good tales. The characters in the latter appear also in "An Arabian
Night" (Adventure, November 1913). The first of his Indian hillman type
stories is probably the short novel "The Letter of His Orders"
(Adventure, September 1913). His first serial, "For the Peace of India"
(Adventure, February to April 1914) was published in the book "Rung Ho"
(Scribners, New York, 1914) and is another good story of the Sepoy
Rebellion. In January and July 1914, appeared two stories about the
Princess Yasmini, a character that he used extensively in later
novels--as the lead, with King, with Ranjoor Singh, and in the
Jimgrim-Ramsden saga. The first of his sagas (Dick Anthony of Arran) was
never published in book form. This series included eight novelettes and
short novels, enough to fill four or five books, and appeared in
successive issues of Adventure Magazine, beginning August 1914. These
were very good adventure tales of a Scotch gentleman fighting for Iran
against Old Russia, but are rather dated now. Following this, most of
his novels appeared first in a magazine and were then immediately
published in book form.

This brings us to the "Jimgrim-Ramsden Saga," the greatest of them all.
If the early (and later) development of the associated characters is
added, it continues through twenty-one books (twenty-two novels), and
fifteen books (sixteen novels) for the actual Jimgrim-Ramsden stories.
This is not counting some eighteen novelettes and novels found in
magazines only.

This Saga, in the main, is the story of James Schuyler Grim, (Jimgrim) a
remarkable characterization, beginning as an American "Lawrence in
Arabia" and evolving into a human but unapproachable high priest of the
occult. There is Jeff Ramsden, the strong man and his closest friend,
who with the Australian, Jeremy Ross, make up the triumvirate of Grim,