Historical reference: Do not rely on this information. It is very old. About this collection
Payne, James (b. 1830), English novelist, author of Lost Sir Massingberd (1864), By Proxy (1878), and some hundred other works. He became editor of Chambers's Journal in 1858, of the Cornhill Magazine in 1882, and published Literary Recollections (1884). He died in 1898.