 358-361; his Prose Idyls, 360.
Albee, Mrs. John, i: 358, 359, 360.
Alden, Henry Mills, i: 286, 378, 405, 428.
Alexander the Great, i: 161.
Allen, Grant, Hearn’s comment on, i: 394.
Allen, James Lane, ii: 377.
Allingham, William, ii: 522; a verse by, 521.
Amaron, lyrics of, i: 368.
Ama-terasu-Omi-Kami, ii: 25.
Amenomori, Nobushige, i: 128, 139, 159; ii: 217, 346, 353, 380, 390, 391, 392, 394; photograph of, 376.
Amicis, Edmondo de, his Cuore, i: 456; ii: 102.
Amiel, Henri Frédéric, his Journal Intime, ii: 400.
Ancestors, worship of, ii: 28.
Andersen, Hans, Hearn’s comment on, ii: 251.
Angelinus, i: 256.
Anglo-American alliance, ii: 384.
Anglo-Saxon race, future of, ii: 137.
Antæus, ii: 454.
Antilles. See West Indies.
Apes, treatment of, on board ship, i: 413, 414.
Apollo, Temple of, at Levkas, i: 3.
Apollonius of Tyana, i: 321, 322.
Arabia, hero-stories of, i: 234, 237.
Aristocracies, value of, ii: 248.
Arnold, Edwin, i: 282, 335, 454; his Light of Asia, 291; Hearn’s opinion of, 319; his translation of the story of Nala, 402.
Arnold, Matthew, Hearn’s comments on, i: 318, 319.
Arnoux, ——, i: 465, 466; ii: 347.
Arrows, used in Japanese rice-fields, ii: 6.
Arrows of prayer, ii: 6.
Art, nature of antique, i: 211; standards of, 216–218; sacrifices and rewards of, 237–239, 242, 243; return to antique, 254; money considerations should not enter into, 336; ghostliness of, ii: 19, 20; use of the distorted in, 125–127 secret of literary, 345, 346.
Asai, Mr., ii: 298, 299.
Assyria, ghost-stories of, ii: 251.
Aston, William George, ii: 484.
Atlantic City, N. J., i: 451.
Atlantic Monthly, i: 293, 317, 321, 397.
Aubryet, Xavier, i: 340.
Augustin, Jean, i: 70, 71, 363; ii: 294.
Austin, Alfred, ii: 302.
Azan, the muezzin’s call, i: 280, 281, 283, 309, 317, 321.
Azukizawa, one of Hearn’s pupils, ii: 68.
Bacon, Francis, his idea of love, i: 316; Hearn’s opinions of his Essays, 328.
Bagpipe, introduced by Romans into Scotland, i: 182.
Baker, Constance, ii: 256, 259, 287, 288, 292.
Baker, Page M., i: 265, 267, 268, 280, 289, 321, 323, 334, 346, 361, 370; Hearn’s description of, 70, 71; ii: 203; letters from Hearn to, i: 87; ii: 43–46, 90–95, 174–176, 253–256, 257–265, 285–289, 292–296.
Baker, Mrs. Page M., ii: 265.
Ball, Rev. Wayland D., i: 83; letters from Hearn to, 250–267, 342–348; Hearn’s advice to, regarding literary work, 265, 266, 267, 343, 346.
Ballads, a Japanese singer and seller of, ii: 220; customs regarding, 221.
Balzac, Honoré de, ii: 432; his Le Succube, i: 201.
Bamboula, music of, i: 325, 359.
Bangor, North Wales, a private museum in, i: 171, 172.
Banja, an African word, i: 339.
Banjo, i: 310, 311; use of, by Southern negroes, 337.
Baring-Gould, Sabine, his chapter on the Mountain of Venus, i: 279.
Barrera, Enrique, i: 228.
Barrie, James Matthew, ii: 301; his Sentimental Tommy, 318.
Basutos, music of, i: 353.
Bath, the Japanese, ii: 94.
Bathing, at Grande Isle, i: 90, 91, 92.
Batokas, multiple pipe of the, i: 297.
Bats, adventures with, i: 465–467.
Baudelaire, Pierre Charles, i: 197, 211; his phrase regarding Gautier, 82; Hearn’s desire to translate his Petits Poëmes en Prose, 362.
Beaulieu, Anatole Henri de, i: 317.
Beauty, hatred of the many for, i: 27; nature of the first perception of, 28–30; Hearn’s early love of, 29, 32, 48.
Bedloe, Edward, ii: 408, 438, 439, 440, 443, 448, 454.
Beecher, Henry Ward, i: 52.
Beetles, Japanese, ii: 143.
Behrens, Alice von, ii: 411.
Belief, Hearn’s philosophy of, i: 296; origin of religious, 347, 348.
Bellamy, Edward, ii: 184.
Bellesort, André, ii: 352, 353; his Société Japonaise, 471, 478, 479, 502.
Bellesort, Mme., ii: 352, 353, 502.
Bennett, James Gordon, i: 54.
Béranger, Pierre Jean de, ii: 412.
Bergerat, Auguste Emile, i: 222, 227.
Berlioz, Hector, i: 168.
Bernhardt, Sarah, ii: 435.
Bhagavad-Gita, i: 316, 402.
Bible, revised version of the Old Testament, i: 350; grammatical usages in, ii: 75, 76; Japanese hatred of some passages in, 320.
Bìlâl, i: 280, 281, 282; Hearn’s article on, 283, 284, 286, 295; biography of, 331.
Bisland, Elizabeth. See Wetmore, Elizabeth (Bisland).
Bizet, Georges, i: 385.
Björnson, Björnstjerne, i: 46.
Black, William, ii: 301.
Blouet, Paul (Max O’Rell), i: 445.
Blue, significance of the colour, i: 394.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, his Decameron, i: 256.
Bodhisattvas, Japanese and Indian, ii: 78.
Bon-odori, a Japanese dance, ii: 37, 38, 46, 47, 52, 54.
Book of Golden Deeds, as a reading-book in a Japanese school, ii: 102.
Books, Hearn’s dislike of borrowing, ii: 432.
Borrow, George, i: 205, 206, 459; his Gypsies of Spain, 201, 202.
Bourdillon, Francis, verses by, ii: 525.
Bourgault-Ducoudray, Louis Albert, his Souvenirs d’une mission musicale en Grèce, i: 386.
Bourget, Paul, ii: 84.
Bowditch, Thomas Edward, i: 354.
Brachet, Auguste, i: 374.
Brahma, i: 210.
Brahmins, example of magic given by, i: 322.
Brain, in civilized man and savages, ii: 245.
Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeilles, Seigneur de, i: 256.
Brenane, Mrs., Hearn adopted by, i: 8, 11, 12, 16; disposition of her property, 36, 37.
Bridges, Robert, his Pater Filio, ii: 498.
Brittany, songs of, i: 189, 190.
Broca, Pierre Paul, i: 339; ii: 245.
Brownell, William Crary, Hearn’s comment on his French Traits, i: 457.
Browning, Robert, ii: 190.
Brunetière, Ferdinand, ii: 479.
Buddhas, Japanese and Indian, ii: 78.
Buddhism, monistic idea in, strengthened by education, i: 112; introduction of knowledge of, into America, 265; the possible religion of the future, 291, 292; Christianity and, 347; in the light of modern science, 400; false teaching of, 401; Hearn’s study of, ii: 4; his love of, 26; suppression of, in hotels of Kizuki, 47; difficulty of study of, for foreigners, 82; effect of, on the foreigner, 85, 86; some tenets of, 135; theosophical and spiritualistic writers on, 431. See also Nichiren.
Buddhist catechism, projected by Hearn, ii: 269, 270.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, first Baron Lytton, his The House and the Brain, ii: 371.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert Lytton, first Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith), his The Portrait, ii: 294.
Bunchō, Japanese painter, ii: 468.
Buonarroti, Michelangelo, i: 275.
Burke, Edmund, his Essays as a reading-book in a Japanese school, ii: 102.
Burns, Mrs., ii: 368.
Burns, Robert, a verse of, ii: 527, 528.
Burthe, Honoré, i: 70, 71.
Business, hypocrisy of, ii: 109; morality of modern men and methods of, 169–174, 177–179, 293; Hearn’s hatred of, 294, 353, 354; extraordinary incidents of, 303.
Byron, George Gordon Noel, Baron Byron, French prose translations of, i: 245.
Byzantium, wind organs invented at, i: 166.
Cable, George Washington, i: 212; his study of Creole music, 175, 337, 359; his Grandissimes, 228, 229; character of his work, 289, 295, 296; negro Pan’s pipe described by, 355.
Cæsar, Julius, i: 161.
Carlyle, Thomas and Jane, i: 139.
Carmen, the opera, i: 201, 202.
Carpenter, Edward, ii: 511.
Castelar, Emilio, i: 275.
Castrén, Matthias Alexander, his work on Finnish mythology, i: 233, 235, 236.
Caterpillar, Hearn’s story of a, ii: 436.
Catholicism, Latin feeling surviving in, ii: 312. See also Roman Catholic Church.
Cats, Japanese, ii: 55, 56, 58, 59.
Cephalonia, Island of, i: 7.
Ceram, Island of, ii: 211, 213.
Cerigo, Island of, i: 6.
Cerigote, Rosa. See Hearn, Rosa (Cerigote).
Chalumeau, or multiple pipe, i: 297.
Chamberlain, Basil Hall, i: 53; ii: 63, 107, 306; his explanation of Hearn’s inconstancy to his friends, i: 57–59; aid given to Hearn by, 110, 136; letters from Hearn to, 130, 131; ii: 5–18, 23–43, 46–60, 198–251, 256, 257, 266–270, 273, 274, 276–278; his Kojiki, 6, 9; his Things Japanese, 60, 76–79, 90, 212; Hearn’s suggestion for an illustrated edition of Kojiki, 58; his knowledge of the Japanese language, 117; project for a book on Japanese folk-lore by Hearn and, 129; Japanese appreciation of, 201; his version of the Kumamoto Rōjō, 220, 221; his paper on the Loochoo Islands, 273, 274.
Charcot, Jean Martin, i: 441; story based on researches of, 399.
Châteaubriand, François René Auguste, Vicomte de, i: 191.
Châteauneuf, Agricole Hippolyte de Lapierre de, i: 256.
Chatto and Windus, i: 251, 253.
Chenières, Les, destruction of, i: 96.
Chinese gongs, i: 171, 172.
Choctaw Indians, i: 188; no longer a musical people, 166.
Chōzuba-no-Kami, ii: 32, 33.
Christening ceremony, Shintō, ii: 59.
Christern, F. W., i: 189.
Christian Band, The, ii: 142.
Christianity, Buddhism and, i: 347; Oriental characteristics of, 400, 401; moral value of, ii: 87; courtesy and, 132, 133; the higher, 146.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Hearn sets out for, i: 45; his first employment in, 49; his departure from, 63, 66; as an art centre, 182.
Cincinnati Enquirer, Hearn’s work on, i: 50–52, 154.
Civilization, immoral side of Occidental, ii: 111, 112; transmission of, from one race to another, 245; effect of American, on literature, 301.
Clapperton, Hugh, i: 354.
Clarke, James Freeman, sectarian purpose of his work on religions, i: 345.
Clifford, William Kingdon, ii: 152, 190, 221.
Clive, Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey, i: 160.
Coatlicue, Mexican goddess of flowers, i: 436.
Cockerill, John, Hearn’s sketch of, i: 53, 54.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, i: 377.
Colombat, Marc (Colombat de l’Isère), his work on diseases of the voice, i: 363.
Colour, æsthetic symbolism of, i: 394; sense of, 397.
Columbian Exposition, Chicago, ii: 150, 152.
Comparative mythology, results of a study of, i: 345.
Comparetti, Domenico, author of The Traditional Poetry of the Finns, ii: 502.
Concept, analysis of a mathematical, ii: 241, 242.
Conder, Josiah, ii: 117, 118.
Confession, Hearn’s account of an experience at, i: 32, 33.
Confucianism, ii: 27.
Congo, a Creole dance, i: 336.
Congo tribes, a superstition of, i: 313.
Coolies, West Indian, i: 415, 416, 433.
Corinthians, strait between Santa Maura and Greece cut by, i: 3.
Cornell University, lectures by Hearn proposed and abandoned by, ii: 487–489, 490, 492, 495.
Cornilliac, Jean Jacques, i: 441.
Cosmopolitan, The (magazine), i: 452, 455.
Coulanges, Numa Denis Fustel de, i: 202.
Courtesy, Oriental and Occidental, ii: 180; effect of industrialism on, 183.
Crawford, Francis Marion, ii: 301, 377.
Creole sketches, Hearn’s project for, i: 224.
Creoles, Hearn’s collection of proverbs of, i: 83; patois of, 83, 189, 232, 417; music and songs of, 175, 188, 189, 337, 338, 356, 357, 359; of Louisiana, 188; Hearn’s project for collecting legends of Louisiana, 193; cruelty of French, 203; dances of, 297, 307, 336.
Crosby, Ernest, i: 85; letter from Hearn to, ii: 509–513.
Crosby, Oscar, i: 85.
Cruise of the Marchesa, ii: 218, 219.
Cuba, African influence on music of, i: 380.
Curiosités des Arts, extract translated from, i: 165, 166.
Curtis, George William, his Howadji in Syria, i: 196.
Cyrano de Bergerac, Rostand’s, ii: 435, 436.
Dai sen, mountain, ii: 23.
Daikoku, Japanese deity, identified with Oho-Kuni-nushi-no-Kami, in Matsue, ii: 13.
Daikon, ii: 57.
Daily Item (New Orleans), Hearn’s work on, i: 68.
Daimyōs, downfall of, in Japan, i: 116.
Dances, Creole, i: 297, 307, 336; Greek choral, 385, 386; Japanese, ii: 21, 22, 31, 468. See also Bon-odori, Hōnen-odori, Miko-kagura.
Dancing-girls, Japanese. See Geisha.
Dardanas, i: 167.
Darfur, Africa, i: 277.
Darwin, Charles Robert, i: 292; ii: 266; his hypothesis as to sexual æsthetic sensibilities in animals, ii: 20; his contribution to the theory of evolution, 235.
Davitt, Michael, i: 361.
Death, Hearn’s feeling about, ii: 379.
Decadent school, ii: 187, 188.
Deir-el-Tiu, monastery of, i: 328.
Deland, Margaret, ii: 301, 489; her Philip and his Wife, 167, 222; her Story of a Child, 222.
Delpit, Albert, i: 361.
Demerara, gold-mines of, i: 413.
Dening, Walter, ii: 77.
De Quincey, Thomas, his mastery of English, i: 132, 135; his Flight of a Tartar Tribe, 329.
Dictionaries, etymological, i: 374.
Dimitris, The, of Russia, i: 329.
Divinity, weight of the popular idea of a, ii: 78.
Dobson, Austin, i: 253; ii: 215.
Don Juan, not an Oriental type, ii: 114.
Doré, Paul Gustave, Hearn’s article on, i: 80, 268; his knowledge of gipsies, 201, 202; his illustrations for Poe’s Raven, 317.
Dozy, Reinhart Pieter, i: 374.
Draper, John William, i: 326.
Drawing, Hearn’s defence of Japanese methods of, ii: 331.
Dreams, i: 442, 469.
Dublin, Ireland, Hearn family removes to, i: 7.
Du Maurier, George, ii: 302; his Trilby, 187, 221.
Dumez, ——, i: 205.
Durham, Eng., Roman Catholic College at, i: 34.
Dutch East Indies, ii: 218, 219.
Dutt, Toru, her translation of the story of Nala, i: 402.
Duveyrier, Henri, his Les Touâreg du Nord, i: 353.
Earthquakes, in Japan, ii: 83, 84.
East, Shadows of the, ii: 85, 87.
Ebers, Georg, i: 226.
Ebisu, Japanese deity, temple of, at Nishinomiya, ii: 8; identified with Koto-shiro-nushi-no-Kami, in Matsue, 13; in Mionoseki, 37.
Education, of the emotions, i: 456; Hearn’s attitude toward scientific, ii: 163, 164, 275; decline of, in Japan, 216; ecclesiastical, 310.
Edwards, Bryan, his History of the West Indies, i: 297, 339.
Edwards, Osman, ii: 402, 455; his Theatre in Japan, 222.
Eggs, eating of, in Japan, ii: 96, 97.
Egypt, sistrum introduced into Italy by, i: 166; musical instruments of, 211, 212, 213, 311, 353; stories of the antique life of, 226; an ancient melody of, 286; ghost-stories of, ii: 251.
Eitel, Ernest John, his identification of Japanese and Indian divinities, ii: 78.
Electric light, G. M. Gould’s paper on, i: 439.
Electricity, story based on evolution of, by the human body, i: 399.
Eliot, George, her Silas Marner used as a reading-book in Kumamoto, ii: 79.
Emancipation, religious and political, ii: 206.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, i: 265; ii: 174, 183, 441; his suggestiveness, i: 432; ii: 190.
Emotions, education of, i: 456.
Endemann, Carl, music of the Basutos preserved by, i: 353, 354.
Enemies, value of, i: 153; ii: 412, 414.
Engelmann, Willem Herman, i: 374.
England, distrust of American literary work in, i: 361; revision of treaty between Japan and, ii: 185, 186; action of, after Chinese-Japanese War, 262; effect of religious conservatism on education in, 275; the reading public of, 446.
Environment, ii: 239, 240; moral adaptation to, 136.
Erse tongue, i: 190.
Eskimo music, i: 330.
Estes and Lauriat, i: 250.
Etymological dictionaries, i: 374.
Euterpe, a periodical, ii: 472.
Evolution, physical, Spencer’s conservatism regarding further, i: 397; physical and moral, 432, 434–436; brain-growth a striking fact of, ii: 245; psychological, 231–233, 238-243; popular effect of psychological, on fiction, 267.
Fairy-tales, Hearn’s project for a set of philosophical, ii: 339, 340.
Family, Oriental and Occidental ideas of the, ii: 112, 113, 116, 117, 147.
Farny, H. F., i: 52, 53, 55, 280, 448.
Fashion, deformities of, i: 438.
Fauche, Hippolyte, his translation of the Ramayana, i: 402.
Feldwisch, ——, i: 221, 232, 292, 293.
Fenollosa, Ernest, letters from Hearn to, ii: 381–384, 412–414.
Fenollosa, Mary McNeil, i: 153; ii: 381, 383; letters from Hearn to, ii: 401–403, 437, 440–442.
Feuillet, Octave, his M. de Camors, ii: 84.
Fiction, Hearn’s desire to write, i: 338, 339, 350, 352, 371, 372, 375, 430; ii: 246, 341, 342, 348, 349, 378; Hearn’s theory of that which lives, i: 454, 455; popular effect of evolutional psychology on, ii: 267; Hearn’s taste in, 276; requirements for the writing of, 341.
Figs, Louisiana, i: 170, 177, 178.
Finck, Henry Theophilus, his Romantic Love and Personal Beauty, ii: 193.
Finland, music of, i: 191, 200; two epics of, 235; seen through the Kalewala, ii: 469; social and political changes in, 469, 470; views in, sent to Hearn, 471, 472.
Fire-drill, for lighting the sacred fire, ii: 10, 12, 13, 15, 23, 26, 29.
Fiske, John, ii: 107, 190, 221.
FitzGerald, Edward, his translation of Omar Khayyám, ii: 499.
Flameng, Léopold, i: 185.
Flammarion, Camille, his Astronomie populaire, i: 385.
Flaubert, Gustave, his Salammbô, i: 226, 248, 249; Hearn’s translation of his Tentation de Saint Antoine, 247, 249, 251, 362; his literary generosity, 341.
Fleas, ii: 448, 449, 450.
Flight into Egypt, a French painting of, i: 318.
Floods, in Japan, ii: 307.
Florenz, Karl Adolf, ii: 284, 311, 329.
Florida, Hearn’s visit to, i: 341.
Flower, Sir William Henry, i: 438; his Hunterian Lectures, 314.
Flutes, antique, i: 185; double, 213.
Food, Japanese, ii: 32, 91, 92; not suited to strain of higher education, 103, 104, 292. See Daikon; Sake.
Force, Oriental theory of the nature of, ii: 339.
Forces, our knowledge limited to, ii: 243, 244.
Fort-de-France, Martinique, i: 453.
Fox-superstition, ii: 24, 29, 30.
Foxwell, E. E., II: 384; letters to, 455–457.
France, Anatole, i: 361; ii: 491; Hearn’s translation of his Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, i: 102; quotation from, ii: 345.
Freedom, love of Northern races for, ii: 229.
Freemasons, Hearn’s effort to join, ii: 500.
Free will, i: 435.
Friends, the danger from, i: 153; ii: 412–414.
Friendship, college, ii: 197; basis of, 332, 333; nationality and, 432.
Fuji-san, climbing of, ii: 375, 390, 391, 392; effect of a typhoon upon, 394; pilgrims to, 448.
Fujisaki, H., letter from Hearn to, ii: 515–517.
Funeral rite, Shintō, ii: 59.
Gaelic tongue, i: 190.
