A dictionary of American authors
Part 75
=Bernadou, John Baptiste.= _Pa._, 1858- ----. A United States naval officer in the employ of the naval department at Washington from 1888. A Trip through Northern Corea in 1883-84; Smokeless Powder, Nitrocellulose and Theory of the Cellulose Molecule. _Wil._
=Bernstein, Herman.= _G._, 1876- ----. A New York writer. In the Gates of Israel, a collection of stories of the ghetto.
=Betts, Samuel Rossiter.= _Ct._, 1787-1868. A jurist of note. Admiralty Practice.
=Beutenmuller, William.= _N. J._, 1864- ----. A scientist of New York city, curator of the American Museum of Natural History. Butterflies; Moths.
=Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah.= _Ind._, 1862- ----. An Indiana orator and politician. The Russian Advance. _Har._
=Bicknell, Anna Louisa.= _F._, 183- - ----. The Story of Marie Antoinette; Life in the Tuileries under the Second Empire. _Cent._
=Bicknell, Frank Martin.= _Ms._, 1854- ----. A littérateur of Malden, Massachusetts. The City of Stories; The Apprentice Boy; Antælus; The Bicycle Highwayman; The Double Prince. _Est._
=Bicknell, Thomas Williams.= _R. I._, 1834- ----. A prominent educator of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Memoir of William Lord Noyes; A History of Barrington, Rhode Island; John Myles and Religious Toleration in Massachusetts.
=Biddle, Arthur.= _Pa._, 1852-1897. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Treatise on The Law of Stock Brokers (with G. Biddle); On the Law of Warranties in the Sale of Chattels; The Law of Insurance.
=Biddle, Horace.= _O._, 1811-1900. A lawyer of Logansport, Indiana. The Musical Scale; Elements of Knowledge; Prose Miscellany; A Few Poems; Biddle’s Poems; American Boyhood (verse); Glances at the World (verse); Last Poems.
=Bierce, Ambrose.= _O_, 1842- ----. A California littérateur. In the Midst of Life, first issued as Tales of Soldiers and Civilians; Can Such Things Be? Black Beetles in Amber; Fantastic Fables; The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter (with A. Danziger). _Cas. Put._
=Bigelow, Andrew.= _Ms._, 1795-1877. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston. Leaves from a Journal; Travels in Malta and Sicily.
=Bigelow, Frank Hagar.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Washington city, and a meteorologist of note. Solar Corona; Barometry of the United States.
=Bigelow, Lafayette Jotham.= _N. Y._, 1835-1870. A lawyer and journalist of Watertown, New York. Bench and Bar: a Digest of the Wit, Humor, and Asperities of the Law.
=Bigelow, Marshall Train.= _Ms._, 1822-1902. A noted printer and proofreader, of Cambridge. Punctuation and Other Typographical Matters; Mistakes in Writing English and How to Avoid Them.
=Bill, Ledyard.= _Ct._, 1836- ----. A former publisher of New York city, but from 1874 resident in Paxton, Massachusetts. Ten Pictures of the War: Lyrics; History of the Bill Family; A Winter in Florida; Minnesota: its Character and Climate; History of Paxton.
=Billings, Frank.= _Wis._, 1854- ----. A physician, dean of Rush Medical College, Chicago, from 1898. Your Book of Medicine.
=Bingham, Caleb.= _Ct._, 1757-1818. An educator and bookseller of Boston. Among his once noted compilations are: Young Lady’s Accidence; Child’s Companion; American Preceptor; Columbian Orator.
=Bingham, J[oel] Foote.= _Ct._, 1827- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Hartford, Connecticut, prior to 1871 in the Congregational ministry. The Christian Marriage Ceremony; The Twin Sisters of Martigny, a Story of Italian Life; Francesca da Rimini, from the Italian of Silvio Pellico. _Le. Ran._
=Bingham, William.= _Pa._, 1751-1804. A Philadelphian of much note in his day and a member of the United States Senate, 1795-1801. Letter from an American on the Subject of the Restraining Proclamation (1784); A Description of Certain Tracts of Land in Maine.
=Bingham, William.= _N. C._, 1835- ----. An educator of North Carolina. A Grammar of the Latin Language; A Grammar of the English Language.
