Universal Literature A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most the Best Features of Many Celebrated The Guernsey Collection The De Puy Collection CAREFULLY EDITED AND ARRANGED BY A CORPS OF THE EDITOR IN CHIEF John Clark Ridpath, A.M., LL.D. Author of "Ridpath's History of the United States,' Encyclopedia of Author of WITH REVISIONS AND ADDITIONS BY WILLIAM MONTGOMERY CLEMENS The Life of Roosevelt," The Life of Mark Twain," "The Life of Kipling." Of the TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES NEW YORK THE FIFTH AVENUE LIBRARY SOCIETY 1908 PN6013 R5 KEY TO PRONUNCIATION a as in fat, man, pang. ā as in fate, mane, dale. ä as in far, father, guard. â as in fall, talk. à as in fare. a as in errant, republican. e as in met, pen, bless. ē as in mete, meet. ê as in her, fern. i as in pin, it. i as in pine, fight, file. o as in not, on, frog. ō as in note, poke, floor. ö as in move, spoon. ô as in nor, song, off. õ as in valor, actor, idiot. u as in tub. ū as in mute, acute. ů as in pull. COPYRIGHT, 1906 BY THE FIFTH AVENUE LIBRARY SOCIETY All rights reserved 427148 LIST OF AUTHORS VOL. III BEAUMARCHAIS (bō mär shā), PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMONT (bô'mont), FRANCIS. BECKETT (bek' et), GILBERT ABBOTT à, see À BECKETT, G. A. BECKFORD (bek' fõrd), WILLIAM. BEDDOES (bed'ōz), THOMAS LOVELL. BEDE (bed), or BEDA.. BEDE, CUTHBERT, see BRADLEY, EDWARD.. BEDOTT (be dot'), WIDOW, see WHITCHER, FRANCES M. BEECHER, HENRY WARD... BEECHER, LYMAN BEERS (bērz), ETHELINDA ELIOT.. BEHRENS (ba' renz), BERTHA... BELL (bel), SIR CHARLES. BELLAMY (bel' a mi), EDWARD.. BELLAMY, JACOBUS BELLAY (be la'), JOACHIM DU.. BELLMAN (bel' män), KARL MIKAEL. BELLOC (be lok'), HILAIRE...... BELOT (be lō'), ADOLPHE.. BELZONI (bel tso' nē), GIOVANNI BATTISTA BEMBO (bem' bō), PIETRO.. BENJAMIN (ben' ja min), PArk.. BENSON (ben' sõn), EDWARD FREDERIC. BENTHAM (ben' tham), JEREMY... BENTLEY (bent' li), RICHARD.. .... BENTON (ben' tõn), THOMAS HART. BEOWULF (ba' ō wůlf), THE LAY OF.. BÉRANGER (ba roñ zhā), PIERRE JEAN DE. BERKELEY (bêrk' li), GEORGE.. BERNARD (bêr' nard; Fr. ber när), SAINT.. iii BETHAM-EDWARDS (be' thąm ed' wardz), H., see ED- BETHUNE (be thön'), GEORGE Washington. BETTINA VON ARNIM (be te' nä fōn ärʼnim), see BREN- PAGE BLACKMORE (blak' mōr), SIR RICHARD. BLACKMORE, RICHARD Doddridge... BLACKSTONE (blak' stōn), SIR WILLIAM. |