=Butterworth, Hezekiah.= _R. I._, 1837- ----. A Boston writer, for many years editor of The Youth’s Companion. Besides publishing several volumes of Zig-Zag Journeys, Great Composers, The Knight of Liberty, In the Boyhood of Lincoln, The Patriot Schoolmaster, and other popular juvenile books, he is the author of two collections of musical verse, Songs of History; Poems for Christmas, Easter, and New Year’s. _Ap. Cr. Est. Lo. Mer._ =Butts, Mrs. Mary Frances [Barber].= _R. I._, 1836- ----. A writer of popular juvenile works. Three Girls; Lottie; Nellie’s New Home; Lizzie and her Friends; The Frolic Series, are some of them. =Byerly, William Ellwood.= _Pa._, 1849- ----. A professor of mathematics at Harvard University. Elements of Differential Calculus; Elements of Integral Calculus. _Gi._ =Byers, Samuel Hawkins Marshall.= _Ms._, 1838- ----. A United States consul at Zurich, subsequently a consul-general to Italy and now a resident of Des Moines. Switzerland; Switzerland and the Swiss: Historical and Descriptive; Florence; History of Switzerland; What I Saw in Dixie; Military History of Iowa; The Happy Isles, and Other Poems. =Byfield, Nathaniel.= _E._, 1653-1733. A jurist of note in Massachusetts in the colonial period. Account of the Late War in England, 1689. =Byford, William Heath.= _O._, 1817-1890. A physician of prominence in Chicago. Practice of Medicine and Surgery Applied to Diseases and Accidents Peculiar to Women; Theory and Practice of Obstetrics; Philosophy of Domestic Life, are his more important works. =Byington, Ezra Hoyt.= _Vt._, 1828-1901. A Congregational clergyman of Newton, Massachusetts. Puritan in England and New England; Puritan as Colonist and Reformer; Christ of Yesterday, To-day, and Forever. _Lit._ =Byles, Mather.= _Ms._, 1706-1788. A Congregational clergyman of Boston famous both as preacher and wit. After 43 years’ ministry in the Hollis Street Church, his Tory sympathies obliged him to give up his charge in 1776. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Tyler’s American Literature; Unitarian Review, vol. 27; Atlantic Monthly, vol. 59._ =Bynner, Edwin Lassetter.= _N. Y._, 1842-1893. A popular historical novelist of Boston. His best work is included in the three historical tales, Agnes Surriage; The Begum’s Daughter; Zachary Phips. Of lesser importance are Nimport; Tritons; Damen’s Ghost; Penelope’s Suitors; An Uncloseted Skeleton (with L. P. Hale, _infra_); The Chase of the Meteor, a book for boys. _Hou._