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Die

Heinrich Bettziech. Beta, H. Bewirtschaftung des Wassers und die Ernten daraus.. Leipsic, 1868. Betterton, Mr. Thomas. Oldys. The history of the English stage. L. 1741.

William

Bettina. Elisabeth (Brentano) von Arnim. Correspondence of Goethe with a child. Berlin, 1835.

Betty. Elizabeth O'Neil. Opposition mornings, with Betty's remarks ... L. 1779.

Beulah. Miss Fanny D. Bates. My Sister Kitty. B. 1881.

Beverley. Mrs. S. B. Hughes Cox, who contributed to the papers of Vicksburg and Shreveport, Miss., among other articles, several appeals to the Southern people upon subjects pertaining to the Civil War, under this nom de plume. Miss Eliza Spencer. Beverly, Elise. Mary Ashburton: a tale of Maryland life. . . in "The Land we Love," 1867

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See "John Bright

Bickerstaff, Isaac, Esq., Student in Astrology, Commentator on the Occult Sciences, and one of the eighth order of poets of the cities of London Jonathan Swift. and Westminster. L. 1710. Bickerstaff's almanac...

"Dr. Swift, when he had written these Predictions, being at a loss what name to prefix to them, observed a sign over a house where a locksmith dwelt, and found the name of Bickerstaff written under it, which being a name somewhat uncommon, he chose to call himself Isaac Bickerstaff. The name was afterward adopted by Mr. Steele, as author of the Tatler.' This humourous tract was seriously burnt by the Inquisition in Portugal, as the author was assured by Sir Paul Methuen, then ambassador at that court."-JOHN NICHOLS.

Bideford Rural Postman, The. Edward Capern. Poems, L. 1856; Ballads and songs, L. 1858.

Bienvenu, Louis.

Louis François

Foucqueron. L'ami de la famille : comédie en trois actes. Rennes, 1864.

Bifrons. One of

the pseudonyms

The letter adopted by Junius (q.v.). thus signed is dated April 23, 1768, and "charges the ministry with duplicity as their general characteristic."

Big-endians and Small-endians. See "FlimCatholics and Protestants.

nap the Lilliputian premier." Bigex. François Marie Arouët de Voltaire. Trois lettres à l'abbé Foucher. Paris, 1769.

Biglow, Hosea. James Russell LowThe Biglow ell. Melibaus-Hipponax.

papers... Camb. 1848; L. 1865. George W. Peck. Bigly, Cantell A. Aurifodina; or, adventures in the gold region. N.Y. 1849.

Bigod, Ralph. John Ralph Fenwick. See Lamb's "Elia." The Two Races of Men.

Billaber, She P. Benjamin P. Shillaber. His signature to lines in the "Boston Journal," December 22, 1880, addressed to Bismarck.

Billings, Josh. Henry W. Shaw. His book of sayings. 1866.

Binet, Satané. Francisque Sarcey. Binney, Mrs. J. G. Juliette Patterson Binney. Twenty years in Burmah. P. 1880.

Biographer of Anacreon, The. Joshua Smith. - See "A."

Poems by

Bion. Robert Southey. Bion and Moschus [i.e., Robert Lovell]. Bristol, 1794.

Birch, Harry. Charles Albert White. Comic song. B. Old Grimes's horse. 1873.

Bird at Bromsgrove, A. John Crane. An address to bachelors, and the apron farmer. Birmingham, 1802.

Birkenbühl, Karl. Hans Grasberger. Singen und Sagen [poetry]. 1869.

Birmingham Clergyman, A. John Cale Miller, D.D. The bicentary controversy.. L. 1862.

Birmingham Liberal, A. J. Arthur Partridge. Citizenship versus Secularists and Sacerdotalists in the matter of national teaching. L. 1873.

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Bishop of Capetown, The. Rev. Robert Gray. A statement relating to facts which have been misunderstood. in connexion with the consecration, trial, and excommunication of the Right Rev. Dr. Colenso. L. 1867.

