Excerpt from Appreciations of Poetry This volume contains a second selection from the lectures which Lafcadio Hearn delivered at the University of Tokyo between 1896 and 1902. An account of these lec tures and of the remarkable student notes in which they were preserved, is given in the Introduction to the first selec tion, Interpretations of Literature, 1915. The reader of the present volume should be reminded at least that Laf cadio Hearn lectured without notes, but very slowly, choos ing simple words and constructions, in order to make the foreign language as easy as possible to his Japanese stu dents; and some of his students managed to take down many of his lectures word for word. From their notes the present volume, like the Interpretations of Literature, is selected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.