"For other novelists the value of Henry James's is immense and to brood over them a major experience. The glow of the great impresario is on the pages. They are occasionally readable and endlessly stimulating, often moving and are ocasionally relieved by a drop of gossip."—V. S. Pritchett, "The take us into his study, and here we can observe him, at last, in the very act of creation at his writing table."—Leon Edel, "A document of prime importance."—Edmund Wilson,