SOURCE: “The Literary Spotlight, XXVII: Henry Blake Fuller,” in The Bookman, Vol. LVIII, No. 6, February, 1924, pp. 645-49.

In the following essay, the anonymous critic surveys the reasons for Fuller's virtual obscurity amongst the American reading public.

In a brilliant sentence wherein he gives us the character and temperament of the hero of his Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani Henry Blake Fuller also thus partly describes himself: “He was sufficient unto himself, exempt from the burdens of wealth, the chafings of domestic relations, the chains of affairs, the martyrdom of great ambition and the dwarfing provincialism that comes from a settled home.”

So sufficient is he unto himself that it is only with the greatest difficulty that one can unearth anything about him. Those who have known him for a great number of years as intimately as Mr. Fuller can be known, can tell you very little except that he is...