Galton, Francis, ii: 229.
Gate of Everlasting Ceremony, ii: 33, 317.
Gautier, Judith, ii: 362.
Gautier, Théophile, i: 227, 231; Hearn’s admiration for, 61, 82, 394, 430, 431; ii: 44, 221, 222; translations of, i: 61, 62, 72, 73, 80–82, 213, 245, 248, 252, 253, 268, 269, 275, 276, 376, 396; Hearn’s comment on his poetry, 253, 255, 269; pantheism of, 255, 256; his style, 269, 275, 324; his portrait, 318; posthumous poetry of, 327; his services ignored by Hugo, 340; his literary generosity, 341; his idea of art, 437; his Avatar, 252, 362, 442, 443; his Emaux et Camées, 82, 259, 260, 275; his Histoire du Romantisme, i: 317; ii: 222; his Mademoiselle de Maupin, 248, 251, 254, 256, 257, 258, 259; his Roman de la Momie, 226, 253; his Spectre de la Rose, 244.
Geisha, ii: 22, 73, 82, 95, 114;
Gell, Sir William, his Pompeiana, i: 213.
Genghis Khan, i: 329.
Germans, in Japan, ii: 199, 206, 207.
Germany, musical instruments furnished to the Romans by, i: 166; education in, ii: 271.
Gessner, Salomon, i: 184.
Ghostology, Egyptian and Assyrian, ii: 251.
Ghosts, Hearn’s interest in, i: 15.
Gibb, George Duncan, i: 339.
Giglampz, Ye, Hearn’s work on, i: 52, 53.
Gilder, Richard Watson, i: 342.
Gipsies, Hearn’s interest in, i: 201, 205, 206; language of, 202.
Girls, liberty allowed to, in England and America, ii: 522.
Gita-Govinda, i: 327.
Go-Daigo, Emperor of Japan, ii: 186, 187.
Gods, pagan, teaching of the early church regarding, i: 26; Hearn’s early interest in, 26, 27.
Goethe, ii: 173, 266, 508.
Gongs, Chinese, i: 171, 172.
Gorresio, Gaspare, his translation of the Ramayana, i: 402.
Gōshō, one of Hearn’s pupils, ii: 465.
Goto, ii: 119.
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, i: 229, 356; his Bamboula, 325, 337; Creole musical themes used by, 359.
Gould, George Milbry, i: 97, 102; letters from Hearn to, 393–403, 421–443, 457–468; his pamphlet on the Colour-Sense, 394; Hearn’s advice as to literary work, 426; his capacity for work, 457, 458.
Gould, H. F., wife of G. M., i: 468.
Gould, Jay, ii: 173, 353; Hearn’s defence of, 109, 110.
Government positions, exacting nature of, i: 383.
Gowey, John F., ii: 369.
Grace, a savage quality, i: 438.
Grand Anse, Martinique, i: 422, 423, 465.
Grande Isle, i: 350, 414, 446; Hearn’s description of, 87–95; destruction of, 96; ii: 155.
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, i: 52.
Greece, musical instruments furnished to the Romans by, i: 166.
Greeks, Hearn’s love of the mythology of, i: 26, 27, 28, 31; chastity of, 219, 220; sculpture of, 227; legends of, 227, 228; poetry of, ii: 520.
Griffith, Ralph Thomas Hotchkin, his translation of the Ramayana, i: 402.
Griots, music of, i: 354, 355, 356, 377.
Grueling, ——, i: 282.
Guiana, British, Hearn’s visit to, i: 97; a mocking-bird of, 357, 358.
Gulf of Mexico, Creole archipelagoes of, i: 333; bathing in, 341.
Gulistan, Saadi’s, i: 280.
Hadramaut, i: 356.
Hadrian, Roman emperor, i: 328.
Hahaki, ancient name of modern Hōki, ii: 58.
Halévy, Ludovic, ii: 395.
Hall, Dr., ii: 347, 348, 350, 374, 389, 405, 422, 428, 429.
Handwriting, Hearn’s efforts to read character from, i: 340, 349.
Harper, Hearn’s recollections of a Welsh, i: 13–15.
Harper and Brothers, their commissions to Hearn, i: 97, 102; Hearn severs his contracts with, 109; his series of Southern sketches for, 268; their encouragement to Hearn, 338.
Harper’s Magazine, Hearn’s contributions to, i: 381.
Harps, of the Nyam-Nyams, i: 310.
Harris, Joel Chandler, i: 337.
Harris, Mrs. Lylie, i: 80.
Hart, Jerome A., his first acquaintance with Hearn, i: 80; letters from Hearn to, 244–250.
Harte, Francis Bret, ii: 41.
Hartmann, Eduard, ii: 235.
Hartmann, Robert, i: 297; his studies of African music, 353, 354.
Hastings, Warren, i: 160.
Hastings, battle of, i: 191.
Hat, highest evolution of, i: 94.
Hatakeyama, Yuko, story of, ii: 142, 181, 268, 269; monument to, 277.
Hauck, Minnie, i: 201.
Havana, Cuba, music of, i: 202.
Health, influence of, on spiritual life, ii: 34, 35.
Hearn, Surgeon-Major Charles Bush, father of Lafcadio, i: 5, 6, 9, 429; opposition to his marriage, 6; his elopement, 7; his return to Dublin, 7; his separation from his wife, 7, 8, 8n.; his second marriage, 8.
Hearn, Elizabeth (Holmes), grandmother of Lafcadio, i: 6.
Hearn, James, brother of Lafcadio, i: 7; letter from Hearn to, 9–11.
Hearn, Lafcadio, a native of Santa Maura, i: 3, 7, 429; influence of the place upon, 4, 5; his ancestry, 5, 6; removes to Wales, 8, 12; effect of domestic conditions upon, 8, 9; his memory of his mother, 9, 10, 11; of his father, 11; his youthful characteristics, 15; autobiographical fragments left by, 15–32, 37–39, 41–45, 45–49, 100, 101, 159, 160; his interest in the weird, 15, 16, 17, 18; his experience with “Cousin Jane,” 18–25; his love of beauty, 29, 32, 148; his early religious instruction, 16, 17, 19, 20, 32, 33; his interest in mythology, 26, 27, 28, 31; his education, 34, 34n., 35, 36; becomes blind in one eye, 35, 36, 429; his poverty, 36, 37, 40, 100, 102; goes to New York, 39, 40; an incident of his early New York life, 42–45; goes to Cincinnati, 45, 49; an incident of the journey, 46–49; becomes type-setter, proof-reader, private secretary, 50; his work on the Cincinnati Enquirer, 50–52, 53; on Ye Giglampz, 52, 53; character of his newspaper work, 55; his friendships, 55–59; his admiration for Spencer, 58, 85, 86, 365, 374, 375, 392, 394, 430, 431, 438, 459; ii: 20, 26, 44, 221, 222; for Gautier, i: 61, 82, 394, 430, 431; ii: 44, 221, 222; goes to New Orleans, i: 65, 66, 67; his letters to Krehbiel, 67; his work in New Orleans, 68, 72, 73, 167, 176, 197, 280, 363; his investments, 69, 198, 199, 230, 336; ii: 353; his library, i: 70, 278, 283, 290, 314, 336, 339, 350, 352, 364; ii: 305, 308; his associates on the Times-Democrat, i: 70, 71; his personal appearance and characteristics, 77–80, 428; ii: 466; his visit to Grande Isle, i: 87–95; his visits to and descriptions of the French West Indies, 97, 98, 100, 101, 409–419, 422–424; goes to Japan, 102; his early impressions of Japan, 103, 104, 107–109, 115; ii: 35; his love of the tropics, i: 105, 415, 420, 425, 449, 469; ii: 64, 211, 213, 217, 281; his work for Japan, i: 106; ii: 281; severs contracts with his publishers, i: 109; ii: 4; his friendship with M. McDonald, i: 109, 110, 153; ii: 107; his work at Matsue, i: 110–113; ii: 16, 30, 43, 46; his kindness of heart, i: 114, 118; his marriage, 116, 117; ii: 44, 60; his visits to Kizuki, i: 115, 122; ii: 7–11, 43; his Japanese name, i: 117; ii: 270, 292, 293, 299; his obligations as a Japanese citizen, i: 117, 136; ii: 44, 64, 81, 158, 191, 265, 270, 278, 279, 298; his household pets, i: 117, 118, 119; ii: 460; his popularity, i: 119, 120; his disregard of money, 122, 148, 336; his dislike of forms and restraints, 122, 123, 148; his study of Japanese with his wife, 123, 124; his appointment at Kumamoto, 124; ii: 63, 65; his life and work there, i: 125–128; ii: 93, 94, 100, 102, 103, 110; birth of his first child, i: 127; ii: 115, 116, 128, 149, 150, 156; enters the service of the Kōbe Chronicle, i: 128, 129; his growing indifference to externals, 129–131, 137; ii: 194, 195; his mastery of English, i: 132; facsimile of a first draft of his MS., 133, 134; goes to the University of Tōkyō, 136–138, 283; his methods of writing, 140, 141, 239, 373, 391; ii: 89, 272, 273, 396; his private life in Tōkyō, i: 141–152; ii: 295, 309; gives up his professorship, i: 154; ii: 368, 490, 493; lectures at Cornell proposed and abandoned, i: 154; ii: 487, 488, 490, 492, 495; accepts chair of English in Waseda University, i: 156; lectures in London and Oxford proposed, 156; his death, 156; buried according to Buddhist rites, 157–159; tributes to, 158, 159; his interest in primitive music, 165–167, 190, 231, 330, 339, 353, 354, 358–360, 380, 411; ii: 15; effect of Southern climate upon, i: 169, 170, 177, 195, 196, 288, 319, 421, 422, 423, 424, 425, 427, 440, 445; descriptions of his home in New Orleans, 172–174, 196, 222; his interest in gipsies, 201, 202, 205, 206; his fantastics, 220, 221, 226, 230, 231, 278; his proposed series of French translations, 252, 362, 363; of Oriental stories, 278, 295; of musical legends, 286; of strange facts, 298; of Arabesque studies, 321, 328, 331, 396, 403; of legends of strange faiths, 328; his ambition regarding his style, 276, 324, 364, 374, 379, 383, 393; ii: 359; his dread of cold, i: 279, 298, 379, 448; ii: 188, 211; his pursuit of the odd, i: 290, 291, 294; change in his literary inclinations, 293, 294; his desire to travel, 294, 295, 398, 424; ii: 351; his outline of an imaginary series of musical volumes, i: 299–304, 309; his use of classic English literature, 328; his ignorance of modern history, 329; his visits to the