Piute Chieftain | 1916-05-04 | Page 5 | Henry James on France

henry james on france she has gardened where the soll soil ot of humanity has been most grateful and the aspect SO BO to callet call cal lit it most toward the sun and there at the high and yet mild and fortunate center she has grown the precious intimate nourishing finishing things that she has inexhaustibly scattered abroad and it we havo have all taken them from her so expected them from her as our right to the point that she would have bava seemed positively to fall of a passed pledge to help us ua to happiness it if she had disappointed us this has been because of her treating us ua to the impression of genius as no other nation since the greeks has treated the watching world and because of our feeling that genius at that intensity is infallible henry james in the dook book of prance france macmillan