Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1911 — Identifying an Author. [ARTICLE]

Identifying an Author.

An elderly man walked into a Brooklyn branch of the public library the other day and addressed the young woman behind the counter in this fashion: “I want a certain book by a certain author and both the title of the book and the name of the author have escaped my memory. In appearance the author looked like a mixture of Robert Louis Stevenson and Hall Caine and had, I believe, a cataract of the e/e. He had written much about Japan in every style of writing. If you can tell me his name I*ll look up the book. Can you do it?” The young woman pursed her lips meditatively. She answered: "Could it be Lafcadio Hearn that you are thinking of?" It was.