Jacobs
W. W., an English novelist; born in London in 1863. He was educated in private schools and in 1883 entered the Civil Service. His first book, "Many Cargoes," appeared in 1896 and received instant recognition as a work of unusual merit and of unusual qualities of humour. This was followed by many other books of the same character.
These include "More Cargoes"; "The Lady of the Barge" (1902); "Captains All" (1905); "Sailors' Knots" (1909); "Night Watches" (1914). He also wrote with Louis N. Parker a play entitled eral encyclopedias.
JADE with Louis N. Parker a play entitled He contributed theological articles to sev- "Beauty and the Barge."
JACOB'S LADDER (Polemonium of the natural order Polemoniacex, a doubtful native of Great Britain, but more common in Central and Southern Europe, and found also in the temperate parts of Asia and of North America. It is common in flower gardens in Great Britain. It has pinnate leaves, with ovato-lanceolate leaflets, a smooth stem 1½ to 2 feet high, and a terminal pan- 1½ to 2 feet high, and a terminal panicle of bright blue (sometimes white) flowers, with wheel-shaped five-lobed corolla. Great medicinal virtues were once ascribed to it, but the only quality which it seems to possess is a slight astringency.