...mere rest-cure, who confessed brazenly to not being in business. Do I grossly exaggerate in saying that this company, candidly, quite excitedly self-conscious,...excrescences on the American surface, where nobody ever criticized, especially after the grand tour, and where the great black ebony god of business was the...

...Scene James celebrated this "handful of mild, oh delightfully mild, cosmopolites" for similar reasons: "their having for the most part more or less lived...leisure, and that, not least of a formed critical habit" (A, 222). Europe, leisure, and criticism had marked the members of this society as different from those...

...considerable company of Americans, not gathered at a mere rest-cure, who confessed brazenly to not being in business. Do I grossly exaggerate in saving...leisure, and that, not least, of a formed critical hnbit. These things had been felt as making them excrescences on the American surface, where nobody...

...birth or residence on the twenty-fifth floor of a skyscraper ? Newport is inhabited by a handful of "delightfully mild cosmopolites, united by three common...and that, not least, of a formed critical habit." In Boston, Mr. James, in lurid contrast with Mr. Wells, is terribly bothered by the newness of everything;...