Henry James PARISIAN SKETCHES H K N R Y J A M M 8 , J K , HENRY JAMES Parisian Sketches LETTERS TO THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE 1875-1876 Edited with an Introduction by LEON EDEL AND ILSE DUSOIR LIND NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Washington Square 1957 1957 by New York University Press, Inc. Library of Congress catalogue card number 577914 Manufactured in the United States of America PREFACE Henry Jamess Paris letters to the New York Trib une of almost eighty years ago have been collected in this volume for the first time. Three of the letters were reprinted by James during his lifetime, the remainder were allowed to linger in the crumbling newspaper files in the hope that they would be forgotten. In recent years extracts from those letters that were devoted to the theater were included in Allan Wades collection of Jamess dramatic criticism, The Scenic Art and cer tain passages dealing with paintings were incorporated by John L. Sweeney in his compilation of Henry Jamess art criticisms. The...