[James Brander]. American author and critic; born in New Orleans on the 21st of February 1852, graduated at Columbia in 1873, and was admitted to the bar. Taking up his residence in New York City, he devoted himself mainly to dramatic literature, fiction and literary criticism. In 1892 he was appointed lecturer on literature at Columbia College. Among his writings are This Picture and That (1887), a comedy; The Theaters of Paris (1880); French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century (1881); A Secret of the Sea, and Other Stories (1886); Americanisms and Briticisms (1892); The Story of a Story (1893); The Royal Marine (1894); Vignettes of Manhattan (1894); His Father’s Son (1895); and Introduction to the Study of American Literature (1896).
See also Aspects of Fiction, His Father’s Son and Molière, His Life and His Works. He also edited The Oxford Book of American Essays (1914) and The Short-Story (1907). See also “American Character” and “Shakespeare’s Actors.” (See authored article: Mark Twain.)