=Birkmire, William Harvey.= _Pa._, 1860- ----. An architect and engineer of New York. Construction of High Office Buildings; Skeleton Construction in Buildings; Architectural Iron and Steel; The Planning and Construction of American Theatres; Compound Riveted Girders. _Wil._
=Birney, William.= _Al._, 1819- ----. Son of J. G. Birney (page 28). A lawyer of Washington city. Life and Times of Joseph G. Birney; Plea for Civil and Religious Liberty.
=Bishop, Joseph Bucklin.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. A journalist of New York city. Money in City Elections; Cheap Money Experiments.
=Bishop, Louis Faugeres.= _N. J._, 1864- ----. A physician of New York city. Theory and Treatment of Rheumatism; Diagnosis and Treatment of Gout; Important Points in the Treatment of Pneumonia.
=Bishop, Seth Scott.= _Wis._, 1852- ----. A Chicago physician. Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat.
=Bispham, George Tucker.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Principles of Equity.
=Bittinger, Mrs. Lucy (Forney).= _O._, 1859- ----. An historical writer of Sewickley, Pennsylvania. Memorials of Rev. J. B. Bittinger; History of the Forney Family of Hanover, Pennsylvania; The Germans in Colonial Times. _Lip._
=Bjerrgaard, Carl Henry Andrew.= _Dk._, 1845- ----. A librarian at the Astor Library, New York city, from 1879. Mysticism and Nature Worship; Being and the Philosophical History of the Subject.
=Black, Ebenezer Charlton.= _S._, 1861- ----. A professor of English at Boston University from 1900 and resident in the United States from 1890. Minor Characters in Shakespeare; Recent Literary Developments.
=Black, Henry Campbell.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A noted legal writer of Washington city. Constitutional Prohibitions against Legislation Impairing the Obligation of Contracts; Treatise on the Law of Tax Titles; A Dictionary of Law; A Treatise on the Law of Judgments; Treatise on the Laws Regulating the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors; Handbook of American Constitutional Law; Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of Laws; Handbook of Bankruptcy Law. He has also edited revised editions of “Pomeroy on Water Rights,” and “Dillon on Removal of Causes.”
=Black, John Janvier.= 18-- - ----. A physician who published Forty Years in the Medical Profession. _Lip._
=Black, Mrs. Margaret Horton (Potter).= _Ill._, 1881- ----. A novelist of Chicago. A Social Lion; Uncanonized; The House of the Mailly; Istar of Babylon; The Flame Gatherers. _Har. Mac._
=Black, William Murray.= _Pa._, 1855- ----. An officer in the United States engineering corps. Improvement of Harbours; South Atlantic Coast; Public Works of the United States. _Wil._
=Blackman, William Fremont.= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. A professor of sociology at Yale University from 1893. The Making of Hawaii: a Sociological Study. _Mac._
=Blackmar, Frank Wilson.= _Pa._, 1854- ----. A professor of history in the University of Kansas from 1889. History of Federal and State Aid to Higher Education in the South West; The Study of History and Sociology; Spanish Institutions in the South West; Economics; The Story of Human Progress; Life of Charles Robinson, first Governor of Kansas. _J. H. U._
=Blair, Henry William.= _N. H._, 1834- ----. A lawyer and congressman of Manchester, New Hampshire. His wife, Mrs. E. N. Blair, is mentioned on page 29. The Temperance Movement, or the Conflict of Man with Alcohol.
=Blaisdell, Albert Franklin.= _N. H._, 1847- ----. A retired physician and surgeon of Boston, whose later years have been given to educational writing. Outlines for the Study of English Classics; First Steps with English and American Authors; Our Bodies and How we Live; How to Keep Well; Child’s Book of Health; Stories of the Civil War; Readings from the Waverley Novels; Stories from English History; Practical Physiology; The Story of American History. _Gi. Le._
=Blanchard, Amy Ella.= _Md._, 1856- ----. A Philadelphia writer of juvenile tales. A Girl of ’76; An Independent Daughter; Kittyboy’s Christmas; Thy Friend Dorothy; Girls Together; As Others See Us; Betty of Wye; Taking a Stand; Miss Vanity; Life’s Little Actions; A Dear Little Girl; Three Pretty Maids; Two Girls; Twenty Little Maidens; A Sweet Little Maid; A Revolutionary Maid; Because of Conscience; Dimple Dallas; Her Very Best; Mabel’s Mishap; A Daughter of Freedom; A Heroine of 1812; A Loyal Lass. _Lip. We._
=Blanchard, Rufus.= _N. H._, 1821-1904. A cartographer of Chicago. History of Illinois; Political History of the United States; History of the Northwest and City of Chicago.
