BIOGRAPHY. _Robert Louis Stevenson_: I, 128. _Eugene Field_: I, 242. _Æsop_: II, 1. _Hans Christian Andersen_: II, 81. _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_: IV, 62. _Alice Cary_: IV, 116. _Phoebe Cary_: IV, 116. _Nathaniel Hawthorne_: IV, 180. _Alfred the Great_: IV, 260. _John Bunyan_: IV, 417. _Jonathan Swift_: V, 1. _Sir Walter Scott_: VI, 26. _Matthew Arnold_: VI, 204. _John Howard Payne_: VI, 221. _Charles Dickens_: VI, 232. _Thomas Gray_: VI, 369. _George Rogers Clark_: VI, 422. _Queen Victoria_: VII, 152. _William Cowper_: VII, 331. _John Greenleaf Whittier_: VII, 381. _William Cullen Bryant_: VII, 391. _Oliver Wendell Holmes_: VII, 398. _James Russell Lowell_: VII, 411. _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_: VII, 419. _David Crockett_: VIII, 29. _Père Marquette_: VIII, 121. _Washington Irving_: VIII, 216. _Charles Lamb_: VIII, 328. _Mary Lamb_: VIII, 328. _William Shakespeare_: VIII, 468. _Florence Nightingale_: IX, 13. _Julius Caesar_: IX, 155. _Geoffrey Chaucer_: IX, 201. _Samuel Johnson_: IX, 216. _Sir Francis Bacon_: IX, 395. _John Keats_: IX, 457. See LEGENDARY HEROES; HISTORY. BJÖRNSON, BJÖRNSTJERNE. Selection: _The Tree_: I, 301. _Black Hawk Tragedy, The_: VII, 58. BLAKE, WILLIAM. Selection: _Infant Joy_: II, 10. _Blind Lassie, The_: VI, 120. _Block City_: I, 196. _Bluebeard_: II, 22. _Boat Song_: VII, 17. _Book Lists, Supplementary_: X, 451. _Boston Massacre, The_: IV, 217. BOSWELL, JAMES. Selection: From _The Life of Johnson_: IX, 216. _Boy and the Nettle, The_: I, 65. _Boyhood_: VI, 122. _Boys and the Frogs, The_: I, 63. _Braddock's Defeat_: V, 379. BRANCH, MARY BOLLES. Selection: _The Petrified Fern_, VII, 77. _Breathes There the Man_: VII, 151. _Brook, The._ See _Song of the Brook_. _Brother and Sister, The_: I, 410. BROWN, JOHN, M. D. Selection: _Rab and His Friends_: VI, 99. BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Biography: VII, 419. Selections: _Child's Thought of God, A_: VII, 418. _Romance of the Swan's Nest, The_: VIII, 315. BROWNING, ROBERT. Selections: _Hervé Riel_: VIII, 168. _How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix_: V, 335. _Incident of the French Camp_: IV, 174. _Pied Piper of Hamelin, The_: III, 384. _Pippa Passes_: IX, 293. _Brown Thrush, The_: I, 147. _Bruce, Robert, The Rise of._ See _Rise of Robert Bruce, The_. _Bruce and the Spider_: V, 314. _Brute Neighbors_: VII, 260. BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. Biography: VII, 391. Selections: _Robert of Lincoln_: IX, 444. _To a Waterfowl_: VII, 395. _To the Fringed Gentian_: VII, 4. _Buccaneers, The_: V, 359. _Buffalo, The_: VII, 96. _Bugle Song, The_: VI, 133. BUNYAN, JOHN. Biography: IV, 417. Selection: _The Pilgrim's Progress_: IV, 423.