The third volume of Leon Edel’s superb edition of Henry James’s letters finds the novelist settled in Europe and his expatriation com-plete. The letters of this time reflect the growth of James’s literary and personal friendships and introduce the reader to the frescoed palazzos, Palladian villas, and great estates of the Rose-berys, the Rothschilds, the Bostonian-Vene-tian Curtises, and the Florentine-American Boott circle. In all his travels, James closely observes the social scene and the dilemmas of the human beings within it. During this fruitful period he writes The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, and some thirty-five of his finest international tales.