1. The two articles are J. Peter Dyson, "Death and Separation in 'Fordham Castle,'" Studies in Short Fiction, 56 (1979), 41-47 and Kermit Vanderbilt, "Notes Largely Musical on Henry James's 'Four Meetings,'" Sewanee Review, 81 (1973), 739-52. Dyson's page numbers appear in parentheses in my text.
2. Henry James, The Novels and Tales of Henry James (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), XVI,
... [Show full abstract] 423, hereafter cited parenthetically in the text as FC.
3. Make It New (London: Faber and Faber, 1934), p. 291. Pound's free-wheeling estimate of James appeared originally in The Little Review, August 1918.
4. The Novels and Tales of Henry James, XVIII, xiii-xiv.
5. Letter dated August 29, 1903, in the Norton collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University. The context, in which Norton seems also to be correcting Howells on his own democratic "realism" in fiction, is given in my Charles Eliot Norton: Apostle of Culture in a Democracy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1959), p. 153.
