Essays in European and oriental literature
By: by Lafcadio Hearn ; arranged and edited by Albert Mordell
Contributors: Mordell, Albert, 1885-1965 ed
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Literature; History and criticism
Notes: Title in black enclosed within a triple line rule border.

Editorials that appear in this volume were written between 1883 and 1887 and appeared in The New Orleans Times-Democrat.

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Perkins, P.D.  Hearn, p.87-89

Bound in original maroon buckram with printed paper label mounted on spine.
Table of contents: title: Essays on literary topics: The future of idealism. Idealism and Naturalism. Realism and Idealism. A lesson of literary evolution. Science and literature. Decadence as a fine art. Eclectism in periodical literature. -Essays on French literature: A mad romantic (Gerard de Nerval). The idol of a great eccentric (Baudelaire) The friends of Flaubert. An archaeological novel (Salammbo). A great prosateur (Maupassant). Literary pessimism (Bel Ami). "Solitude" (Maupassant). A defence of pessimism (Maupassant). Women of the sword (Mademoiselle du Maupin). Zola's "Au Bonheur des Dames." "L'Oeuvre" (Zola). A new romantic (Loti). The most original of modern novelists (Loti). Plot-formation in modern novels (Loti). "The Nation" on Loti. The religion of suffering (Bourget's "Crime of Love"). Some curious memoirs (Goncourt). The fear of death (In French Literature). A reminiscence of Bohemia (Murger's "Vie de Boheme"). "Lettered misery." -Studies in Russian, English, German and Italian literature: Russian literature abroad. A terrible novel ("Crime and Punishment"). Tolstoi's vanity of wisdom. The two Arnolds. Not without honor save in his own country (Edwin Arnold). Edwin Arnold's new book ("The secret death"). A definitive Rossetti. Some human frailty (Rossetti).