A tremendous amount of material has been written about the overpowering effect that America had on Henry James when he returned to this country in 1904 after twenty-years absence, which he discussed in The American Scene (1907). In particular, the effects of the New York scene, what James called the “terrible town,” are recorded in his New York Stories—“The Jolly Corner,” “Julia Bride,” “Crapy Cornelia,” and “A Round of Visits”—written between 1906 and 1909, and “The Married Son,” Chapter Seven from the composite novel, The Whole Family (1908).