All comers to the contrary, and the proportionate sale of his works, and statistics whatsoever to the contrary, only an American who has come abroad will ever draw all the succulence from Henry James's writings; the denizen of Manchester or Wellington may know what it feels like to reach London, the
bom will not be able quite to reconstruct even this part of the book; and if for intimacy H.
Ezra-Pound-Instigations
