=Bates, Arlo.= _Me._, 1850- ----. Professor of English literature in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and novelist. Talks on Writing English; The Pagans; Patty’s Perversities; A Wheel of Fire; In the Bundle of Time; A Lad’s Love; The Philistines; A Book o’ Nine Tales. His verse includes Berries of the Brier; Sonnets in Shadow; A Poet and his Self; Told in the Gate; The Torch-Bearers; Under the Beech-Tree. _Ho. Hou. Rob. Scr._ =Bates, Charlotte Fiske.= _See Rogé._ =Bates, Mrs. Clara [Doty].= _Mch._, 1838-1895. A writer of juvenile tales. Classics of Babyland Versified; Child Lore; On the Way to Wonderland; Heart’s Content. _Lo._ =Bates, Mrs. Harriet Leonora [Vose].= “Eleanor Putnam.” _It._, 1856-1886. Wife of A. Bates, _supra_. A Woodland Wooing; Old Salem; Prince Vance (with A. Bates). =Bates, Katherine Lee.= _Ms._, 1859- ----. A professor of literature at Wellesley College. The English Religious Drama; Hermit Island: a Story for Girls. _Lo. Mac._ =Bates, Mrs. Margret Holmes [Ernsperger].= _O._, 1844- ----. A fiction-writer of Indianapolis. Manitou; The Chamber Over the Gate. =Bates, Samuel Penniman.= _Ms._, 1827-190-. A Pennsylvania educator of note. Mental and Moral Culture; Liberal Education; History of Pennsylvania Volunteers; History of the Colleges of Pennsylvania. =Batterson, Hermon Griswold.= _Ct._, 1827-1903. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. The Missionary Tune Book; The Churchman’s Hymn Book; Christmas Carols and Other Verses; The Pathway of Faith; A Sketch Book of the American Episcopate. _Lip._ =Baxley, Isaac Rieman.= _Md._, 1850- ----. A California versifier whose thought as a whole gains nothing by being expressed in verse. The Temple of Alanthur; The Prophet and Other Poems; Songs of the Spirit; The Bank of Mist. =Baxter, James Phinney.= _Me._, 1831- ----. An historical writer of Portland, Maine. George Cleves of Casco Bay, 1630-67; Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine; Idyls of the Year, a collection of verse. =Baxter, Lydia.= _N. Y._, 1809-1874. Gems by the Wayside, a collection of poems. The hymn, The Gates Ajar, is by her. =Baxter, Sylvester.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. A journalist of Boston, prominent in exploiting the Metropolitan Park system. The Cruise of a Land Yacht, a Boy’s Book of Mexican Travel. _Lit._ =Baxter, William.= _E._, 1820- ----. A clergyman of Cincinnati, whose War Lyrics as originally published in Harper’s Weekly were once widely popular. The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion; Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, or Scenes and Incidents of the War in Arkansas. _Meth._ =Bayley, James Roosevelt.= _N. Y._, 1814-1877. A clergyman who entered the Roman Catholic Church from the Episcopal and became archbishop of Baltimore. History of the Catholic Church of New York; Memoirs of Bruté, First Bishop of Vincennes; Pastorals for the People. =Baylies, Francis.= _Ms._, 1783-1852. An eminent lawyer of Taunton, Massachusetts. Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth.