Wrexie Louise Leonard

“ But you will notice that his divine poetry touches only that which no scientific knowledge can explain,—that which no mathematics can solve,—that which must remain mysterious throughout all conceivable space and time—the fluttering of the Human Soul in its chrysalis, which it at once hates and loves, and hates because it loves, and strives to burst through, and still fears unspeakably to break,—though dimly conscious of the infinite ghostly Peace beyond. ”

“ How wonderfully good it is, though, no one can begin to know who has not been brought face to face with the bewildering marvels of this utterly different world. I have just been reading in supplement, Lafcadio Hearn's 'Japan,' which gives your brilliant psychology the historical setting almost needful to bring out its full power. ”

“ If you had never done anything but this excellent trace of your past, you would stay among those who will never be forgotten. ..."
(B.W.) Tokyo, June 11, '11.
In a published correspondence between Mr. Hearn and his friend George M. Gould, Esq., Mr. Gould writes: "Perhaps I should not have succeeded in getting Hearn to attempt 'Japan' had it not been for a little book that fell into his hands during his stay with me. In sending it to me he wrote:
"'Gooley! ... I have found a marvellous book ... a book of books! ... a colossal, splendid, godlike book. You must read every line of it. ”