_Chicago Record Herald_:--“All who have felt the delight of Lafcadio Hearn’s ‘sinuous, silvery, poetical prose’ ... will treasure the little volume ... containing Hearn’s correspondence with Watkin, the Cincinnati printer, who was his one lifelong friend. Out of that rare friendship grew this volume of letters, which does more than else to reveal the shy, sensitive, restless soul of Lafcadio Hearn.... The whole volume is worth reading again and again, merely for its verbal melody and the weird originality of its figures.” _The Globe_:--“One of the most interesting series of letters that has yet been published out of the large correspondence of the late Lafcadio Hearn.” _New York Press_:--“A distinct addition to the knowledge we now have of this extraordinary man.” _Troy Times_:--“This collection of letters gives a wonderful insight into that mystery, beauty and charm which pervade the writings of Lafcadio Hearn, and by their very intimacy and frankness picture his mood and the development of those inborn emotions at a time when they were clamoring for expression.” _Louisville Times_:--“These letters give the only insight obtainable into the personality of Hearn.” _Indianapolis News_:--“A wonderfully interesting book.... These letters of Lafcadio Hearn are a fascinating, psychological study. They are in such beautiful English they are a delight to the ear. His picturesque and trenchant references to art, literature, and religion make the letters doubly interesting. This is one of the most significant of recent publications.” BRENTANO’S, Fifth Ave. and 27th St., New York =TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES= Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Unicode prime characters and lack of accent in the French words have been kept as in the original version.