=Blashfield, Edwin Howland.= N. Y., 1848- ----. An artist of New York city. Italian Cities (with E. W. Blashfield). _Scr._
=Blatchford, Willis Stanley.= _Ct._, 1859- ----. A naturalist, State geologist of Indiana, from 1894. Gleanings from Nature; A Nature Wooing.
=Bleecker, Mrs. Ann Eliza [Schuyler].= _N. Y._, 1752-1783. A verse-writer of New York city whose Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse were issued in 1793.
=Bliss, Edwin Munsell.= _Ty._, 1848- ----. A Presbyterian theologian. Encyclopedia of Missions; The Turk in Armenia, Crete and Greece; Concise History of Missions.
=Bliss, Frederick Jones.= _Sa._, 1859- ----. Son of D. Bliss (page 30). An explorer to the Palestine Exploration Fund. A Mound of Many Cities; Excavations at Jerusalem, 1894-97.
=Bliss, George.= _Ms._, 1830-1897. A prominent lawyer of New York city. Treatise on the Law of Life Insurance; Annotated Edition of the New York Code of Civil Procedure, usually styled “Bliss’s Code.”
=Bliss, William Julian Albert.= _D. C._, 1867- ----. A physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins University. A Manual of Experiments in Physics (with Ames).
=Blitz, Antonio= (pseud.). _E._, 1810-1877. A once famous prestidigitateur whose home was in Philadelphia. Fifty Years in the Magic Circle.
=Block, Louis James.= 1851- ----. A Chicago educator. Exile, a Dramatic Episode; Dramatic Sketches and Poems; The New World, with Other Verse; Capriccios. _Put._
=Blodgett, Mrs. Mabel [Fuller].= _Me._, 1869- ----. A writer of Brookline, Massachusetts. The Aspen Shade, a novel; Fairy Tales; In Poppy Land, a book of fairy tales; At the Queen’s Mercy, a tale of adventure.
=Bloodgood, Freeman A----.= _Ia._, 1867- ----. An Iowa Superintendent of Schools. Civil Government and School Law.
=Bloodgood, Simeon DeWitt.= _N. Y._, 1799-1866. The Sexagenary, or Reminiscences of the American Revolution; Treatise of Roads.
=Bloomer, Mrs. Amelia [Jenks].= _N. Y._, 1818-1894. A noted reformer of Council Bluffs, long prominent in behalf of woman-suffrage. In 1895 the Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer were published, edited by her husband.
=Bloomingdale, Charles.= _Pa._, 1868- ----. A journalist of Philadelphia. Mr., Miss, and Mrs.; Whiffs from Bohemia; A Failure. _Lip._
=Blossom, Henry Martyn.= _Mo._, 1866- ----. A St. Louis littérateur. The Documents in Evidence; Checkers: a Hard Luck Story; Room 4: Stories.
=Blunt, Stanhope English.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. A colonel in the ordnance department of the United States army. Firing Regulations for Small Arms; Instructions in Rifle and Carbine Firing in the United States Army. _Scr._
=Boardman, George Nye.= _Vt._, 1823- ----. A Congregational clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Chicago Seminary, 1871-93, and emeritus professor from 1893. Lectures on Natural Theology; The Will and Virtue; Congregationalism; A History of New England Theology; Regeneration. _Ran._
=Boardman, William Henry.= _Il._, 1846- ----. An editor and publisher of New York. The Lovers of the Woods.
=Boas, Franz.= _Wa._, 1858- ----. An anthropologist. Baffin Land; The Central Eskimo.
=Bödecker, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm.= _G._, 1846- ----. A dentist of New York city. The Anatomy and Pathology of the Teeth.
