[Henry James], review in The Nation (New York)

Reprinted in James’s Views and Reviews (Boston, 1908), 153–61. ‘The Dickens review is perhaps the most acute of all of Henry’s early writings; he is freeing himself of an early idol and at the same time giving free play to his critical faculties’ (Leon Edel, Henry James: the Untried Years 1843–1870 (1953), 216). James (1843–1916) had published in 1864 his first story and his first critical essay. See headnote to No. 168.