It is difficult to give an accurate list of James’s books with the dates of their publication. The one given by Allibone is the most complete, but it is not always correct. The catalogue of the British Museum enumerates sixty-seven novels. The following does not include merely edited works or those prepared in collaboration with others, with a few exceptions. Those marked with an asterisk are reprinted in the collected edition of 1844–1849. I was much helped not only in correcting the Allibone list, but in the preparation of the sketch of James, by the late G. H. Sass of Charleston, S. C., who was probably better informed about the subject than any one else in this country.
Life of Edward the Black Prince: 2 vols.: 1822. [Some accounts give 1836: See ante, page 136.]
The Ruined City: a poem.
Richelieu: 3 vols.: 1829.
*Darnley: 3 vols.: 1830.
*Del’Orme: 3 vols.: 1830.
*Philip Augustus: 3 vols.: 1831.
Memoirs of Great Commanders: 3 vols.: 1832.
*Henry Masterton: 3 vols.: 1832.
History of Charlemagne. 1832.
*Mary of Burgundy: 3 vols.: 1833.
*Delaware: 3 vols.: 1833: (reprinted under title of “Thirty Years Since,” 1848).
*John Marston Hall: 3 vols.: 1834: (reprinted under title of “The Little Ball o’ Fire,” 1847).
*One in a Thousand: 3 vols.: 1835.
*The Gipsey: 3 vols.: 1835.
Educational Institutions of Germany: 1836.
Lives of the Most Eminent Foreign Statesman: 5 vols.: 4 by James, 1836, [1832?] 1838.
Attila: 3 vols.: 1837.
Memoirs of Celebrated Women: 3 vols. (?) 1837.
*The Robber: 3 vols.: 1838.
Book of the Passions: 1838.
History of Louis XIV. 4 vols.: 1838.
*The Huguenot: 3 vols.: 1838.
Blanche of Navarre: a play: 1839.
Charles Tyrrell: 2 vols.: 1839.
*The Gentleman of the Old School: 3 vols.: 1839.
*Henry of Guise: 3 vols.: 1839.
History of the United States Boundary Question: 1839.
*The King’s Highway: 3 vols.: 1840.
The Man at Arms: 3 vols.: 1840.
Rose d’Albret: 3 vols.: 1840.
The Jacquerie: 3 vols.: 1841.
The Vernon Letters: 3 vols.: (edited). 1841.
*Castleneau; or the Ancient Régime: 3 vols.: 1841.
*The Brigand; or Corse de Léon: 3 vols.: 1841.
Corn Laws.
History of Richard Cœur de Lion: 4 vols.: 1841–42.
Commissioner; or De Lunatico Inquirendo: 1842.
*Morley Ernstein: 3 vols.: 1842.
Eva St. Clair, and Other Tales: 2 vols.: 1843.
The False Heir: 3 vols.: 1843.
*Forest Days: 3 vols.: 1843.
History of Chivalry: 1843.
*Arabella Stuart: 3 vols.: 1843.
*Agincourt: 3 vols.: 1844.
Arrah Neil: 3 vols.: 1845.
The Smuggler: 3 vols.: 1845.
Heidelberg: 3 vols.: 1846.
The Stepmother: 3 vols.: 1846.
Whim and its Consequences: 3 vols.: 1847.
Margaret Graham: 2 vols.: 1847.
The Last of the Fairies: 1847.
The Castle of Ehrenstein: 3 vols.: 1847.
The Woodman: 3 vols.: 1847.
The Convict: 3 vols.: 1847.
Life of Henry IV. of France: 3 vols.: 1847.
Russell: 3 vols.: 1847.
Sir Theodore Broughton: 3 vols.: 1847.
Beauchamp: 3 vols.: 1848.
Carmazalaman; a Fairy Drama: 1848.
The Fight of the Fiddlers: 1848.
Forgery; or Best Intentions: 3 vols.: 1848.
*Gowrie; or the King’s Plot: 1848.
Dark Scenes of History: 3 vols.: 1849.
John Jones’ Tales from English History: 2 vols.: 1849.
A String of Pearls: 2 vols.: 1849. [His first written book; published 1833 (?); Allibone assigns its publication to 1849].
Ireland’s “David Rizzio”: 1849: (edited).
Heathfield’s “Means of Relief from Taxation”: 1849: (edited).
Henry Smeaton: 3 vols.: 1850.
The Fate: 3 vols.: 1851.
Revenge: (sometimes called A Story Without a Name): 3 vols.: 1851.
Pequinillo: 3 vols.: 1852.
Adrian; or the Clouds of the Mind: (jointly with M. B. Field): 2 vols.: 1852.
