[Gutenberg 21834] • The Black Colonel

James Milne (1865-1951) was a Scottish journalist, novelist and editor. He was educated at Strathdon and Aboyne and attended classes at Edinburgh University. In 1903 he founded and edited Book Monthly. From 1904 until 1918 he was Literary Editor of the Daily Chronicle. He was also a contributor to the Daily Telegraph, the Scotsman, and Cornhill Magazine writing under the pseudonyms Eliot Buckram and Elijah True. His works include: The Gordon Highlanders (1898), The Romance of a Pro-Consul (1899), The Epistles of Atkins (1902), My Summer in London (1909), The Black Colonel (1921), The Road to Kashmir (c1929) and Printer's Devil; or, How Books Happen (1948).