"Tauvs, 55 Roses Lartaarons Bit Eiited. by "Albert Mond ly" Lafeadio. Hear.
Heinemgun, 8s 62, Lafeudio Hearn, before ho went to Japan, was on the staff of the New Orleans. ''Times: Demoerat," fand was in. the habit of conti buting to fts columns editorials on literary topics. Many of these articles were unsigned, Dut Mr. Mordell, who haa gone through. the files of the paper very eared fully, hea been able to. identify, number of them as' Hearn's, and hag made a collection of such things in this "new. book, The greater number of the papers are on French, Russian and [Oriental literature, "and only a fow. English writers are treated, There 18, fiowever, one casey on English literature thee should not misted by there who are. interested in the humours of criticism, Tt is a paper, written sin 1684, entitled "Not 'Without "Honour! Save In His Own Country," an: its subject is the two Armolds, Matthew and Sir Edwin, Hearn relates, with scme show of indignation,' how a certain ads, an' American © lover poetry on a visit to England, dis covered: that meet of the Titorary people and the bookstall west ants only knew one Arnold as a poet, When he recited the verses Jot the other, everybody was. ne-tonished, and said how good. they wore. "And Captain Buds could nob refrain from expressing tonishment that a pact Whose works were for sale in every. American book-store, should" utterly ignored in London." By this time the learned reader will have jumped to the conclusion that "by some extraordinary chance "the fame of Matthew Arnold as a poet had spread. to America, while we in this county were content with Sir Edwin and-his "Light of Asia."
this would certainly justi Hearn's indignation, But actually, the very opposite of thig is meant, for it was Matthew Arnold that everyone know here, and it waa Sir Edwin who, was 20 admired in America, by Captain Eads and Hearn and everyone else, and who was "Not without honour save in his own country." he fact is that Lafoadio Hearn, while he was on the New Orleans paper in the distant carly 80 was not a particularly admirable critic of literature at all, and
Tate critic of pot however, cataioly third og fourty ho has enough admirers now to make this bock worth doing, and Mr. Mardell has dono his work very well
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