sired to write plays, the eight plays that he wrote (three of
which were presented) were failures.

5. Mr. James's place in the sequence of great European novelists is as a
follower of Balzac, Flaubert, De Maupassant, and Turgenev, and as a
predecessor of Conrad (whose study of him listed below should be read).

6. Early in the nineties, a great change in method came about in James's
work (cf. _Cambridge_, III, 98, 103). Judge separately typical books
written before this change and others written after; then read several
books of the period of change and decide what happened and whether or
not it enhanced the value of his work.

7. One of the remarkable facts about James's style is its influence upon
the critics who write about him. A close analysis of its
qualities--sentence length, the order and placing of the parts of the
sentence, punctuation, vocabulary, etc., might bring a more definite
understanding of the reasons for this influence.

8. A comparison of the work and qualities of Henry and William James
might be made a valuable contribution to criticism.

9. For a student familiar with Europe, a study of the reasons for James's
affinity with Europe and dislike for American life would make an
interesting study.

10. What different types of reasons can you bring to show that Henry
James is likely to be a permanent force in American literature?

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