=Berners, Lord.= 1469-1532. Translator of Froissart's Chronicle. The translation is faithful and is a masterpiece of picturesque and spirited English. =Berners, Juliana.= c. 1388-c. 1461. Author of the Bokys of Hunting and Hawking. _See Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry._ =Besant, Walter.= 183 Novelist. Colleague of James Rice, and with him author of The Seamy Side, Ready Money Mortiboy, the Chaplain of the Fleet, Shepherds All and Maidens Fair, etc. Sole author of The Revolt of Man, Life of E. H. Palmer, etc. See Rice, James. _Pub. Har. Rob. Dut._ =Beveridge, Wm.= 1638-1708. Bp. St. Asaph. Theologian. Thesaurus Theologicus, Expositions of the Catechism and 39 Articles, and Private Thoughts are some of his chief works. =Bickerstaff, Isaac.= 1735-c. 1788. Dramatist. Author of Maid of the Mill, Love in a Village, etc. _See Hazlitt's Essays on the Comic Writers._ =Bickersteth, Edward.= 1786-1850. Religious writer. Author of The Scripture Help, etc. _See edition of his Works in 17 vols. 1853. See Memoir of, by T. R. Birks, 1851._ =Bickersteth, Edward Henry.= 182 Son to E. B. Religious Poet. Author of Yesterday, To-Day and Forever, The Two Brothers, etc. _Pub. Ca. Dut._ =Bickersteth, Rob't.= 181 Bp. Ripon. Religious writer. Author of Lent Lectures, Bible Landmarks, etc. =Birch, Thomas.= 1705-1766. Historian and biographer. Author of a General Dictionary, Historical and Critical. =Black, Wm.= 184 Novelist. A prolific writer, the best of whose works are A Daughter of Heth, Princess of Thule, Strange Adventures of a Phaeton, and Macleod of Dare. They evince rare powers of description and much constructive skill. _See Harper's Mag. Dec. 1882._ _Pub. Har._ =Blackie, John Stuart.= 180 Scotch poet and scholar. For 30 years Greek Professor at Edinburgh Univ. His numerous works include Greek, Latin, and German translations, several vols. of poems, and a famous work on Self-Culture which has been translated into every European language. _Pub. Scr._ =Blackmore, Sir Richard.= 1650-1729. Poet. Author of the epics The Creation, and Prince Arthur. =Blackmore, Richard Doddridge.= 182 Novelist. Author Lorna Doone, Maid of Sker, Alice Lorraine, Erema, Mary Anerly, Christowell, etc. A vigorous and original writer. Lorna Doone is his finest work. _Pub. Har. Lip._ =Blackstone, Sir Wm.= 1723-1780. Jurist. Author of Commentaries on the Laws of England, an authoritative work. _See Campbell's Lives of the Chief Justices._ _Pub. Har. Lip._ =Blair, Hugh.= 1718-1800. Author of the once famous Lectures on Rhetoric. _Pub. Por._ =Blair, Robert.= 1699-1747. Poet. Author of The Grave, a dull, didactic, but once popular poem. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._