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=Bacon, Thomas Scott.= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. An Episcopal
controversialist of Maryland. Both Sides of the Controversy between the
Roman and Reformed Churches; The Reign of God and the Reign of Law;
The Beginnings of Religion; Primitive Man in Christian Thought; It is
Written; The Primitive and Catholic Doctrine as to Holy Scripture.
=Badeau, Adam.= _N. Y._, 1831-1895. A general in the United States
army. The Vagabond; Military History of General Grant; Conspiracy:
a Cuban Romance; Aristocracy in England; Grant in Peace: a Personal
Memoir. _Ap. Har._
=Bagg, Lyman Hotchkiss.= “Karl Kron.” _Ms._, 1846- ----. Four Years at
Yale; Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle.
=Bailey, James Montgomery.= _N. Y._, 1841-1894. Widely known at one
time as “The Danbury News Man.” A journalist of Danbury, Connecticut,
who was among the earliest to exploit a kind of native humour chiefly
concerned with local allusion and application. He has had many
imitators whose methods have been much less legitimate than his. Life
in Danbury; England from a Back Window; The Danbury Boom; Mr. Phillis’
Goneness; They All Do It. _Le._
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= _Mich._, 1858- ----. A prominent
horticulturist. American Grape Training; Crossbreeding and
Hybridization; Field Notes on Apple Culture; Annals of Horticulture;
The Horticulturist Rule-Book; The Nursery-Book: a Complete Guide to the
Multiplication and Pollination of Plants; Talks Afield about Plants;
Plant Breeding. _Hou. Mac._
=Bailey, Loring Woart.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. A professor of natural
history in the University of New Brunswick. Mines and Minerals of
New Brunswick; Geology of Southern New Brunswick; Elementary Natural
History.
=Bailey, William Whitman.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. Brother of L. W.
Bailey, _supra_. A professor of botany at Brown University. New England
Wild Flowers and Their Seasons; Among Rhode Island Wild Flowers;
Botanical Collector’s Hand-Book. _Pr._
=Baird, Charles Washington.= _N. J._, 1828-1887. Son of R. Baird,
_supra_. A Presbyterian minister of Rye, New York. Eutaxia, or the
Presbyterian Liturgies; Book of Public Prayer; History of Rye; History
of the Huguenot Emigration to America. _Do._
=Baird, Henry Carey.= _Pa._, 1825- ----. Nephew of Henry Carey,
_infra_, and a political economist holding similar views. Rights of
American Producers and Wrongs of British Free Trade Revenue Reformers;
Protection of Home Labour and Home Production necessary to the
Protection of the American Farmer; Miscellaneous Papers on Economic
Questions. _Bai._
=Baird, Henry Martyn.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. Son of R. Baird, _infra_.
Professor of Greek at the University of New York from 1859. An
historian who is conscientious but not absolutely impartial. Life of
Robert Baird; Modern Greece; Narrative of a Residence and Travels;
History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France; The Huguenots and Henry
of Navarre; The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
_Har. Ran. Scr._
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