About the Book

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Note on the Arrangement of Headnotes ETC.; Chapter 3 W. D. Howells on the young James; Chapter 4 W. D. Howells on James's public; Chapter 5 James on his ambition as an American writer; Chapter 6 William James on the early stories; Chapter 7 William James on the early stories; Chapter 8 James on not pandering to the multitude; Chapter 9 William James on the early style; Chapter 10 ‘The Madonna of the Future’; Chapter 11 James on criticism; Part 1 A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales 1875; Chapter 12 Unsigned review, Atlantic Monthly; Part 2 Roderick Hudson 1875; Chapter 13 Unsigned review, Atlantic; Chapter 14 From an unsigned review, North American Review; Part 3 The American 1877; Chapter 15 James on the ending of The American; Chapter 16 George Saintsbury, review, Academy; Chapter 17 From an unsigned review, Scribner's Monthly; Part 4 The Europeans 1878; Chapter 18 From an unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 19 From an unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 20 W. E. Henley, review, Academy; Part 5 The Europeans and Daisy Miller 1878; Chapter 21 Richard Grant White, review, North American; Part 6 The Europeans; Chapter 22 From an unsigned review, Scribner's Monthly; Chapter 23 Unsigned review, Appleton's Journal; Chapter 24 Unsigned review, Eclectic Magazine; Chapter 25 Constance Fenimore Woolson, review, Atlantic; Chapter 26 From the Editor's Literary Record, Harper's New Monthly Magazine; Chapter 27 From an unsigned review, Atlantic; Chapter 28 W. D. Howells on the Daisy Miller scandal; Part 7 Roderick Hudson English Edition 1879; Chapter 29 From an unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 30 From an unsigned review, British Quarterly Review; Chapter 31 James on his progress in England; Chapter 32 ‘An International Episode’; Part 8 Confidence 1879; Chapter 33 From an unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 34 James on the American public; Chapter 35 James on the decline of letters; Part 9 Washington Square 1880; Chapter 36 From an unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 37 From an unsigned review, Literary World; Chapter 38 From an unsigned review, Atlantic; Part 10 The Portrait of a Lady 1881; Chapter 39 From an unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 40 From an unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 41 From an unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 42 From an unsigned review, Blackwood's Magazine; Chapter 43 From an unsigned review, Literary World; Chapter 44 From an unsigned review, Critic; Chapter 45 H. E. Scudder, from an unsigned review, Atlantic; Chapter 46 H. A. Huntington, from a review, Dial; Chapter 47 Unsigned review, Nation; Chapter 48 From an unsigned review, Lippincott's Magazine; Chapter 49 Mrs. Henry Adams to her father; Chapter 50 Henry Adams to Charles Milnes Gaskell; Chapter 51 A Literary World contributor's protest against the American reception of James; Chapter 52 Professor John Nichol on James as a minor novelist; Chapter 53 W. D. Howells on James as the modern novelist; Chapter 54 From an indignant rejoinder to Howells in the Quarterly Review; Chapter 55 John Hay on James as the prey of patriotism; Chapter 56 Julian Hawthorne on James as a non-heroic realist; Chapter 57 James on the desperate state of Anglo-Saxon letters; Chapter 58 Edgar Fawcett on The Portrait of a Lady; Chapter 59 W. D. Howells on ‘A New England Winter’; Chapter 60 James on the state of criticism; Part 11 Tales of Three Cities 1884; Chapter 61 ‘M.L.H.’ from a review, Literary World; Chapter 62 From an unsigned review, Nation; Chapter 63 William Morton Payne, from a review, Dial; Part 12 The Author of `Beltraffio' ETC. 1885; Chapter 64 From an unsigned review, Critic; Chapter 65 Gertrude Atherton on the Henry James craze; Chapter 66 Mark Twain on other modern novelists; Part 13 The Princess Casamassima Serialization 1885; Chapter 67 Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin; Part 14 The Bostonians 1886; Chapter 68 James explains his difficulties and disappointments; Chapter 69 William James on re-reading The Bostonians; Chapter 70 James on the