"Longstaff's Marriage (Scribner's Monthly, August 1878) and "Benvolio" (Galaxy, August 1875) appeared in the "Madonna of the Future and Other Tales," published in London, 1879. "Benvolio" also appeared in the English edition of Henry James's "Collection of Novels and Tales" brought out in 1883. The other three tales in this volume, "Master Eustace" (Galaxy, November 1871), "Théodolinde" (Lippincott's Magazine, May 1878), and "A Light Man" (Galaxy, July 1869) appeared in "Stories Revived" issued in three volumes in London in 1885. The tale "Théodolinde" was published there with the title "Rose Agathe." "A Light Man" has also been reprinted from The Galaxy in America in a collection of short stories, "Stories by American Authors," Volume V, 1884, but not in any American editions of Henry James's works.
Like the tales in "A Landscape Painter," these stories are reprinted from the periodicals wherein they first appeared and not from the English editions. Of the nine tales I have collected here and in "A Landscape Painter," seven were published by James in England in "Stories Revived," constituting half of that collection.
From an autobiographical point of view, the most interesting tale in this volume is "Benvolio." The poet Benvolio is evidently a bit of self-portraiture. Not that Henry James had the identical experience
