Volume II Part 48 (1/2)

I am not sure whether you would care for Nitobe's book ”Bushi+do”--a very small volume, or rather treatise upon the _morale_ of Samurai education From a literary standpoint it would not tey” But it is to some extent instructive

I suppose that Dr Hirn will meet Domenico Comparetti, the author of ”The Traditional Poetry of the Finns” I gave a lecture lately on the poetical values of the ”Kalewala,” and I found that book of great use to me

Please excuse my loquacity, and let me wish you and the doctor every happiness and success Perhaps I shall write you again--from America

Only the Gods know

Sincerely yours, LAFCADIO HEARN

TO MRS WETMORE

TOKYO, August, 1903

DEAR MRS WETMORE,--I am sorry for my dismal letter of the other day I feel to-day ht it out here in japan Anyhow, I have discovered that I have a fair chance of being able to live by ood; and if I _must_ live by my pen, there is no place in the world where I can do so er, I may be able to send him abroad Unless I could make money in America, it were little use to drop two thousand dollars (japaneseBesides, out of those lectures in book-form I shall make some money

For the present, I think that I shall sih that is to cole It only reratitude If I had dreaed you to do nothing for h places I have tried to break out of my chrysalis too soon,--but, with the help of the Gods, row

To have even one isher like you in Aland, some in France, some in Denmark, Sweden, and Russia _Non omnis moriar_ thus

You will hear froive you pleasure, perhaps: I aain

With reverential gratitude, LAFCADIO HEARN

TO MRS WETMORE

TOKYO, 1903

DEAR MRS WETMORE,--I have your kindest note of June 16th, and a, with unspeakable thanks, the letters forwarded I have written also to President Remsen and to President Taylor, as you wished lad to hear that I a enough to lecture before a general public

Before a university audience I could do so in a theatre would be rather trying The great and devouring anxiety is for so that will assure me thewill, I fear, be at best aBut itpermanent I have now nearly completed twenty-one lectures: they will form eventually a serious work upon japan, entirely unlike anything yet written The substantial idea of the lectures is that japanese society represents the condition of ancient Greek society a thousand years before Christ I aious japan,--not of artistic or economical japan, except by way of illustration Lowell's ”Soul of the Far East” is the only book of the kind in English; but I have taken a totally different view of the causes and the evolution of things

I ae world of cruelty and intrigue And I dreao, I am alone in an American city; and I have only ten cents in my pocket,--and to send off a letter that I must send will take three cents That leaves me seven cents for the day's food Now, I am not hard up, by any means: I can wait another sixwithout employ in an American city appalls me--because I remember All of which is written in haste to catch the ht not to tell you of any troubles of mine--but _if_ I could not, ould have happened me?

LAFCADIO HEARN

TO MRS WETMORE

TOKYO, October, 1903

DEAR MRS WETMORE,--I have had a char that the presidentperson

I have also--which surprised enerous of letters froreeing to furnish me with means of transportation, both ways, to Montreal and back to japan

I shall have to do sorateful