James Glass Bertram (1824 – 3 March 1892) was a British author. He was apprenticed to '' Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'' and became managing clerk, before joining a company of strolling players. He returned to Edinburgh and set up as a bookseller and newsagent. In 1855 he was appointed the editor of the ''North Briton'' and in 1872 of the ''Glasgow News'', leaving to become a freelance journalist two years later. Bertram's output included

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, such as ''Flagellation and the Flagellants: A History of the Rod'' published in 1868 under the

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of "Revd William Cooper" and ''Personal Recollections of the Use of the Rod'' as "Margaret Anson", published by John Camden Hotten. He also wrote works on sport under the

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''), notably ''Sporting anecdotes: being anecdotal annals, descriptions, tales and incidents of horse-racing, betting, card-playing, pugilism, gambling, cock-fighting, pedestrianism, fox-hunting, angling, shooting, and other sports'', collected and edited by him and published in London, 1889.

Publications

*''The Border Angler'' (1858) *''The Harvest of the Sea'' (1865) *''Flagellation and the Flagellants: A History of the Rod'' (1877 edition) *''Some Memories of Books, Authors and Events'' (1893)

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Scottish Book Trade Index

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bertram, James Glass 1824 births 1892 deaths Scottish journalists 19th-century British journalists British male journalists 19th-century British male writers 19th-century British writers

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