This beautiful edition of the first two volumes of Henry Jam uled to fill four volumes tells us
two important things about Jam very early in his life he knew he would commit himself to the
lit second is his recognition that in order to write good fiction, eithe stories or novels, he
would have to be supplied with facts. This i historical fiction after" Gabrielle de Bergerac,"
since for that on" bourr?" or crammed" with facts"(I, 132). It was hard enough cr facts about
the life one knew and lived. The donn? e of the letter the areas of imaginative prose he …

Boot Reviews 395 his first" big" book, The Portrait of a Lady. Initially he wrote chiefly to
members of his family, buttressed by a somewhat self-conscious sheaf of early letters to his
boyhood friend Thomas Sergeant Perry. On his travels the young adult practiced on his
parents and his brother William, developing his eye and his literary style. As his career
began to develop through book reviews, travel articles, and stories, he assumed an
increasingly professional view of his art, but in learning to market his wares he sometimes …