An Introduction by HENRY JAMES.pp.xviii., 226.

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The tales included in "The Odd Number" are little masterpieces, and done into very clear, sweet, simple English .-- WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.
There is a charming individuality in each of these fascinating little tales; something elusive and subtle in every one, something quaint or surprising, which catches the fancy and gives a sense of satisfaction like that felt when one discovers a rare flower in an unexpected place.
I predict that "The Odd Number" will soon be found lying in the corner of the sofa or on the table in the drawing-rooms of cultivated women everywhere .-- MARGARET E.SANGSTER.
Masterpieces....

Nothing can exceed the masculine firmness, the quiet force, of his own style, in which every phrase is a close sequence, every epithet a paying piece, and the ground is completely cleared of the vague, the ready-made, and the second-best.

Less than any one to-day does he beat the air, more than any one does he hit out from the shoulder....

He came into the literary world, as he has himself related, under the protection of the great Flaubert.