Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by CHILDS & PETERSON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. George Payne Rainsford James was born in London about the year 1800, and commenced his literary career at an early age by anonymous contributions to the journals and reviews which catered to the literary taste of "a discerning public." Some of these juvenile effusions fell under the notice of Washington Irving, and this gentleman, with his usual kindness of heart, encouraged the young author to venture upon something of a more important character than the fugitive essays which had hitherto employed his…
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