Introduction /James W. Gargano -- Part I. Reviews and contemporary comments -- The other house : a fresh power / Anon. -- The other house : a crude melodrama / William Morton Payne -- The spoils of Poynton : fine-spun work / Anon. -- The spoils of Poynton : the triumph of the inner drama / Anon. -- What Maisie knew : high water / Anon. -- What Maisie knew : repellent to taste and feeling, to law and gospel / Anon. -- What Maisie knew : an ill-focussed photograph / Anon. -- The evolution of Henry James / Cornelia Atwood Pratt -- Mr. Henry James exasperates / Anon. -- The awkward age : a thoroughly disagreeable study / Anon. -- The awkward age : the ultimate development of the art of vision / Anon. -- Houses of cards / Anon. -- The sacred fount : is it a parody? / Anon. -- The sacred fount : analysis of analysis / Harry T. Peck -- The sacred fount : subtlety somewhat overdone / Anon. -- The wings of the dove : society as organized cannibalism / Anon. -- In darkest James / F.M. Colby -- The wings of the dove : the radical fallacy of L'art pour L'art / Anon. -- The ambassadors / Anon. -- The genius of Mr. James / Anon -- The ambassadors : a perpetual and high delight / Anon. -- A master of shades / Claude Bragdon -- The golden bowl : thought as the novelist's sole material / Anon. -- The golden bowl : James as precious, morbid phenomenon / Mary Moss -- Mr. Henry James's later work / William Dean Howells -- Henry James : an appreciation / Joseph Conrad -- Part II. Recent criticism -- The "Jourdain" relationship of Henry to William James in The spoils of Poynton / Richard A. Hocks -- Moral geography in What Maisie knew / Jean Frantz Blackall -- The awkward age / Marcia Jacobson -- James's The sacred fount : the phantasmagorical made evidential / James W. Gargano -- Lambert Strether's Renaissance : Paterian resonances in Henry James's The ambassadors / Barton Levi St. Armand -- The wings of the dove / Sallie Sears -- The difficulty of ending : Maggie Verver in The golden bowl / Ruth Bernard Yeazell -- A new reading of Henry James's "The jolly corner" / Daniel Mark Fogel.