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has been gradually growing ever since that time.During the lastfew years,however,there has undoubtedly been a marked renewal inthe sympathetic understanding of this writer,and it is interesting to seethatyounger authors are among the leading recent exponents ofhis work.  \nMichael Swan has made himself widely known as a student anda critic of Henry James's work,and has edited and provided intro-ductions for a selection of Henry James's short stories,and ALitle Tourof France.His own work includes the travel books Ilex and Olive andThe Temples of the Sun and Moon,and his critical writing,which appearsin the leading literary papers,is informed with grace and distinction.  \n# Bibliographical Series\n\nof Supplements to ‘British Book News'on Writers and Their Work  \nGENERAL EDITORBonamy Dobrée  \nqHENRY JAMES was born in New York on Is April I843.He died inLondon on 28 February I9I6.  \nHENRY JAMES  \nfrom a portrait of 1913 byJ.S.SARGENTin the National Portrait Gallery  \nHENRYJAMES  \nby Michael Swan  \nPUBLISHED FOR  \nTHE BRITISH COUNCILand the NATIONAL BOOK LEAGUE  \nBY LONGMANS,GREEN &co.,LONDON,NEW YORK,TORONTO  \n  5956 B  \nLONGMANS,GREEN &CO.LTD.6&7 Clifford Street,London W.IThibault House,Thibault Square,Cape Town60s-6II Lonsdale Street,Melbourne C.I  \nLONGMANS,GREEN&CO.INC.55 Fifth Avenue,New York 3  \nLONGMANS,GREEN &CO.20 Cranfield Road,Toronto I6  \nORIENT LONGMANS PRIVATE LTD.Calcutta Bombay MadrasDelhi Hyderabad Dacca  \nFirst published in 1950Revised 1957  \nPrinted in Great Britain at The Curwen Press,Plaistow,E.13  \nRgPS212195  \nHENRY JAMES  \nHE life and character of Henry James seem to havemoved almost exactly in sympathy with the three‘periods'in his writing—those three periods whichso many critics of James's work have called,'James I,JamesII,and James the Old Pretender'.From the comparativelylittle material we have James I appears as a melancholy,heavy-eyed young man,shyly wandering Europe and pass-ing whole seasons having spoken to few people other thanchamber-maids and waiters.James II has found confidenceand grown a beard;London is his home and he dines outfour times a week;he is liked and admired,but somethingmore grand is to come when he merges into the Old Pre-tender.The Legend of the Master (to echo the title of hisstory The Lesson of the Master)begins,and a man as extra-ordinary as his novels of this time is revealed.'A quitelegendary figure,'wrote Hugh Walpole of him,a sort ofstuffed waxwork from whose mouth a stream of colouredsentences,like rolls of green and pink paper,are for everissuing.'Let us look closer at this legendary waxwork.  \nFrom the end of the nineties until his death James was oneof the senior men of letters in England;he encouragedyoung writers with profound criticism,and among themhis reputation was great,but even so he knew that widepopularity was something he could not hope for.'Ah,Mr.Jacobs,I envy you!'he said to W.W.Jacobs,thenovelist and short-story writer,'your admirable work isappreciated by a wide circle of readers;it has achievedpopularity.Mine—never goes into a second edition.Ishould so much have loved to be popular.'This was afterdinner at a London club and,if it were true to form,theevening would continue with a great deal of talk fromJames of an almost baroque complication.'A ponderouslywarm manner of saying nothing in infinite sentences'wasThomas Hardy's opinion,but others knew that when thedesign was complete it would have been well worth waiting  \nfor.Many accounts of his conversation have been written,but A.C.Benson's gives an excellent idea of its quality.'The extreme and almost tantalizing charm of his talk laynot only in his quick transitions,his exquisite touches ofhumour and irony,the width and force of his sympathy,the range of his intelligence,but in the fact that the wholeprocess of his thought,the qualifications,the resumptions,the interlineations were laid bare.The beautiful sentences,so finished,so 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