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See also:BARRIE, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:MATTHEW (186o- ) , See also:British novelist and dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Kirriemuir, a small See also:village in See also:Forfar-See also:shire, on the 9th of May 186o. He was educated at the See also:Dumfries See also:academy and See also:Edinburgh University. He has told us in his quasi-autobiographical See also:Margaret See also:Ogilvy that he wrote tales in the See also:garret before he went to school, and at Edinburgh wrote the greater See also:part of a three-See also:volume novel, which a publisher presumed was the See also:work of a See also:clever See also:lady and offered to publish for boo. The offer was not accepted, and it was through journalism that he found his way to literature. After a See also:short See also:period of waiting in Edinburgh, he became See also:leader-writer on the See also:Nottingham See also:Journal in See also:February 1883. To this See also:paper he contributed also See also:special articles and notes, which provided an opening and training for his See also:personal See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent. He soon began to submit articles to See also:London editors, and on the 17th of See also:November 1884 Mr See also:Frederick See also:Greenwood printed in the St James's See also:Gazette his See also:article on "An Auld Licht Community." With the encouragement of this ableeditor, more Auld Licht " Idylls " followed; and in 1885 Mr Barrie moved to London. He continued to write for the St James's Gazette and for See also:Home Chimes (edited by Mr F. W. See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson). He was soon enlisted by Mr See also:Alexander Riach for the Edinburgh Evening See also:Dispatch, which in turn led to his See also:writing (over the See also:signature " Gavin Ogilvy ") for Dr See also:Robertson See also:Nicoll's British Weekly. Later he became a contributor to the Scats (afterwards See also:National) Observer, edited by W.
E. See also:Henley, and also to the See also:Speaker, upon its See also:foundation in 189o. In 1887 he published his first See also:book, Better Dead. It was a See also:mere jeu d'esprit, a specimen of his humorous journalism, elaborated from the St James's Gazette. This was followed in 1888 by Auld Licht Idylls, a collection of the Scots village sketches written for the same paper. They portrayed the See also:life and humours of his native village, idealized as "Thrums," and were the fruits of See also:early observation and of his See also:mother's tales. " She told me everything," Mr Barrie has written, " and so my memories of our little red See also:town were coloured by her memories." Kirriemuir itself was not wholly satisfied with the portrait, but " Thrums " took its See also:place securely on the See also:literary See also:map of the See also:world. In the same See also:year he published An Edinburgh Eleven, sketches from the British Weekly of eminent Edinburgh students; also his first See also:long See also:story, When a See also:Man's Single, a humorous transcription of his experiences as journalist, particularly in the Nottingham See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. The book was introduced by what was in fact another Thrums "Idyll," on a higher level than the See also:rest of the book. In 1889 came A Window in Thrums. This beautiful book, and the Idylls, gave the full measure of Mr Barrie's gifts of humanity, See also:humour and pathos, with abundant See also:evidence of the whimsical turn of his wit, and of his See also:original and See also:vernacular See also:style. In 1891 he made a collection of his lighter papers from the St James's' Gazette and published them as My Lady See also:Nicotine.
In 1891 appeared his first long novel; The Little See also:Minister, which had been first published serially in See also:Good Words. It introduced, not with unmixed success, extraneous elements, including the winsome heroine Babbie, into the See also:familiar life of Thrums, but proved the author's See also:possession of a considerable See also:gift of See also:romance. In 1894 he published Margaret Ogilvy, based ono the life of his mother and his own relations with her, most tenderly conceived and beautifully written, though too intimate for the See also:taste of many. The book is full of revelations of See also:great See also:interest to admirers of Mr Barrie's See also:genius. The following year came Sentimental Tommy, a story tracing curiously the psychological development of the "See also:artistic temperament " in a Scots lad of the See also:people. R. L. See also:Stevenson supposed himself to be portrayed in the See also:hero, but it may be safely assumed that the author derived his material largely from See also:introspection. The story was completed by a sequel, Tommy and Grizel, published in 'coo. The effect of this story was somewhat marred by the See also:comparative failure of the scenes in society remote from Thrums. In 1902 he published The Little See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:Bird, a See also:pretty fantasy, wherein he gave full See also:play to his whimsical invention, and his tenderness for See also:child life, which is relieved by, the genius of sincerity from a suspicion of mawkishness. This book contained the See also:episode of " See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter See also:Pan," which afterwards suggested the play of that name.
In the meantime Mr Barrie had been developing his talent as a dramatist. In 1892 Mr See also:Toole had made a great success at his own See also:theatre of Barrie's See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker, London, a See also:farce founded on a See also:sketch 'in When a Man's Single. In 1893 Mr Barrie married See also:Miss See also:Angell (divorced in r9o9), who had acted in Walker, London. In this year he wrote, with See also:Sir A. Conan See also:Doyle, a play called Jane Annie. He found more success, however, in The See also:Professor's Love-Story in 1895; and in 1897 the popularity of his dramatized version of The Little Minister probably confirmed him in a predilection for See also:drama, evident already in some of his first sketches in the Nottingham Journal. In 19oo Mr See also:Bourchier produced The See also:Wedding See also:Guest, which was printed as a supplement to the Fortnightly See also:Review in See also:December of the same year. After the publication of The Little White Bird, Mr Barrie burst upon the town as a popular and prolific playwright. The struggling journalist of the early 'nineties had now become one of the most prosperous literary men of the See also:day. In 1903 no fewer than three plays from his See also:hand held the See also:stage Quality See also:Street, The Admirable
See also:Crichton and Little See also:Mary. The year 1904 produced Peter Pan, a See also:kind of poetical See also:pantomime, in which the author found See also:- SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)
scope for some of his most characteristic and permanently delightful gifts. In 1905 Alice-Sit-by-the-See also:Fire and in 1908 What Every W omanKnows were added to the See also:list.
As dramatist Mr Barrie brought, to a See also:sphere rather ridden by See also:convention, a method wholly unconventional and a singularly fresh See also:fancy, seasoned by a shrewd See also:touch of satirical humour; and in Peter Pan he proved himself a Hans See also:Andersen of the stage. In literature, the success of " Thrums" produced a See also:crop of imitations, christened in derision by W. E. Henley the " Kailyard School," though the imitations were by no means confined to See also:Scotland. In this school the Auld Licht Idylls and A Window in Thrums remained unsurpassed and unapproached. The Scots village See also:tale was no novelty in literature —witness See also:John See also:Galt, the See also:Chronicles of See also:Carlingford and See also:George See also:MacDonald. Yet Mr Barrie, in spite of a See also:dialect not easy to the Southron, contrived to touch a more intimate and more responsive chord. With the simplest materials he achieved an almost unendurable pathos, which yet is never forced; and the pathos is salted with humour, while about the moving homeliness of his humanity play the gleams of a whimsical wit. Stevenson; in a See also:letter to Mr See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry James, in December 1892, said justly of Barrie that " there was genius in him, but there was a journalist on his See also:elbow." This genius found its most perfect and characteristic expression in the humanity of " Thrums " and the bizarre and See also:tender fantasy of Peter Pan.
See also J. M. Barrie and His Books, by J.
A. See also:Hamerton (See also:Horace See also:Marshall, 1902); and for bibliography up to May 1903, See also:English Illustrated See also:Magazine, vol. See also:xxix. (N.S.), p. 208. (W. P.
End of Article: BARRIE, JAMES MATTHEW (186o- )
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