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Chapter XVII: Part 17

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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.

THE END

Transcriber's Note:

Minor punctuation errors in the Index have been silently corrected.

The word 'consciousness' appears twice as 'conciousness' in a letter to Basil Hall Chamberlain (pp. 234, 236). It frequently appears correctly spelled elsewhere. It has been corrected in both places here, assuming a printer's error.

Page references in the Index remain as printed. There are two entries ('Prose, poetical' and 'Heine, Heinrich, French prose translation of') referencing p. 524 of the present volume, which is a blank page. Both seem to be errors for p. 529, where both topics are found. These have been corrected. Other than these instances, no systematic attempt was made to verify the accuracy of the Index.

The following list contains special situations where corrections were in order:

p. 156 "And they clanked at his girdle like Close Shelley's
_manacles_["] line.

p. 207 it often[s] does Removed.

pp. 234, con[s]ciousness Added.
236.

p. 428 vi[v/s]-à-vis Corrected.

p. 470 I[t/f] you ever want Corrected.

p. 519 tell him: ["/']Ha! he died sometime The nested quotation
ago. That will do.["/']["] was not properly
closed.

p. 534 in the course of [the] academic year Added. Could be 'an'.

p. 542 Mik[a/o]-kaguri Corrected.

p. 556 St. Pierre, Mart[i]nique Added.

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