=Bellamy, Joseph.= _Ct._, 1719-1790. A Congregational minister of the Edwards school, settled at Bethlehem, Connecticut, for a half century. He founded a divinity school in his parish, and trained many men there who were afterwards famous among New England ministers. True Religion Delineated; The Law our Schoolmaster; The Half-Way Covenant; The Nature and Glory of the Gospel, are a few of his publications. _See Bibliotheca Sacra, vol. 43; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._ =Bellamy, William.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. A Boston writer who has published, in verse, A Century of Charades; A Second Century of Charades. _Hou._ =Bellows, Henry Whitney.= _N. H._, 1814-1882. A Unitarian clergyman of prominence in New York city, well known at one time as the president of the United States Sanitary Commission. Restatements of Christian Doctrine; Sermons; Relation of Public Amusements to Public Morality; The Old World in its New Face. _See Unitarian Review, vol. 67._ _A. U. A. Har._ =Belrose, Louis.= _Pa._, 1845-1894. A writer whose only published work of note is Thorns and Flowers, a volume of verse. =Bemis, Edward Webster.= _Ms._, 1860- ----. A professor of economics in the University of Chicago. History of Co-operation in the United States; Municipal Ownership of Gas in the United States. =Bender, Prosper.= _Q._, 1844- ----. A Canadian physician, a littérateur, who since 1883 has practiced his profession in Boston. Old and New Canada; Literary Sheaves, or La Littérature au Canada-Français. =Benedict, David.= _Ct._, 1779-1874. A Baptist clergyman of Pawtucket. History of the Baptists; History of All Religions; Fifty Years Among the Baptists; Compendium of Ecclesiastical History; History of the Donatists, comprise his principal works. =Benedict, Erastus Cornelius.= _Ct._, 1800-1880. A jurist of New York city. The American Admiralty: its Jurisdiction and Practice. =Benedict, Frank Lee.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A novelist of New York city. Miss Van Kortland; My Daughter Elinor; The Price She Paid; John Worthington’s Name; Miss Dorothy’s Charge; St. Simon’s Niece; ’Twixt Hammer and Anvil; Her Friend Laurence; A Late Remorse; Madame; The Shadow-Worshipper and Other Poems. _Har. Lip._ =Benezet, Anthony.= _F._, 1713-1784. A Quaker philanthropist of Philadelphia, whose tracts on slavery first aroused the attention of Clarkson and Wilberforce to the subject. _See Memoir by R. Vaux, 1817._ =Benjamin, Judah Philip.= _W. I._, 1811-1884. A prominent New Orleans lawyer who became attorney-general of the Confederacy during the Civil War. At its close he went to England, and speedily became eminent in his profession there. His Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property is the standard work on the subject. _See The Athenæum, vol. 88._ =Benjamin, Park.= _B. G._, 1809-1864. A poet and journalist of New York city, whose verse, mainly lyrical in character, has not been collected. The Old Sexton is the best remembered example.