THE CONQUEST OF LONDON (465 pp.) and THE MIDDLE YEARS (408 pp.), Vols. II & III of HENRY JAMES—Leon Edel-—Lippincoft ($ 17). Boswell started it all. Ever since the canny Scot earned himself a niche in ...
On Writers and Writing: Essays by Henry James, edited by Michael Gorra (New York Review Books, 408 pp., $24.95) The criticism of Henry James (1843–1916) is replete with imperiousness. We can hear this ...
In spite of the satisfaction with which Henry James settled himself down once for all in English life, the venture led before many years, according to Mr. Brooks’s diagnosis of the case, into ...
The Master , by Colm Tóibín. Scribner, 352 pages, $25. In his new novel, The Master , the Irish writer Colm Tóibín has undertaken a triply difficult task. Historical fiction poses one set of ...
When Henry James and Henry Adams met in England in September 1914—a month after Britain declared war on Germany—“they threw their arms around each other as if bridging a great chasm.” (So wrote Aileen ...
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