ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the reporting in the Times which illustrates the paper's anti-democratic fear-mongering. It focuses on its reporting of the assassination of the Czar Alexander in March 1881, the trial of some German anarchists in December 1884, and a discussion in the Times in April 1885 of a Quarterly Review article on democracy. In The Princess Casamassima, Henry James appears to be engaging with history itself, and yet it is the Times that James actually references. The Times's writer becomes the omniscient narrative voice making sense of the situation, putting it all in perspective. He discusses the repressive nature of the Czar's father—Nicholas—who became, according to one article, "the avowed implacable enemy of Liberalism and Democracy, not only in his own country but all over Europe". The Princess Casamassima was serialized in the Atlantic from September 1885 through October 1886, and then published in London in book form in 1886.
