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Hearn, Lafcadio; Erskine, John (Compiler, Editor, and Introduction) : Books and Habits: from the lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1921

First Edition, First Issue. Original publisher's red cloth binding in a brown paper dust wrapper. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4." 328 pages, complete. Index in back. Pages and covers of the book are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is clean and intact overall but there is slight wrinkling along top and bottom edges, a few tiny closed tears at the top edge, slight darkening to spine, and two splits running practically all the way through from top to bottom along the seams connecting the flaps and panels. Some glue repair along the seam connecting the front panel and front flap. A Fine book in a Good dust wrapper. A collection of lectures given by Lafcadio Hearn to students at the University of Tokyo. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an author of Greek-Irish descent who lived in Greece, Ireland, and the United States (Cincinnati and New Orleans) before moving to Japan. In Japan, he received the legal name, Koizumi Yakumo, and became a professor at different universities while continuing his writing. John Erskine (1879-1951) was an American author, educator, pianist, and composer. He taught as a professor at Amhearst College and Columbia University. In this book, Erskine selected and edited Hearn's lectures and also wrote the Introduction. Excerpt from Introduction: "These chapters, for the most part, are reprinted from Lafcadio Hearn's 'Interpretations of Literature,' 1915, from his 'Life and Literature,' 1916, and from his 'Appreciations of Poetry,' 1917. Three chapters appear here for the first time. They are all taken from the student notes of Hearn's lectures at the University of Tokyo, 1896-1902, sufficiently described in the earlier volumes just mentioned. ... It should be remembered that these lectures were delivered to Japanese students .... The lectures are therefore unique, in that they are the first large attempt by a Western critic to interpret us [Westerners] to the East." The following are the titles of some of Hearn's lectures in this book: "On Love in English Poetry," "The Ideal Womean in English Poetry," "Some Foreign Poems on Japanese Subjects," "The New Ethics," "Some Poems About Insects," "Note on the Influence of Finnish Poetry in English Literature," and "Old Greek Fragments." Referenced from the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL), no. 7971: "First Edition; First Issue.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

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