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Review of Daniel Mark Fogel, Daisy Miller: A Dark Comedy of Manners. By Mary Doyle Springer..............................99 Review of Richard A. Hocks, Henry James: A Study of the Short Fiction. By George Bishop ................................. 102 Review of Edwin Sill Fussell, The French Side of Henry James. By Pierre A. Walker................................ 104 Review of Peggy McCormack, The Rule of Money: Gender, Class, and Exchange Economics in the Fiction Henry James. By Gloria P. Fromm................................ 106 Review of Janet Gabler-Hover, Truth in American Fiction: The Legacy of Rhetorical Idealism. By Ian F. A. BeU................................. 109 Review of Leon Chai, Aestheticism: The Religion of Art in Post-Romantic Literature. By Jerome H. Buckley .............................. Ill From the Editor This first issue of volume 13 of the HJR marks another staff transition. My colleague Veronica A. Makowsky joined the editorial staff of the journal in volume 8, became Associate Editor in volume 9, served as Acting Editor throughout my leave in 1989-90 (volume 10, number 3 through volume 11, number 2), and since then has been a stalwart, highly professional Co-editor. On sabbatical in the spring of 1992, Professor Makowsky has decided to step down (or, better perhaps, up) to concentrate on her own research, which over the years has carried her away from the interest in Henry James expressed nearly ten years ago in her editing and introduction of R. P. Blackmur's Studies in Henry James (New Directions, 1983). Since 1983, Professor Makowsky has published Caroline Gordon: A Biography (Oxford, 1989), she has completed Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women (forthcoming from Oxford late this year), and she is devoting her current leave to a study of the letters of Varina and Jefferson Davis. Veronica Makowsky brought great shrewdness and imagination to the HJR editorial process. She has our lasting thanks for exemplary service to the journal and to the Henry James Society; we wish her the best as she gives the editorial harness the slip in order to turn full time to research and writing. Now two quick notes, all that space allows. First, at the James Society meetings in San Francisco, arranged by Julie Rivkin, we heard extraordinarily fine papers by Allan Hepburn, Deborah Esch, Paul Nielsen, Dennis Foster, Sara Blair, Barbara Leckie, and Nancy Bentley, all of which—except Sara Blair's piece, forthcoming in ELH—will be published in the HJR next fall. Second, plans speed apace for the Henry James Sesquicentennial in June of 1993. Look in this space in the spring issue for the first calls for papers for a three-day symposium titled "Redefining Henry James's Place in Culture" and for news of the two-day research conference that will precede it on "Rethinking Gender and Sexual Politics: Henry James in the New Century."—DMF ...

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