JAMES (1736?-1796).-Alleged translator of the Ossianic poems, _s._ of a small farmer at Ruthven, Inverness-shire, studied for the Church at Aberdeen and Edin., became teacher of the school in his native parish, and afterwards tutor in a gentleman's family. In 1758 he _pub._ _The Highlander_, an ambitious poem in 6 cantos, which, however, a