Volume 34, Number 6 · April 9, 1987
The Eye of the Master
By Louis S. Auchincloss
The Museum World of Henry James
by Adeline R. Tintner
UMI Research Press, 390 pp., $49.95
Adeline R. Tintner has provided every admirer of Henry James with a feast; the question will arise what she has provided, if anything, for others. We have long been conscious of James's passion for painting and sculpture, for fine houses and fine interiors, for jewelry and objets de vertu, but no one has yet, with anything like such scholarship and thoroughness, seen fit to document his fiction and memoirs with so copious a description of artifacts described in his work or artifacts that suggested fictional counterparts.
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