James Gibbons Huneker

T HE first two of these papers were published in the lifetime of James Gibbons Huneker. I have been puzzled in going over these papers about the past and present tenses. Huneker had such a vital, envelop ing, atmospheric personality that to all who knew him he persists today as a living entity. It is a psychic mystery. It is hard for me to speak of him in the past tense, so in some cases I have left the present tense stand. I shall always think of " Jim " in the Eternal Present Tense.