The Southern Review, March 22nd, 2003
IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT ANY mature letter of Henry James was ever read with such consummate indifference as the one he wrote in 1913 to Stark Young. Visiting Fanny Prothero during an English trip, "the delightful young man from Texas" had neither read nor intended to read Henry James; and his hostess, misunderstanding this southerner's habit of smudging distinctions between affability and dissimulation, had briskly commissioned the Master to submit a list of his novels to guide the reading of her new friend. In complying, James submitted two lists, one beginning with Roderick Hudson, the other, ...
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