James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) (1801–)

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FICTION (8)

357-367	August 1855 Fiction The mysterious occurrence in Lambeth By G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) James SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Legal stories PDF IMAGES
533-538	March 1855 Fiction Love and charcoal By G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) James PDF IMAGES
804-811	November 1854 Fiction A night in an old castle By G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) James SEE ALSO: Horror tales PDF IMAGES
773-780	May 1854 Fiction The governor's lady By G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) James PDF IMAGES
463-471	March 1854 Fiction The raven By G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) James SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES
330-337	February 1854 Fiction The garrote By G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) James SEE ALSO: Cuba; Garrote; Historical fiction; Spy stories PDF IMAGES
148-155	January 1854 Fiction The Italian sisters By G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) James PDF IMAGES
61-68	December 1853 Fiction Four sights of a young man By G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) James SEE ALSO: Parricide PDF IMAGES

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REVIEW (12)

567-571	October 1921 Article “Had I the pen of a G.P.R. James” By Katharine Fullerton Gerould SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Canon (Literature); Criticism; Detective and mystery stories; English fiction; James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Ainsworth, Harrison; Popular literature; Stevenson, Robert Louis; Scott, Walter, Sir; Thackeray, William Makepeace PDF IMAGES
557-558	September 1860 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Death and burial; James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford) PDF IMAGES
562-563	September 1860 Our foreign bureau/Article Our foreign bureau SEE ALSO: Smith, Albert; Brough; Death and burial; James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Barry, Charles, Sir PDF IMAGES
377-381	February 1853 Article The living authors of England By Archibald, Sir Alison SEE ALSO: Chalmers, Alexander; Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron; Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron; Dickens, Charles; Criticism and interpretation; Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield; James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); 1789-1900; Warren, Samuel; Carlyle, Thomas PDF IMAGES

949-956	November 1879 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A man's a man for a' that (Book); A treatise on hygiene and public health (Book); Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry); Burke (Book); Dickens, Charles; Mathews, Charles James; Webster, Daniel; Whipple, Edwin Percy; Burnett, Frances Hodgson; James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); von Holst, H.; Haworth's (Book); Spencer, Herbert; Lalor, John J. (John Joseph); Morley, John; Burns, Robert; Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine); Martin, Theodore, Sir; Borel, T. (Théodore); The Count of Agénor de Gasparin (Book); The data of ethics (Book); The great speeches and orations of Daniel Webster, with an essay on Daniel Webster as a master of English style (Book); The gypsy. A tale (Book); The life of Charles James Mathews, chiefly autobiographical, with selections from his correspondence and speeches (Book); The life of Charles Lever (Book); The silk goods of America: a brief account of the recent improvements and advances of silk manufacture in the United States (Book); The vicar of Morwenstow. A life of Robert Stephen Hawker (Book); Wyckoff, William Cornelius; Fitzpatrick, William John PDF IMAGES
938-941	May 1878 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A Greek-English lexicon (Book); A shadow on the threshold (Book); Daudet, Alphonse; Back to back (Book); Biology (Book); Bourbon lilies. A story of artist life (Book); Brother Jacob (Book); Letourneau, Ch. (Charles); Cook, Clarence; Daniel the beloved (Book); Democracy in Europe (Book); Hale, Edward Everett; Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams); French poets and novelists (Book); James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Eliot, George; Fleming, George; Liddell, Henry George; James, Henry; History of a crime (Book); Lukin, James; Hay, Mary Cecil; Mirage (Book); Newman, Mrs. (Mary); Outlines of the history of art (Book); Popular astronomy (Book); Church, R.W. (Richard William); Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Fifth (Book); Newcomb, Simon; The beginning of the middle ages (Book); The boy engineers: what they did and how they did it (Book); The bride of Landeck (Book); The historic mansions and buildings of Philadelphia: with some notice of their owners and occupants (Book); The last of the Haddons (Book); The lifted veil (Book); The nabob (Book); The tender recollections of Irene Macgillicuddy (Book); The wreck of the “Grosvenor.” An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas (Book); May, Thomas Erskine; Westcott, Thompson; Hugo, Victor; Rolfe, W.J. (William James); What career? Ten papers on the choice of a vocation and the use of time (Book); Lübke, Wilhelm; Russell, William Clark; Taylor, William M. (William Mackergo); Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
263-264	July 1857 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia); Beecher, Catharine Esther; Lever, Charles James; Brace, Charles Loring; Common sense applied to religion; or, the Bible and the people (Book); Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock; James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Gibbon: the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (Book); Porter, Jane; Edwards, John Ellis; Leonora D'Orco (Book); Nothing new. Tales (Book); Random sketches and notes of European travel in 1856 (Book); Scottish chiefs, a romance (Book); Thaddeus of Warsaw (Book); The fortunes of Glencore (Book); The heiress. An autobiography (Book); The Norse-folk; or, a visit to the homes of Norway and Sweden (Book); Smith, William George PDF IMAGES
693-696	April 1856 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A history of philosophy in epitome (Book); Schwegler, Albert; Elements of logic, together with an introductory view of philosophy in general, and a preliminary view of the reason (Book); James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Zschokke, Heinrich; Mayhew, Henry; Tappan, Henry Philip; Jarves, James Jackson; Motley, John Lothrop; Julius, and other tales from the German (Book); Seelye, Julius H. (Julius Hawley); Miscellanies (Book); Miscellanies: prose and verse (Book); Willcox, Orlando Bolivar; Parisian sights and French principles, seen through American spectacles (Book); Mackenzie, R. Shelton (Robert Shelton); Töpffer, Rodolphe; Shoepac recollections: a way-side glimpse of American life. By Walter Marsh [pseud.] (Book); The Old Dominion (Book); The rise of the Dutch republic (Book); The wonders of science; or, young Humphry Davy (the Cornish apothecary's boy, who taught himself natural philosophy and eventually became president of the Royal society) (Book); Furness, William Henry; Maginn, William PDF IMAGES
257-260	January 1856 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A treatise on the differential and integral calculus, and on the calculus of variations (Book); Haven, Alice B. (Alice Bradley); Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia); Taylor, Bayard; Sawyer, Caroline M. (Caroline Mehetabel); Squier, E.G. (Ephraim George); Courtenay, Edward H[enry]; Lawrence, Eugene; Griswold, F. Burge (Frances Burge); Fern, Fanny; Frank Leslie's port-folio of fancy needle work (Book); Friedel; an autobiography (Book); James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Reed, Henry; Abbott, John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot); Bunkley, Josephine M.; Lectures on English history and tragic poetry, as illustrated by Shakespeare (Book); Napoleon at St. Helena; or, Interesting anecdotes and remarkable conversations of the emperor during the five and a half years of his captivity (Book); Notes on Central America; particularly the states of Honduras and San Salvador (Book); Bailey, Philip James; Miles, Pliny; Poems of home and travel (Book); Postal reform: its urgent necessity and practicability (Book); Prince life (Book); Rose Clark (Book); Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot); Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell; The elm-tree tales (Book); The library of standard letters (Book); The lives of the British historians (Book); The mystic and other poems (Book); The poets and poetry of America (Book); The skeptical era in modern history; or, the infidelity of the eighteenth century, the product of spiritual despotism (Book); The testimony of an escaped novice from the sisterhood of St. Joseph, Emmettsburg, Maryland, the mother-house of the sisters of charity in the United States (Book); Translations (Book); Trauermantel; Post, Truman M. (Truman Marcellus); Van Horn PDF IMAGES
