=Beecher, Willis Judson.= _O._, 1838- ----. A professor of Hebrew in the Auburn Theological Seminary. Farmer Tompkins and his Bible; Drill Lessons in Hebrew; Testimony of the Historical Books. =Beers, Mrs. Ethelinda [Eliot].= “Ethel Lynn.” _N. J._, 1827-1879. General Frankie, a juvenile tale; All Quiet Along the Potomac and Other Poems. _Co._ =Beers, Henry Augustin.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A professor of English literature at Yale University. The Ways of Yale; A Suburban Pastoral and Other Stories; From Chaucer to Tennyson; Life of N. P. Willis, _infra_; Outline Sketch of English Literature; Initial Studies in American Letters. Verse: Odds and Ends; The Thankless Muse. _Fl. Ho. Hou. Meth._ =Belcher, Joseph.= _E._, 1794-1859. A Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, who came thither from England in 1844. His complete works number over 200 volumes. Among them are The Baptist Pulpit of the United States; The Clergy of America; History of Religious Denominations in the United States; Hymns and their Authors. =Belknap= [bĕl´năp], =Jeremy.= _Ms._, 1744-1798. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, whose History of New Hampshire ranks as the best among local State histories, and is accurate as it is entertaining. His other works include American Biographies; The Foresters: an American Tale. _See Atlantic Monthly, vol. 67._ =Bell, Charles Henry.= _N. H._, 1823-1893. A New Hampshire lawyer and Congressman, governor of his State, 1881-83. The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire. _Hou._ =Bell, John.= _I._, 1796-1872. A physician and medical lecturer, among whose writings are Health and Beauty; Regimen and Longevity. =Bell, Lilian.= _Ky._, 1867- ----. A Chicago novelist. The Love Affairs of An Old Maid; A Little Sister to the Wilderness. _Har. St._ =Bell, Zura.= _See Williamson, Julia._ =Bellamy, Charles Joseph.= _Ms._, 1852- ----. A journalist of Springfield, Massachusetts. The Breton Mills: a Novel; Everybody’s Lawyer; The Way Out: Suggestions for Social Reform. _Put._ =Bellamy, Edward.= _Ms._, 1850-1898. Brother of C. J. Bellamy, _supra_. A socialist reformer whose Utopian theories embodied in the tale Looking Backward, 2000-1887, have been very widely read, and have resulted in the formation of several societies and communities that endeavour to put some of them in practice. His other works include Six to One: a Nantucket Idyl; Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process, a novel; Miss Ludington’s Sister: a Romance of Immortality; Equality; The Blindman’s World, and Other Stories; The Duke of Stockbridge. _Ap. Hou._ =Bellamy, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitfield [Croom].= “Kamba Thorpe.” _Fl._, 1838-1900. A novelist of Mobile. Four Oaks; Little Joanna; Penny Lancaster Farmer; Old Man Gilbert; The Luck of the Pendennings. _Ap._