Editorial

219 Review of Traveling in Italy with Henry James: Essays, Fred Kaplan, ed. MARC BOUSQUET 221 Review of Ian F. A. Bell, Washington Square: Styles of Money. JANET GABLER-HOVER 224 Review of Kelly Cannon, Henry James and Masculinity: The Man at the Margins. LELAND S. PERSON 226 Review of Luisa Villa, Esperienza e memoria. Saggio su Henry James. NANCY L. D'ANTUONO Editorial I hope that our readers will be as delighted as I am with the word I have just received from Richard Hocks that Susan Griffin has been selected as the second editor of the Henry James Review. Professor Hocks chaired a selection committee that included two other past presidents of the James Society, Martha Banta and William Veeder. The decision came down to two superbly qualified candidates; in making that difficult choice, the selection committee has performed a signal service for the Henry James Society, and we are all very much in their debt (most of all, of course, yours truly). Professor Griffin will assume the editorship on July 1, 1995, at the Department of English, University of Louisville. Until then, editorial and other correspondence should be directed to us here in Baton Rouge. Susan Griffin has established a well-deserved reputation for great critical rigor and acumen. In the chapter she wrote for American Literary Scholarship, 1987, she demonstrated an essential qualification for the HJR editorship: an ability to arrive at judicious, fair-minded estimates of work representing every stripe and variety of James studies. In her book The Historical Eye: The Texture of the Visual in Late James (1991), Professor Griffin presents a revisionary account of the process of perception in James that has major implications not only for James studies but also for revaluations of late nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural history. All of us in the academy know how hard it is these days for administrators to come up with resources to support new enterprises when they are hard-pressed to maintain existing ones at adequate levels. That the University of Louisville is prepared to do so for the HJR bespeaks a heartening commitment to literary studies and a tribute to the high distinction of the editor-designate. Thank you, University of Louisville! Congratulations, Susan Griffin!—DMF ...