Gulf archipelagoes, 333; his study of Spanish, 334; thinks of studying medicine, 338; his desire to write fiction, 338, 339, 350, 352, 371, 372, 375, 430; ii: 246, 341, 342, 348, 349, 378; his visit to Florida, i: 341; his health, 344, 348, 366, 367, 371, 406, 407; ii: 14, 24, 25, 67, 73, 74, 129, 196, 197, 280, 292, 303, 304, 490, 493, 495, 506; result of his study of comparative mythology, i: 345; his admiration for Viaud (P. Loti), 377, 378, 396, 427, 452, 453; his efforts to learn Chinese, 404; his dread of New York, 405; ii: 182, 476, 484; his desire to return to America, ii: 4, 175, 176, 202, 203, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 480–482, 484, 490, 493, 496, 497, 498, 499, 504, 505; translations of his books, 22, 466, 467, 468, 469, 472, 473, 485; finds literary work in Japan difficult, 35, 60, 63, 89; his attitude toward missionaries, 44, 45, 68, 109, 110, 311, 442; his legal seal, 46; difficulties of his position in Japan, 107-110, 175, 202, 252, 348, 490, 493, 497; his project for a book with B. H. Chamberlain, 129; his dislike of New Japan, 154, 161; his method of teaching, 159, 160; his literary success, 193, 277, 296, 297, 398; his dissatisfaction with his work, 246, 277, 286, 333, 356, 375, 377, 380; criticisms of his work, 256, 257, 377, 466, 490; dislike of women for, 265; his work at the University of Tōkyō, 283, 298, 305, 306, 310, 311, 314, 327, 328, 357, 427, 429, 444, 481, 482, 486, 487; his ignorance of every-day life, 340, 341, 399; a manuscript history of his eccentricities, 350; his avoidance of foreigners, 395, 397, 406, 456, 457; forces arrayed against, 404, 405, 493, 494, 496; his nose, 408; necessary conditions of work for, 412-114, 424, 451, 452; his method of teaching, 481, 486, 487; protests against his treatment in Tōkyō, 490, 493, 506; profits from his books, 491; birth of a daughter to, 506. Writings: Chita, i: 69, 86, 101, 371, 378, 393, 394, 396, 403, 404, 405, 411, 422, 430, 451; first form of, 96; actual incidents related in, 96, 97, 426, 427; success of, 96, 97; criticisms of, 98, 99, 445. Dead Love, A, i: 74–76. Dream of a Summer Day, quoted, i: 4, 5. Exotics and Retrospectives, i: 139; ii: 333, 401, 429; translations of, 467. Gleanings in Buddha-Fields, i: 129, 131, 139; ii: 466, 471. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan ii: 217, 270, 356, 359; quoted i: 103, 111–113, 114, 115, 124, 125; criticisms of, ii: 187, 198, 209, 223; translations of, 467, 468. Gombo Zhêbes, a dictionary of Creole Proverbs, i: 83, 278, 295, 335, 346. Idolatry, quoted, i: 26-32. Illusion, an autobiographical fragment, i: 159, 160. In Ghostly Japan, i:139; ii: 409, 411, 445. In Vanished Light, an autobiographical fragment, i: 100, 101. Intuition, an autobiographical fragment, i: 41–45. Japan: an Interpretation, i: 115, 141, 155, 156; ii: 499, 504, 505, 506, 514, 515. A Japanese Miscellany, i: 140; ii: 513. Jiujutsu, i: 126. Juvenilia (proposed), ii: 500. Kokoro, i: 129, 131; ii: 193, 279, 289, 299, 300, 359, 471. Kotto, i: 140, 146; ii: 501. Kwaidan, i: 141; quoted, 12, 156, 157. Mountain of Skulls, ii: 383. My First Romance, an autobiographical fragment, i: 45–49. My Guardian Angel, an autobiographical fragment, i: 16–25. Naked Poetry, his lecture on, i: 137; text of, as taken down by T. Ochiai, ii: 519–529. Notebook of an Impressionist (proposed), i: 364, 383. Out of the East, i: 127; ii: 360; quoted, i: 107, 108, 125, 126, 209; impression made by, in England, ii: 193; its title, 212. Pipes of Hameline, i: 274. Rabyah’s Last Ride, i: 388, 389, 396. Retrospectives. See Exotics and Retrospectives. Romance of the Milky Way, i: 159. Shadowings, i: 140. Some Chinese Ghosts, ii: 43, 367, 469; dedication of, i: 60, 371; characteristics of, 61, 73, 381, 388, 389, 405; difficulties regarding publication of, 83–85, 364, 370, 371, 375, 378; reception of, 407. Stars, an autobiographical fragment, i: 37–39. Stray Leaves from Strange Literature, i: 73, 83, 335, 340, 344, 346, 371, 376. Torn Letters, afterward expanded into Chita, i: 96, 333. Two Years in the French West Indies, i: 98, 102; criticisms of, 98, 99; his difficulties in writing it, ii: 58. With Kyūshū Students, i: 126. Youma, ii: 347, 466. Translations: Flaubert’s Tentation de Saint Antoine, i: 247, 249, 278. France’s Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, i: 102; ii: 347, 348. Gautier’s Une nuit de Cléopâtre, etc., i: 61, 62, 73, 213, 245, 269, 275, 376, 396, 442, 443; estimates of, 80–82, 248, 268, 276.
Hearn, Richard, painter, i: 6.
Hearn, Rosa (Cerigote), mother of Lafcadio, i: 9; her meeting with Dr. Hearn, 6; her marriage, 7; her separation from her husband, 7, 8, 8n.; her second marriage, 8, 429.
Hearn family, i: 5, 6; physical characteristics of, 11, 12.
Hearnian dialect, ii: 62, 63, 81, 82.
Heck, Emile, a Jesuit priest, ii: 284, 285, 310, 311, 312, 316, 320.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, i: 438.
Heine, Heinrich, French prose translations of, i: 245; ii: 529; Weill’s reminiscences of, i: 341; poems of, ii: 523.
Hell-shoon, superstition regarding, i: 313.
Hendrick, Ellwood, i: 102; letters from Hearn to, ii: 60–65, 80–90, 98–101, 106–118, 120–129, 134–141, 149, 167–174, 177–180, 182–186, 187–191, 193–198, 251, 252, 270–273, 280–285, 299–303, 305–327, 332–340, 386–388, 398–401, 479–485; his marriage, 358.
Hendrick, Josephine, ii: 332, 336.
Heracles, i: 316.
Heredity, Hearn’s reflections on, i: 131, 399, 400; in the tropics, 429; law of, ii: 227–231, 232, 234, 237–243.
Heretic, fate of the modern, ii: 107.
Herodias, i: 249.
Hershon, Paul Isaac, his Talmudic Miscellany, i: 287.
Hideyoshi, ii: 77.
Hindola, i: 388.
Hindoos, legends of, i: 227, 228.
Hirata, i: 6.
Hirn, Yrjö, ii: 502; letters to, 19–23, 466–472, 478, 479; his Origins of Art, 19–21, 468; his personal appearance, 467.
Hirn, Mrs., her translations of Hearn, ii: 22, 466, 467, 468, 469, 501, 502; letters to, 472, 473, 501–503; Hearn’s comments on one of her translations, 472, 473.
Hiruko, Japanese deity, ii: 7, 8, 37.
Hobson, Richmond Pearson, ii: 426, 427.
Hoffman, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, i: 200.
Hōki, the modern name of ancient Hahaki, ii: 58.
Hokusai, i: 103; ii: 4.
Holmes, Edmund, i: 6.
Holmes, Elizabeth. See Hearn, Elizabeth (Holmes).
Holmes, Rice, i: 6.
Holmes, Sir Richard, i: 6.
Homer, i: 272.
Homing instinct, G. M. Gould’s paper on, i: 439, 440.
Hommyōji, Nichiren temple of, ii: 186.
Hōnen-odori, a Japanese dance, ii: 38.
Hoppin, James Mason, his Old England, i: 234.
Houses, furnishings of Japanese, ii: 93, 94.
Houssaye, Arsène, i: 361.
Howard, ——, and the Louisiana lottery, i: 205.
Howells, William Dean, i: 332.
Hueffer, Francis, his Troubadours, i: 361.
Hugo, Victor, his style, i: 269, 275; his selfishness, 340, 341; his Chant de Sophocle à Salamine, ii: 215, 216.
Hugolâtres, i: 168.
Huxley, Thomas Henry, ii: 190, 204, 221, 234, 235, 266, 404, 409; his Evolution and Ethics, ii: 189.
Hyōgo, Kōbe, Japan, ii: 192; Governor of, 191.
Hypocrisy, in religion, ii: 87; in business and religion, 109.
Ibaraki, a Japanese student, ii: 508.
Ibn Khallikan, i: 234, 331.
Iceland Spar, prediction concerning, ii: 240, 241.
Ichibata, Japan, ii: 15; Buddhist temple at, 17, 18.
Immorality, moral results of, ii: 136, 137.
Immortality, Buddhist conception of, II : 473.
Improvisation, negro’s talent for, i: 353.
Inada-Hime, Shintō deity, ii: 8, 25; statue of, 105.
Inari, temple to, at Matsue, ii: 24; no shrine of, at Yabase, 47; representations of, 77.
Inasa beach, ii: 5, 6.
Individuality, Occidental theories of, ii: 40.
Industrialism, its effect on good manners, ii: 183; on liberty, 470, 511, 512.
Ingelow, Jean, her High Tide, ii: 499.
Inomata, Teizaburō, i: 113; ii: 291; letters from Hearn to, i: 64, 65; ii: 131–133, 146–148, 160–162, 186, 187; his records of Hearn’s Tōkyō lectures, i: 137, 138; his resolve to study medicine, ii: 289, 290; text of one of Hearn’s lectures as taken down by, 519–529.
Ionian Islands, i: 3; hatred toward England in, 6; ceded to Greece, 7.
Insects, caging of, in Japan, ii: 335; ethical suggestions of the sociology of, 514.
Irish, similarities between faces of Mongolians and, i: 190; language of, 190.
Ise, Japan, ii: 10, 29, 38; modernization of, 297.
Isle Dernière, L’. See Last Island.
Italian, Hearn’s study of, ii: 217, 218.
Italy, Spencer’s theory of the education of the emotions in, i: 456; atmospheric influence of, ii: 501.
Iwami, fox-superstition in, ii: 29.
Izumo, Japan, ii: 6, 10, 11, 13; Hearn’s speech before the educational association of, 14; fox-superstition in, 29; Hearn plans a permanent home in, 270; an alternate name for Koizumi, 293.
James, Henry, ii: 301, 396; literary criticisms of, i: 432, 434; obstacles to his popularity, ii: 377.
