As his letters attest, for nearly forty years Henry James enjoyed a warm and gratifying friendship with Britaina??s foremost soldier of the last quarter of the nineteenth century and his wife. The Wolseleys were notable figures. Lord Wolseley, the field marshal who became Britaina??s commander in chief of the British army, was a national hero. Both a bibliophile and an author, Wolseley was described by Henry James to his brother William as an "excellent example of the cultivated British soldier." Lady Wolseley was also well-read, as well as stylish, strong-willed, and shrewd, and in Henrya??s view, a delightful correspondenta??in short, as the editor writes, "precisely the kind of woman James most admired."In The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife, Alan James offers a collection of more than one hundred lettersa??most of them published here for the first timea??that Henry James wrote to the Wolseleys, the majority to Lady Wolseley. Included are an overall...

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