Volume 33, Number 17 · November 6, 1986
Lessons of the Master
By Gore Vidal
Henry James: Literary Criticism Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers
The Library of America, 1484 pp., $27.50
Henry James: Literary Criticism French Writers, Other European Writers, The Prefaces to the New York Edition
The Library of America, 1408 pp., $27.50
On the evening of January 12, 1905, President and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt held a reception for the Diplomatic Corps. After the reception, a limited number of grandees were given a dinner; among those so distinguished was Henry James, who was staying across the street at the house of Henry Adams. The reception had been boycotted by Adams himself, who found it impossible to finish a sentence once the voluble President was wound up. But Adams sent over his house guests, James, John La Farge, and St. Gaudens.
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