Janet, Paul, ii: 235.
January customs, Japanese, ii: 80.
Japan, Hearn’s commission to, i: 102; his early impressions of, 103, 104, 107–109, 115; ii: 35; his work for, i: 106; ii: 281; rigidities under the charm of, i: 107, 108; secret of the charm of, 108; absence of personal freedom in, 108, 109; position of foreign teachers in, 128; ii: 68, 275, 283, 313, 316, 317; certain duties of subjects of, i: 136; Western influences in, 149, 150; ii: 115, 154, 161, 177–179, 180, 199, 219, 291, 296, 485; art of, i: 405, 406, 407, 408; ii: 3; nature in, 3; prices in, 4, 5, 43, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70; some bathing resorts of, 6; music of, 15; dances of, 21, 22, 31, 268, 297, 468; country people of, 31; prevalence of Shintō in interior of, 31, 32; food of, 32, 91, 92, 103, 104, 292; law of life in, 35; women of, 35, 36, 61, 87, 88, 90, 91; difficulties of literary work in, 35, 60, 63, 89; literature of, 40, 41, 114, 343, 344, 415; laws regarding marriage with a foreigner in, 44, 64; frankness of life in, 45; protracted labour uncommon in, 48, 49; cats in, 55, 56, 58, 59; English reading-books for students in, 79, 102, 105, 106, 283, 328; celebration of the New Year in, 80, 81, 82; drinking in, 82, 92, 93; earthquakes in, 83, 84; colourlessness of, 89; houses of, 93; children of, 99, 190, 191, 288, 306, 307; obstacles to higher education in, 103, 104, 291, 292, 307, 308; disintegration of, 144, 145, 323, 478; pay of native officials of, 158, 259, 265, 308; need of scientific men in, 163, 164, 275; politics in the public schools of, 166; war between China and, 175, 181, 182, 185, 186, 251, 258, 262, 281, 511; foreign treaties of, 185, 186, 262; naturalization of foreigners in, 191, 192; open ports of, 199, 298, 315, 341, 342; anti-foreign feeling in, 201, 223, 252, 258, 262, 281; decline of education in, 216; girls’ and boys’ dress in, 253–255, 259, 260; songs of, 267, 268; floods in, 307; intrigue in, 321–323; Occidental indifference to stories of real life of, 362, 363; demands upon University professors in, 370; the educated woman in, 416–422; Occidental aggression in, 442; mania for organizations in, 461; Government service in, 470; rapidly changing conditions in, 471, 502; Hearn’s proposed series of lectures on, 487, 495, 496, 499, 504, 505, 506, 514, 515; travelling of the common people in, 502; war between Russia and, 515, 516, 517.
Japan, Emperor of, ii: 317. See also Go-Daigo.
Japanese, natural charm of, ii: 4, 207; their genius for eclecticism, 28; unemotional nature of, 35, 60, 63, 85, 332; strange power of, 56; harder side of, 61; their fear of foreigners, 82; impossibility of friendship with, 99, 100, 159, 217; probable future characteristics of, 104; their reserve, 122, 123; their attitude toward nature, 125, 425, 426; their trickiness, 201, 202; deficiency of the sex instinct among, 209, 210; development of the mathematical faculty among, 210; psychology of, 214, 215; satire of, 217; their loyalty, 236, 237; an essentially military race, 258; their stature, 260; their chastity, 269; their affected religious indifference, 274; their hardihood, 292; their longevity, 324; management of, impossible to Occidentals, 386, 387, 388.
Jeannest, Charles, i: 313, 357; his Au Congo, 354.
Jerome, St., his letter to Dardanas, describing an organ, i: 166, 167.
Jesuits, animosity of, toward Hearn, ii: 213.
Jesus y Preciado, José de, i: 334.
Jewett, Sarah Orne, ii: 301.
Jews, ancient life of, i: 287; lost musical instruments of, 311.
Jizō, a festival in honour of, i: 126; legend of, ii: 6.
Johns Hopkins University, ii: 496.
Johnson, Charles, i: 307, 312, 314, 341.
Jordan, David Starr, president of Stanford University, ii: 496.
Josephine, Empress of the French, anecdote of statue of, in Martinique, i: 417–419.
Journalism, rewards of, i: 169, 181; demands of, 242; restraints of, 271, 275; Hearn’s desire to escape from, 274, 276, 363, 397; literary work and, 324; ii: 222, 480; Hearn’s abandonment of, i: 425; his proposal to return to, ii: 493, 494.
Judæa, musical instruments furnished to the Romans by, i: 166.
Kabit, i: 388.
Kaka, Japan, ii: 6.
Kalewala, ii: 472, 502; its operatic possibilities, i: 233, 235–237, 239, 307, 308, 388; Hearn’s translations from, 403.
Kalidasa. See Sakuntala.
Kamakura, ii: 346.
Kano, ii: 73, 104, 119, 279; his knowledge of English, 66; a teacher of jūjutsu, 70.
Kanteletar, i: 235.
Katayama, Mr., ii: 66, 68, 73, 291.
Kathā-sarit-sāgara, i: 237, 402.
Kazimirski, A. de Biberstein, his translation of the Koran, i: 327.
Keats, John, ii: 215.
Keightley, Thomas, his Fairy Mythology, i: 279.
Kichijōji, temple of, ii: 328.
Kihei, Masumoto, his charities, ii: 309, 327.
Kikujirō, Wadamori, his exhibitions of memory, ii: 279.
Kimi ga yo, ii: 236.
Kingsley, Charles, his Greek Heroes, ii: 102;
Airly Beacon, 522, 523.
Kipling, Rudyard, ii: 83, 190, 301, 336, 337, 348, 362, 363, 405, 485, 491; his morbidness, 84; his Jungle Book, 187, 189, 196; his story of Purim Bagat, 196; Hearn’s admiration for, 319, 408, 499; his royalties, 377; his Day’s Work, 408.
Kishibojin, worship of, ii: 16, 17.
Kissing, different significance of, in Turanian and Aryan races, ii: 263, 264.
Kiyomasa, Katō, legend regarding, ii: 186.
Kiyomizu, Kwannon temple at, ii: 28; scenery at, 30; Inari shrine at, 30.
Kizuki, Japan, ii: 7, 11, 297; Hearn’s visit to the temple at, i: 115, 122; ii: 9, 10, 43; deity of, 8; society for preserving buildings at, 13; an entertainment given to Hearn at, 37, 38; custom regarding Shōryō-bune in, 38, 39; Buddhist temple (Rengaji) at, 42; revival of Shintō in, 47.
Kobe, Japan, Hearn’s work in, i: 128, 129, 132, 139; disagreeable characteristics of, ii: 197, 198, 199; flood in, 307.
Kobu-dera, Buddhist temple in Tōkyō, i: 142, 143.
Koeber, Raphael von, ii: 284, 311, 315, 316.
Koizumi, Iwao, Hearn’s son, ii: 516, 517.
Koizumi, Kazuo, Hearn’s eldest son, i: 127, 128, 150, 154; ii: 165, 166, 175, 181, 190, 191, 196, 198, 231, 252, 255, 260, 275, 276, 280, 288, 291, 295, 305, 306, 307, 309, 351, 373, 374, 426, 434, 459, 460, 464, 474, 483, 485, 489, 490, 493, 497, 503, 505, 508, 516, 517; plans for his scientific education, 181, 270, 271; his sensitiveness, 300, 476, 498.
Koizumi, Setsu, ii: 68, 74, 77, 81, 82, 90, 95, 96, 97, 110, 119, 128, 157, 159, 181, 190, 191, 192, 193, 276, 278, 279, 288, 295, 298, 317, 329, 336, 337, 386, 397, 489, 491; Hearn’s marriage to, i: 116; her notes regarding their life, 117, 118, 119–124, 127, 138, 142–152, 155; her study of English, ii: 106.
Koizumi, Yakumo, Hearn’s Japanese name, i: 117; ii: 270, 292, 293, 299.
Kompert, Leopold, his Studies of Jewish Life, i: 287.
Kompira, Japan, ii: 153, 165.
Koran, various editions of, i: 327.
Koteda, Viscount Yasusada, Governor of Izumo, i: 119, 120: ii: 14, 18, 104.
Koteda, Miss, ii: 104; her gift to Hearn, i: 118; ii: 19.
Koto-shiro-nushi-no-Kami, legend of, ii: 7, 8, 97; identified with Ebisu, in Matsue, 13; in Mionoseki, 37.
Krehbiel, Henry Edward, i: 469; Hearn’s friendship with, 55, 60; Hearn’s letters to, 67, 73; text of the letters, 84, 85, 86, 165–244, 277–289, 292–314, 320–325, 330–339, 351–364, 367–380, 384–388, 405–408, 409–411; his Fantaisie Chinoise, 168, 171, 187; his musical essays, 187; his talks, 192; Hearn’s comment on his style, 234, 240, 293, 372, 373; his work on the New York Tribune, 241; his musical criticisms, 386.
Krehbiel, Mrs. Henry Edward, i: 191, 223.
Krishna, i: 316.
Kūkedo, visit to cave of, i: 121, 122.
Kumamoto, Japan, Hearn’s removal to, i: 124; his life at, 125–128; shrines of, ii: 65; climate of, 66, 69, 73; Hearn’s fellow teachers at, 66, 67, 70, 73; his household at, 67, 74, 81, 110; appearance of, 69, 70, 81; the Dai Go Kōtō-Chūgakkō at, 70, 71, 100; students at, 70, 79; religion in, 76; reading books used in, 79, 102.
Kwannon, temple of, at Kiyomizu, ii: 28; representations of, 77, 78.
Kyōtō, Japan, ii: 130; middle school in, 142; Hearn’s fondness for, 192; exhibition in, 257.
Kyūshū, Japan, ii: 91; Europeanized, 99; students of, 129, 130.
La Beaume, Jules, his translation of the Koran, i: 327.
La Bédollière, Emile de, i: 200.
Labrunie, Gérard (Gérard de Nerval), i: 254, 255, 317; Hearn’s desire to translate his Voyage en Orient, 362.
Lakmé, Delibes’s opera of, i: 377.
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de, ii: 266.
Lang, Andrew, ii: 215; his translation of Gautier’s Contes, i: 62.
La Selve, Edgar, i: 353, 354.
Last Island, i: 95; destruction of, 96; the scene of Hearn’s Chita, 96.
Latin races, cruelty of, i: 203; probable future absorption of, ii: 300, 385.
Layard, Sir Austen Henry, i: 213.
Le Duc, Léouzon. See Léouzon Le Duc.
Lee, Charles, i: 168.
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, his Bird of Passage, i: 201; ii: 41.
