SOURCE: A review of The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James, in The Spectator, Vol. 58, No. 2986, September 19, 1885, pp. 1237-39.

In the following unsigned review of The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James, the critic offers a brief assessment of James's philosophy and contends that the volume is valuable not only for its content but also "as a psychological study of a very unique mind. "

[The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James] is a book of considerable interest, though more, perhaps, as a psychological study of a very unique mind, than for the speculations which it contains.

The late Henry James, the father of the well known Henry James, the American novelist, was during his life more or less of a celebrity in his own country as an eccentric and bold thinker. His somewhat mystical books, especially his Society the Redeemed Form of Man, the Secret...