HAWTHORNE'S " FANSHAW.b " AND EARLY STORIES.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—It was with some surprise that I found Mr. Henry James, in his book on Hawthorne, speaking as if the only source from which a curious reader could get an idea of Hawthorne's early story, "Fanshawe," was from the report of it furnished in Mr.. Lathrop's " Study of Hawthorne ;" and still more was I sur- prised to find that expert critic, Mr. George Saintsbury, char- acterising it as the "half-lost romance." If half-lost some years ago, it has now been fully found ; and any enthusiastic student, eager to get all possible light on Hawthorne's artistic development, can procure the two volumes, containing it and some early stories, from Mr. Triibner, for it was, two or three- years ago, republished in America, uniform with the author's edition of the works, and there is a copy of it in the British
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