James on
Howells (1886)
►He is animated by a love of the common, the immediate, the familiar and vulgar elements of life, and holds that in proportion as we move into the rare and strange we become vague and arbitrary; That truth of representation, in a word, can be achieved only so long as it is in our power to test and measure it.
►“William Dean Howells,“Harper's Weekly 30 (19 June 1886):
394-395.