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Chapter XVI: Part 16

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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, Mika-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, 94, 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, 8_n._;
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, 34_n._, 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, 8 _n._;
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, 149-152, 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;
antiforeign 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;
protests against Hearn's treatment by, 490, 493, 506;
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.

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