Lefcada. See Santa Maura.
Le Gallienne, Richard, ii: 299.
Legends, Greek and Hindoo, i: 227, 228; Talmudic, 287.
Leloir, Louis Auguste, i: 319, 320.
Lemaître, Jules Elie François, i: 434; ii: 491.
Léouzon Le Duc, Louis Antoine, his edition of the Kalewala, i: 235, 236; ii: 468, 469.
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, i: 211: his Laocoön, 269.
Letter-writing, different methods of, ii: 247, 248.
Leucadia. See Santa Maura.
Levkas. See Santa Maura.
Lewes, George Henry, ii: 190, 221; his recognition of Spencer, 235.
Liberty, effect of industrialism on, ii: 470, 511, 512.
Life, law of modern, ii: 134, 135; an intellectual battle, 135, 136; cost of, to the white races, 137; wastefulness of, 249.
L’Isère, Colombat de. See Colombat, Marc.
Lissajous, Jules Antoine, i: 385.
Literature, rewards of, i: 393, 430; Japanese, ii: 40, 41, 344, 415; plan for a study of comparative, 271; teaching of English, 271; German, 290; American and English, 301, 302; Russian and French, 302; conditions of success in, 351; the personal equation in judgements of, 441; seriousness of, 463, 464; Hearn’s theory of the study of English, in Japan, 464; no taste in America for good, 472; Hearn’s equipment for, and method of teaching English, 480, 481–483, 486, 487; Hearn’s advice about modern, 509.
Livingstone, David, i: 297.
Loennrot, Elias, his edition of the Kalewala, i: 235, 403.
Lombroso, Cesare, ii: 276, 277.
London, University of, plan for Hearn to lecture at, i: 156.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, i: 190; his Spanish Student, 205, 206.
Loochoo Islands, ii: 91, 214; B. H. Chamberlain’s monograph on, 273, 274.
Loti, Pierre, pseud. See Viaud.
Lotus, an article of diet, ii: 45, 63.
Louisiana, some newspapers of, i: 204, 205.
Love, power of, i: 315, 316; decline of, 316; its effect upon literature, 326; varying attributes of, 438; a Buddhist view of, ii: 138.
Lowell, Percival, ii: 33, 117, 160, 200, 310, 317; his Soul of the Far East, i: 460, 461; ii: 28, 30, 39, 150, 208, 479, 487, 505; his Chosön, i: 457, 461; ii: 30; his papers on Mars, 202, 203, 204, 208, 479; his Occult Japan, 200, 204, 207, 208.
Lowell Institute, Boston, ii: 496.
Loyalty, Japanese ideas of, ii: 236, 237.
Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyns, i: 388.
Macassar, Celebes, ii: 219.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron, his Lays of Ancient Rome as a reading-book in Japanese schools, ii: 102.
McDonald, Mitchell, i: 153; ii: 458, 459; Hearn’s friendship with, i: 109, 110; letters from Hearn to, ii: 340–342, 347–358, 361–381, 384, 385, 388–397, 403–412, 422–436, 437–440, 442–455; Hearn’s proposal to, regarding a book of short stories, 341, 342, 348, 349, 350, 356; his Highbinder story, 348, 364; his belief in Hearn’s work, 351, 375, 379, 494.
Mackintosh, Sir James, ii: 136.
Magazine work, labour of, i: 283, 285; some effects of, 293; discouragements of, 317; Hearn’s willingness to resume, ii: 480.
Magic, musical, an example of, i: 322.
Mahabharata, i: 402.
Mahan, Alfred Thayer, ii: 374.
Maiko. See Geisha.
Maine, battle-ship, destruction of, ii: 358.
Malatesta, Giovanni, i: 271.
Mallock, William Hurrell, ii: 196, 301; his opinion of Gautier, i: 254, 256; his translation of Gautier, 257; his morbidness, ii: 84.
Malta, Island of, i: 7; ii: 217; Hearn’s recollections of, ii: 213, 214.
Manila, P. I., ii: 213; expedition against, 369.
Mantegazza, Paolo, ii: 277.
Marche, Antoine Alfred, his Afrique Occidentale, i: 354.
Marcus Aurelius, ii: 446.
Margot, ——, i: 91, 94, 95.
Marie Galante, island, i: 413.
Marimba, musical instrument, i: 411.
Marion, ——, i: 88, 89, 90, 92.
Marriage, ii: 98, 99; deity of, 8; Japanese law regarding marriage with a foreigner, 44, 64; Occidental views of, 120; the educated woman and, in Japan, 416–422.
Martinique, i: 97; costume colours of, 98; doll dressed as woman of, 410, 411; action in, after fall of Second Empire, 418, 419; physicians of, 441.
Masayoshi, Kumagoe, ii: 116, 130.
Massachusetts, application of Spencer’s educational theories in, ii: 275.
Mates, Rodolfo, i: 97, 263, 371, 380, 395, 445.
Mathematicians, indifference of, to poetry, i: 461, 462.
Matsue, Japan, ii: 154, 155, 330, 331; Hearn’s appointment at, i: 110–113, 137; situation and character of, 110, 111, 114, 115; Hearn’s first residence in, 113; his departure from, 124,125; ascendency of Shintō in, ii: 13, 15; climate of, 23, 25; geisha at, 95; Hearn’s desire to return to, 298.
Matsushima, Japanese flag-ship, ii: 258.
Maupassant, Guy de, i: 72, 361; ii: 348, 392.
Mazois, Charles François, i: 213.
Medical novels, i: 399, 437, 441.
Medicine, study of, ii: 289, 290.
Medusa, legend of, i: 185.
Megara, choral dance of Greek women in, I; 385.
Meiji Maru. Japanese ship, ii: 304.
Mélusine, periodical, i: 170, 284; death of, 189.
Memory, transmutation of inherited, ii: 338.
Memphis, Tenn., i: 66.
Mephistopheles, Goethe’s, ii: 435.
Meredith, Owen. See Bulwer-Lytton.
Mérimée, Prosper, i: 205; his Carmen, 200, 201.
Métairie, the, New Orleans, i: 205.
Mexico, music of, i: 231; African influence on, 380.
Michelet, Jules, i: 227, 256; his L’Amour, ii: 277.
Middle Ages, musical instruments of, i: 165–167; literary renascence in, 342.
Miko, Shintō priestesses, ii: 21, 22, 31, 268, 297, 468.
Miko-kagura, Japanese dance, ii: 38, 42.
Miller, Ed., i: 221.
Millet, Jean François, i: 6.
Milton, John, his Paradise Lost used as a reading-book in Tōkyō, ii: 283, 328.
Mionoseki, Japan, ii: 6; deity of, 7, 8, 37, 97.
Missionaries, Hearn’s attitude toward, ii: 44, 45, 68, 109, 110, 311; unmarried women as, in Japan, 441, 442.
Mississippi River, dangers to swimmers in, i: 176, 177.
Mocking-bird, of Guiana, i: 357, 358.
Mohammed, i: 280, 281.
Mombushō Readers, ii: 105.
Money, power of, i: 348.
Mongolians, similarities between faces of Irish and, i: 190.
Moon-of-Autumn. See Akizuki.
Moral development, immorality a force in, ii: 136, 137.
Moral sense, nature of, i: 434–436.
Morris, William, his Wood beyond the World, ii: 196.
Morrow, William C., ii: 363, 364.
Mothers, ii: 190, 191.
Motoori, ii: 7.
Mountains, sadness produced by sight of, ii: 151.
Mud-dauber, i: 89.
Muir, John, i: 388.
Müller, Friedrich Max, his Sacred Books of the East, i: 327.
Muezzin, call of the. See Azan.
Mukden, Manchuria, i: 106.
Mulock, Dinah, her John Halifax used as a reading-book in Kumamoto, ii: 79.
Murderer, Hearn’s description of a, i: 322, 323.
Murger, Henri, philosophy of his Bohemianism, i: 242.
Murray, John, guide-book published by, ii: 37, 43.
Music, infinity of, i: 179; demands of, 180; opportunities for studying, 182; antique, 211, 213; in the Talmud, 287; Spencer’s essay of musical origination, 325; mathematics of, 385. See also Brittany, Creoles, Cuba, Eskimo, Finland, Griots, Havana, Japan, Mexico, Negro, Scandinavia, Timbuctoo, Wales, West Indies.
Musical instruments, i: 165–167, 211–213, 311, 353. See also Bagpipe, Chalumeau, Egypt, Flute, Greece, Harps, Judæa, Marimba, Negro, Sistrum, Syrinx.
Musset, Alfred de, i: 254, 255.
Mystic number, Japanese, ii: 80.
Nakamura, Mr., ii: 68.
Nala, story of, i: 402.
Names, of Japanese women, Hearn’s article on, ii: 445, 446, 447.
Nanji-umi, ii: 30.
Naples, museum of, i: 213.
Napoleon I, ii: 160, 173.
Natural selection, only one factor of evolution, ii: 235.
Naturalism, in art and literature, i: 228.
Nature, in Japan, ii: 3; attitudes toward, in East and West, 123–125, 131, 425, 426; immorality of, 189.
Negro, vocal chords of, i: 313, 339, 356; West Coast races and, 332; their talent for improvisation, 353; temperature of blood of, 356; music of the American, 358; musical instruments played by, in West Indies, 411.
Neith, Egyptian divinity, i: 315.
Neptune, festival of, i: 386.
Nerval, Gérard de, pseud. See Labrunie, Gérard.
Nervous system, weight of, ii: 245.
New Orleans, La., Hearn removes to, i: 65, 66, 67; conditions in, after the war, 68, 69; yellow fever in, 69, 185, 186, 195; Hearn leaves, 97; description of an old Creole house in, 172–174; a Chinese restaurant in, 203, 204; maladministration in, 215; Hearn’s disappointment in, 224, 225. See also Métairie.
New York City, Hearn goes to, i: 39, 40, 101, 102; his dislike of, 288, 405, 425, 443, 444; ii: 182, 476, 484.
Newts, tradition regarding, at Sakusa, Japan, ii: 26.
Nichiren, followers of, ii: 27; prevalence of, at Yabase, 47; temple of, at Yabase, 55.
Nidānakathā, i: 287.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, ii: 325, 514.
Nishida, Sentarō, i: 116, 122; ii: 9, 23, 33; letters from Hearn to, ii: 18, 19, 54, 55, 65–69, 72–76, 95–98, 101–106, 118, 119, 141–145, 153–160, 165–167, 180–182, 191–193, 274–276, 278–280, 291, 292, 296–299, 303–305, 327–332; his knowledge of English, 101; his ballad of Shuntoku-maru, 130.