=Body, Charles William Edmund=. _E._, 1851- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, of New York, professor of Old Testament literature in the General Theological Seminary from 1894. The Permanent Value of Genesis. _Lgs._
=Bogart, Elizabeth.= “Estelle.” _N. Y._, _c._ 1806-18--. A nearly forgotten verse-writer of New York city whose lines were very popular in their day. Her earliest poems appeared in 1825, and some thirty years later a volume of her fugitive verse was published entitled Driftings from the Stream of Life.
=Bogue, Mrs. Lilian [Bell].= _See Bell, Lilian_ (page 24).
=Boies, Henry Martyn.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. An inventor of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Prisoners and Paupers; The Science of Penology. _Put._
=Boise= (boiz), =James Robinson.= _Ms._, 1815-1895. A professor of Greek at Chicago University, 1868-95. Notes on the Greek Text of Paul’s Epistles to Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon, and Philippians; Notes to Greek Text of Galatians and Romans.
=Boise, Otis Bardwell.= _O._, 1844- ----. A composer. Harmony Made Practical; Music and its Masters.
=Bolles, John Augustus.= _Ct._, 1809-1878. A Boston lawyer. Treatise on Usury and Usury Laws; Essay on a Congress of Nations.
=Bolton, Charles Edward.= _Ms._, 1841-1901. A lecturer, and writer upon economic reforms, long resident at Cleveland. His wife, Mrs. S. K. Bolton, is mentioned on page 32, and his son, C. K. Bolton, on page 30. A Few Civic Problems; A Model Village and Other Papers.
=Bolton, Mrs. Ethel [Stanwood].= _Ms._, 1873- ----. Wife of C. K. Bolton (page 31) and daughter of E. Stanwood (page 357). A genealogist of Brookline, Massachusetts. History of the Stanwood Family (1899).
=Bombaugh, Charles Carroll.= _Pa._, 1828- ----. A journalist of Baltimore, formerly a practising physician. Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature; Book of Blunders (edited); The Literature of Kissing; Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Insurance Companies.
=Bompiani, Mrs. Sophia Van Matre.= _O._, 1835- ----. A writer long resident in Rome, Italy. Italian Explorers in Africa; A Short History of the Italian Waldenses.
=Bonsal, Stephen.= _Md._, 1863- ----. A journalist of New York city, special correspondent of the New York Herald in Cuba and elsewhere, and secretary of the United States Legations in Peking, Madrid, and Tokio, 1890-95. Morocco as It Is; The Condition of Cuba; The Fight for Santiago; The Golden Horseshoe, a novel of the Philippine War. _Dou. Har._
=Book, John William.= _Ind._, 1850- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman of prominence in Indiana. Short Line to the Roman Catholic Church; Side Switches of the Short Line (with T. J. Jenkins); Thousand and One Objections to Secret Societies; Mollie’s Mistake, or Mixed Marriages; The Book of Books.
=Bookwalter, John Wesley.= _Ind._, 1837- ----. A manufacturer at Springfield, Ohio. If not Silver, What? Siberia and Central Asia. _Sto._
=Boone, Charles Theodore.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A lawyer of San Francisco. Law of Corporations; Law of Real Property; Law of Mortgages; Code Pleading; Banks and Banking; Test Book of Law and Practice.
=Boone, Richard Gause.= Cincinnati superintendent of schools from 1899. Education in the United States; History of Education in Indiana.
=Booth, James Curtis.= _Pa._, 1810-1888. A once noted chemist of Philadelphia, a smelting superintendent at the mint, 1849-88. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the State of Delaware (1841); Recent Improvements in the Chemical Arts (1852); Encyclopædia of Chemistry (with others).
=Booth, Mrs. Maud Ballington [Charlesworth].= _E._, 1865- ----. An evangelist, who with her husband founded the Volunteers of America, a religious military organization, in 1898. Branded; Look Up and Hope; Sleepy-Time Stories; Lights of Childland. _Put._
=Booth-Tucker, Frederick Saint George de Latour.= _E. I._, 1853- ----. The commander of the Salvation Army in the United States. The Life of Catherine Booth; Life of General William Booth; In Darkest India and the Way Out.
=Bosworth, Francke Huntington.= _O._, 1843- ----. A physician of New York city. Treatise on Diseases of the Nose and Throat; Text Book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat.
