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=Bowles, Wm. Lisle.= 1762-1850. Poet. Author Fourteen Sonnets, Village Verse Book, etc. A graceful writer, to whom Wordsworth and Coleridge attributed their own poetic inspiration.

=Bowring [bour'ing], Sir John.= 1792-1872. Philologist and poet. Best known as a writer of hymns of great beauty, among others, the familiar Watchman, Tell us of the Night. _See Autobiographical Recollections, 1877._ _Pub. Dut._

=Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson.= 182 Scotch essayist. Author of Essays by a Country Parson, Graver Thoughts, Autumn Holidays, etc.

He signed his essays with his initials A. K. H. B.

=Boyle, Chas.= 1676-1731. Famous for his controversy with Bentley concerning the Epistles of Phalaris. See Bentley, Richard.

=Boyle, Robert.= 1626-1691. Philosopher. A voluminous writer upon metaphysics and natural sciences.

=Braddon, Miss.= See Maxwell, Mrs. Mary E.

=Bradley, Edward.= ”Cuthbert Bede.” 182 Humorist. Author Adventures of Verdant Green, etc.

=Bradley, James.= 1692-1762. Astronomical writer.

=Brady, Nicholas.= 1659-1726. Chiefly known for his share in the version of the Psalms prepared by him with Nahum Tate.

=Bray, Mrs. Anna Eliza.= 1790-1883. Miscellaneous writer of note. _See Lit. World, Feb. 24, 1883._

=Brewer, E. Cobham.= 181 Author Reader's Handbook, Dict. Phrase and Fable, Guide to Science, etc. Well edited and valuable books of reference. _Pub. Clx. Lip._

=Brewster, Sir David.= 1781-1868. Scientist. Author Natural Magic, More Worlds than One, Lives of Newton, Kepler, etc. _See Life, by his daughter, 1869._ _Pub. Har._

=Bronte [br[=o]n'te], Anne.= 1820-1849. Novelist. Sister to C. B.

Author of Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Gray. _Pub. Har._

=Bronte, Charlotte.= 1816-1855. Sister to A. B. and E. B. Novelist.

Author of The Professor, Jane Eyre, s.h.i.+rley, and Villette. A writer of great power and originality, whose Jane Eyre marks an era in the history of fiction. _See Charlotte Bronte by T. W. Reid, 1877; Life of by Mrs. Gaskell, and H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub.

Har._

=Bronte, Emily.= 1819-1848. Sister to C. B. Novelist. Her Wuthering Heights shows in places greater power than either of her sisters possessed, but as a whole is strained and unnatural. _See Ward's Eng.

Poets, vol. 4. Emily Bronte, by A. Mary F. Robinson, and London Athaenum, June 16, 1883._ _Pub. Har._

=Brooke, Arthur.= ---- c. 1563. Poet. Wrote the Tragical Hist. of Romeo and Juliet, a paraphrase of Bandello's novel, the source of Shakespeare's drama.

=Brooke, Charlotte.= ---- 1793. Daughter to H. B. Author of Reliques of Irish Poetry translated into Eng. verse, etc.

=Brooke, Mrs. Frances Moore.= 1745-1789. Author of several novels, the opera Rosina, and a periodical called The Old Maid.

=Brooke, Henry.= 1706-1783. Author of plays, poems, and a once famous novel called The Fool of Quality. _Pub. Mac._

=Brooke, Lord.= See Greville Fulk.

=Brooke, Stopford.= 183 Religious writer. Author Life of F. W.

Robertson, Freedom in the Ch. of England, Christ in Modern Life, Theology in the Eng. Poets, Primer of Eng. Lit., Sermons, etc. Style clear, thoughtful, and strong. _Pub. Apl. Mac._

=Brooks, Chas. s.h.i.+rley.= 1815-1874. Dramatist and Novelist. Author Poems of Wit and Humor, The Gordian Knot, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Broome, Richard.= ---- 1562. Dramatist. Wrote in conjunction with others.