425-428	August 1854 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A history of Illinois, from its commencement as a state in 1818 to 1847 (Book); Livermore, Abiel Abbott; Mills, Abraham; Africa and the American flag (Book); Foote, Andrew H. (Andrew Hull); Atherton, and other tales (Book); Lever, Charles James; Daniel Boone and the hunters of Kentucky (Book); Discourses (Book); Burritt, Elihu; Footprints of famous men (Book); James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Bates, George Washington; Harper's statistical gazetteer of the world (Book); Smith, J. Calvin (John Calvin); Cooke, John Esten; Edgar, John G. (John George); Leather stocking and silk; or, Hunter John Myers and his times (Book); Ware, Mary G. (Mary Greene); Mitford, Mary Russell; Sandwich Island notes. By a Häolé (Book); Sir Jasper Carew, knt.; his life and experiences (Book); The elements of character (Book); The hive of “The bee-hunter”: a repository of sketches, including peculiar American character, scenery, and rural sports (Book); The master's house; a tale of southern life. By Logan [pseud.] (Book); The poets and the poetry of the ancient Greeks; with an historical introduction, and a brief view of Grecian philosophers, orators, and historians (Book); Thorpe, Thomas Bangs; Ford, Thomas; Thoughts and things at home and abroad (Book); Ticonderoga (Book); Bogart, W.H. (William Henry) PDF IMAGES
713-716	April 1853 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A child's history of England (Book); Adventures in fairy land (Book); Agnes Sorel. A novel (Book); Lossing, Benson John; Dickens, Charles; Brontë, Charlotte; Judson, Emily C. (Emily Chubbuck); James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Historic doubts relative to Napoleon Buonaparte (Book); History of the state of New York (Book); Interviews: memorable and useful; from diary and memory reproduced (Book); Abbott, Jacob; Whittier, John Greenleaf; Brodhead, John Romeyn; Bauer, Juliette; Lives of the brothers Humboldt, Alexander and William (Book); Stoddard, Richard Henry; Whately, Richard; Wallis, S. Teackle (Severn Teackle); Cox, Samuel H. (Samuel Hanson); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Spain; a sketch (Book); The chapel of the hermits, and other poems (Book); The Franconia stories (Book); The history of Nero (Book); The Kathayan slave, and other papers connected with missionary life (Book); Villette (Book) PDF IMAGES
856-860	November 1852 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A life of vicissitudes. A story of revolutionary times (Book); A short and comprehensive Greek grammar (Book); A system of geography, for use of schools (Book); Anglo-American literature and manners (Book); Houssaye, Arsène; Edwards, B.B. (Bela Bates); Anthon, Charles; Dickens, Charles; Goodrich, Chauncey A. (Chauncey Allen); Corneille and his times (Book); Nepos, Cornelius; Cornelius Nepos (Book); David Copperfield (Book); James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Taylor, George; Docharty, Gerardus Beekman; Grammar of Greek language, for the use of high schools and colleges (Book); Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore); Oehlschläger, James C.; Champlin, James Tift; Buckingham, Joseph T. (Joseph Tinker); Life of Franklin Pierce (Book); Guizot, M. (François); Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Personal memoirs and recollections of editorial life (Book); Chasles, Philarète; Philosophers and actresses (Book); Pronouncing German dictionary (Book); Kühner, Raphael; Taylor, Samuel H. (Samuel Harvey); Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell; Select British eloquence, embracing the best speeches entire of the most eminent orators of Great Britain (Book); Sicily: a pilgrimage (Book); Morse, Sidney E. (Sidney Edwards); Gwynne, Talbot; The indications of the creator (Book); The institutes of algebra (Book); The school for fathers: an old English story (Book) PDF IMAGES
137-140	June 1852 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A manual of Grecian antiquities (Book); A selection of English synonyms (Book); Carey, Alice; Anthon, Charles; Lever, Charles James; Brace, Charles Loring; Webber, Charles W. (Charles Wilkins); Whately, E.J. (Elizabeth Jane); Flygare-Carlén, Emilie; Sargent, Epes; Fancies of a whimsical man (Book); Townsend, Frederic; James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Spring, Gardiner; Hungary in 1851; with an experience of the Austrian police (Book); Ivar: or, the Skjuts-boy (Book); Lyra and other poems (Book); Pequinillo: a tale (Book); Queechy (Book); Whately, Richard; Chambers, Robert; Romance of natural history (Book); Olin, Stephen; Warner, Susan; The Daltons, or, three roads in life (Book); The glory of Christ: illustrated in his character and history, including the last things of his mediatorial government (Book); The life and works of Robert Burns (Book); The standard speaker; containing exercises in prose and poetry for declamation in schools, academies, lyceums, colleges (Book); The works of the late President Olin (Book); McMullen, Thomas; Thorpe, a quiet English town, and human life therein (Book); Mountford, William PDF IMAGES
