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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lafcadio Hearn, by Nina H. Kennard This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Lafcadio Hearn Author: Nina H. Kennard Release Date: August 3, 2010 [EBook #33345] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAFCADIO HEARN *** Produced by David Clarke, Ernest Schaal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net LAFCADIO HEARN The Hearn crest is "on a mount vert a heron arg.," and the motto "Ardua petit ardea." [Illustration: Lafcadio Hearn and His Wife.] LAFCADIO HEARN BY NINA H. KENNARD _CONTAINING SOME LETTERS FROM LAFCADIO HEARN TO HIS HALF-SISTER, MRS. ATKINSON_ [Illustration] NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY MCMXII Copyright, 1912, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY REMEMBRANCE No regret is vain. It is sorrow that spins the thread,--softer than moonshine, thinner than fragrance, stronger than death,--the Gleipnir-chain of the Greater Memory. PREFACE When Death has set his seal on an eminent man's career, there is a not unnatural curiosity to know something of his life, as revealed by himself, particularly in letters to intimate friends. "All biography ought, as much as possible, to be autobiography," says Stevenson, and of all autobiographical material, letters are the most satisfactory. Generally written on the impulse of the moment, with no idea of subsequent publication, they come, as it were, like butter fresh from the churning with the impress of the mind of the writer stamped distinctly upon them. One letter of George Sand's written to Flaubert, or one of Goethe's to Frau von Stein, or his friend Stilling, is worth pages of embellished reminiscences. The ci
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