THE. LEGEND OF THE MASTER (176 pp.) —Compiled by Simon Nowell-Smifh—Scribner ($3). Henry James.was the Winston Spencer Churchill of fiction. Portly and bald, and one of the greatest talkers in ...

On the author’s final years in England. When Henry James and Henry Adams met in England in September 1914—a month after Britain declared war on Germany—“they threw their arms around each other as if ...

THE CONQUEST OF LONDON (465 pp.) and THE MIDDLE YEARS (408 pp.), Vols. II & III of HENRY JAMES—Leon Edel-—Lippincoft ($ 17). Boswell started it all. Ever since the canny Scot earned himself a niche in ...

Newswise — Hugh Kenner opens The Pound Era with a symbolic incident of Henry James, elderly with his niece, meeting Ezra Pound and his wife on the street in London shortly before the First World War.

It has long been known that during his last illness, in the midst of the 1914—1918 war, and when he was in delirium, Henry James called his secretary, the late Theodora Bosanquet, and dictated certain ...