Fantastics and Other Fancies #233214

I AM conscious they are only trivial, wrote Lafcadio Hearn from New Orleans in 1880 to his friend H. E. Krehbiel, speaking of the weird little Sketches he was publishing from time to time in the columns of the Daily Item, the New Orleans newspaper which first gave him em ployment in the city where he spent the ten years from 1877 to 1887.