Bishop of Cloyne, The. Dr. George Berkeley. A miscellany containing several tracts on various subjects. By. L. 1752.

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Bishop of London, The. Campbell Tait. The dangers and safeguards of modern theology. L. 1861.

Bishop of Montreal, The. George Jehoshaphat Mountain. Journal of... during a visit to the Church Missionary Society's North-west American Mission [Red River] ... L. 1845.

Bishop of Natal, The. Rt. Rev. William Colenso, D.D. The New Testament translated into Zulu-Kaffir. By... Ekukanyena. 18-.

Bishop of Oxford, The. William Jackson. Rise, progress, and present state of the dispute between the people of America and the Administration. L. 1776.

Bishop of the Church of England, A. John Free, D.D. Matrimony made easy.. L. 1764.

Bitter, Arthur. Samuel Haberstich. Erzählungen, Novellen, und Gedichte. 1865-66.

Bizarre. John Russell Young, in his contributions to the "Chronicle " (Wash., D.C.).

Bishop, Thomas. Mr. Hayes. Koranzzo's feast; or, the unfair marriage: a tragedy. L. 1811.

"This most extraordinary production (doubt. less the work of a madman) was written by one Hayes, a footman to Lord Belgrave. 150 copies were printed, of which more than 130 were burnt at Smeeton's fire. The 16 plates are quite as unique as the text."-Ms. Note by GEORGE DANIEL, in his copy.

Blackmantle, Bernard. Charles Molloy Westmacott. The English spy comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society... drawn from the life... L. 1826.

"In the pages of this extraordinary work fig. ure all the notabilities of the day, either openly or under slight disguise; and Tom Best, Whiteheaded Bob, Pea-green' Hayne, Colonel Berkeley, Beau Brummell, Pierce Egan, the Golden' Ball, Dr. Kett (known as 'Horse Kett,' from his equine length of visage), Charles Mathews, Jemmy Gordon, and a host of others of equal notoriety, mingle, cheek by jowl, in the vivid and moving panorama." See "The Maclise PortraitGallery," p. 240.

In Fitzalleyne "Samuel Pous' is Samuel Foote; Maria Pous,' his lovely daughter; 'Fitzalleyne of Berkeley' is the lady-killing colonel, William the Conqueror,' as he was termed by the buxom damsels of Cheltenham; Lord A-y' is the Regent's friend, Alvanley; Major H-r 'is George Hanger, not so well known as Lord Coleraine; Mr. Optimus' is Tom Best, under whose fatal pistol poor Lord Camelford fell; Mary Carbon' is Mary Cole, the butcher's daughter of Gloucester, afterwards Countess of Berkeley; and the Pea-green Count' is the nincompoop, Hayne." See "The Maclise PortraitGallery," p. 239.

Blacksmith, A. John Witherspoon, D.D. A letter from... to the ministers and elders of the Church of Scotland... L. 1759.

Blacksmith, The Learned. Elihu Burritt. Walks in the Black Country and its green borderland. L. 1868. Black-well, James. Jonathan Swift, D.D. A friendly apology... by.. Operator for the feet.

Richard

Blair, Rev. David. Sir Phillips. A million of facts. . L. 1835.

Blake, Mary. Mrs. Mary N. Blakeslee, in her contributions to the "Century" on household matters.

Blanche. Mrs. E. B. Field, in her contributions to "Saturday Night" (P.).

Blank Etcetera, Sen. Robert Charles Winthrop, a member of the "Polyglot Club." See the "Harvard Register," December, 1827.

Blaze, Henri. Ange Henri Blaze de Bury. Etudes de Beethoven, Paris, 1833, in the "Revue des Deux Mondes"; Musique des drames de Shakspeare, Paris, 1835, in the same.

Blenkinsop, Vicesimus,

LL.D.,

F.R.S., A.S.S., &c. Theodore Edward Hook. Tentamen; or, an essay towards the history of Whittington, sometime Lord Mayor of London. L. 1820.

Blind Preacher, The. William Henry Milburn. Ten years of a preacher's life. N.Y. 1859.

