'Henry James on the Beautiful Life'

At the First Thoughts blog at First Things,

"The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. R. R. Reno joins the podcast to discuss his recent publication from Wiseblood Books Duty, the Soul of Beauty: Henry James on the Beautiful Life."

And in Briefly Noted, the book is reviewed by Glenn Arberry.

"...Reno shows that duty itself, encountered with surprise by James’s characters—not to mention the contemporary reader—achieves a beauty that self-fashioning can never reach."

See Henry James, The Pupil, in Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 3, and The Beast in the Jungle, in Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 59.