The Rev. Mark J. McNeal, S. J., who was one of the successors of Lafcadio Hearn in the chair of English Literature at the Tokyo Imperial University, in an interesting article recounts the following incident of his experience in that institution. "I was seated on the examining board with Professor Ichikawa, the dean of the English department... There entered the room a student whom I recognized as among the best in the class, a sharp young chap with big Mongolian eyes, and one who had never to my knowledge given any hint of even a leaning toward Christianity. I remembered, however, that his...

Excerpt from Shelley: An Essay
The following Appreciation is taken from a Letter addressed by Mr Wyndham, after he had read the "Shelley" article in The Dublin Review, to the editor of that periodical, Mr Wilfrid Ward. The friends then permitted to read the Letter were inevitably eager to share with others their advantage; and the Literary Executor of Francis Thompson gratefully acknowledges Mr Wyndham's and Mr Ward's good will in granting his request that what was written as a private Letter should here stand in lieu of any more formal Introduction.]
I must now tell you that I have...

"New Poems" from Francis Thompson. English poet and ascetic (1859-1907).

Excerpt from Sister-Songs: An Offering to Two Sisters
This poem, though new in the sense of being now for the first time printed, was written some four years ago, about the same date as the Hound of Heaven in my former volume.
One image in the Proem was an unconscious plagiarism from the beautiful image in Mr. Patmore's St. Valentine's Day: -
"O baby Spring,
That flutter'st sudden 'neath the breast of Earth,
A month before the birth "
Finding I could not disengage it without injury to the passage in which it is embedded, I have preferred to leave it, with this...