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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

Henry James" is a slim volume of selections from the writings of Henry James. Henry James has the reputation of being very hard to read, very obscure, and very high-brow. He is. But it all depends on what you want. If it's a story read Conan Doyle. If it's fun read Mark Twain. If it's preaching read F. W. Robertson. If it's facts go to the encyclopedia. But if you enjoy the witchery of sheer words, if you love a literary style as exqui­site as Benvenuto's style in metal, and above 66 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS all if you are a young writer and want to study one whose writings are the top of in­genious perfection, give hours of slow Fletcherizing to Henry James. The little book before us ought to be every aspiring author's bedside book, to be picked up now and then, and to be read slowly as a child hunts and eats strawber­ries from a patch, and re-read meditatively as a cow ruminates. Just to show you the master's hand I will set down here a few of his subtle word combinations. Do you know anywhere in literature you can overmatch them?

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