From the Editor

THE HENRY JAMES REVIEW Volume I, Number 2 Winter, 1980 Table of Contents F rom the Ed i tor......................................................................................123 Henry James's Reading of The Turn of the Screw: Part I. By Donal O'Gorman...........................125 Rereading The American: A Century Since. By James W. Tuttleton......................................139 The Golden Bowl and "The Voice of Blood." By Leo B. Levy...........................................154 Daisy Mi 11er, Backward into the Past: A Centennial Essay. By Richard A. Hocks.......................164 Henry James's The American Scene: Its Genesis and Its Reception, 1905-1977. By Rosa I i e Hew i tt...............................................................................179 Jeanette King, Tragedy in the Victorian Novel: Theory and Practice In the Novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. Review by Ramón Saldfvar...........................197 Brian Lee, The Novels of Henry James: A Study of Culture and Consciousness. Rev i ew by James Wa I ter..........................................................................198 From the Editor: Our readers have waited longer than any of us had expected for this second issue of The Henry James Review, and, though we regret the delay, I am happy to report that the third issue, fast on its heels, will go to the printer at the end of May, when the present number should be returning from the press to us. The lateness of this second HJR has two chief causes: 1) the protracted illness, following surgery in early February, of the highly skilled head of the text processing center in the College of Arts and Sciences at LSU, where photo-ready copy for the HJR is prepared at no cost to the James Society (saving us five to six thousand dollars a year); 2) a financial pinch due to rapid inflation of printing costs and to a considerably slower response than we had expected to a subscription appeal mailed to some 2,400 college and university libraries this winter. Fortunately, Joan Payne, head of the text processing center, returns to work in three days. In her absence, her assistant, Kathleen Crochet, and a small cadre of student workers have labored mightily to complete the intricate operations required to produce our format. And, just this week, the LSU administration granted the HJR $2,000.00, the minimum supplement to our own resources needed to complete the printing of Volume I. For our part, we have reduced the type-size of our copy in order to present approximately the same amount of material contained in the 122 pages of the last issue in the 80 pages now in your hands (at two-thirds of the cost of Number 1). We have also, reluctantly, raised our subscription prices for subscribers outside the U. S., principally because of the hefty bank fees we pay in processing foreign checks (one ten dollar check drawn on a dollar account at the Bank of Yokohama yielded the HJR only $4.50, not even enough to mail the magazines to Japan). The James Society owes a hearty vote of thanks to LSU for its signal generosity. Nevertheless, the HJR must become self-sufficient; continued Institutional largesse to "help us get on our feet" cannot be expected. That we now have 400-odd subscribers, predominantly Individuals, bodes very well in the long 123 run, for in view of typical ratios between individual and institutional subscribers to journals in the humanities, our library subscriptions ought eventually to outnumber Individual subs by anywhere from two-to-one to four-to-one. But in the shorter run—looking ahead to Volume Il—we need to hold all of our original subscribers and to gain new ones. You will receive a renewal notice in our third issue, but we urge you now to renew early, to encourage your friends and colleagues to subscribe, and to impress your librarian with the indispensabiIity of the HJR to any library with a commitment to holding important materials on the major American writers. Our second issue, I believe, extends the promise of the first in justifying such a claim of indispensabiIity. Rosal Ie Hewitt's essay on and annotated bibliography of The American Scene fits the criteria for scholarly indispensabiIity by any definition; it will be an invaluable research tool for Jamesians and for Americanists generally...