From the Editor

THE HENRY JAMES REVIEW Volume VI, Number 3 Spring, 1985 Table of Contents From the Editor......................................................................................................157 The Politics of Henry James. By Darshan Singh Maini..............................................................158 Image as Argument: Henry James and the Style of Criticism. By William Veeder...................................172 Reading Gertrude Stein Reading Henry James, or, Eros is Eros is Eros. By Charles Caramello.....................182 Leon Edel, Stuff of Sleep and Dreams: Experiments in Literary Psychology. Review by Veronica A. Makowsky............................................................................................205 Kerr Howard, John W. Crowley, and Charles L. Crow, eds., The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction 1820-1920. Review by David Mögen.............................................207 Index to Volume VI..................................................................................................209 From the Editor Our long-time readers will notice right away that this looking forward to a period of rapid catch-up in our proissue of the Henry James Review is different from its pred- duction schedule. In the meantime, we hope you are pleased ecessors. It is the first issue to be professionally typeset, with the enhanced appearance of the journal. And it is shorter by twenty-four pages than our old standard, the eighty-page issue. Leaner though it is, the typeset HJR Here is a capsule preview of the issues we now have contains the same amount of text (actually just a shade more) in production. Volume 7, number 1 (fall, 1985), will contain than its fatter forebears. essays by Laurens Dorsey, William Macnaughton, Marcia Ian, Lyall H. Powers, Jean Frantz Blackall, Leon Edel, We have achieved this new look with no increase Adeline Tintner, and John Halperin. Volume 7, numbers 2 (and, for that matter, no decrease) in production costs. The and 3, is our more-than-double special issue on The Portrait savings in printing and paper are offset by the costs of of a Lady. And volume 8 will include new essays by Mary typesetting and photocomposition. Typesetting costs would Hallab, Alfred Habegger, George Monteiro, John Carlos have been prohibitive—always have been up to now—if we Rowe, Annette Larsen Benert, Marijane Davis, Arthur hadn't learned to put typesetting codes into our texts on a Sherbo, James Phelan, George Bishop, and others. There word processor before passing the diskettes on to the printing is still room for first-rate material in volume 8 (and beyond), plant. By doing so, we have cut costs for composition by and, as ever, we invite our readers to contribute letters, one-half to two-thirds. Working out this new production polemical responses, notes on library collections, and the route and acquiring the skills required to bring it off have like, as well as new essays on Henry James, cost us prodigious delays, for which we apologize. We are ...