The Middle Years

· 1916

_The following pages represent all that Henry James lived to write of a volume of autobiographical reminiscences to which he had given the name of one of his own short stories_, The Middle Years. _It was designed to follow on_ Notes of a Son and Brother _and to extend to about the same length. The chapters here printed were dictated during the autumn of 1914. They were laid aside for other work toward the end of the year and were not revised by the author. A few quite evident slips have been corrected and the marking of the paragraphs--which he usually deferred till the final revision--has been completed._ _In dictating_ The Middle Years _he used no notes, and beyond an allusion or two in t…

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