faults of The Bostonians; Chapter 71 From an unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 72 Unsigned review, Nation; Chapter 73 From an unsigned review, Literary World; Chapter 74 H. E. Scudder, from a review, Atlantic; Chapter 75 Henry Sidgwick on Howells and James; Chapter 76 George Moore on James's limitations; Part 15 The Princess Casamassima 1886; Chapter 77 Julia Wedgwood, from a review, Contemporary Review; Chapter 78 From an unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 79 ‘H.B.’, from ‘London Letter’, Critic; Chapter 80 From an unsigned review, Nation; Chapter 81 James on his evil days; Chapter 82 James on criticism; Part 16 The Reverberator 1888; Chapter 83 From an unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 84 Hardy on James's small perfection; Chapter 85 Robert Buchanan on James as a ‘superfine young’ critic; Chapter 86 William Watson on James as an anaemic novelist; Part 17 A London Life 1889; Chapter 87 From an unsigned review, Spectator; Part 18 The Tragic Muse 1890; Chapter 88 WJ to HJ; Chapter 89 James on his public; Chapter 90 From an unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 91 From an unsigned review, Saturday; Chapter 92 From an unsigned review, Scots Observer; Chapter 93 Unsigned review, Graphic; Chapter 94 George Saintsbury, review, Academy; Chapter 95 From an unsigned review, Murray's Magazine; Chapter 96 Unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 97 Unsigned review, Dublin Review; Chapter 98 From an unsigned note, Critic; Chapter 99 From an unsigned review, Literary World; Chapter 100 Unsigned review, Dial; Chapter 101 W. D. Howells, from the ‘Editor’s Study’ Harper's; Chapter 102 H. E. Scudder, unsigned review, Atlantic; Chapter 103 Unsigned review, Nation; Chapter 104 W. D. Howells on the reception of The Tragic Muse; Chapter 105 From an unsigned article, ‘Mr Henry James’, Murray's; Chapter 106 Andrew Lang's parodistic allusion to Daisy Miller; Part 19 The Lesson of the Master 1892; Chapter 107 Unsigned review, Nation; Chapter 108 From Vernon Lee's ambiguous portrait of James in ‘Lady Tal’, Vanitas; Part 20 The Wheel of Time 1893 and the Private Life 1893; Chapter 109 From an unsigned review, Nation; Chapter 110 Frank Harris on ‘Max’ and senseless abortions of mediocrity; Chapter 111 Norman Hapgood on James's refinement and limitations; Chapter 112 James on his evil days and his future; Chapter 113 Lena Milman's tribute in The Yellow Book; Chapter 114 Edwin Arlington Robinson on James's surprising genius; Part 21 Embarrassments 1896; Chapter 115 Unsigned review, Spectator; Part 22 The Other House 1896; Chapter 116 From an unsigned review, Saturday; Chapter 117 From an unsigned review, Critic; Chapter 118 Stopford Brooke on James's style; Chapter 119 D. C. Murray on his listless contemporary; Part 23 The Spoils of Poynton 1897; Chapter 120 From an unsigned review, Academy; Chapter 121 From an unsigned review, Bookman; Chapter 122 Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett; Part 24 What Maisie Knew 1897; Chapter 123 From an unsigned review, Academy (Fiction Supplement); Chapter 124 From an unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 125 Unsigned review, Literary World; Part 25 In the Cage 1898 and the Two Magics 1898; Chapter 126 From an unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 127 From an unsigned review, Critic; Part 26 `The Turn of the Screw' 1898; Chapter 128 Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross; Chapter 129 Henry Harland on James's wonderful temperament; Chapter 130 Joseph Conrad's defence of James as the most civilized of writers; Chapter 131 James on his detachment from the public; Part 27 The Awkward Age 1899; Chapter 132 From an unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 133 From an unsigned review, Literature; Chapter 134 Unsigned review, Saturday; Chapter 135 Unsigned review, Academy; Chapter 136 From an unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 137 William Morton Payne, review, Dial; Chapter 138 Unsigned review, Bookman (America); Chapter 139 Unsigned review, Literary World; Chapter 140 From an unsigned review, Critic; Chapter 141 From an unsigned review, Nation; Chapter 142 From an unsigned