Chapter XLVI: Part 1: of this sociological story contains a view of modern New York (18)

“There is quite enough importance in the tendency which Mr. Phillips
has in mind to make one wish that he might have painted it as tendency
rather than as inevitable fact. He has written a forcible tract,
however, and this is what we suppose he intended.”

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“The story exhibits all of Mr. Phillips’s strong qualities, it is
interesting, and the characters are for the most part forcefully
drawn. Its weakness lies in his treating a tendency as if it were an
accomplished and universal fact of life.”

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“The many entanglements in the plot are skillfully straightened out in
the end.”

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“The whole book, although sober-minded and excellent in many ways, is
too long-drawn-out and somewhat stolid.”

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“I cannot imagine anybody but a walking delegate of the most
exclamatory type taking pleasure in the ‘Second generation,’ and yet I
am sure the author is guilty of most excellent intentions.” Vernon
Atwood.

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=Phillips, Le Roy.= Bibliography of the writings of Henry James. **$3. Houghton.

6–43541.

“Part 1, ‘Original works,’ is a chronological bibliography of books,
giving the first edition.... Following this account of the first
edition is a record of later editions and of translations.... In Part
2 are described books by other authors to which James contributed....