272-280	January 1852 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A lady's voyage round the world (Book); Aims and obstacles. A romance (Book); Chesebro', Caroline; Kirkland, Caroline M. (Caroline Matilda); Woods, Daniel B.; Mitchell, Donald Grant; Dream-land by daylight. A panorama of romance (Book); Smith, E. Goodrich (Elizur Goodrich); Hitchcock, Edward; Lee, Eliza Buckminster; Florence, the parish orphan (Book); James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Greenwood, Grace; Greenwood leaves: a collection of sketches and letters (Book); Herbert, Henry William; Hildenbrandt; Hints to employers (Book); Pfeiffer, Ida; Taylor, Isaac; Boyd, James R. (James Robert); Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew; Thompson, Joseph Parrish; Memoir of Mary Lyon (Book); Sinnett, Percy, Mrs.; Norman Maurice (Book); Recollections of my childhood, and other stories (Book); Reveries of a bachelor (Book); Sixteen months at the gold diggings (Book); The captains of the old world (Book); The claims of science. An address delivered before the Euphemian and Philomathian Societies of Erskine College, S.C. ... at the annual commencement August 13th, 1851 (Book); The land of bondage; its ancient monuments and present condition: being the journal of a tour in Egypt (Book); Wesley, and Methodism (Book); Richards, William C. (William Carey); Simms, William Gilmore; Winter in Spitzbergen (Book); Young's night thoughts (Book) PDF IMAGES
568-570	September 1851 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Mills, Abraham; Lamartine, Alphonse de; Arthur Conway; or, scenes in the tropics (Book); Beecher, Catharine Esther; Anthon, Charles; Milman, E.A. (Edward Augustus); Elements of algebra (Book); Loomis, Elias; Episodes of insect life (Book); James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Curtis, George Ticknor; Budgen, L.M.; Memoir of the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, late rector of Watton, Herts. (Book); Hildreth, Richard; Baird, Robert; Roman antiquities (Book); Birks, T.R. (Thomas Rawson); The Christian retrospect and register (Book); The fate (Book); The history of the United States of America, from the discovery of the continent to the organization of government under the federal constitution (Book); The inventor's manual of legal principles, and guide to the patent office (Book); The literature and the literary men of Great Britain and Ireland (Book); The stone-mason of Saint Point (Book); The true remedy for the wrongs of woman; with a history of an enterprise having that for its object (Book); Travels and adventures in Mexico (Book); Carpenter, William W. PDF IMAGES
425-428	February 1851 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Allin, Abby; Strickland, Agnes; Celebrated saloons (Book); Castanis, Christophorus Plato; European civilization: Protestantism and Catholicity compared (Book); Victor, Frances Fuller; Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von; James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Gilfillan, George; Aguilar, Grace; Greenwood, Grace; Gould, Hannah Flagg; Tappan, Henry Philip; Henry Smeaton: a Jacobite story of the reign of George the First (Book); Cheever, Henry T. (Henry Theodore); History of my pets (Book); Leake, Isaac Q.; Balmes, Jaime Luciano; Perkins, James H. (James Handasyd); Holland, John; Letters of William von Humboldt to a female friend (Book); Memoir of the life and times of General John Lamb (Book); Memoirs of the life and ministry of the Rev. John Summerfield (Book); Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller; Girardin, Emile de, Mme; Murray, Nicholas; On the use and abuse of alcoholic liquors, in health and disease. Prize essay (Book); Parisian letters (Book); Poems (Book); Poems of sentiment and imagination, with dramatic and descriptive pieces (Book); Southey, Robert; Goodrich, S.G. (Samuel Griswold); Gay, Sophie; The bards of the Bible (Book); The decline of popery and its causes (Book); The diosma, a perennial (Book); The Greek exile; or, A narrative of the captivity and escape of Christophorus Plato Castanis during the massacre on the island of Scio, by the Turks (Book); The history of Pendennis. His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy (Book); The island world of the Pacific; being ... travel through the Sandwich or Hawiian islands and other parts of Polynesia (Book); The life and correspondence of Robert Southey (Book); The memoir and writings of James Handasyd Perkins (Book); The mother's recompense; a sequel to home influence (Book); University education (Book); Carpenter, William Benjamin; Thackeray, William Makepeace PDF IMAGES

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