=Brown, John.= 1810-1882. Scotch essayist and physician. Best known by his exquisite story of Rab and his Friends. _Pub. Hou._ =Brown, Thomas.= 1778-1820. Scotch philosophical writer. =Brown, Tom.= 1663-1704. Humorous and immoral poet and miscellaneous writer. =Browne, Edward Harold.= 181 Bp. Winchester. Theologian. Author of The Pentateuch and Elohistic Psalms, Sermons on the Atonement, etc. _Pub. Dut._ =Browne, Isaac Hawkins.= 1706-1760. Poet. Author of A Pipe of Tobacco, etc. =Browne, Sir Thos.= 1605-1682. Author of a treatise on Christian Morals, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia or Urn-Burial, etc. A writer of striking genius whose works will always attract thoughtful readers. Style meditative and imaginative, but frequently obscure. _See complete edition in Bohn's Antiquarian Library._ _Pub. Mac. Rob._ =Browne, Wm.= 1590-1645. Poet. Wrote Britannia's Pastorals, Shepherd's Pipe, etc. His style is easy and harmonious, and some of his lyrics are yet read. =Browning, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett.= 1809-1861. Poet. By many critics given the highest place among poets of her sex, but her verse, in the main, appeals to a limited class of readers. It has a masculine strength, a passionate vehemence of expression, and it is often pathetic and tender, but its frequent obscurity is a grave defect. Aurora Leigh, Casa Guidi Windows, and Sonnets from the Portuguese, are among her chief works. _See Letters of, edited by R. H. Hone, 1877, Contemporary Rev. 1873, and Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Mil._ =Browning, Robert.= 181 Poet. Husband to E. B. B. Author of a long series of poems, some of them obscure and enigmatical to the last degree, but all bearing the marks of great genius. Paracelsus, Sordello, Pippa Passes, The King and The Book, Fifine at the Fair, and Jocoseria are some of them. His circle of sincere admirers is small, but shorter poems of his, like Hervé Riel, and the Pied Piper of Hamelin, are widely known and read. _See Lit. World, March 11, 1882, Century Mag. December, 1881, and Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Hou._ =Brunton, Mrs. Mary Balfour.= 1778-1818. Scotch novelist. Author Self Control and Discipline. _Pub. Har._ =Bryant, Jacob.= 1715-1804. Classical and mythological writer. =Bryce, James.= 181 Historian. Author Native Education in India, and The Holy Roman Empire. _Pub. Har. Mac._ =Brydges, Sir Sam'l Egerton.= 1762-1837. A prolific writer in verse and prose. Style often fantastic and eccentric. =Buchanan, George.= 1506-1582. Scotch poet and historian. Wrote a Latin version of the Psalms, and a Latin Hist. of Scotland. _See Hallam's Lit. of Europe._ =Buchanan, Robert.= 184 Scotch poet. Author Idyls and Legends, London Poems, Balder the Beautiful, etc. A writer of some power, but one whose verse is marred by frequent affectations. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets, and Contemporary Rev. November, 1873._ _Pub. Har. Hou. Rou._ =Buckhurst, Lord.= See Sackville, Thos. =Buckingham, Duke of.= See Villiers, George.