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The belief that the dead need affection, that to neglect them is a cruelty, that their happiness depends upon duty, is a belief that has almost cast out the primitive fear of their displeasure. They are not thought of as dead; they are believed to remain among those who loved them.... From their shrine they observe and hear what happens in the house; they share the family joys and sorrows; they delight in the voices and the warmth of the life about them.-from "The Religion of the Home"In 1889, Westerner Lafcadio Hearn arrived in Japan on a journalistic assignment, and he fell so in love with the nation and its people that he never left. His love letters to his adopted country, including 1894''s Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan and 1896''s Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (both available from Cosimo Classics) helped fire global interest in Japanese culture as it was opening to the West in the 1890s, and in 1904, he published this engaging and highly entertaining series of essays. An early Western attempt to decipher the "outward strangeness" of all things in Japan, and to place the nation and its people in a larger historical context, this is a lyrical work, singing with respect and love.Bohemian and writer PATRICK LAFCADIO HEARN (1850-1904) was born in Greece, raised in Ireland, and worked as newspaper reporter in the United States before decamping to Japan. He also wrote In Ghostly Japan (1899).

The term "insider" may be logically applied to those successful operators who do make the market their business. But anyone who takes enough time to study the market and align his operations with successful trends may just as logically remove himself from the "public" class of lambs and enter this indefinite but successful class of "insiders." "If it were not so" this book, and many others, would not have been written.-from "How to Join the Successful Group"Richard Schabacker is considered the grandfather of technical analysis, and his theories and acumen are a continuing influence on investment philosophy today. This classic in the field and still of tremendous value to long-term, short-term, and beginning investors alike, covers, in clear, non-technical language, all the basics of making sure your money serves you well in the market:. the proper attitude-and the wrong approach-to investing. how to take advantage of cycles of business and securities. when to buy and sell. fundamental and technical factors to watch. the proper use of stock charts. market psychology and why it matters. how to diversify risk. whose advice to follow-and whose you should ignore. and much more.American author RICHARD WALLACE SCHABACKER (1899-1935) was financial editor of Forbes magazine. He also wrote Stock Market Theory and Practice (1930) and Technical Analysis (1932).