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of Bar Harbor, or even (extravagant as it appears to say) the misery
0f l04th Street. It is probably fair to ask whether the present
middle culture ought not to yield something better than a letter–
carrying Robin Hood, and it is possible that the man who answers
with a violent affirmative is a genius rather than merely another
somnambulist "utterly removed from contemporary reality." But
the possibility is hardly vivid enough to discourage a firm impulse of
gratitude for the singer of Lone Tree. He is less than Tolstoy like
many others, but he is alive, and were it not for what he has snatched
from the Chiclet-dripping jaws of our hell, the Schooner State,
these faint visions of real buffalo on real plains, and all trustworthy
trace of the vanishing, self-destroying class might even now have
disappeared.
Benjamin DeMott
JAMES'S LATER NOVELS
an interpretation by
ROBERT MARKS
New interpretations and resumes:
Milly Theale as a case of melancholia, with Kate Croy
as heroine in
The Wings of the Dove;
Charlotte Stant as heroine of
The Golden Bowl,
with
Maggie Verver as a case of father-fixation;
Expository chapters also on
The Awkward Age, The
Ambassadors, The Ivory Tower,
and on
James's Theory
of the Novel.
CLOTHBOUND,
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