JAMES, HENRY
\d͡ʒˈe͡ɪmz], \dʒˈeɪmz], \dʒ_ˈeɪ_m_z]\
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novelist, born in 1843, son Henry James, theologian, was educated in Europe, and has lived there during many of the years since. He is noted as a writer of cosmopolitan spirit, graceful style, subtle insight and realistic tendency. His novels mostly have to do with the life of Americans in Europe.
By John Franklin Jameson
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