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 JAMES

JAMES

A.B., 1886, A.M., 1887. He was instructor in Latin and Greek at the high school, Decatur, 111., 1887-88 ; studied at Sorbonne, at the College de France, Paris, and at the University of Halle, giving especial attention to modern languages and pedagogy, 1888-89 ; and was professor of pedagogy in the Peabody Normal college, Uni- versity of Nashville, 1889-91. He resigned in 1891 to connect himself with the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, as the first editor of University Extension, the journal of the society, of which he was made general secretary in 1892. Mr. James continued advanced work in Italy and Germany in 1894 and 1896, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Halle. In 1900 he became pro- fessor of pedagogy and supervisor of the training school at the State Normal school at Los Angeles, Cal. He edited the Report of the Chicago Edu- tional Commission (1899), a noteworthy volume on educational administration, and is also the author of: Handbook of University Extension (1892) ; Proceedings of the National Conference on Uni- versity Extension (1892-93) ; Memorial of John A. Logan (1898), and various published educa- tional addresses.

JAflES, Henry, theologian, was born in Albany, N.Y., June 3, 1811 ; son of William James, a wealthy merchant of Albany. He at- tended school in his native city, and in 1823 met with au accident by which he lost a leg. He

was graduated at Union college in 1830; studied law at Al- bany, 1830-31 ; be- came interested in religious questions and was a student of theology at Prince- ton, N.J., 1835-37, where his advanced views disturbed the professors and he left the seminary. In 1833 and again in 1843 /^ /p he visited England,

^r-u<^ J^T^u^-*^-!^ where he made re- search in both the- ology and philosopliy, and became imbued on the first visit with Sandemanianism, on the second with Swedenborgianism. He resided for a num- ber of years in New York city and afterward in Newport, R.I., removing in 1866 to Cambridge, IMass. His theology coincided to a great extent with that of Swedenborg but he rejected any limitation by church organization. He believed in the deity of God, the divine humanity of Christ, and the brotherhood of man. He pub- lished : an edition of Robert Sandeman's Letters

on Theron and Aspasia with an introductory essay (1839) ; Remarks on the Apostolic Age (1840) ; What is the State? (1846) ; Letter to a Swedenborgian (1847) ; Moralisia and Christianity, or Man's Experience and Destiny (1850) ; Lectures and Miscellanies (1852) ; The Church of Christ not an Ecclesiasticism (1854) ; 77ie Nature of Evil Considered (1855) ; Christianity the Logic of Creation (1857) : Oration (1861) ; Substance and Shadoiv (1863) ; Secret of Swedenborg (1869) ; Society the Redeemed Form of Man ; English and Continental Life ; Personal Recollections of Car- lyle and others, published in periodicals. His son "William edited his Literary Remains (1885). He died at Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 18, 1882.

JAMES, Henry, author, was born in New York city, April 15, 1843 ; son of Henry James, the theologian (1811-1882). His early education which was directed by his father, was acquired chiefly in France and Switzerland ; and he took a partial course in the Harvard law school, 1862-64. His contributions to per- iodicals began in 1865, and he soon won a wide reputation for finished style and keen psychological analysis. After 1869 he made his resi- dence in Europe, chiefly in England and Italy. His pub- lished writings, many

of which appeared first in serial form in the magazines, 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 (1878) ; The Europeans (2 vols., 1878) ; An International Episode (1879) ; The Madonna of the Future, and other Tales (2 vols., 1879) ; Hau-thorne (1879) ; A Bundle of Letters (reprinted from the Persian, 1880) ; Confidence (1850) ; The Diary of a Man of Fifty (1880) ; Washington Square (1880) : The Portrait of a Lady (1882) ; Daisy Miller ; a Comedy in Three Acts (1883) ; The Siege of London, etc. (1883) ; Portraits of Places (1883) ; Tales of Three Cities (1884) ; A Little Tour in France (1885) ; The Art of Fiction (1885) ; Stories Revised (2 vols., 1885) ; The Author of Beltraffio (1885) ; The Bostonians (1886) ; The Princess Cassamassima (1886) ; Partial Portraits (1888) ; The Aspern Papers a nd oth er Storia ( 1 888) ; The Reverbera tor (1888) : A London Life (1889) ; The Tragic Muse ,(2 vols., 1890) ; The Lesson of the Master (1892) ;

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