The War in the Press
►George Pellew, “The New Battle of the Books,” Forum  5 (July 1888): 564-73. ►Hamilton Wright Mabie, “The Two Eternal Types in Fiction,” 1895, and “A Typical Novel,” Andover Review 4 (November 1885). ►James Lane Allen, “Realism and Romance,” New York Evening Post, 31 July 1886, p. 4.
Allen is replying to Henry James’s “William Dean Howells,” Harper’s Weekly  30 (19 June 1886): 394-95 and Maurice Thompson’s “The Analysts Analyzed,” Critic 9 (10 June 1886): 18-22) (Pizer, Documents of American Realism and Naturalism, 99).