Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction PART I Essays about British Geopolitics, 1878-1879 The British Soldier The Afghan Difficulty Review of Graf Bismarck und seine Leute wahrend des Krieges mit Frankreich. Nach Tagebuchsblattern, by Moritz Busch The Early Meeting of Parliament The Reassembling of Parliament PART II Essays on Gender and the American Scene, 1904-1907 Henry James in the Serene Sixties The Question of Our Speech The Speech of American Women The Manners of American Women PART III metaphysical Essay, 1910 Is there Life After Death? PART IV Writings on World War I, 1914-1917 The American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance corps in France Henry James's First Interview France The Question of the Mind Allen D. Loney - In Memoriam Refugees in England The Long Wards Within the Rim Explanatory notes; Textual variants; Emendations; Bibliography; Index

About the Author

Pierre A. Walker is a professor of English at Salem State College and co-general editor of The Complete Letters of Henry James (Nebraska 2006).

Reviews

"We can be grateful that Pierre Walker has brought together James's principal writings on the war from the final years of his life ..." --TLS, June 18, 1999