James, Henry

This Jack Clayton adaptation of The Turn of the Screw is one of the rare pictures that does justice to Henry James.

Taylor Nichols, meanwhile, took the Henry James route and went native, marrying one of extras.

H.L. Mencken, admittedly a fast man with a hyperbolic comparison, thought him more profound than Henry James.

Henry James, unsurprisingly, was playing a subtler, but still heavily determined game.

A meeting with Henry James in Washington went even less smoothly.

Nor does Mr. Henry James, who in the case of the last-named novel comes to his help against Zola, much mend matters.

Professor James, like his brother, Henry James the novelist, was a man of letters.

As Henry James has said, "It was a period when writers besought the deep blue sea 'to roll.'"

And this reward came to Henry James in the ripeness of his talents; even further perhaps it entered his life and his conversation.

No man who has not lived on both sides of the Atlantic can well appraise Henry James; his death marks the end of a period.