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Page iii Henry James Collected Travel Writings: The Continent: A Little Tour in France, Italian Hours, Other Travels

Page iv Volume arrangement, notes, and chronology copyright 1993 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N. Y. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced commercially by offset-lithographic or equivalent copying devices without the permission of the publisher. ''Very Modern Rome" copyright 1954. Reprinted by permission. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements for the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.481984. Distributed to the trade in the United States and Canada by the Viking Press. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 93-9193 For cataloging information, see end of Index ISBN 0-940450-77-1 First Printing The Library of America65 Manufactured in the United States of America

Page vi RICHARD HOWARD WROTE THE NOTES FOR THIS VOLUME

Page vii Grateful acknowledgement is made to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous support of this series.

Page ix CONTENTS Each section has its own table of contents. A Little Tour in France 1 Italian Hours 279 Other Travel Writings 621 Chronology 777 Note on the Texts 792 Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases 797 Notes 807 Index 829

Page x Nmes: the Garden

Page 1 A LITTLE TOUR IN FRANCE With Ninety-four Illustrations By Joseph Pennell

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Page 3 Aigues-Mortes Preface The notes presented in this volume were gathered, as will easily be perceived, a number of years ago and on an expectation not at that time answered by the event, and were then published in the United States. The expectation had been that they should accompany a series of drawings, and they themselves were altogether governed by the pictorial spirit. They made, and they make in appearing now, after a considerable interval and for the first time, in England, no pretension to any other; they are impressions, immediate, easy, and consciously limited; if the written word may ever play the part of brush or pencil, they are sketches on ''drawing-paper" and nothing more. From the moment the principle of selection and expression, with a tourist, is not the delight of the eyes and the play of fancy, it should be an energy in every way much larger; there is no happy mean, in other words, I hold, between the sense and the quest of the picture, and the surrender to it, and the sense and the quest of the constitution, the inner springs of the subjectsprings and connections social, economic, historic. One must really choose, in other words, between the benefits of the perception of surfacea perception, when fine, perhaps none of the most frequentand those of the perception of very complex

Page 4 underlying matters. If these latter had had, for me, to be taken into account, my pages would not have been collected. At the time of their original appearance the series of illustrations to which it had been their policy to cling for countenance and company failed them, after all, at the last moment, through a circumstance not now on record; and they had suddenly to begin to live their little life without assistance. That they have seemed able in any degree still to prolong even so modest a career might perhaps have served as a reason for leaving them undisturbed. In fact, however, I have too much appreciatedfor any renewal of inconsistencythe opportunity of granting them at last, in an association with Mr. Pennell's admirable drawings, the benefit they have always lacked. The little book thus goes forth finally as the picture-book it was designed to be. Text and illustrations are, altogether and alike, things of the play of eye and hand and fancyviews, head-pieces, tail-pieces; through the artist's work, doubtless, in a much higher degree than the author's

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