[Footnote 50: Page 29.--James De Mille was a native of New Brunswick,
and a professor in Dalhousie College, N. S., at the time of his death.
His first work of fiction was "Helena's Household: a Tale of Rome in
the First Century" (New York, 1858). His most popular works, "The Dodge
Club Abroad" (1866), "Cord and Creese" (1867), "The Cryptogram" (1871),
and "A Castle in Spain" (1883), first appeared in 'Harper's Monthly.' A
strange, imaginative work, "A Curious MS. Found in a Copper Cylinder,"
was published in New York in 1888, and is understood to have been
written by him. It was not until Rider Haggard's fiction became popular
that the New York publishers ventured to print a book which so severely
taxes the credulity of the reader. As a work of pure invention it is
in some respects superior to those of the English author. Mr. De Mille
died in 1880, at the age of 43, when much was expected of him. See
Appleton's "Cyclo. Am. Biogr.," ii., 138, for a list of his published
works except the one just mentioned.]