JAMES, an eminent traveller and novelist, was born in 1780. In his youth he made an extensive tour through the East, of which he published an interesting account, entitled Travels through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor. He revisited Persia in 1810 as secretary to the British ambassador; and during the six years of his residence there he became thoroughly acquainted with the character of the natives. The first and best of his eastern novels, entitled The Adventures of Hajji Babo of Ispahan, appeared in 1824 in three volumes. Its genuine oriental tone, and its racy and truthful descriptions, soon secured a wide popularity. The author was thus induced in 1828 to publish a continuation in two volumes, containing an account of his hero's adventures in England. Of the same stamp, and nearly as successful as Hajji Babo, were his two novels Zohrab and Ayesha the Maid of Kars. Morier died at Brighton in 1848.