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Thomson (JAMES a Scotch poet)

JAMES, a Scotch poet and journalist; born in Port Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 23, 1834. He was brought up in an orphan asylum, and became an army tutor. Most of his life was spent in journalism, and at one time he was special correspondent in Spain for "The World," New York. He suffered much from insomnia, which he made the subject of a powerful poem by that name; and died a victim to the drugs and alco- THOMSON His best-known work is "The City of Dreadful Night" (1870-1874); others of high quality are: "The Doom of a City" (1857), and "Our Ladies of Death" (1861). He died in London, England, June 3, 1882.