“ Among other work, she has done a good deal of compilation of horse pedigrees, in which statistics play a prominent part. Aside from that, she is a student of the problems of heredity in horses, on which subject she has no superiors. She is a fluent, direct and luminous writer, and her position as an authority on the horse is unique. ”

“ James has been from early childhood a member of the Episcopal Church. She is a devoted Sunday-school worker. While yet in Wellesley College, she became a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Wherever she has lived, she has united, if practicable, with the missionary society. She was one of the charter-members of the Cynthiana Library Association, which founded a valuable public library in that town. In Wellesley College she was a member of the Phi Sigma Society. Her knowledge of the pedigrees of the famous horses of the United States is full, accurate and remarkable. ”