WITHIN THE RIM
WITHIN THE RIM
AND OTHER ESSAYS
1914-15
HENRY JAMES
LONDON: 48 PALL MALL
W. COLLINS SONS & CO. LTD.
GLASGOW MELBOURNE AUCKLAND
Copyright 1918
Within the Rim—Written in Feb. 1915 for Miss E. Asquith for aproposed album in aid of the Arts Fund. The idea of the album wasabandoned, and the article was ultimately published in theFortnightly Review, Aug. 1917.
Refugees in Chelsea—Published in the Times LiterarySupplement, March 23, 1916.
The American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps in France: A Letterto the Editor of an American Journal—Issued as a pamphlet, 1914.
France—Published in The Book of France, edited by WinifredStephens, Macmillan, 1915.
The Long Wards—Published in The Book of the Homeless, editedby Edith Wharton, Macmillan, 1916.
Thanks are due in each case for the permission to reprint theseessays.
| CONTENTS | |
|---|---|
| PAGE | |
| WITHIN THE RIM | 11 |
| REFUGEES IN CHELSEA | 39 |
| THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEER MOTOR-AMBULANCE CORPS IN FRANCE A Letter to the Editor of an American Journal | 63 |
| FRANCE | 83 |
| THE LONG WARDS | 97 |
WITHIN THE RIM
THE first sense of it all to me after the first shock and horror wasthat of a sudden leap back into life of the violence with which theAmerican Civil War broke up