The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-29

the late years OF his life his visits TO his
native shores we're rare and usually Of
brief duration. Yet II was not until
after he had passed his seven;y-sccond
hrthday---he was born April -. 1856
that he took the oath Of allegiance 10
Great Britain and became a British sub
ject.
He vas cosmopolitan by education ard
instinct, HIS father was perhaps he;t"r
Known In England than In the United
States Tho elder james WAS theolo-
gian who. after leaving Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary because OF doc;rinal
differences, became 81 member of the
Sandemanian sect and finally adopted
the views Of Swedenborg His most in-
tima,e friends in this country were the
Transc.ndentalis;s of New England and
IN England he enjoyed tho friendship Of
CARLYLE.
Henry James. III, received Ma efrrlN
education in Geneva. pa'.s and Boulosne
and then. after travelling extensively
over the European continent. passed sew
eral years at the University of Bonn.
His father brought him hack To this
country To study law, and he was gradu-
aied from the Harvard Law S'Aool. but
soon began 10 neglect his profession 10
daily with literatur. For ten years he
u.l
d.sultory literary studies fpr magazines
He went hack to Europ" in 1863 and ever
after divided his time between London
and Italy, save for his occasional BRIEF
T., sits In America.
In France as Young man. with
Alphonse Daudet. Emile lola. Guy de
Naupassant. the Goncour's and Tur-
xeniefY-the famous group tina, was wont
to gather at the house ~ Gusiare F'au-
bert--Mr James had the !nestlmahle
privilege of interchange OF discussion
and conf adeship.
"Dmisy miller" Successful.
The ,rst story Of confirmed power
which he wrote was "'rhe Americans"
uS7c. but IL was not until the appear
ance Of "Daisy Miller two years later
that he attracted particular attention.
This WAS written ~ a time when the
wives and daughters Of newly rich Amer
leans had begun their Invasion of Eu-
rope and the shafts OF satire which the
story contained aroused storm OF crit
icism. Stll, years later, Mr. James
smoke OF Daisy Miller az 'the ulti-
mateIy most prosperous child Of my in
vention."
I Among the best appreciated OF his
later works were THE Bostonians.
"prinCeSS thSanlasSlTla anu IsoHuoii'
on. # his shorter stories. Twenty
stories. forming the cream of his writ
ings, appeared in a New York edition
I'm two volumes in 1909. Among the
stories 1t contained, besides those already
mentioned. were THE Altar of the
Dead" what Maise knew" and "The
Private 1ife.
! In most of his writings Mr. James was
given to an iutricatensss Of verbiaKs
which sometimes made them difficult &c
renders One author called some Of his
noyelettes ''marvels Of cleverness. bu,
splend,dly unreadable." Another de,
scrlbed him as "a master Of labyrinthiar
| language.
Mr. James had a unique method ol
composition and he was fond OF saying
that he developed his books from germ
When a new idea seized him he dictated
/, IN the form of short story Whcr
the words had been set In type. read and
rendered over, the author. germ In hand
nroceeded to enlarge the nucleus, weav,
ing i'm new characters. expanding scenes
and constructing sentences. In thcs.
! wards he once described himself wheI
waiting for inspirations
"A high and dry, Yet lrrcpresslbl,
Lopeful artistic Micawber. cooking AN os
ttnsibly confident hat and practising an
almost passionate system of bluff I'M
s,stiny. IN line, that sOnIs hing would turt
up, II only the right imaainativv hang
ing
AN~rse 10 Interviews.
My Jancs very rarely consented I,
,,,v. an interview "Nothiug IN wort,