Books: James Goes Slumming

THE PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA (703 pp.) —Henry James—Macmillan ($6).

When Novelist Henry James was 46 and a target for hostile English and American critics, he wrote to Fellow Novelist William Dean Ho wells: "Some day all my buried prose will kick off its various tombstones at once." Were James alive today (he died in 1916), he could hardly fail to be gratified by the many exhumations which have been carried on in his literary graveyard in the past ten years. The latest tombstone to be lifted has been pried up by the publishing house of Macmillan,...

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