Значение слова MATHIAS в Литературной энциклопедии

THOMAS JAMES (1754?-1835).-Satirist, _ed._ at Camb., and held some minor appointments in the Royal household. He was an accomplished Italian scholar, and made various translations from the English into Italian, and _vice versa_. He also produced a fine ed. of Gray, on which he lost heavily. His chief work, however, was _The Pursuits of Literature_ (1794), an undiscriminating satire on his literary contemporaries which went through 16 ed., but is now almost forgotten.