Making sentences

Philip Horne

  • The Jameses: A Family Narrative by R.W.B. Lewis
    Deutsch, 696 pp, £20.00, October 1991, ISBN 0 233 98748 7
  • Meaning in Henry James by Millicent Bell
    Harvard, 384 pp, £35.95, October 1991, ISBN 0 674 55762 X

Forty-one years after F.O. Matthiessen’s suicide, and 44 after his big book The James Family: A Group Biography, here is R.W.B. Lewis, Matthiessen’s pupil at Harvard, with one on the same subject, nearly as big. Its very title twists a touch awkwardly to avoid repeating that of its precursor, to which Lewis acknowledges a large debt.

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