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INTRODUCTION

another and very different token of his experience when accorded the freedom of the greenroom.

The review of "The Grandissimes" — it is only one of several is included as holding a close relationship with the sketches that are professedly Creole.

"The City of Dreams" depicts the result of the fateful yellow-fever epidemic of 1878 upon the smitten souls of the people. Fortunately science has forever rendered impossible the return of that heavy weight of woe that hung over the city in the year of which this and many others of Hearn's more poignant sketches are memorials.

The Cartoons, done by his own hand, of which a few have been introduced, have been placed out of their chronological order for the purpose of distributing them through the book.

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