Editorial

316 Review of Joel Porte, ed., New Essays on The Portrait of a Lady. DAVID MCWHIRTER 319 Review of Halfmann, Ulrich, Christoph K. Lohmann, Don L. Cook, David J. Nordloh, Donald Pizer, Ronald Gottesman, eds., W. D. Howells, Selected Literary Criticism, 1859-1920. BRENDA MURPHY 322 Review of W. R. Martin and Warren U. Ober, Henry James's Apprenticeship, The Tales: 1864-1882. ARTHUR SHERBO 325 Index to volume 14. Editorial The HJR closes volume fourteen with a facelift, newly designed inside and out. The redesign was proposed to us last spring by Rosanna Demps, production coordinator at the Journals Division of the Johns Hopkins University Press; we are grateful to her and her colleagues at JHUP for the spruce new look the journal now enjoys. I am also grateful to my graduate assistant and newly anointed managing editor Eric Bergesen, who has mastered our transition from IBM and WordPerfect to Macintosh, Microsoft Word, and Aldus Pagemaker in order to produce the new design according to JHUP's specifications. Mr. Bergesen has also done a marvelous job of moving both production and the editorial process along to make up for lost time. We plan to finish our work on volume 15, number 1 by the end of August, so that subscribers should receive the issue in October. We expect to send all three 1994 issues off to Baltimore by the end of this calendar year. At the same time, we have been moving rapidly through the backlog of submissions to the journal. We are very grateful to the many members of the editorial board who have taken time this summer to read multiple submissions and to prepare thoughtful reports. With their help, the HJR continues its commitment to playing a strong tutorial role in helping contributors to develop their work. By the time readers receive this issue, the selection committee (Martha Banta, Richard Hocks, and William Veeder) may already have tapped a new editor for the HJR. Two candidates who in my view are both very well qualified for the appointment have already called me to discuss the management of the journal, leaving me happily assured that the HJR will be in good hands after volume 15. The current number represents, in part, some of the rich harvest of the Henry James Sesquicentennial. Two articles, Martha Banta's on the representation of Henry James in Life Magazine (1883-1916) and Rosella Zorzi's on James's correspondence with Jessie Allen, are full versions of talks delivered at the Sesquicentennial Conferences, and the pieces by Michael Wilson and William Veeder are their Sesquicentennial talks as read to sessions on "Rethinking Gender and Sexual Politics." The issue is rounded out by Hershel Parker's revisionary deconstruction of The Art of the Novel and by seven book reviews, including Michael Anesko's on Philip Home's Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition , which provides a fascinating counterpoint to Parker's argument.—DMF ...