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...Princess Casamassima...
...PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA (703 pp.) -Henry James-Macmillan...
...gratified by the many exhumations which have been carried on in his literary graveyard in the past ten years. The latest tombstone to be lifted has been pried up by the publishing house of Macmillan, which once spurned his writing as "honest scribble work and no more." The Princess Casamassima is a long novel which James wrote in 1886 and which critics of the day buried on the spot...
...them is the Princess Casamassima, who no longer lives with the Italian prince she married. Taking her do-gooding more seriously than her fellow aristocrats, she moves to a shabby little London house, gives the prince's money away to the poor and even offers to assassinate a duke for the anarchists. But not before she has given Hyacinth a taste of princely living and watched him fall in love with her. Says the princess: "I'm convinced that we're living in a fool's paradise, that the ground's heaving under our feet...
...first two chapters of William Henry Bishop's new serial, "The Golden Justice," appear in the Atlantic for May. Charles Egbert Craddock's installment of 'In the Clouds" is in her best manner. Henry James continues his "Princess Casamassima" in characteristic style. The fiction of the number is completed by a sketch of New England life, "Marsh Rosemary," by Sarah Orne Jewett. Mr. John Fiske continues his papers on American History by one treating of "The Weakness of the American Government under the Articles of Confederation." Mr. E. P. Evans has a paper on "The Aryan Homestead...
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