Jannie & the Relatives

The Publisher Of This Book Utilises Modern Printing Technologies As Well As Photocopying Processes For Reprinting And Preserving Rare Works Of Literature That Are Out-Of-Print Or On The Verge Of Becoming Lost. This Book Is One Such Reprint. Purchase Of This Book Includes Free Trial Access To Www.Million-Books.Com Where You Can Read More Than A Million Books For Free. This Is An Ocr Edition With Typos. Excerpt From Book: Time Its Presentation Is Imaginative. On The One Hand Wil- Fulness And Fantasticality Are Avoided And On The Other Prose And Flatness. One May Even Go Further And Say That The Book Succeeds In The Difficult Problem Of Combining A Scientific Value With Romantic Interest And Artistic Merit.? From A Review In \The Nation\ (February 2 1882). By W. C. Brownell The List Of Mr. JamesS Novels Is A Long One And His Short Stories Are Very Numerous; And Among Them All There Is Not One With A Perfunctory Or Desultory Inspiration. Why Is It That They In No Sense Constitute A Comcdie Humalne? They Are Very Populous; Why Is It That The Characters That People Them Have So Little Relief? Taken Together They Constitute The Least Successful Element Of His Fiction. Partly This Is Because As I Say They Possess So Little Typical Quality. But Why Also Do They Possess So Little Personal Interest? They Have Seemingly Astonishingly Little Even For Their Creator. So Far From Knowing The Sound Of Their Voices As Thackeray Said Of His He Is Apparently Less Pre-Occupied With Them Than About The Situation?The \Predicament\ He Would Aptly Say?In Which He Places Them. Apparently He Is Chiefly Concerned With What They Are To Do When Confronted With The Complications His Ingenuity Devises For Them?How They Are To \Pull It Off.\ These Complications Are Sometimes Very Slight In Order To Show Or At Least Showing What Trifles Control Destinies; Sometimes They Are Very Grave And Exhibit The Conflict Of The Soul With Warring Desires And Distracting Perple