THE. LEGEND OF THE MASTER (176 pp.) —Compiled by Simon Nowell-Smifh—Scribner ($3). Henry James.was the Winston Spencer Churchill of fiction. Portly and bald, and one of the greatest talkers in ...

The whole of the man was in the special work—he was all a writer, a critic, an appreciator. He was literary in every pulsation of his being, and he expressed himself totally in his literary life. No ...

On the author’s final years in England. 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 ...

THIS volume in memory of the late Henry James 1 consists of an attempt at an outline of his system of thought, composed chiefly of selections from his own writings and a brief autobiographical sketch, ...

An oil portrait of the author Henry James, by John Singer Sargent, 1913. (National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons) Prudence indeed dictates that no one, not you nor me nor anyone else, inclusive ...

IF any career can be called happy before it is closed, that of Mr. Henry James may certainly be so called. It has been a long one — much longer already than the space of time allotted to a generation.