review, Sewanee Review; Chapter 143 Desmond MacCarthy on James's isolation; Chapter 144 Edmund Gosse on The Awkward Age and the emergence of James's ‘little clan’; Chapter 145 A. C. Benson on James's pessimistic view of English Art; Chapter 146 James on the condition of criticism and his own style; Chapter 147 William Rothenstein on James as Grand Old Man; Part 28 The Sacred Fount 1901; Chapter 148 From an unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 149 Cornelia Atwood Pratt, from a review, Critic; Chapter 150 Harry Thurston Peck, from a review, Bookman (America); Chapter 151 Owen Seaman's parody of The Sacred Fount; Part 29 The Wings of the Dove 1902; Chapter 152 William James on the perverse success of The Wings of the Dove; Chapter 153 James on the inevitability of his later style; Chapter 154 Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement; Chapter 155 From an unsigned review, Saturday; Chapter 156 James on Howells's praise for The Wings of the Dove, on his indifference to the public, and on The Sacred Fount; Chapter 157 J. P. Mowbray on The Wings of the Dove, and James's effeminacy; Chapter 158 Harriet Waters Preston on The Wings of the Dove; Chapter 159 F. M. Colby on James's bloodless perversity; Chapter 160 F. M. Colby on James's slight improvement in The Wings of the Dove; Chapter 161 Edith Wharton on the later James and his sensitivity; Chapter 162 The Edinburgh Review on James's achievement; Chapter 163 Oliver Elton on The Wings of the Dove and the greatness of James; Part 30 The Ambassadors 1903; Chapter 164 Frederick Taber Cooper, from a review, Bookman (America); Chapter 165 Gertrude Atherton on discovering later James; Chapter 166 Gertrude Atherton's fictional tribute in ‘The Bell in the Fog’; Chapter 167 Sydney Waterlow on James as the subtlest and strongest modern writer; Chapter 168 Arnold Bennett on not finishing The Ambassadors; Part 31 The Golden Bowl 1904; Chapter 169 From an unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement; Chapter 170 From an unsigned review, Academy; Chapter 171 Unsigned review, Illustrated London News; Chapter 172 From an unsigned review, Graphic; Chapter 173 From an unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 174 Unsigned review, Saturday; Chapter 175 Unsigned review, Nation; Chapter 176 Claude Bragdon, from a review, Critic; Chapter 177 From an unsigned review, Bookman (America); Chapter 178 William James on the perverse success of The Golden Bowl and the desirability of an easier ‘fourth manner’; Chapter 179 James on his intellectual separation from his brother, and the latter's crudity as a literary critic; Chapter 180 W. C. Brownell on James's position in literature; Chapter 181 Sir Almeric Fitzroy on the hermit of Rye; Chapter 182 William James on the greatness of The American Scene, and the rumness of the late style; Chapter 183 H. G. Dwight on American hostility to James, and its probable causes; Chapter 184 W. A. Gill on James's similarity to Marivaux; Chapter 185 John Bailey on The Portrait of a Lady; Chapter 186 Hugh Walpole's fictional reminiscence of the later James and his reputation in ‘Mr. Oddy’; Chapter 187 W. D. Howells on the 'wonder' of The Tragic Muse; Chapter 188 W. D. Howells on the greatness of The Bostonians; Chapter 189 Vernon Lee on the handling of words in The Ambassadors; Part 32 The Finer Grain 1910; Chapter 190 Arnold Bennett on James's tedious perfection; Chapter 191 Clara F. McIntyre on James's late style in the light of his revisions for the New York edition; Chapter 192 M. Sturge Gretton on Jame's later development in the light of the Prefaces to the New York edition; Chapter 193 Muriel Draper on James's cultured admirers; Chapter 194 Theodora Bosanquet on James and his readers; Chapter 195 H. G. Wells's attack and parody in Boon; Chapter 196 James on Boon; Chapter 197 James on Wells's apology for Boon; Chapter 198 James on the New York edition, on The Bostonians, and on the destruction of the ‘plates’ of his novels; Chapter 199 Anthony Hope on James as man and writer; Chapter 200 Mrs. Humphry Ward on James as a great man and a great master; Chapter 201 Henry Newbolt on James's amusing lack of talent; Chapter 202 W. D. Howells on American unkindness to James;