Does anyone read Henry James in these days? The London Literary journals are devoting much space to this Anglo-American celebrity in the world of letters, and attempts are being made to set a final value on his we James novels are probably the concentrated on the business most dificult ever written. It was said of ith some truth, that he wrote fiction like a philoso-phar, whilst his brother. Professor iiliam James—the brilliant exponent of Pragmatism—wrote Philosophy like a nove.ist. The contrast is strikingly shown by comparison of a chapter or two from "The Golden Bowl'? and any one of the Professors' shorter essays psychology. Such a comparison shows the novelist almost painfully involved in elaborate and minute analysis, while the philosopher gaily pursues abstract ideas, pre-, Sents them in a clear, picturesque Istyle, and almost convinces the unaccustomed reader that the abstract is a thing at which one [peed not necessarily blanch.
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