|It would be ungracious to let this book go out into a preoccupied world without some word of gratitude to those who have written regarding the young Henry as he has appeared from month to month in a magazine. The letters have been the kindliest and most stimulating imaginable; and have surprised me, for I have never found it easy to picture Henry as a popular hero of fiction. He isn't, of course, a hero at all. His weaknesses are too plain--the little evidences of vanity in him, his selfcentred moments, his errant susceptibilities--and heroes can't have weaknesses. And heroes--in any well-regulated pattern-story--must 'turn out well.' Henry, in this book, doesn't really turn out at all. Hi…
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