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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:GEORGE See also:PAYNE RAINSFOP .D (1799-1860), See also:English novelist, son of Pinkstan James, physician, was See also:born in George See also:Street, See also:Hanover Square, See also:London, on the 9th of See also:August 1799. He was educated at a private school at Putney, afid afterwards in See also:France. He began to write See also:early, and had, according to his own See also:account, composed the stories afterwards published as A See also:String of Pearls before he was seventeen. As a contributor to See also:newspapers and magazines, he came under the See also:notice of See also:Washington See also:Irving, who encouraged him to produce his See also:Life of See also:Edward the See also:Black See also:Prince (1822). See also:Richelieu was finished in 1825, and was well thought of by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott (who apparently saw it in See also:manuscript), but was not brought out till 1829. Perhaps Irving and Scott, from their natural amiability, were rather dangerous advisers for a writer so inclined by nature to abundant See also:production as James. But he took up See also:historical See also:romance See also:writing at a lucky moment. Scott had firmly established the popularity of the See also:style, and James in See also:England, like See also:Dumas in France, reaped-the See also:reward of their See also:master's labours as well as of their own. For See also:thirty years the author of Richelieu continued to pour out novels of the same See also:kind though of varying merit. His See also:works in See also:prose fiction, See also:verse narrative, and See also:history of an easy kind are said to number over a See also:hundred, most of them being three-See also:volume novels of the usual length. Sixty-seven are catalogued in the See also:British Museum. The best examples of his style are perhaps Richelieu (1829); See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Augustus (1831); 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 Masterton, probably the best of all (1832); See also:Mary of See also:Burgundy (1833); See also:Darnley (1839); See also:Corse de See also:Leon (1841); The Smuggler (1845). His See also:poetry does not require See also:special mention, nor does his history, though for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time during the reign of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IV. he held the 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 of historiographer royal. After writing copiously for about twenty years, James in 185o went to See also:America as British See also:Consul for See also:Massachusetts. He was consul at See also:Richmond, See also:Virginia, from 1852 to 1856, when he was appointed to a similar See also:post at See also:Venice, where he died on the 9th of See also:June 1860.
James has been compared to Dumas, and the comparison holds See also:good in respect of kind, though by no means in respect of merit. Both had a certain See also:gift of separating from the picturesque parts of history what could without much difficulty be worked up into picturesque fiction, and both were possessed of a ready See also:pen. Here, however, the likeness ends. Of purely See also:literary 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 James had little. His plots are poor, his descriptions weak, his See also:dialogue often below even a See also:fair See also:average, and he was deplorably prone to repeat himself. The " two cavaliers " who in one See also:form or another open most of his books have passed into a See also:- PROVERB (Lat. proverbium, from pro, forth, publicly, verbum, word; the Greek equivalent is irapolµia, from 7rapa, alongside, and oiµos, way, road, i.e. a wayside saying; Ger. Sprichwort)
proverb, and See also:Thackeray's good-natured but fatal See also:parody of Barbazure is likely to outlast Richelieu and Darnley by many a See also:year. Nevertheless, though James cannot be allowed any very high See also:rank among novelists, he had a genuine narrative gift, and, though his very best books fall far below See also:Les trois mousquetaires and La reige Margot, there is a certain even level of See also:interest to be found in all of them. James never resorted to illegitimate methods to attract readers, and deserves such See also:credit as may be due to a purveyor of amusement who never caters for the less creditable tastes of his guests.
His best novels were published in a revised form in 21 volumes (1844-1849).
End of Article: JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
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