Blind Traveller. James Emilius William Evelyn Gascoyne Cecil, Viscount Cranbourne. He wrote many papers in "St. James's Medley," signed "The Blind Traveller."

Blind Traveller, The. James Holman. Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe... L. 1840.

Bloc. Clarence F. Cobb. The Vision of Judgment revived. Wash., D.C. 1870. Blockade-Runner, A. John Wilkinson. Narrative of... N.Y. 1877.

Blockaded British Subject, A. Miss Catherine C. Hopley or Miss Sarah L. Jones. Life in the South from the commencement of the war, by ... L. 1863.

Blodgett, Levi. Theodorc Parker. The previous question between Andrews Norton and his alumni... B. 1840.

Blondel. W. F. Williams, in his contributions to the "New York Mail." Bloodgood, Harry. Carlo Moran. Bloomer, Ben. Oscar C. Whittlesey. Bloomfield, Robert. Elizabeth E. Flagg (3) Little people whom the Lord loved. N.Y. 1871.

Blotter, Samuel. Charles Henry Doe, in the Boston "Galaxy."

Blount, Margaret. Mrs. Mary O'Francis. Clifford and the actress... P. 187-.

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Blue, A. Robert Huish. Fitz-Allan
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Bluebell, Kingcups, Mignionette, and Thistle. Respectively, Lady Hester G. Browne, the Misses Knatchbull, Miss Hume Middlemass, and R. Hume Middlemass, Senior, in "The bouquet culled from Marylebone Gardens by Bluebell, Kingcups, and Mignionette, and arranged by Thistle." L. 1851-55.

Bluebell. Lady Hester G. Browne. The bouquet culled from Marylebone Gardens by Bluebell, etc., and arranged by Thistle. 1851-55.

Blue Bonnet. Rev. Thomas Fenwick, a Canadian clergyman who has contributed to the newspaper press, prose and verse, on subjects connected with temperance and religion, over this signature and "Hydrophilus."

Blue Jacket. John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren. Essays on naval matters in the National Gazette" of Philadelphia, 1834.

Bluster. James Otis. - See "Trowell, Adjutant."

Bob of Lyn. Sir Robert Walpole. The compleat history of Bob of Lyn. L. 1741.

Bobbin, Tim. John Collier. The Lancashire dialect... Manchester, 1859. Bobbin, Tim, the Second. Robert Walker. Plebeian politics . . Manchester, 1796.

Bodin, Camille. Mme. Jenny (Dufourquet) Bastide. El Allanico, 1833; Un remords, 1834. Paris.

Bogaerts, Felix. Jean Jacques De Laet, a Belgian journalist.

Boggs, Robert. H. A. Clark. After many days. N.Y. 1880.

Boggy, Tom. William King, LL.D. Two letters from honest... to Thomas Goddard, M.A., Canon of Windsor... L. 1710.

Bogor, Maria. Annie Geiger. Souvenirs de femme, 1875; Kousouma, 1877; also as a contributor to "Illustration" (Florence, Italy).

Bohemia, The Queen of. Miss Ada Clare, pseud. for Mrs. Jane McElhinney. Bohemians, The King of the. Henry Clapp, Jr.

Boissy, M. de. Baroness Elisabeth Guénard de Méré. Trois moines. Paris, 182-.

Bolanden, Konrad von. Joseph Eduard Konrad Bischoff. Die Bartholomäusnacht. 1879.

Boleyn, Mrs. R. S. (A nom de théâtre.) Fanny Whiteside Brough.

Bolton Row. Hon. Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby (?). Peril. L. 18-. He was assisted by "Saville Row" (q.v.). Bolton Rowe. Clement Scott. Bolton Rowe. B. C. Stephenson, in

numerous contributions to periodicals,

etc.

Bombet, L. Alexandre César. Marie Henri Beyle. Lives of Haydn and

Mozart... L. 1818.

Bon Gaultier. Theodore Martin and William Edmonstoune Aytoun. The book of ballads. Edited... L. 1849. [Reprinted from "Blackwood's Magazine."]

