Hearn
LAFCADIO, an American journalist; born of an English father and a Greek mother, in Santa Maura, Ionian Islands, June 27, 1850. He was educated in England and France, and resided in the United States and in Japan. He wrote "Some Chinese Ghosts" (1887); "Two Years in the French West Indies" Indies" (1890) "Youma" (1890) "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan," and "Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese several other books on Japan, including Inner Life"; "Gleanings in Buddha Fields" (1897); "In Ghostly Japan" (1899); "Shadowings" (1900); etc. He died at Tokio, Sept. 27, 1904.