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See also:HANNAY, 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 (1827—1873) , Scottish critic, novelist and publicist, was See also:born at See also:Dumfries on the 17th of See also:February 1827. He came of the Hannays of Sorbie, an See also:ancient See also:Galloway See also:family. He entered the See also:navy in 184o and served till 1845, when he adopted literature as his profession. He acted as reporter on the See also:Morning See also:Chronicle and gradually obtained a connexion, See also:writing for the quarterly and monthly See also:journals. In 1857 Hannay contested the Dumfries burghs in the Conservative See also:interest, but without success. He edited the See also:Edinburgh Courant from 1S6o till 1864, when he removed to See also:London. From 1868 till his See also:death on the 8th of See also:January 1873 he was See also:British See also:consul at See also:Barcelona. His letters to the See also:Pall Mall See also:Gazette " From an Englishman in See also:Spain " were highly appreciated. Hannay's best books are his two See also:naval novels, Singleton See also:Fontenoy (1S5o) and Eustace Conyers (1855); See also:Satire and Satirists (1854); and Essays from the Quarterly See also:Review (1861). Satire not only shows loving appreciation of the See also:great satirists of the past, but is itself See also:instinct with wit and See also:fine satiric See also:power. The See also:book sparkles with epigrams and apposite classical allusions, and contains admirable See also:critical estimates of See also:Horace (Hannay's favourite author), See also:Juvenal, See also:Erasmus, See also:Sir See also:David See also:Lindsay, See also:George See also:Buchanan, Boileau, See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler, See also:Dryden, See also:Swift, See also:Pope, See also:Churchill, See also:Burns, See also:Byron and See also:Moore.
Among his other See also:works are Biscuits and Grog, See also:Claret See also:Cup, and See also:Hearts are Trumps (1848); See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Dobbs (1849) ; Sketches in Ultra-marine (1853) ; an edition of the Poems of See also:Edgar See also:Allan See also:Poe, to which he prefixed an See also:essay on the poet's See also:life and See also:genius (1852); Characters and Criticisms, consisting mainly of his contributions to the Edinburgh Courant (1865); A Course of See also:English Literature (1866)'; Studies on Thackerav (1869); and a family See also:history entitled Three See also:Hundred Years of a See also:Norman See also:House (the Gurneys) (1867).
End of Article: HANNAY, JAMES (1827—1873)
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