Book digitized by Google from the library of University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. In the present volume the editor has collected all of James's printed writings during the first three calendar years of his apprenticeship (1864, 1865, and 1866), with the exception of six papers which have already appeared in 'book form'. The unsigned book reviews here republished first appeared in the North American review and the Nation. cf. Pref Fiction and Sir Walter Scott.--Miss Prescott's "Azarian."--Lindisfarn chase.--Emily Chester: a novel.--Miss Alcott's "Moods."--The noble school of fiction.--"Miss MacKenzie."--"The Schönberg-Cotta family."--"Can you forgive her?"--"The Gayworthys."--A French critic.--Miss Braddon.--Eugénie de Guérin's journal.--"The Belton estate."--Swinburne's "Chastelard".--Kingsley's "Hereward."--"Winifred Bertram."--Mrs. Gaskell.--"Marian Rooke."--"A noble life."--Epictetus.--Victor Hugo's last novel.--Felix Holt, the radical.--Eugénie de Guérin's letters.--The last French novel