The latest volume of short stories from the pen of Henry James takes the title of the first tale, "The Real Thing," a story of artist life in London, which is not in the least exciting, but which is clever with that cleverness in which nobody excels the author. All the five stories are excellently written, and they are all marked by the same acute and refined observation, the power of analyzing human nature and human emotions which is so striking in all the work of Mr. James.—Boston Courier.
It is an artist's work through and through, and one feels that beneath its perfection of form this little masterpiece embodies its author's earnest æsthetic convictions.—Philadelphia Times.
"The Real Thing, and Other Tales," by Henry James, is the best volume of short stories that the author has given to the lovers of good fiction. It is distinguished by marked originality in its treatment of modern life, and the grace and purity of style for which Mr. James is celebrated, is a distinguished feature of this book.—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
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Henry James's art is unique. Whether in the novel or in the short story, he is unlike any other writer of the day. The impatient reader may grow weary of his refinement of the literary art, but no one who has not leisure or patience should attempt to read James.—San Francisco Chronicle.
There is subtle finish of perfection about the literary workmanship of Mr. James's latest collection of stories "The Lesson of the Master" that has rarely been approached and certainly never has been excelled in any of his previous essays on fiction. One has only to read a page of this book to feel that the author of it has an unwavering passion for art, to realize that his sole aim is to depict a sentiment, an idea, or an emotion, with actual fidelity to what is actual and real.—Boston Beacon.
Mr. James is too great an artist ever to preach, but no modern writer has a keener or surer vision for the basic moralities of life, and this quality makes his books doubly agreeable, for with all the art of the Gaul, they possess a solidity that is undreamed of across the Channel.—The Home Journal.
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