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Title: A Small Boy and Others

Author: Henry James

Release Date: July 24, 2008 [EBook #26115]

Language: English

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A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS

[Illustration: Henry James and his Father
From a daguerreotype taken in 1854]

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BOOKS BY HENRY JAMES

PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS _net_ $2.50
THE OUTCRY _net_ 1.25
THE FINER GRAIN _net_ 1.25
THE SACRED FOUNT 1.50
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, 2 vols. 2.50
THE BETTER SORT 1.50
THE GOLDEN BOWL, 2 vols. 2.50

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A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS

BY

HENRY JAMES

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1913

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published March, 1913

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A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS

I

In the attempt to place together some particulars of the early life of
William James and present him in his setting, his immediate native and
domestic air, so that any future gathered memorials of him might become
the more intelligible and interesting, I found one of the consequences
of my interrogation of the past assert itself a good deal at the expense
of some of the others. For it was to memory in the first place that my
main appeal for particulars had to be made; I had been too near a
witness of my brother's beginnings of life, and too close a participant,
by affection, admiration and sympathy, in whatever touched and moved
him, not to feel myself in possession even of a greater quantity of
significant truth, a larger handful of the fine substance of history,
than I could hope to express or apply.