Nishinomiya, Japan, ii: 8.
Noguchi, Yone, i: 159.
Nordau, Max, false theories of, ii: 277; his Degeneration, 456.
North, stimulus to literary production in, i: 194; conceptions of beauty in, 211; intellectual vigour of, 423; struggle for life in, 424.
Nude, the, in art, i: 30, 31.
Numi, a Japanese friend of Hearn, ii: 465.
Occident, possible future domination of, by Orient, ii: 29; indifference in, to stories of the real life of the Orient, 362, 363.
Ochiai, T. See Inomata, Teizaburō.
O’Connor, William D., Hearn’s letters to, i: 73; his first acquaintance with, 80; text of the letters, 268–275, 290–292, 315–320, 326–329, 340, 341, 348–351, 364–367, 380–384; Hearn’s advice regarding an illness, 365–367; his death, ii: 432.
Odd, Hearn’s pursuit of the, i: 290, 291, 294, 328, 329.
Odin, the Hávamál of, ii: 428.
Œdipus, ii: 168.
Offenbach, Jacques, i: 222.
Oho-kuni-nushi-no-Kami, Japanese deity identified with Daikoku, in Matsue, ii: 13.
Ohokuni, legend of the son of, ii: 6.
Ōiso, Japan, ii: 6.
Oki, Japan, ii: 96, 187.
Okuma, Count, university founded by, i: 156; ii: 514.
Ō-Kuni, story of, ii: 42, 43.
Olcott, Henry Steel, his Buddhist Catechism, i: 265.
Old Semicolon, nickname given to Hearn, i: 50.
Omar, Caliph, i: 281.
Omiki dokkuri no kuchi-sashi, form of, ii: 80.
Ōnamuji-no-Mikoto, Japanese deity, ii: 9.
Opposition, value of, ii: 406.
O’Rell, Max, pseud. See Blouët.
Organization, tyranny of, ii: 169, 170.
Organs, wind, adopted by Christians from Byzantium, i: 166; one described by St. Jerome, 167.
Orient, intellectual barriers between Occident and, i: 104, 105; possible future domination of the Occident by, ii: 29.
Ormuzd, the Persian God of Light, ii: 118, 126.
Ōsaka, Japan, ii: 297, 298.
Osgood, James R., i: 320, 321.
Ōtani, Masanobu, i: 113, 118; ii: 68; Hearn’s aid to, i: 137, 138; his notes on Hearn, 137, 138; letters from Hearn to, ii: 69–72, 79, 80, 162–165, 342–346, 414, 415, 461–464; advice to, regarding study of philology, 162, 164; Japanese poems collected by, 343, 415; a gift to Hearn from, 414, 415.
Ōtsu, flood in, ii: 307.
Ōtsuka, Japan, Hearn’s treatment in, ii: 52, 53, 54, 55.
Ouadây, Africa, i: 277.
Overbeck, Johannes Adolf, his Pompeii, i: 213.
Overwork, penalties of, i: 241, 242; results of, 367, 383.
Oxford, University of, plan for Hearn to lecture at, i: 156.
Ōzawa, a teacher at Kumamoto, ii: 66.
Pain, infliction of, ii: 111; results of, 136; moral, 168; a factor in evolution, 243; results of, on Hearn’s work, 272, 273, 393.
Paine, Thomas, i: 345.
Palmer, Edward Henry, his translation of the Koran, i: 351.
Parvati, Indian divinity, i: 210.
Patate-cry, i: 360.
Pater, Walter, ii: 215.
Patti, Adelina, i: 240, 405.
Pearson, Charles Henry, his National Character, ii: 137.
Pelée, Mt., i: 98.
Perron, Dr. A., his Femmes Arabes, i: 277, 315, 468.
Personality, invisible, i: 447; multiple, 474, 475.
Peterson Brothers, i: 250.
Petronius Arbiter, i: 256.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. See Ward.
Philadelphia, Pa., Hearn’s liking for, i: 449, 452, 469, 470.
Philistine, The, periodical, ii: 369.
Philostratus, i: 321.
Photograph, scientific test of, ii: 83.
Physicians, Hearn’s regard for the career of, i: 436; women as, in France, 441; of Martinique, 441.
Physiology, effect of, upon the history of nations, i: 330.
Pickpockets, an adventure with, ii: 391.
Pipes, ancient Samurai, ii: 48; modern Japanese, 48–51.
Plato, ii: 173.
Pleasure, changes in Hearn’s ideas of, ii: 194, 195.
Plympton, ——, i: 360, 361.
Poetry, translations of, i: 245; value of form in, 271, 272, 294; indifference of mathematicians to, 461; vulgar, ii: 343, 344; translation the test of, 344, 523, 526, 527, 528; three forms of, 519, 520; true literary signification of, 520; best medium of, 521.
Politeness. See Courtesy.
Politics, public schools and, ii: 166.
Pompeii, musical instruments discovered in, i: 213.
Pontchartrain, Lake, i: 169, 176.
Poole, Captain, ii: 304.
Pope, Alexander, ii: 520, 528, 529.
Port of Spain, Trinidad, a silversmith at, i: 416.
Poseidon, festival of, i: 386.
Pott, Mrs. Henry, i: 364.
Prayer, the dilemma of the gods, ii: 394.
Pre-Raphaelites, i: 211.
Professions, Hearn’s estimate of, i: 398.
Proof, printer’s, relation between copy and, ii: 407.
Proof-reader, Hearn’s terror of the, i: 387.
Prose, poetical, ii: 529; Hearn’s ambition regarding, i: 364, 374, 379, 383, 393.
Protestantism, ii: 311, 312.
Provençal literature and song, Hueffer’s treatment of, i: 361.
Public schools, politics in, ii: 166.
Publishers, Hearn’s opposition to the views of, ii: 479, 480; their attitude toward authors, 484, 485.
Punctuation, Hearn’s efforts to reform, i: 50.
Quacks, success of, i: 180, 181.
Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de, i: 235, 236.
Rabyah, operatic possibilities of, i: 388.
Race expansion, intellectual, cost of, ii: 98.
Ramayana, translations of, i: 402.
Raphael, i: 211.
Ravine-les-Cannes, i: 191.
Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke, i: 213.
Regeneration, Hearn’s use of the word, ii: 509.
Rein, Johannes Justus, his work on Japan, ii: 36.
Religion, the conservator of romanticism, ii: 208, 209; Norse, 228; sects and, 131; characteristics common to all religions, 146, 147; science and, 148.
Rembrandt, i: 211.
Remsen, Ira, president of Johns Hopkins University, ii: 504.
Renan, Ernest, ii: 514.
Rengaji, Buddhist temple at Kizuki, ii: 42.
Rhys-Davids, Thomas William, ii: 380, 488.
Riess, Ludwig, professor at the University of Tōkyō, ii: 312, 316.
Rights and duties, ii: 115.
Rink, Henry John, i: 330.
Robert Clarke Company, Cincinnati, i: 50.
Robinson, ——, i: 187.
Roche, Louise, i: 357.
Roget, Peter Mark, his Thesaurus, i: 374.
Roland, Song of, i: 190, 246.
Rollins, Alice Wellington, i: 389; ii: 299, 300.
Roman Catholic Church, Hearn’s bitterness against, i: 33, 34.
Romanes, George John, i: 292, 439.
Romans, musical instruments adopted by, i: 165, 166.
Romanticism, religion the conservator of, i: 208, 209; Baudelaire on, 211.
Romanticists, pantheism of, i: 255.
Romany descent, mark of, i: 5.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, i: 211; ii: 221.
Rouquette, Adrien, Indian missionary, i: 169, 188, 191, 206, 212.
Routine, merits of, i: 326.
Roy, Protap Chunder, i: 335.
Rufz de Lavison, Etienne, i: 442; ii: 248, 347.
Ruskin, John, his comment on the Medicean Venus, i: 31.
Russia, feeling against, in Japan, ii: 258, 262; war between Japan and, 515, 516, 517.
Rydberg, Viktor, i: 227.
Ryūkyū, ii: 219.
Saadi. See Gulistan.
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Ritter von, his Mother of God, i: 233.
Sadness, certain causes of, ii: 150–152.
St. Augustine, Florida, i: 70.
St. Peter’s Cathedral, Cincinnati, Hearn’s description of a view from the spire of, i: 51.
St. Pierre, Martinique, i: 97; ii: 347, 484; Hearn’s record of, i: 98, 100, 101, 412, 413, 415.
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, i: 396; ii: 222.
Saintsbury, George, ii: 371.
Saionji, ii: 279.
Sakai, Japan, ii: 297, 304.
Sake, ii: 57, 82, 92, 93.
Sakuma, his knowledge of literary English, ii: 66.
Sakuntala, operatic possibilities of, i: 308.
Sakurai, headmaster at Kumamoto, ii: 66.
Sakusa, Japan, Shintō shrine at, ii: 15, 25, 26.
Sakusa-no-Mikoto, Shintō deity, ii: 25.
Sale, George, his translation of the Koran, i: 327.
Samurai, i: 116.
San Francisco, Cal., Hearn’s search for a publisher in, i: 246, 247.
Sanskrit, derivation of Greek and Latin from, i: 202.
Santa Maura, Island of, Hearn’s birth-place, i: 3, 7, 429; situation and character of, 3, 4; its influence upon Hearn, 4, 5.
Sanza, Nagoya, ii: 42.
Sanzo, Tsuda, ii: 142, 143.
Sappho, i: 3, 238.
Sasa, a Japanese priest, ii: 7, 8.
Satire, Japanese, ii: 217.
Satni-Khamois, Egyptian romance, i: 238.
Sato, Mr., ii: 68.
Sattee, a Hindoo, sent by Hearn to Krehbiel, i: 367–370, 393.
Scandinavia, music of, i: 190.
Schiefner, Franz Anton, his German translation of Kalewala, i: 235.
Schlemihl, Peter, ii: 443.
Schopenhauer, Arthur, i: 447, 459, 460; ii: 151, 235; basis of his philosophy, 266, 267.
Schurman, Jacob Gould, president of Cornell University, ii: 488, 492, 495.
Schwab, Moïse, his translation of part of the Talmud, i: 287.
Schweinfurth, Georg August, i: 310, 354.
Science, influence of, upon literary style, i: 263, 264; unsatisfactoriness of, ii: 338, 339.
Scientific education, ii: 163, 164, 275.
Scotland, bagpipe and kilt introduced by Romans into, i: 182, 183.
Secret Affinities, Hearn’s translation of the pantheistic madrigal from Gautier’s Emaux et Camées, i: 259–261.
Sects, religion and, ii: 131.
Self-interest, the basis of most human relations, ii: 188, 189.
