Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Internet Archive.) WITHIN THE RIM WITHIN THE RIM AND OTHER ESSAYS 1914-15 HENRY JAMES [Illustration: colophon] 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 a proposed album in aid of the Arts Fund. The idea of the album was abandoned, and the article was ultimately published in the _Fortnightly Review_, Aug. 1917. _Refugees in Chelsea_--Published in the _Times_ Literary Supplement, March 23, 1916. _The American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps in France: A Letter to the Editor of an American Journal_--Issued as a pamphlet, 1914. _France_--Published in _The Book of France_, edited by Winifred Stephens, Macmillan, 1915. _The Long Wards_--Published in _The Book of the Homeless_, edited by Edith Wharton, Macmillan, 1916. Thanks are due in each case for the permission to reprint these essays. 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