Volume 13, Number 1 · July 10, 1969
In the Cage
By William H. Gass
Henry James: The Treacherous Years 1895-1901
by Leon Edel
Lippincott, 381 pp., $10.00
From Rye, where he has taken up residence in Lamb House, Henry James wires to London: 'Are you utterly absent or can you dine with me Friday at seven to go afterwards with three others to the theatre?' James has passed his pale bescribbled paper across the counter toward the visible half of the clerk; he has paid, and paid by the word (a fact which could not fail to impress an author, since it was so perfectly the reverse of his own manner of making a living); he has pondered, as he had more than once before, the exposure of his message to a stranger, and wondered at the clerk's opportunities to observe and construe these brief pieces of privacy.
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