Sensation, hereditary, ii: 223, 225–227, 230, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 241, 250.
Senses, training of the, ii: 86.
Sensibility, moral and physical, i: 434–436.
Serpent worship, ii: 29.
Sex, influence of, on history, i: 256; a mystery of, 401; standards regarding the relations of, 438; Oriental and Occidental views regarding questions of, ii: 112, 113, 114, 121, 122, 123; instincts of, deficient in Japanese, 209, 210.
Shakespeare, ii: 520.
“Shall” and “will,” Hearn’s use of the words, ii: 224, 225, 246.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, ii: 215.
Shimane, ken of, i: 115.
Shimbashi, ii: 433; Hearn’s adventures with pickpockets at, 391.
Shimo-ichi, ii: 37, 41, 46.
Shinshū, a sect, ii: 27.
Shintō, i: 112; ascendency of, in Matsue, ii: 13, 15; nature of, 26, 27, 30; prevalence of, in interior of Japan, 31, 32; revival of, in Kizuki, 47; rituals, 59; Hearn’s questions regarding Shintō home-worship in Izumo, 71, 79.
Ships of the Souls. See Shōryō-bune.
Shiva, the Hindoo god of destruction, i: 210, 211.
Shōryō-bune, ii: 8, 38, 39, 41.
Simpson, Walter, his History of the Gipsies, i: 201, 202, 459.
Sinnett, Alfred Percy, i: 265.
Sistrum, introduced by Egypt into Italy, i: 166.
Siva. See Shiva.
Skeat, Walter William, i: 374.
Small-pox, in Martinique, i: 422.
Smoking, paraphernalia of, in Japan, ii: 49–51.
Smyrna, i: 8.
Snake, sacred, ii: 29.
Socialism, tyranny of, ii: 184, 185, 205, 511, 512.
Societies, literary, Hearn’s opinion of, ii: 461–463.
Society, the nature of polite, ii: 400; injury inflicted upon writers by, 451.
Society of Authors, London, ii: 445, 446.
Society of Finnish Literature, i: 235.
Socrates, i: 41.
Solomon, Song of, i: 227.
Souls, sacrifice of, ii: 410.
Souls, velvet, Hearn’s definition of the phrase, ii: 326.
Soulié, Melchior Frédéric, ii: 231.
South, difficulty of literary production in, i: 194; conceptions of beauty in, 211.
Spanish-American War, ii: 369, 373, 374, 376, 379, 380, 384, 385.
Specialization, necessity of, i: 263.
Spencer, Herbert, ii: 108, 190, 207, 208, 221, 236, 247; Hearn’s admiration for, i: 58; ii: 44, 409, 509; his influence upon Hearn, i: 85, 86, 365, 374, 375, 392, 394, 430, 431, 438, 459; ii: 20, 26, 221, 222; his Sociology, i: 312; his essay on musical origination, 325; his conservatism regarding further physical evolution, 397; his theory of education, 456; his criticism of the Mombushō Readers, ii: 105; his theory of moral evolution, 137; history of good manners traced by, 183; socialism defined by, 184, 205; on heredity, 223, 226, 228, 234; on psychological evolution, 231; Darwin and, 235; his paper on the Method of Comparative Psychology, 249; application of his educational theories, 275; his views on eccentricity, 277; on war, 510.
Sphinx, riddle of the, ii: 168.
Spinoza, Baruch, ii: 173.
Stamboul, black population of, i: 355.
Stanford University, ii: 476, 477; plans for Hearn to lecture at, 496.
Stauben, Daniel, his Scènes de la Vie Juive, i: 287.
Steamships, Hearn’s account of the fatal effect of his presence upon, ii: 433.
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, i: 332, 446.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, ii: 190, 336, 383, 405, 509.
Strength, misuse of, ii: 160, 161.
Sturdy, E. T., ii: 380.
Style, literary, helps to formation of, i: 263, 264, 372, 373, 374; Hearn’s ambition regarding his own, 276, 364, 374, 379, 383, 393; labour of acquiring an ornamental, 324.
Success, some requisites of, i: 431; ii: 135.
Suicide, a Japanese, ii: 273.
Susa-no-o, Japanese deity, ii: 8.
Susa-no-o-no-Mikoto, Shintō deity, ii: 16, 25.
Swimming, Hearn’s fondness for, i: 176, 333, 334, 341; ii: 47, 63, 303, 304, 448; of Japanese boys at Yabase, 48.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, i: 432, 433; ii: 427.
Sword-Dance, in Léon dialect, i: 305; prose and metrical translations of, 305–307.
Swords, legends concerning, i: 185.
Symonds, John Addington, i: 220, 227; his praise of Whitman, 292; his Greek Poets, 329; his Wine, Women, and Song, 342.
Syrinx, musical instrument, i: 297.
Taillefer, i: 191.
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, his Art in Italy, ii: 271.
Taka o gami-no-Mikoto, ii: 25.
Takahashi, Dr., ii: 304.
Takahashi, Sakué, ii: 330, 331.
Takaki, Japanese boy, ii: 278; head of, on title-page of Kokoro, 300.
Takamori, Senke, i: 115, 116; ii: 7, 9, 10, 38, 145, 297; his gift to Hearn, 153; courtesy of, 180.
Takata, Dean, i: 150.
Talmud, i: 237, 311; legends of the, 287.
Tampa, Florida, i: 376.
Tam-tam, i: 411.
Tanabe, one of Hearn’s pupils, ii: 68; letter from Hearn to, 508, 509.
Tannery murder, Cincinnati, i: 51.
Taylor, Bayard, i: 266, 324; ii: 215.
Taylor, James Monroe, president of Vassar College, ii: 504, 505.
Tennessee, Hearn’s account of an incident in, i: 67.
Tennōji, ii: 297.
Tennyson, Alfred, Baron Tennyson, i: 221, 333; ii: 190, 221, 302; his Princess used as a reading-book in Tōkyō, ii: 283, 328.
Terminus, the god of boundaries, i: 184, 185.
Tetsujirō, Inoue, ii: 284, 313.
Thomas, Theodore, i: 180, 182.
Thought, physiologically considered, ii: 244.
Ticknor, William D., i: 332, 372.
Timbuctoo, music of desert nomads of, i: 353.
Time, value of, II: 194; no knowledge of the value of, in Japan, 461, 463.
Times-Democrat (New Orleans); Hearn’s associates on, i: 70, 71; Hearn’s work on, 72, 73, 176, 280, 363; letters to, afterward expanded into Chita, 96; purpose of its proprietors, 288.
Tison, Alexander, professor at the University of Tōkyō, ii: 284, 312, 316.
Togo-ike, Japan, ii: 53.
Tōkyō, Hearn’s private life in, i: 141–152; ii: 295, 309, 327, 329; his dislike of, ii: 192, 193; the foreign element in, 321, 456, 457; cheap living in, 329; appearance of, 333, 334; climate of, 366, 372, 385; lack of literary inspiration in, 378; work done by students in, 387; a silk-house at, 437, 438; Government service in, 470.
Tōkyō, University of, Hearn becomes Professor of English Literature at, i: 136–138; resigns this position, 154; ii: 368, 490, 493; students of, ii: 282, 283, 314, 315, 328, 388; the gate to public office, 282; Hearn’s work at, 283, 298, 305, 306, 310, 314, 327, 328, 357, 427, 429, 444, 481, 482, 486, 487; professors at, 284, 285, 311, 312, 313, 315, 316; architecture of, 311; one reason for Hearn’s appointment at, 313, 314.
Torio, Viscount, his theories of Western civilization, ii: 36, 40.
Toyokuni, ii: 77.
Toyoma, Masakazu, i: 122; ii: 298, 328, 329.
Tradesmen, enviable position of, i: 398, 399.
Translations, from the French, obstacles to publication of, i: 247, 248, 250, 251.
Trata, La, Greek choral dance, i: 385.
Trinidad, babies of, i: 416, 417.
Trinity, the Hindoo, i: 210.
Tropics, difficulty of reproducing the charms of, in literature, i: 99; Hearn’s love for the, 105, 415, 420, 425, 449, 469; ii: 64, 211, 213, 217, 281; nature and human nature in the, i: 436; difficulty of literary work in, 422, 423, 424, 425, 449; heredity in, 429.
Trübner & Co., i: 325.
Trygvesson, Olaf, ii: 228.
Tunison, Joseph Salathiel, i: 288, 361, 405, 411; his comment on Hearn’s work and characteristics, 54, 55, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66; Hearn’s friendship with, 55; his comment on Hearn’s friendships, 56; his book on the Virgilian Legend, 351; letter from Hearn to, 443, 444.
Turiault, J., his Etude sur la Langage Créole de la Martinique, i: 357.
Twins, Japanese, ii: 326, 327.
Tylor, Edward Burnett, ii: 8, 41, 57; an Australian chant quoted by, i: 312, 313; its construction similar to a Greek chorus, 312; his book on anthropology, ii: 14.
Tyndall, John, ii: 235.
Typography, Hearn’s interest in, i: 50.
Uguisi, gift of, to Hearn, i: 118, 119; ii: 19.
Ukioye exhibition, ii: 382.
Undine, philosophy of, ii: 508.
United States, intellectual sterility in, ii: 478; liberty in, 511, 512; race-hatred in, 512.
Ushaw, Roman Catholic College, i: 34, 37.
Ushigome. See Tōkyō.
Value, close connection between ideas of weight and, ii: 74, 75, 76.
Van Horne, Sir William, his offer to Hearn, ii: 505.
Varigny, Dr., ii: 467.
Vedantic philosophy, ii: 236.
Venus, Medicean, Ruskin’s comment on, i: 31.
Venus of Milo, i: 227.
Verlaine, Paul, ii: 187.
Very, Mary, ii: 441.
Viaud, Julien (Pierre Loti), i: 72, 334, 361, 431, 432; ii: 479; his L’Inde sans les Anglais, i: 72; ii: 491, 492; his Mariage de Loti, i: 249, 377; his Roman d’un Spahi, 249, 427; his Aziyadé, 250; Hearn’s desire to translate some of his novels, 362; Hearn’s admiration for, 377, 378, 396, 427, 452, 453; his Un Rêve, 434, 452, 453; his Madame Chrysanthemum, 434; his account of the French attack on the coast of Annam, ii: 373; offers his services to Spain, 385.
Vickers, Thomas, i: 50, 214.
Victoria, Queen of England, i: 164.
Vignoli, Tito, i: 292.
Villoteau, Guillaume André, i: 283; his Mémoire sur la Musique dans l’antique Egypte, 285.
Virchow, Rudolf, ii: 312, 316.
Vishnu, i: 210.
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.
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