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Bibliography: Partial Portraits by James, Henry
- Title
- Partial Portraits
- Author
- James, Henry
- Date
- 1888
- Genre
- nonfiction
- Note Source
- Willa Cather Remembered 17
- Note Relating to Cather
- Seibel and Cather agreed that Henry James "was a great critic, and [they] delved into all those Gallic writers of Partial Portraits and French Poets and Novelists--Balzac, Sand, Merimee, Maupassant--with occasional excursions into Dumas fils, Edouard Rod, intoxicating whiffs of Baudelaire and Richepin, deep draughts of young Rostand's ruby wine. Henry James was the guide whose hand held ours, and his critical standard was our polestar on those voyages."