James P. Smart, Jr. (?-?)
Compiler of the Wise and Smart, Complete Bibliography of . . . Ruskin. He also authored an admired pen portrait of Ruskin . . . Smart held an M.A. from Oxford [during JR’s time?]. According to Howatt, “Glasgow Ruskin Society—No. 1,” Smart was managing partner of Messrs John Clark, Jun., & Co., Mile End [what is this?], from which by 1889, the date of Howatt’s article, he had “retired a few years ago.” Evidently, on retiring from business, he took up university teaching: “In our own [Glasgow] University he lectured last year for Professor Edward Caird. For the last two years he has been lecturing on political economy in the University College of Dundee, while for the last four years he has had the lectureship of Queen Margaret’s College in this city” (18).
	He also worked as an editor, overseeing “The Canterbury Poets” series for the London publisher, Walter Scott. He is mentioned also as a choir leader in Howatt, Glasgow Ruskin Society—No. 3” (89).
	Howatt’s article is meant as an account of the founding of the Glasgow Ruskin Society, but it appears equally meant to salute Smart and features a wood engraving of his portrait. The tone is set by an opening paragraph praising discipleship and the fittingness of “the disciples of John Ruskin . . . band[ing] themselves together for the closer study of the master’s words, that they may the better help on the great work which he and they have so much at heart” (17). Smart was a founding member and elected the Society’s first president in 1879 (making Glasgow the second of the Ruskin Societies, Manchester having established the first, in 1878, and London following in 1881, and Liverpool in 1883). He served only for the first session, resigning in May 1880.
	In an 1889 announcement, “New Ruskin Bibliography,” Smart is mentioned along with George C. Moody . . . nothing about Wise. . . .
	No one has suggested any culpability in James P. Smart, who probably performed most of the serious work on the Bibliography, and who presumably was duped by Wise into introducing the fakes into currency.

John Morison, 2d president: biography, if needed, in “Glasgow Ruskin Society—No. 3”