...hat which prevailed when they were in their cradles, as Howells's volume of poems opens with the sentimental and even beautiful strains of Forlorn. This, then, was the path through which he came to Silas Lapham and Lemuel Barker; and very likely, when Mr. Henry James's biography comes to be written, he may yet be found to have begun by taking tremulous footsteps in some such romantic path. After all, sent...