Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) PARTIAL PORTRAITS [Illustration: colophon] PARTIAL PORTRAITS BY HENRY JAMES London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1894 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT BY HENRY JAMES 1888 _First Edition 1888. Reprinted 1894_ NOTICE The following attempts at literary portraiture originally appeared, with three exceptions, in American periodicals--The _Atlantic Monthly_, _The Century_, and _Harper’s Weekly_. The paper on Emerson was contributed to _Macmillan’s Magazine_, that on “The Art of Fiction” to _Longman’s_ and that on M. Guy de Maupassant to _The Fortnightly Review_. The reminiscences of Turgénieff were written immediately after his death, the article on Anthony Trollope on the same occasion, before the publication of his interesting Autobiography, and the appreciation of Alphonse Daudet before that of his three latest novels. The date affixed to the sketch of Robert Louis Stevenson is that of composition. CONTENTS PAGE I. EMERSON 1 II. THE LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT 37 III. DANIEL DERONDA: A CONVERSATION 65 IV. ANTHONY TROLLOPE 97 V. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 137 VI. MISS WOOLSON 177 VII. ALPHONSE DAUDET 195 VIII. GUY DE MAUPASSANT 243 IX. IVAN TURGÉNIEFF 291 X. GEORGE DU MAURIER 327 XI. THE ART OF FICTION 375 I EMERSON