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JAMES 231 JAMESON 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 Bandars 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. JAMES, OLLIE M., United States Senator from Kentucky, born in 1871. He received an academic education and after studying law was admitted to the bar in 1891. He became active in poli- tics and was elected chairman of the Ken- tucky State Legislature Convention. He was elected to Congress in 1903 and was re-elected to successive Congresses to 1913 when he took his place in the Senate to which he had been elected in the pre- vious year. He was chairman of the Democratic National Convention in 1912. He died in 1918. JAMES, WILLIAM, an American sduc^tor; born in New York city, Jan. '1, 1842; received a private education; accepted the chair of philosophy at Har- vard College in 1872; was GifFord lec- turer on Natural Religion at the Uni- versity of Edinburgh in 1899-1901. He is the author of "Principles of Psychol- ogy" (2 vols.); "Psychology: Briefer Course"; "The Will to Believe; and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy"; and "Talks on Psychology and Life's Ideals." He died Aug. 27, 1910. JAMES ISLAND, one of the islands in the harbor of Charleston, S. C, at the mouth of the Ashley river. The battle of Secessionville (June 16, 1862) and several other engagements of the Civil War were fought here. JAMES MILLIKIN TJNIVERSITY, an institution for higher education at Lincoln, 111., and Decatur, 111., founded in 1865. It was formed by a combina- tion of Lincoln College and Decatur Col- lege. In 1919 there were 73 members of the faculty and 1,538 students. The library contains about 10,000 volumes. The annual income is about $600,000. President, E. A. R. Taylor. JAMESON, ANNA, an Irish author and critic; born (Murphy} in Dublin in 1794. Mrs. Jameson published in 1831 her first important work, entitled "Memoirs of Female Sovereigns," and this was succeeded in the following year by "Characteristics of Women." But it is as an art critic that Mrs. Jameson is best entitled to remembrance. Chief among these works were: "Lives of Early Italian Painters" (1845); "Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art" (1848) ; "Legends of the Monastic Orders" (1850); "Legends of the Madonna" (1852); and a "Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies" (1845). She died in Ealing, March 19, 1860. JAMESON, SIR LEANDER STARR, a British administrator; born in Edin- burgh in 1853. He was educated at Lon- don University. Having become asso- ciated with Rhodes in the development of South Africa, he was appointed Admin- istrator of Rhodesia in 1891, and held the position with distinction till the raid on the Transvaal in 1895, when he was defeated at Krugersdorp. He was after- ward given up to the imperial authori- ties, tried and sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment. After seven months, however, he was released, owing to ill health. In 1897 he returned to Rhodesia and assisted in the development of the country. Was Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1904-1908, when he resigned and returned to London. Was chairman of