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5 for them to participate with you in the work of the man of whom it was said by the distinguished Associate Professor of English at the Columbia University, New York — John Erskine, Ph.D. — that his (Hearn's) lectures were "criticisms of the finest kind", unmatched in English unless we return to the best in Coleridge, and in some ways unequaled by anything in Coleridge!

Your familiarity with the language — thanks to Hearn — qualifies you to put his incomparable English into Japanese as nearly as it can be done, but the greatest service you are doing your fellow