Research Guides: Henry James Resources (HC): Essays

Reviews/Criticism

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“A most unholy trade,” being letters on the drama
Cambridge, Mass.: The Scarab Press, 1923 (First Edition)
- Criticism on Ibsen's "Little Eyolf"
- Illustrations: Cover: Scarab by Waldo Murray; Frontispiece: Wood Engraving of Henry James by Waldo Murray
- Also at Bryn Mawr
French Poets and Novelists
London: Macmillan, 1878 (First English Edition)
- Essays on authors Alfred de Musset, Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Honore de Balzac, George Sand, Charles de Bernard, Gustave Flaubert, Ivan Turgenieff, and Madame de Sabran. Reviews on Balzac's Letters, The Two Amperes, Merimee's Letters, and The Theatre Francais.
Notes on Novelists: with some other notes
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1914 (First American Edition)
- Essays on novelists Robert Louis Stevenson, Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Honore de Balzac, George Sand, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Matilde Serao, Dumas the Younger, and Charles Eliot Norton. Also includes the essays, The New Novel; The Novel in "The Ring and the Book"; and London Notes, January 1897, June 1897, July 1987, and August 1987.

Other Essays

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Picture and Text
New York: Harper and brothers, 1893 (First American Edition)
- Includes the essays “Black and White”; “Edwin A. Abbey”; “Charles S. Reinhart”; “Alfred Parsons”; “John S. Sargent”; “Honore Daumier”; and “After the Play.”
- Illustrations: Frontispiece: Portrait of Henry James reproduced from Harper’s New Monthly June 1889; “The Old House, “The Priory,” Broadway, used as a studio by Millet and Abbey”; “F.D. Millet”; “Back of the Priory, Broadway”; “George H. Boughton”; “George du Maurier”; “The Village Green, Broadway”; and “Alfred Parsons.”

Travel Essays

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English Hours
Cambridge [Mass.]: Riverside Press, 1905
Limited issue (First American Edition)
- Includes 79 plates of illustrations.
Italian Hours
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and co., 1909 (First American Edition)
- Includes 32 plates of illustrations.
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Two of his essays, "Casa Alvisi" and "Two Old Houses and Three Young Women," had prior appearances in magazines but were collected in book form for the first time in Italian Hours. The first appeared as a Prefatory Note in “Browning in Venice” by Katharine de Kay Bronson in Cornhill Magazine in February 1902 and as a full essay entitled “The Late Mrs. Arthur Bronson” in The Critic, also in February 1902. The latter essay appeared in The Independent on September 7, 1899. Some of the other essays in Italian Hours were published in other books by James. "Venice: An Early Impression" (“From Venice to Strasburg”), "From Chambery to Milan, The Old Saint-Gothard" (“The St. Gothard”), A Roman Holiday, Roman Rides, Roman Neighborhoods, The After-Season in Rome, From a Roman Note-Book, A Chain of Cities, Siena Early and Late: Part I (“Siena”), The Autumn in Florence, Florentine Notes, Tuscan Cities, and Ravena appeared in Transatlantic Sketches; Venice and Italy Revisited appeared in Portraits of Places; The Grand Canal appeared in Great Streets of the World; and The Saint’s Afternoon and Others: Parts I-V (“The Saint’s Afternoon”) appeared in The May Book.
Transatlantic Sketches
Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1875 (First American Edition)
- Includes the essays “Chester”; “Lichfield and Warwick”; “North Devon” ; “Wells and Salisbury”; “Swiss Notes”; “From Chambery to Milan”; “From Venice to Strasburg”; “The Parisian Stage”; “A Roman Holiday”; “Roman Rides”; “Roman Neighborhood”; “The After-Season in Rome”; “From a Roman Note-Book”; “A Chain of Cities”; “The St. Gothard”; “Siena”; “The Autumn in Florence”; “Florentine Notes”; “Tuscan Cities”; “Ravenna”; “The Splugen”; “Homburg Reformed”; “Darmstadt”; “In Holland”; and “In Belgium.”