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"What I wished mainly to put on record," James urged, "is my sense of that unfailing, testifying truth in you which will keep you from ever being neglected." Modern students of American culture neglect Howells only at their peril, for if they are attentive, they can still appreciate his work as James did, finding there…

I should like, for instance, to allude in passing, for purposes of respectful remonstrance, to a phrase that he suffered the other day to fall from his pen (in a periodical, but not in a novel), to the effect that the style of a work of fiction is a thing that matters less and less all the while.2 Why less and less? It…