Volume 38, Number 16 · October 10, 1991
What the Jameses Knew
By Stuart Hampshire
The Jameses: A Family Narrative
by R.W.B. Lewis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 696 pp., $35.00
Henry James and Revision
by Philip Horne
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 373 pp., $89.00
Meaning in Henry James
by Millicent Bell
Harvard University Press, 384 pp., $45.00
The Sweetest Impression of Life: The James Family and Italy
edited by James W. Tuttleton, edited by Agostino Lombardo
New York University Press, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 250 pp., $36.00
Of the four recent books under review two are studies of Henry James's thought and work, two are about the James family. R.W.B. Lewis's story of the family will certainly be read with enjoyment by the common reader; the other three books are for specialists, for the great army of Henry James students which seems to have new recruits every year. Philip Horne has written a brilliant academic study, showing in detail the author's revisions of stories and novels in the preparation of the New York Edition of his works.
Review, 4418 words
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