Excerpt from Essays in European and Oriental Literature Hearn's defence of idealism and attacks upon the scientific spirit in literature, his sane Views on literary beauty, and his devotion to the nobler side of art, appear in his editorials.

We have here also his earlier work on subjects for which he became better known later, namely Buddhistic literature and Japanese poetry. His work on Oriental literature before he went to japan is as accurate in its interpretation as his subsequent work.

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