'The spinner of fine cobwebs!'

Browsing in the (excellent) bookshop of the Samuel Johnson House yesterday, I found Beerbohm's Literary Caricatures: From Homer to Huxley, selected, introduced and annotated by J.G. Riewald (Allen Lane, 1977). It's a generous selection, with helpful notes by Riewald, a Dutch academic and Beerbohm specialist, setting each caricature in context. Naturally I bought it – for a mere £6 – and I'm sure it's going to provide me with much innocent entertainment. 
  The caricature above shows Mr Henry James Revisiting America, and was inspired by the author's final visit to the land of his birth, in 1905. A variety of stereotype Americans are responding to the great man: an Indian chief exclaims, 'Hail, great white novelist! Tunibaya – the spinner of fine cobwebs!' A negro mammy is in ecstasies: 'Why, it's Masser Henry! Come to your old nurse's arms, honey!' A plainsman remarks: 'Guess 'e ken shoot char'cter at sight!' An effete Harvardian wonders 'What's – the matter with – James?' A Beacon Hill hostess answers, 'He's – all – right!' And so on. As for James, Beerbohm transcribes his unspoken thoughts in a fine parody of his late style: 

'So that in fine, let, without further beating about the bush, me make to myself amazed acknowledgment that, but for the certificate of birth which I have – so very indubitably – on me, I might, in regarding, and, as it somewhat were, overseeing, à l'oeil de voyageur, these dear good people, find hard to swallow, or even to take by subconscious injection, the great idea that I am – oh, ever so indigenously! – one of them...'

Indeed.
The original of this caricature can be found at Lamb House, James's home in Rye.