Agnes Sorel: 3 vols.: 1853.
Ticonderoga; or the Black Eagle: 3 vols.: 1854.
Prince Life: 1855.
The Old Dominion; or the Southampton Massacre: 3 vols.: 1856.
Lord Montagu’s Page: 1858.
The Cavalier: (Bernard March?): 1859.
Adra; or the Peruvians: a poem: (circa, 1829).
The City of the Silent: a poem.
The Desultory Man: 3 vols.
Life of Vicissitudes.
My Aunt Pontypool: 3 vols.
The Old Oak Chest: 3 vols.
1. Trevelyan’s Life of Macaulay, I, 93.
2. Tennyson: E. L. Cary, 19.
3. A Great Punch Editor, London, 1907.
4. My Study Windows, 337.
5. See a review in The Literary Collector, September, 1905.
6. See Temple Bar Edition, iii, 51–52.
7. Blackwood, April, 1827.
8. Sala’s Life and Adventures (1896), 83.
9. Axon’s Memoir, xxiii: The World, March 28, 1878.
10. Forster’s Dickens, i. 141.
11. Life of Lady Blessington, iii. 226, 227.
12. Idem., iii. 224.
13. January 3, 1840: Letters, Am. Edition, 1870, ii. p. 218.
14. Forster’s Life of Dickens, I, 118.
15. Life of Cruikshank (1882), i, 48–49.
16. Dictionary of National Biography, Cruikshank.
17. Vol. I, 211.
18. See introduction to Biographical Edition of Thackeray, IV. 19.
19. British Artists from Hogarth to Turner, ii, 59.
20. Vol. ii, 321–322.
21. Dict. Nat. Biog., i, 198.
22. Autobiography, iv, 390–393.
23. As a matter of curiosity, I examined the twenty-one novels composing the “Revised Edition” of 1844–1849 to ascertain just how many introduced the horseman or horsemen in the first chapter. Seven disclose them; in eight they are absent; in four, the horsemen are “a party”; in two, they appear in the second chapter, the first being merely introductory.
24. Brander Matthews: Aspects of Fiction, 153.
25. They are said to have caused the death of Oliver Goldsmith, and pamphlets were published on the subject. Foster’s Oliver Goldsmith, II. 461–463.
26. Boswell (Geo. Birkbeck Hill’s Edition), I. 183.
27. Id., III. 442.
28. Memories: by M. B. Field p. 188—Harper’s, 1874.
29. Allibone gives the date of publication as 1849; but it must have been published in some form prior to May 17, 1833. See post, page 184.
30. Works Vol. I. “The Gipsey,” vii.
31. Dictionary of National Biography, xxix, 209–210.
32. Fitzpatrick’s Life of Lever, II. 21.
33. This is all according to Field, and may be taken for what it is worth.
34. Memoirs, 191–195.
35. It is said, but on rather dubious authority, that he was sometimes called “George Prince Regent James,” and that many believed it to be his real name.
36. See Appendix.
37. Works, Vol. I. xiv.
38. Letter to Cunningham, post, page—.
39. Letter of C. L. James.
40. English Lands, Letters and Kings, 284.
41. Life of Lever, II. 21.
42. Fitzpatrick’s Life of Lever II. 418.
43. Noctes Ambrosianæ, II. 370—Blackwood Edition, 1887.
44. Marginalia, Black’s Edition—III. 393.
45. Hall’s Book of Memories, 263.
46. Jerdan’s Autobiography, iv 210.
47. It was R. H. Horne. A New Spirit of the Age (1844) p. 136.
48. London Athenæum, April 11, 1846.
49. Dublin University Magazine, March, 1842.
50. Essays and Reviews, ii, 116, 137.
51. Derby’s Fifty Years Among Authors, etc. 405.
52. My Confidences, 161.
53. My Confidences, 533, 534.
54. Mr. Gladstone succeeded Lord Ripon as President of the Board of Trade and took his seat in the Cabinet on May 19, 1843.
55. American Lands and Letters, II. 252.
56. Life of Cooper, 268.
57. Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor, I, 203.
58. Hawthorne and his Circle, 33, 34.
59. Vol. I, 422–423.
60. Hawthorne and his Wife, I. 415.
61. Id. 397, 398.
62. A little bit snobbish for a Hawthorne, is it not?
63. Observe how Mr. Julian Hawthorne wholly omits the point of the observation about the pleasure excursion.
64. Life of Hawthorne and his Wife, I. 422–424.
65. Life of H. W. Longfellow, by Stephen Longfellow, II. 177.
66. Id., 182.
67. Charles Ollier, 1788–1859.
68. Encyclopædia Britannica, XIII. 561 (Ninth Edition).
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