Bon Vieux Temps, Le. The political letters over this signature contributed to the "Montreal Herald" (about 1815), have been ascribed both to a Mr. Viger and a Mr. Quesnel.

Boncœur, L. Levina Buoncuore Urbino. L'instructeur de l'enfance. 1864.

B.

Bones, Brudder. John F. Scott. Brudder Bones's book of stump speeches and burlesque orations ... N.Y. 1868.

Bonin, Blaise. Mme. Amandine Lucile Aurore (Dupin) Dudevant employed this signature occasionally in political pamphlets, etc.

Bonner, Sherwood. Mrs. Kate Sherwood (Bonner) McDowall. Dialect tales. N.Y. 1883.

Bookseller, A. Charles Marsh. The library: an epistle from... to a gentleinan, his customer, desiring him to discharge his bill. L. 1766.

Bookseller, A. John Dunton. Religio Bibliopola; or, the religion of... L. 1728.

Bookworm. Thomas F. Donnelly, in his contributions to various periodicals.

Booth, Albert J. Cecil Burleigh, in contributions to various New York periodicals.

Booty, Bob. Sir Robert Walpole. Bob Booty's lost deal... L. 1742.

Bore, Dr. Helle. Charles H. Smith. - See "Bill Arp."

Bornnatural, A. Henry Ellison. Mad moments; or, first verse attempts.. L. 1839.

Borys, Gontran. Eugène Berthoud, Les paresseux de Paris. Paris, 187-.

Bos. George W. M. Reynolds. Pickwick abroad. L. 1840.

Boscawen. Nathaniel Greene, successively editor of the "Concord Gazette," the "New Hampshire Gazette," at Portsmouth, the "Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette," the "Essex Patriot," and the "Boston Statesman."

Bossut, M. l'Abbé, Professor of Languages. Sir Richard Phillips. The first French Grammar. L.

Boston Amateur Poet, A. John Patch. The poet's offering. B. 1842. Boston Bard, The. Robert S. Coffin.

The life of the Boston bard. Written by himself. Mount Pleasant, N.Y., 1825. Boston Boy, A. Andrew Eliot Belknap, in the Boston newspapers.

Boston Merchant, A. Silas Pinckney Holbrook. Letters from, in the "Boston Courier," 183-.

Boston Rebel, The. John Lowell The author of many pamphlets and numerous papers in periodicals on politics, theology, agriculture, etc., under the signatures of "The Roxbury Farmer," The Yankee Farmer," "The New Eng land Farmer," "The Boston Rebel," etc Boston Supernumerary, A. Tor Ford. Peep behind the curtain. By... B. 1850.

Bostonian, A. Samuel Adams, in the "Boston Gazette," April 24, 1769.

Bostonian, A. John Lowell, LL.D. The diplomatic policy of Mr. Madison unveiled... L. 1810.

Bostonian, A. William Haliburton. Effects of the stage on the manners of a people, and the propriety of encouraging and establishing a virtuous theatre. B. 1792.

Bostonian, A. William Boott. A fagot from the Coliseum. B. 1869. Bostonian, A. Edgar Allan Poe. Tamerlane; and other poems. 1827.

Bostonian, A. Benjamin Bussey Thatcher. Traits of the Tea Party: memoir of G. R. T. Hewes. N.Y. 1835. Boswell. W. B. Johnson.

Boswell Redivivus. William Hazlitt, in the "New Monthly Magazine," 1826-27.

Bouquet, Johnny. George Alfred Townsend, in his contributions to the "Tribune" (N.Y.).

Bourne, Margaret. Mrs. Jennie A. (Abbott) Johnson.

Bouverie, Bartholomew. William Ewart Gladstone. The Eton miscellany. By. 1827.

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Bouverie, Lionel. Rev. John Humphry St. Aubyn. The elopement, or deadly struggle. By. L. 1838.

Bowline, Billy. Henry S. Raymond. Boy, A. Charles Nordhoff. Man-ofwar life a boy's experience in the United States navy. N.Y. 1855.

