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...historic land of the geisha girls, jinrikishas, and paper houses has been transformed into a bustling, optimistic country of Rotarians, go-getters, and "Service First" business men. The old Japan still moves only in the enchanting interpretations of Lafcadio Hearn. It has given way to the push of the Babbitt. An American Main-Streeter, member of the college friendship pilgrimage which has just completed an exploration of the modern Japan, is the only one who can properly eulogize the new soul of the Orient...
CREOLE SKETCHES-Lafcadio Hearn- Houghton ($2.00). In this collection of early notes about New Orleans, lovely, sleepy "City of Dreams," are frequent bits of that exquisite phrasing and wayward charm for which Hearn was later famed. The sketches appeared in The New Orleans Item when the unkempt, erratic and friendless young genius was eking out his early years doing hack newspaper work and living on the "ultra-canal" side of the city. There are vivid, shimmering bits of description and portraiture, some humorous, some elusively lovely and redolent of the quaint, exotic charm of the picturesque old city...
...Fish, "American Diplomacy"; Richard Le Gallienne, "Vanishing Roads"; John Galsworthy, "The Freelands"; N. V. Gogol, "Dead Souls"; Maxim Gorky, "My Childhood"; Ivan Goucharov, "Oblomov"; C. E. Gouldsbury, "Tiger Slayer by Order"; Harvard Club of Boston, "Year-Book, 1915-16"; Harvard Club of New York City, "Constitution, By-Laws, etc."; Lafcadio Hearn, "Interpretations of Literature," and "Japanese Lyrics"; Edwin B. Holt, "The Feudian Wish"; James Hunecker, "Ivory Apes and Peacocks"; S. C. Johnson, "Chats on Military Curios"; Rudyard Kipling, "France at War"; Princess Hrebebanovich Lazarovich, "Memoirs"; Stephen Leacock, "Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy"; Walter Lippman, "The Stakes of Diplomacy...
...given us a very pretty little thumb nail sketch of Japanese scenes in "Nikko, the Beautiful." There is a fragrant freshness in that two-page description, something of oriental color which fairly gives us a whiff of the distinctive odor of the bambo. Immediately one is reminded of Lafcadio Hearn. It is a pity that Mr. Lamont did not build his description about one of those many fascinating plots that claim Japan as their birthplace...
...explaining her views on the character; the prologue to Schiller's "Maid of Orleans" translated by Professor W. G. Howard; "Impressions of an Actor" by Tyrone Power; and "Death and the Dicers," by F. Schenck '09, K. R. Macgowan writes of "Honor versus Proctors," and N. Foerster of Lafcadio Hearn...