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scholars lies in giving them Hearn's English, at the same time that you make it accessible to the Nation at large.

To speak only of the very beginning of your "Hearn Memorial Translations" — every one of the five books a gem of first water — is to invite attention to what stirs the emotions to the depths of the soul, and, any fair-minded man, having read it, who wouldn't at once resent an unkindness — much less an injustice — to the kind of people there described, is unimaginable.

The time is bound to come when present day insanity wherever existing will be made to give way to sound-