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JAMES, HENRY, an American novelist and essayist; born in New York, April 15, 1843. He was educated in France and Switzerland and at Harvard Law School. After 1869 he made his home in England. His works include: "Transatlantic Sketches" (1875) ; "A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales" (1875); "Roderick Hudson" (1876) ; "The American" (1877) ; "Watch and Ward'' (1878); "French Poets and Novelists" (1878) ; "Daisy Miller: a Study" (1878); "The Europeans: a Sketch" (1878); "The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales" (1879); "Haw thorne" (1879) ; "Washington Square" (1880) ; "The Portrait of a Lady" (1882); "Daisy Miller : a Comedy" (1883) ; "Portraits of Places" (1883); "Tales of Three Cities" (1884); "The Art of Fiction" (1885), with Walter Besant; "Stories Revived" (2 vols. 1885) ; "The Author of Beltraffio" (1885) ; "The Bostonians" (1886) ; "The Princess Casamassima" (1886); "Par tial Portraits" (1888); "The Reverbera tor" (1888) ; "A London Life" (1889); "The Tragic Muse" (1890); "The Lesson of the Master" (1892), a volume of stories; "The Real Thing and Other Tales" (1893) ; "Picture and Text'' (1893); "Essays in London and Else where" (1893) "The Wheel of Time" (1894) ; "Terminations" (1895); "What Maisie Knew" (1897); "In the Cage" (1898); "The Two Magics" (1898) ; "The Awkward Age" (1899) ; "The Soft Side" (1900) ; "The Sacred Fount" (1901) ; "A Small Boy and Others" (1913). Died Feb. 28, 1916.

jAMES, MONTAGUE RHODES, a British educator. He was born in Suf folk and educated at Eton and Cam bridge. He became Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge in 1903, and vice-chancellor in 1913. He was for a time director of Fitzwilliam Museum, and has been provost of King's College, Cam bridge, since 1905. He is now provost of Eton. His works include: "Ancient Li braries of Canterbury and Dover"; "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary"; sev eral editions of books of the Bible, and other works.