| + − | Nation. 84: 266. Mr. 21, ’07. 1260w. |
“It would be impossible within reasonable limits to give much idea of the rich and fantastic humor that plays about the revisited towns of America, leaves behind it suggestions to awaken our serious thought.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 221. Ap. 6, ’07. 1760w. |
“There is but one way in which to read ‘The American scene:’ refuse to let it antagonize you, remember constantly that it is the utterance of a ‘restored absentee;’ and with every page you will come more and more under the charm of his descriptions and the subtlety of his judgments.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | No. Am. 185: 214. My. 17, ’07. 1830w. | |
| Outlook. 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 450w. |
“He has written not a guide-book, but a drama, the drama of a continent: and he has contrived with illuminating subtlety that the ‘persons’ of it shall be not the varieties of humanity upon its surface, but the evidences, the more or less enduring records of their aspiration and their content.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 395. Mr. 30, ’07. 2400w. |
“The faults we have to find with it are only the faults which cling to all Mr. James’s work. He is exceedingly difficult to read. Mr. James writes with such urbanity and so genuine a love for the land that the most nervous patriot could not take offence at his pages, while to a certain limited class of readers they will be a source of acute intellectual pleasure.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 334. Mr. 2, ’07. 1750w. |
James, William. [Pragmatism]: a new name for some old ways of thinking. **$1.25. Longmans.