Hannay
JAMES, a British critic and novelist; born in Dumfries, Scotland, Feb. 17, 1827. A few years of boyhood were spent in the navy, from which he was dismissed at 18 by a courtmartial sentence, afterward quashed as irregular. He early devoted himself to a life of letters. For several years he edited the Edinburgh "Courant," and was afterward British consul at Barcelona. Of his novels the best are "Singleton Fontenoy" (1850) and "Eustace Conyers" (1855). Other works were "Lectures on Satire and Satirists" (1854); "Essays from the Quarterly Review" HANNIBAL (1861); "Three Hundred Years of a Norman House" (1866); and "Studies on Thackeray" (1869). He died in Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 3, 1873. the Mississippi river, here iron railroad