=Breed, David Riddle.= _Pa._, 1848- ----. A Presbyterian minister of Chicago since 1885. More Light; Abraham, the Typical Life of Faith; History of the Preparation of the World for Christ; Heresy and Heresy. _Rev._ =Breed, William Pratt.= _N. Y._, 1816-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. His works are mainly religious juveniles, and among them are Jenny Geddes; Home Songs for Home Birds; Grapes from the Great Vine; A Board and Abroad. _Fu._ =Breidenbaugh, Edward Swoyer.= _Pa._, 1849- ----. A professor of chemistry at Pennsylvania College. Notes on Inorganic Chemistry; Mineralogy of the Farm, are among his purely technical papers and monographs. =Breitman, Hans.= _See Leland._ =Brewer, Thomas Mayo.= _Ms._, 1821-1880. A Massachusetts ornithologist who was the principal author of the History of North American Birds prepared with Ridgway and S. F. Baird, _supra_. Oölogy of North America is also by him. =Brewer, William Henry.= _N. Y._, 1828- ----. A professor of agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School at New Haven since 1864. Botany of California. =Brewerton, George Douglas.= _C._, 1820-1901. A United States army officer. The War in Kansas, a Rough Trip to the Border; Fitzpoodle at Newport; Ida Lewis, the Heroine of Lime Rock; The Automaton Company; The Automaton Battery. =Bridge, James Howard.= “Harold Brydges.” _E._, 1858- ----. A Fortnight in Heaven: an Unconventional Romance; Uncle Sam at Home. =Bridges, Madeline.= _See De Vere._ =Bridges, Robert.= “Droch.” _Pa._, 1858- ----. A littérateur of New York city; literary critic of Life from 1883, and assistant editor of Scribner’s Magazine since 1887. Overheard in Arcady, dialogues about contemporary writers; Suppressed Chapters and Other Bookishness. _Scr._ =Briggs, Charles Augustus.= 1841- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman prominent among the leaders of newer religious thought and a professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York, since 1875. In 1892 he was tried for heresy and acquitted. Biblical Study; American Presbyterianism; Messianic Prophecy, notable for its display of the true historical spirit; The Authority of Holy Scripture; The Messiah of the Apostles; The Messiah of the Gospels; The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch; The Bible, the Church, and the Reason; Whither? a Theological Question for the Times. _See New Englander, vol. 55; Andover Review, vol. 16; Catholic World, vol. 53._ _Scr._ =Briggs, Charles Frederick.= _Ms._, 1804-1877. A journalist and editor of New York city, the valued friend of many of the prominent literary Americans of his time. Adventures of Harry Franco, a Tale of the Great Panic; The Haunted Merchant; The Trippings of Tom Pepper; Working a Passage, or Life on a Liner. _See Lowell’s Fable for Critics._ =Brigham, Amariah.= _Ms._, 1798-1849. A physician of Hartford, and subsequently superintendent of the lunatic asylum at Utica, New York. The Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the Brain.