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Hearn's Critical Essays
March 21, 1918 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Life and Literature," by Lafcadio Hearn. This is the fourth volume of essays edited by John Erskine from Hearn's lectures. Certainly the series forms a singular and notable addition to the critical body of English literature. A good many pages consist merely of prose paraphrases of his poetical illustrations, and this sort of exposition, though extremely useful under the circumstances of delivery, is not highly profitable or entertaining for the instructed English reader. Unlike Japanese students, to whom the extracts without such exposition would have been merely bewildering, most English readers will find Hearn's interpretations useful and enlightening.

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ESSAY; LIFE & Literature (Book); HEARN, Lafcadio; BOOKS & reading; JAPANESE students; ENGLISH
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