Grant, James, novelist, born in Edinburgh; joined the army as an ensign at 17, but after a few years resigned and adopted literature as his profession; “The Romance of War” (1846), his first book, was followed by a series of stirring novels which are yet in repute, and have most of them been translated into Danish, German, and French; he turned Catholic in 1875 (1822‒1887).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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