“He is the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm.”
Malcolm Cowley, in Henry Goodman (ed.) The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (New York: Citadel Press, 1949) p. 15.
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