=Bungay, George Washington.= _E._, 1818-1892. A New York journalist well known as a temperance lecturer. He wrote many poems, among which The Creeds of the Bells has long been popular. His other writings include The Abraham Lincoln Songster; The Poets of Queen Elizabeth’s Time; Offhand Takings; Crayon Sketches; Pen Portraits of Illustrious Abstainers. =Bunner, Henry Cuyler.= _N. Y._, 1855-1896. A New York journalist, the editor of Puck, and well known as a writer of graceful, delicate verse and very readable fiction. Jersey Street and Jersey Lane; Love in Old Cloathes; Zadoc Pine and Other Stories; The Story of a New York House; The Midge; In Partnership (with J. B. Matthews, _infra_); Short Sixes, a collection of humourous tales; The Woman of Honour. His verse includes Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere; Rowen: “second crop” Songs. _Hou. Scr._ =Burdett, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1815-18--. A journalist and novelist of New York whose writings were transiently popular. Life of Kit Carson; The Second Marriage; The Beautiful Spy; Margaret Moncrieffe; Emma, or The Lost Found; Marion Desmond; The Gambler; The Adopted Child; Trials and Triumphs; Never too Late; Chances and Changes. _Har._ =Burdette, Robert Jones.= _Pa._, 1844- ----. A newspaper humourist who was for some years editor of The Hawkeye, of Burlington, Iowa. Hawkeyes; Rise and Fall of the Mustache; Innach Garden and Other Comic Sketches; Life of William Penn. _Ho._ =Burgess, Edward.= _Ms._, 1848-1891. A noted naval architect of Boston. English and American Yachts. _See New England Magazine, vol. 5._ =Burgess, George.= _R. I._, 1809-1866. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Maine. Pages from the Ecclesiastical History of New England; The Christian Life; The Book of Psalms in English Verse; The Last Enemy Conquering and Conquered; Strife of Brothers, a poem, comprise the most of his writings. _See Memoir, by A. Burgess; Bibliography of Maine._ _Ran._ =Burgess, John William.= _Tn._, 1844- ----. The dean of the school of physical science in Columbia College. The American University: When Shall it Be, Where Shall it Be, and What Shall it Be?; Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law; The Middle Period. _Gi._ =Burk, John Daly.= _I._, 17-- -1808. An Irish author who came to America in 1796, and for the last years of his life was a lawyer in Virginia. History of the Late War in Ireland; History of Virginia; Bunker Hill, a once popular tragedy; Bethlem Gaber, an historical drama. =Burleigh, George Shepard.= _Ct._, 1821-1903. A writer of Little Compton, Rhode Island. Anti-Slavery Hymns; The Maniac and Other Poems; Signal Fires, or The Trail of the Pathfinder. =Burleigh, William Henry.= _Ct._, 1812-1871. Brother of G. S. Burleigh, supra. An anti-slavery journalist of Hartford and elsewhere who won some notice as a poet. _See Poems of with biographical sketch by Celia Burleigh._ _Hou._