A LITTLE
TOUR IN FRANCE

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Novels by
HENRY JAMES
Six Shillings each

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london: william heinemann
21 Bedford Street, W.C.

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A LITTLE

TOUR IN FRANCE

By

HENRY JAMES

with ninety-four illustrations by

JOSEPH PENNELL

LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1900

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Preface

The notes presented in this volume were gathered, as will easily beperceived, a number of years ago and on an expectation not at that timeanswered by the event, and were then published in the United States. Theexpectation had been that they should accompany a series of drawings,and they themselves were altogether governed by the pictorial spirit.They made, and they make in appearing now, after a considerable intervaland for the first time, in England, no pretension to any other; they areimpressions, immediate, easy, and consciously limited; if the writtenword may ever play the part of brush or pencil, they are sketches on"drawing-paper" and nothing more. From the moment the principle ofselection and expression, with a tourist, is not the delight of the eyesand the play of fancy, it should be an energy in every way much larger;there is no happy mean, in other words, I hold, between the sense andthe quest of the picture, and the surrender to it, and[vi] the sense andthe quest of the constitution, the inner springs of t