English Hours

''Spring was already in the air, in the town; there was no rain but there was still less sun - one wondered what had become of it, on this side of the world - and the grey mildness, shading away into black at any pretext, appeared in itself a promise.''

Henry James left America for England in 1876 and remained in his adopted country for the next three decades. Arriving in Liverpool, he made his wa...