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Somo unpublished t letters of Lafcadio Hoarn appear in the current number of tlio "Albany Roviow." He has some illuminating tilings to say of his beloved Japan. It was old Japun that so entirely won his heart, for the new order lie disliked, as this outspoken letter shows-"Japanese officialdom is not lovable, and it is Oriental when unpleasant. 'Here, if .vou don't like things, get out! Hore's your salary.' On the contrary, it suddenly becomes coaxing, caressing,'infinitely sweet, and invites you out for multitudinous insult. Then you arc suddenly surrounded by smiling combinations, unimagined and unimaginable, and .softly struck in a hundred ways. A knock-down blow is nothing to it. I pity a man' of letters in the Government service' in Tokio! Lasciato ogni sporanza, etc." The Thomson who is tlio subject of the latest addition to the "English Men of Letters" series, is "Tho Seasons" Thomson after all—the gross fat bard whom even gross fat Johnson could condemn for his looks. Father Bonson, the youngest of tho trio of brothers whoso names are so often before tho reading-public, began to write at a later age than eithor of the other two, but his success sooms likely at loast to equal theirs. For somo years past ho has been connected with tho groat Roman Catholic Church at Cambridge; but wo believe it is his intontion shortly to rotire from active narochial work and to settle in the country in order to'devoto himself to literature and preaching. Messrs. Motlmon are about to issuo a now volume by Miss Elizabeth Robins, entitled "Tho Convert." Miss Robins, who is a passionate boliovor in tho power of women, and who is tho author of tho recent play at tho Court Theatre entitled "Votes for Womon," has given lior forthcoming story a strong feminine interest, and it is said to be "0110 of tho frankest and most moving expositions of tho limitations amidst which tho sex, especially single women, have to exist that _hu6 yet been written"