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“... Henry James was a perfectionist, though not a humourless one, about his public appearance and appearances: hence the pleasure taken by certain anecdotalists in showing him out of control – of situations, conversations, himself, others. That he danced a cake-walk in 1899 and was photographed with a mouthful of doughnut intrigues us, as a treasurable departure from the magisterial dignity we mainly like to impute to him ...”

“... Howard’s book by reprinting a 1986 edition of The Whole Family (with an introduction by Alfred Bendixen), it seems unlikely that many readers will wish to go back to it. The making of that collective project may have been a revealing cultural phenomenon, but the results still add up to a pretty awful ...”