From the Editor

THE HENRY JAMES REVIEW Volume III, Number 3 Spring, 1982 Table of Contents From the Editor.............................................................157 How I Came to Henry James. By Leon Edel....................................160 Shaping and Telling: The Biographer at Work. By Leon Edel..................165 A Bibliography of the Writings on Henry James by Leon Edel, With Some Annotations. Compiled by Vivian Cadbury and William Laskowski, Jr. Annotated by Adeline R. Tintner...................................176 Henry James Letters, III, 1883-1895, ed. Leon Edel. Review by Robert D. Bamberg.............................................................200 Dennis W. Pétrie, Ultimately Fiction: Design in Modern American Literary Biography. Review by Panthea Reid Broughton..................203 A review-note on Edgar Dryden's "The Image in the Mirror: The Double Economy of James' s Portrait." By Bainard Cowan........................208 James Studies 1980: An Analytical Bibliographical Essay. By Albert J. von Frank...........................................................210 A Note on the Horror in James's Revision of Daisy Miller. By Frederick Newberry.....................................................229 Index to Volume III.........................................................233 ******************* * From the Editor: Because he bestrides James studies like a colossus, because we who are young shall never know so much nor live so long, because such august Shakespearian phrases seem practically inescapable in speaking of his more than half-century of work on Henry James in all of its high intelligence, variety, and mass, we dedicate this issue of the Henry James Review to Leon Edel for his seventy-fifth birthday (upcoming in September, 1982) with deep pleasure and a sure sense of the utter fitness of our doing so. How much all of us who are students of James—and how much the memory of James himself—would be impoverished without Professor Edel1s works on the Master is amply testified to by the bibliography of Edel on James in this issue of the HJR. On behalf of all Jamesians, this special issue is our way of saying thank you to Leon Edel for the high style and richness of all that he has given us, a style and richness and generosity of giving reminiscent of those same qualities in the Master himself. In addition to the bibliography of Leon Edel's writings on Henry James, THE HENRY JAMES REVIEW 157 SPRING, 1982 the special contents of this issue include two pieces by Leon Edel, his essay "How I Came to Henry James" and the text of a lecture he delivered this spring here at LSU. Our book reviews, too, are "Edel features": one of the third volume of Professor Edel's edition of Henry James Letters, the other of Dennis Pétrie1s Ultimately Fiction: Design in Modern American Literary Biography, which climaxes with a chapter devoted to Edel's Life of Henry James. Only two items in the current issue are not specifically Edelian, our annual analytic review of James studies and Frederick Newberry's note on Daisy Miller, a piece that nevertheless centrally relies on The Life of Henry James. Because of the difficulties of juggling copy to fit five sixteen-page signatures, moreover, we have had to withhold from publication several pieces, including one that properly belongs in the present number, mv own essay on Leon Edel's contribution to James studies. Thus our tribute to Edel will go on into Volume IV of the HJR. That fourth volume promises to be a very special one. It will include not only the Edel-Tintner "Library of Henry James" (a list, with annotations, of some five thousand volumes in the Lamb House library at the time of James's death, plus other books known to have belonged to him) but also two essays that will complete our series of centennial essays through 1881—John Carlos Rowe's "Henry James's Anxiety of Influence: Hawthorne (1879)" and Edward Geary's "The Europeans : A Centennial Essay" (one of the pieces we had to "bump" from the current issue)—and essays by Daniel J. Schneider (on James's Confidence [also ready for publication now but bumped by our space-juggling stratagems]), by Susan Galenbeck (on James's Edwardian dramas), by Michael C. Berthold (on "The Beast in the Jungle") and by the ubiquitous Adeline Tintner (on a James-Kipling collaboration). We are still looking for first-rate material to fill out Volume IV, and...