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Boy, A. Samuel Smiles, Jr. Round the world. By... L. 1872.

Boy, Tenpin. Francis Shubael Smith. Boy Preacher, The. Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

Boyd, Belle. Mrs. J. S. Hammond. Boyd, Belle. Mrs. Belle Boyd Hardinge. Belle Boyd in camp and prison. L. 1865.

Boyd, Walter, Esq., M.P. William Coombe. A letter to the Right Hon. William Pitt... L. 1811.

Boythorn. William Stevens Robinson, his signature in the "Worcester (Mass.) Transcript" in 1857-60.

Boz. Charles Dickens. The boarding house, No. II. In the "Monthly Magazine, or British Register of Politics, Literature, Art, Science, and Belles Lettres," London, for August, 1834.

This was the first paper to which the author appended the signature of "Boz."

Bozzy and Piozzi. James Boswell and Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi.

"Dr. Wolcot published a poem, in which he satirized Mr. Boswell and this literary lady [Mrs. Piozzi] under the titles of Bozzy and Piozzi.'"

Bracquemond. Théodore Faullain de Banville. Odes funambulesques. 1873. Braddon, Paul. J. Howard Van Arden.

Bradley, John. J. A. Lawson. A narrative of travel and sport in Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. L. 1876. Bradshaw, Serjeant. Sir James Bland Burges Lamb, Bart. Heroic epistles from... in the Shades, to John Dunning, Esq. L. 1778.

Bradshaw, Wesley. Charles Alexander. Gertrude Morgan's adventures among the Indians of the far West. P. 18-.

Brag, Sir Jack. Gen. John Burgoyne. Braganza. H. A. Bragg. Tekel; or, Cora Glencoe. P. 1870.

Bramble, Benjamin. George Winter. The farmer convinced; or, the reviewers of the "Monthly Review" anatomized... By... an old, experienced farmer. L. 1788.

Bramble, Matthew. Andrew MacDonald. Velina: a poetical fragment. Glasgow, 1782.

Brancassine, R. F. Hughes R. P. Fraser Halle, LL.D. Critical letters on scribbleomania. L. 1842.

Brandywine. Alexander McGrew, in the "Memphis Appeal."

Bras de Fer. Comyns Cole, in his contributions to "The World" (L.).

Breachan. Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A. Sir Beville: a poem; signed B.... 1861.

Brechin Poet, The. Alexander Laing, author of " Wayside flowers," "Archie Allan," etc.

Breitmann, Hans. Charles Godfrey Leland. Hans Breitmann's ballads. P. 187-.

Brenda. Mrs. Castle Smith. Little

L.

cousins; Especially those; Froggy's little brother; A Saturday's bairn. 18-.

Brennglas, Adolf. Adolf Glassbrenner. Berlin, wie es ist und - trinkt. 183-.

Brent, Linda. Mrs. Harriet Jacobs. Incidents in the life of a slave girl. B. 1861.

Brentford, Burke. Nathan D. Urner, in his contributions to the "New York Weekly."

Brevior, Thomas. Thomas Shorter. Poetry for school and home. Edited... L. 1861.

Brick, Jefferson. Alexander Black, in the "Brooklyn Times."

Brick, Titus. Augustus Seaman. Brick, Titus A. C. E. File, in the New York "Star."

Brick, Titus A. John Camden Hotten. Awful crammers. L. 187-.

Bricktop. George G. Small. Trip of the "Porgie"; or, tacking up the Hudson ... N. Y. 1874.

Bride of Fort Edward, The. Miss Jane McCrie. The bride of Fort Edward; founded on an incident of the Revolution. N.Y. 1839. By Miss Delia Bacon (?).

Briefless Barrister, A. William Pitt Scargill. Tales of... L. 1829.

Briggs, Jimuel. Phillips Thompson. Bright Eyes. Inshtatheamba. Brighte, John. J. Duncan. Witty sayings. L. 18-.

Brightland, John. Sir Richard Steele. A grammar of the English tongue .. L. 1726.

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