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Henry James (1843 – 1916)


Brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Henry James
Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.
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