THE TWO JAMES GRANTS.

James Grant, the journalist and for some time editor of The Morning Advertiser, and James Grant, the noted military novelist, were often confounded with each other, but I do not think they ever knew each other by sight. They were both Scotchmen, and very prolific authors. I published books for them both, and strange to say, when I mentioned one's name to the other it was almost like a red rag to a bull, for each had a notion that they were a good deal wronged by there being two such Richmonds in the literary field. Which was the more clever author I dare not attempt to say, but the James Grant who edited The Morning Advertiser, I am sure, thought he was a much superior man in all ways to the man who wrote fiction.

It was almost strange to know two men of the same name and time, who were so quick with their pens, and so given to quotations in their books that either of them could, I feel sure, have prepared for press a good sized volume of matter every week of their lives. During the time James Grant was editing The Morning Advertiser he wrote and compiled quite a large number of semi-religious books under such taking titles as “God is Love,” “Grace and Glory,” “The Comforter.” Such books being in any way connected with the publican's newspaper office seemed a curious fact, but such was the case, and I have no doubt large portions of these religious books were written in Mr. Grant's room at The Advertiser office.