=Botsford, George Willis.= _Ia._, 1862- ----. A former instructor in history at Harvard University. The Development of the Athenian Constitution; A History of Greece; The Story of Rome; An Ancient History for Beginners; A History of the Orient and Greece. _Gi. Mac._
=Boucher, Jonathan.= _E._, 1738-1804. An Episcopal clergyman of Annapolis whose outspoken loyalty to the mother country in 1775 caused his expulsion from the colonies. He returned to England and became vicar of Epsom. A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution (1797); Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words (1833); A Cumberland Man. _See Hawks’s Ecclesiastical History of the United States, vol. 2; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit, vol. 5; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 6; Lippincott’s Magazine, May, 1899; Tyler’s Literary History of the American Revolution, vol. 1._
=Bourne, Edward Gaylord.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A professor of history at Yale University from 1895. The History of the Surplus Revenue of 1837; Essays in Historical Criticism; John Lothrop Motley. _Hou. Scr._
=Bourne, George.= _E._, 1780-1845. A clerical abolitionist of note. The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable; Lectures on Ecclesiastical History; Pictures of Quebec; Slavery Illustrated in its Effects upon Women.
=Boutell, Lewis Henry.= _Ms._, 1826-1899. A Chicago lawyer who wrote a Life of Roger Sherman. _Mg._
=Bouve, Mrs. Pauline Carrington [Rust].= _Ark._, 18-- - ----. A Boston writer. Their Shadows Before.
=Bowden, John.= _I._, 1751-1817. An Episcopal clergyman of prominence in his day, professor of belles-lettres at Columbia College, 1802-17. Essentials of Ordination; Apostolic Origin of Episcopacy; Observations on the Catholic Controversy.
=Bowdoin, William Goodrich.= _Ms._, 1860- ----. A writer of New York City. A Step Across the Gulf of Cuba; The Rise of the Book Plate; James MacNeill Whistler: the Man and His Work.
=Bowen, Clarence Winthrop.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A Brooklyn publisher, Boundary Disputes of Connecticut; Woodstock, an Historical Sketch.
=Bowen, Eliza Andrews.= _Ga._, 1828-1898. Cousin of E. F. Andrews (page 10). A Georgia writer for periodicals and newspapers. Astronomy by Observation. _Ap._
=Bowen, Herbert Wolcott.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. Brother of C. W. Bowen, _supra_. A New York lawyer. United States minister to Venezuela from 1901. Verses; Losing Ground; In Divers Tones, a collection of verse; De Genere Humano; International Law.
=Bowen, John Wesley Edward.= _La._, 1855- ----. A Methodist clergyman, professor in Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, from 1888. Africa and the American Negro; The Catholic Spirit of Methodism; The Theology and Psychology of the Negro Plantation Melodies; An Apology for the Higher Education of the Negro.
=Bowman, Edward Morris.= _Vt._, 1848- ----. A professor of music at Vassar College from 1891. Harmony: Historic Points and Modern Methods; Formation of Piano Touch; Relation of Musicians to the Public.
=Bowser, Edward Albert.= _N. B._, 1845- ----. A professor of mathematics and engineering in Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from 1870, and a mathematician of prominence. Analytic Geometry; Differential and Integral Calculus; Analytic Mechanics; Hydro-mechanics; Academic Algebra; College Algebra; Plane and Solid Geometry; Elements of Trigonometry; Treatise on Trigonometry; Logarithmic Tables; Treatise on Roofs and Bridges. _He. Vn._
=Boyd, Ellen Wright.= _Vt._, 1833- ----. An educator at Albany, principal of Saint Agnes’s School. Outlines of Religious Instruction; English Cathedrals; Famous Art Galleries.
=Boyer, Emanuel Roth.= _Pa._, 1857-1900. A Chicago educator. Text Book on Elementary Biology. _He._
=Boylan, Mrs. Grace [Duffie].= _Mch._, 1861- ----. A Chicago journalist. If Tam O’ Shanter’d Had a Wheel, and Other Poems; Kids of Many Colours; The Kiss of Glory, a novel; The Old House and Other Poems.
=Boyland, George Halsted.= _O._, 1845- ----. A physician who served in the French Army during the Franco-Prussian war and published Six Months under the Red Cross with the French Army.
