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 QUOTATIONS

EFORE presenting the quotations from his letters, these tokens of appreciation of his genius by Dr. Lowell's contemporaries, Professor Emeritus Barrett Wendell, of Harvard, and the late Lafcadio Hearn, will illuminate them and charm the reader. In a letter to Dr. Lowell, from Japan, Professor Wendell says:

. . . "You have been in my mind constantly through these last few weeks. The 'Soul of the Far East' seemed good to me, when I first read it, years ago. 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. As you go on, I reverence more and more such power as yours of doing things really. 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. 45