From the Editor

THE HENRY JAMES REVIEW Volume 10, Number 1 Winter, 1989 Table of Contents The Portraits of Henry James. By J. A. Ward.................................1 The Marriages of Henry James and Henrietta Stackpole. By Elise Miller....................................................15 The Curious Case of Doctor Prance. By Ian F. A. Bell......................32 Henry James, George Sand and The Bostonians: Another Curious Chapter in the Literary History of Feminism. By Sarah B. Daugherty............................................42 Family Plot in The Bostonians: Silencing the Artist's Voice. By Merla WoIk............................................50 A Conversation with Louis Auchincloss on Henry James. By David Adams Leeming........................................60 John Marcher's Journey for Knowledge: The Heroic Background of "The Beast in the Jungle." By Bruce Fogelman................68 Review of John Auchard, Silence in Henry James: The Heritage of Symbolism and Decadence. By Suzanne Nalbantian...............74 From the Editor This issue inaugurates an anniversary year for the Henry James Review and the James Society, the first issue of the HJR having been dated November, 1979, and the first meeting of the Society having been held in San Francisco the following month. Next December, in Washington, D.C., during the MLA, the James Society will mark the occasion with two sessions for which an open call for papers has been issued. Papers with a reading time of fifteen minutes are due in my hands—addressed to me please (at the Department of English, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5001), and not to the HJR—by March 1, 1989. I note a sort of Jamesian symmetry in beginning volume 10 with an essay by J. A. Ward, "The Portraits of Henry James." The first issue of volume 1 included Professor Ward's admirable essay—the "gem" of our first number, Robert Gale held, in ALS—"Henry James and Graham Greene." I'm also pleased that the present issue includes the third in David Leeming's series of conversations about Henry James, this one with Louis Auchincloss. Readers may note an asymmetry in the Table of Contents, above: three essays on The Bostonians—two of which contain the word "curious" in their titles! Generally speaking, such dumpings of essays in the HJR are sheer coincidence; the three Bostonians essays appear in these pages simply according to our rule that, space permitting, contributions are brought out in the order in which they were accepted for publication. Nevertheless , the Bostonians pieces, along with Elise Miller's article on "The Marriages of Henry James and Henrietta Stackpole," will perhaps give this issue special appeal for readers interested in feminist approaches to Henry James. Although special groupings of essays in the Review are rare, I hope to reserve much of one of the remaining two numbers in volume 10 for a selection of papers from the 1987 and 1988 James Society meetings—each of which presented two extraordinary MLA sessions, arranged, respectively, by Adeline Tintner and Mark Seltzer—and from the Dallas Opera/Southern Methodist symposium "From Text to Performance," held in conjunction with the Opera's world premiere of Dominick Argento's opera The Aspern Papers. Also slated for publication in 1989 are essays and reviews by Michael Clark, Judith E. Funston, Edwin Sill Fussell, Marcia Jacobson, John Kimrney and Frederick Nies, Susan Marshall, Catherine Vieilledent, and Rosella Momoli Zorza (the last two contributors from France and Italy, their essays among the first fruits of our program to enlarge the international dimensions of the HJR). Richard Hocks, moreover, has put together a strong team of co-authors with whom he will be preparing our next annual review of James studies. One closing note: as our long-time readers know, for many years the HJR was self-supporting, receiving no cash subvention from LSU or from any other source and operating wholly on subscription income. In the last two years, since the journal has entered into a distribution agreement with the John Hopkins University Press, we have been subject to a new set of publishing economics. We are now running at a deficit, and though Hopkins has built the circulation quite rapidly by about two hundred subscribers, we are almost another two hundred subscribers short of the break-even point. Consequently, anything you can do to recommend the journal to libraries...