=Boynton, Charles Brandon.= _Ms._, 1806-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman of Cincinnati. Journey Through Kansas (1855); The Russian Empire; The Four Great Powers; History of the American Navy During the Rebellion; Doctrines and Duties. _Ap._
=Boynton, Henry Van Ness.= _Ms._, 1835- ----. Son of C. B. Boynton, _supra_. A journalist of Washington city, brevetted brigadier-general for service in the Federal army during the Civil War. Sherman’s Historical Raid; Was General Thomas Slow at Nashville? The National Military Park; Chickamauga-Chattanooga. _Clke._
=Boynton, Henry Walcott.= _Conn._, 1869----. A writer of Andover, Massachusetts. Life of Washington Irving; The Golfer’s Rubáiyát; Journalism and Literature and Other Essays. _Hou._
=Brace, De Witt Bristol.= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. A professor of physics at the University of Nebraska from 1887. Laws of Radiation and Absorption.
=Braden, James Andrew.= _O._, 1872- ----. A journalist of Akron, Ohio. Far Past the Frontier; Connecticut Boys in the Western Reserve.
=Bradford, Gamaliel.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A Boston writer on political science. The Lesson of Popular Government; Types of American Character. _Mac._
=Bradford, Joseph.= _See Hunter, W. R._
=Bradley, John Edwin.= _Il._, 1830- ----. An educator, president of Illinois College from 1892. Science and Industry; Work and Play: Talks with Students; School Incentives; Healthfulness of Intellectual Pursuits; Unconscious Education.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= _Pa._, 1861- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. For Love of Country, a novel; Stephen Decatur, a brief biography; For the Freedom of the Sea; Heroes of Our Early Wars; Under Tops’ls and Tents; When Blades are Out and Love’s Afield; The Quiberon Touch; American Fights and Fighters; Reuben James; Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West; Hohenzollern; A Hazing Interregnum; In the Wasp’s Nest; Woven with the Ship; The Southerners; The Conquest of the Southwest; The Bishop; Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer; A Doctor of Philosophy; A Little Traitor to the South; The Corner in Coffee; Indian Fights and Fighters; The Records. _Dou. Lip. Scr. Sm._
=Bragg, William Chittenden.= _Mo._, 1845- ----. A lawyer of Saint Louis. Digest of Missouri Court of Appeals; Missouri Masonic Laws.
=Brain, Belle M----.= _O._, 1859- ----. An educator of Springfield, Ohio. Fuel for Missionary Fires; Weapons for Temperance Warfare; The Morning Watch; Quaint Thoughts of an Old Time Army Chaplain; The Transformation of Hawaii. _Rev._
=Braine, Robert D----.= _O._, 1861- ----. A musician of Springfield, Ohio. Messages from Mars, or the Strange Revelations of the Telescope Plant.
=Branch, Anna Hempstead.= _Ct._, 18-- - ----. A writer of New London, Connecticut; The Heart of the Road and Other Poems. _Hou._
=Brandenburg, Edwin Charles.= _D. C._, 1865- ----. A professor of law at Columbian University, Washington city. The Law of Bankruptcy; Digest of Bankruptcy Decisions. He is one of the editors of the supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States.
=Brannon, Henry.= _W. Va._, 1837- ----. A supreme court judge of West Virginia. Treatise on the Rights and Privileges Guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
=Brantley, William Theophilus.= _Ga._, 1852- ----. A lawyer of Baltimore. The Law of Personal Property.
=Brayton, Alembert Winthrop.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A mathematician of Indianapolis. Birds of Indiana; Mammals of Ohio; Fishes of the Southern Allegheny Region.
=Brearley, William Henry.= _Mch._, 1846- ----. A journalist of Detroit, and subsequently of New York city. Recollections of the East Tennessee Campaign; Wanted, a Copyist; Leading Events of the American Revolution; King Washington (with A. Skeel, _infra_). _Lip._
=Breckenridge, John.= _Ky._, 1797-1841. A once noted Presbyterian clergyman. Roman Catholic Controversy (1836).
=Brent, Charles Henry.= _Ont._, 1862- ----. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the Philippines. With God in the World; The Consolations of the Cross; With God in the Nation; With God in the Creed. _Lgs._