SOURCE: “Henry Blake Fuller,” in The Men Who Make Our Novels, revised edition, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925, pp. 190-94.

In the following brief essay, Baldwin deems Fuller as “an amateur, a lover and appreciator of the beautiful rather than a craftsman with rolling eye and a passion for creation.”

Were I the editor of a weekly review looking for the perfect reviewer to take charge of my literary department I should know that my quest was ended once Mr. Fuller had consented to act for me, for he is, in my opinion, as a man of letters, easily among the first of living Americans. He has scholarship and the best of good taste, charm and grace of style, wide reading and instant sympathy. He is at home with Mary Stuart and the Maid of Orleans, with the sages of Concord and Camden and the Lake Country. He realizes...