Editorial

101 Review of Tony Tanner, Venice Desired. PIERRE A. WALKER 104 Review of Greg W. Zacharias, Henry James and the Morality of Fiction. TONY SHARPE Editorial With this issue, the Henry James Review moves, albeit late, into the current year, and our spring 1994 number is not far behind, a belated trumpet of the spring. That forthcoming issue will include two stimulating pieces on The Spoils ofPoynton, Carol Faulkner's "Reconsidering Poynton's Innocent Patriarch" and Nancy Bentley's "James and the Tribal Discipline of English Kinship. " Spring will also bring a detailed biographical essay by Pierre A. Walker and Alfred Habegger, "Young Henry James and the Institution Fezandié," an interesting literary biographical note by Thomas Allain-Chapman, "A Donnée Declined: Lady Gregory and Henry James's Notebooks," liana Bar'am's "Bodily Movement as Narrative Strategy in 'The Beast in the Jungle,'" David Golumbia's "Toward an Ethics of Cultural Acts: The Jamesian Dialectic in 'Broken Wings,'" Arthur Sherbo on assessments of James and his work by Marianne Moore, Max Beerbohm, E. M. Forster, the English Review, and George Stonier, and Paul Nielsen's provocative discussion of James's apparent attempt to gloss over in A Small Boy and Others nevertheless perceptible intimations of his father's possible sexual irregularity, plus reviews of books by Kelly Cannon (Henry James and Masculinity), Ian F. A. Bell (Washington Square: Styles of Money), Luisa Villa (Esperienza e memoria. Saggio su Henry James), and of Fred Kaplan's edition of Henry James's Italian travel writings (Traveling in Italy with Henry James: Essays). The current issue spans most of Henry James's career, from Lewis O. Saum's and Adeline Tintner's essays on The American and Daisy Miller to Julie OlinAmmentorp 's discussion of Merton Densher and gender in The Wings of the Dove and Beth Sharon Ash's exploration of post-Freudian psychoanalytic approaches to interpretation of The Golden Bowl. Also in this issue is the third of Anthony Mazzella's essays on video adaptations of Henry James (the present essay, on The Spoils ofPoynton, should be read in the context of Mazzella's earlier commentaries on the use of Bob Assingham as the Jamesian narrator in the B.B.C. adaptation of The Golden Bowl and on the problems that arise in the B.B.C. adaptation of The Portrait of a Lady because of the absence of a comparable dramatic surrogate for the narrator). Wai Chee Dimock's "Gender, the Market, and the Non-Trivial" is another fascinating paper from last year's Henry James Sesquicentennial conferences. Here, too, are five reviews of new James books, including the most recent James volumes in the Library of America. Stand by for spring, coming soon this fall.—DMF ...