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 156 GRANT published "Letters from the Mountains" (3 vols., London, 1806-7), which contains descrip- tions of highland scenery, character, and le- gends. Her " Memoirs of an American Lady " (2 vols., 1808) gives a pleasant picture of her own childhood and of colonial life in America. Other works are, "Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland" (2 vols., 1811), and "Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, a Poem " (1814). After 1810 she resided in Ed- inburgh, and toward the close of her life she received a pension of 100. In 1844 appear- ed the " Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan " (3 vols.), the memoir being an autobiography, continued by her son, John Peter Grant, who died in Edinburgh in 1871. GRANT, Sir Francis, a Scottish artist, born in Edinburgh in 1803. His precocious talent for painting was encouraged by Sir Walter Scott, and his earliest work was exhibited in 1834. In 1837 he executed for the earl of Chester- field "The Meet of his Majesty's Staghounds," with more than 40 portraits of noted sports- men. Subsequently he produced " Melton Hunt," which was purchased by the duke of Wellington. Afterward he became distinguish- ed as a portrait painter, and executed nume- rous pictures of beautiful women and celebra- ted men. In 1866 he succeeded Eastlake as president of the royal academy. GRANT, James, a British journalist, born in Elgin, Scotland, in 1806. He started the " Elgin Courier" in 1827, and removed to London in 1834, where he soon formed a connection with the " Morning Advertiser," and became its editor in 1850. He has published " Random Recollections of the House of Commons " (Lon- don, 1836), "The Bench and the Bar" (2 vols., 1837), "The Metropolitan Pulpit" (2 vols., 1839), "Travels in London," "Portraits of Public Characters," and "Paris and its Peo- ple." His " God is Love " and " Our Heaven- ly Home " have passed through many editions. In 1871 he published in two volumes "The Newspaper Press, its Origin, Progress, and Present Position." GRANT, James, a Scottish novelist, born in Edinburgh, Aug. 1, 1822. His father was an officer in the British army, and his own educa- tion was mostly received in barracks in Brit- ish North America. After serving for a short time in the 62d regiment as ensign, he resigned his fMinmission in 1840, and devoted himself to litiT.-itnrv. He has been a voluminous wri- ter of military and historical romances, some of which have had a very extensive circulation in a cheap form. His chief publications are : 'Hi-- Romance of War" (4 vols., 1846-7); "Adventures of an Aide-de-Camp " (1848)- "Memoirs of Kirkcaldy of Grange" (1849); r Fenton, or the Scottish Cavalier" (1850); "Bothwell, or the Days of Mary Queen of Scots " (1851) ; "Jane Seton " (1853) ; "Harry Ogilvie " (1856); "Dick Rodney" (1862); "Second to None" (1864); "The White Cockade "(1867); and "Under the Red Dragon " (1872). Most of his works have been reprinted in the United States; some have been translated into French, and all into Da- nish and German. Mr. Grant is a frequent contributor to periodicals. GRANT, James Augustus, a British traveller, born in Nairn, Scotland, in 1827. He was educated at Marischal college, Aberdeen. In 1845 he received an appointment in the Indian army, took part in both sieges of Mooltan and in the battle of Guzerat, and was with Have- lock at Lucknow. In 1861 he accompanied Capt. Speke on his second expedition to the lake region of central Africa. After traver- sing a district never before visited by white men, they reached Gondokoro in March, 1863, whence they soon after returned to England. Capt. Grant furnished the designs of the maps and engravings in Speke's " Journal of the Dis- covery of the Source of the Nile," and in 1864 published " A Walk across Africa, or Domestic Scenes from my Nile Journal." In 1866 he was made a commander of the bath. In 1868 he accompanied Lord Napier in the Abyssinian expedition as head of the intelligence depart- ment, and was nominated a commander of the order of the star of India for his services. He is now (1874) a major in the Bengal army. GRANT, Sir James Hope, a British soldier, bro- ther of Sir Francis Grant, born at Kilgraston, Perthshire, July 22, 1808. He entered the army in 1826, and was brigade major under Lord Sal- toun in the first English war against China. He served through the campaign in the Punjaub in 1848-'9, continued in the Indian service, and was made brevet colonel in 1854, and major general and knight commander of the bath in 1858. The last distinction was con- ferred upon him especially in recognition of distinguished service at the siege of Delhi, the relief of Lucknow, and the operations at Cawn- pore. He was put in command of the British forces in China in 1859, and conducted the campaign there to its successful termination in the capture of Peking in 1860. For this he was formally thanked by parliament, and made a knight grand cross of the bath. In 1861 he was made lieutenant general and commander- in-chief at Madras, in 1867 quartermaster gen- eral at headquarters, and in 1871 commander of the division at Aldershott. In January, 1874, a compilation from his private journals during his Indian campaigns was published in London, under the title of " Incidents in the Sepoy War, 1857-'8." GRANT, Ulysses S., eighteenth president of the United States, born at Point Pleasant, 0., April 27, 1822. His ancestors were Scotch. In 1823 his parents removed to the village of Georgetown, O., where his boyhood was passed. He entered West Point military academy in 1839, appointed by the Hon. Thomas L. Hamer, member of congress. His name originally was Hiram Ulysses ; but the appointment was blun- deringly made out for Ulysses S., and so it had to remain. The study in which he showed