Notes on novelists, with some other notes, by Henry James.

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advantages we absolutely believe in as we read-there is the
prodigious part: such an education of the soul, and in fact of
every faculty, such a claim for the irreproachable, it would
fairly seem, do we feel any association with the great fluent
artist, in whatever conditions taking place, inevitably, necessarily to have been. If we put ourselves questions we yet wave
away doubts, and with whatever remnants of prejudice the
writer's last word may often have to clash, our own is that there
is nothing for grand final rightness like a sufficiently general
humanity-when a particularly beautiful voice happens to
serve it.