By Lafcadio Hearn
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE STORY OF MIMI-NASHI-HOICHI OSHIDORI
THE STORY OF O-TEI UBAZAKURA DIPLOMACY OF A MIRROR AND A BELL JIKININKI
MUJINA ROKURO-KUBI A DEAD SECRET...
by Chester K. Steele
CHAPTER I
PUTTING OUT
There was nothing in that clear, calm day, with its blue sky and its
flooding sunshine, to suggest in the slightest degree the awful trag...
by Michael Fairless
The Roadmender
CHAPTER I
I HAVE attained my ideal: I am a roadmender, some say stonebreaker. Both
titles are correct, but the one is more pregnant than the othe...
BY HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated By Ellen Marriage To D. W.
La Grenadiere is a little house on the right bank of the Loire as you go
down stream, about a mile below the bridge of T...
By ALICE DUNBAR
To My best Comrade My Husband
THE GOODNESS OF SAINT ROCQUE
Manuela was tall and slender and graceful, and once you knew her the
lithe form could never be mistaken...
by William Makepeace Thackeray
PRELUDE
It happened that the undersigned spent the last Christmas season in a
foreign city where there were many English children.
In that city, if...