“For half a century Henry James poured himself out to his friends in letters that are matchless for their prodigal and eager flow of sympathy, their inexhaustible kindliness, their ample and exquisite tenderness, their beautiful generosity. These letters are priceless.” Lawrence Gilman
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“We have joked so long about the obscurity of his style as a novelist that this conception of him has become a habit with us. But now that his letters are published, we must alter our portrait.” M. J. Moses
+ Outlook 125:167 My 26 ’20 2200w
“He has been fortunate in an editor who understands and relishes the peculiarities of the case. There is one general criticism to be made of the exhibition. The letters seem to have been edited, perhaps unconsciously, to emphasize the completeness of James’s English adoption.” S. P. Sherman
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“We can only warn the reader who takes up these remarkable volumes that he will not find in them pretty anecdotes or gossip about notabilities: but he will find much excellent criticism and psychology, and he will find copiously and minutely displayed an intellect massive and yet subtle, and a character as nobly dignified as it was humanly attractive.”
+ Spec 124:691 My 22 ’20 1500w
“One of the many rich interests of these volumes is to discern the reflection of the person written to, in the letter written.”
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