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Barnes (JAMES an American writer born)

JAMES, an American writer, born in Annapolis, Md., in 1866.

He graduated from Princeton University in 1891, was, for several years following, a member of the editorial staff of several magazines, war correspondent in South Africa from 1889 to 1901, and literary editor of D. Appleton & Co. from 1905 to 1908. Among his many books are "Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors" (1897); "The Son of Light Horse Harry" (1904); "The Clutch of Circumstance" (1908); "Through Central Africa from Coast to Coast" (1915); etc. During the World War he served as an aviator and for several months was head of the Princeton Aviation School. He was also head of the photographic division of the United States Army and was sent to France to organize the United States aviation photographic work.