Blue Book of America, i, p vi. Blue-coat school, ii, 218. Blue Grass Aristocracy, iii, 212. Boarding-schools, viii, 369; English, ix, 135. Boccaccio and Petrarch, xiii, 232. _Body and Mind_, Maudsley, viii, 191. Boer war, the, vii, 35. Boleyn, Anne, ii, 198. Bolingbroke, Viscount, vii, 168. Bonaparte, Joseph, i, 185. Bonaparte, Napoleon, ii, 267. Bonheur, Rosa, v, 107; xiii, 22; xiv, 267; father of, ii, 155; birth of, ii, 155; Paris home of, ii, 156; success of, ii, 150; home of, at By, ii, 147; vi, 213; the Barbizon School and, vi, 213. Book-agents, Joseph Cannon on, viii, 349. Book-collectors, v, 44. Bookmaking, early, iv, 55. Book of Rules, St. Benedict, x, 324. Bookplate, Washington's, iii, 8. Bookplates, iv, 120. Books, illumination of, i, p xxv; Charles Lamb's love of, iv, 140; Turner's opinion of, i, 132. Boone, Daniel, iii, 216. Borgia, Cesare, and Leonardo, vi, 43. Borgia, Lucrezia, i, 75; v, 216; vi, 43. Bossism, political, v, 186. Boston Ideal Opera Company, i, p xxvii. Boston, founding of, ix, 337; Washington at, iii, 19. Boston Massacre, iii, 114. Boston Public Library, vi, 323. Boston Thursday Lecture, ix, 358. Boswell, i, 259; iv, 8; ix, 164; xii, 179; biographer of Samuel Johnson, v, 145; Goldsmith's characterization of, viii, 26; Garrick's characterization of, viii, 26; Reynolds and, iv, 299; Vasari compared with, vi, 19; quoted, i, 294. Botany, science of, xii, 268. Botticelli, Sandro, iv, 28; vi, 12, 69; _Adoration of the Magi_, vi, 70; appearance of, vi, 70; Burne-Jones and, vi, 71; George Eliot on, vi, 69; Goldsmith compared with, vi, 70; influence of, iv, 159; Rembrandt compared with, vi, 69; Simonetta and, vi, 83; _Spring_ of, vi, 78; _Birth of Venus_ of, vi, 69; Walter Pater on, vi, 65. "Bottled Hate," i, 240. Bouncers described, i, 218. Bow-legs, vi, 308. Boyd, Hugh Stuart, ii, 21. Boys, Elbert Hubbard's love for, vi, 102. Bradlaugh, Charles, Annie Besant and, ix, 266; Gladstone and, ix, 268; Henry Labouchere and, ix, 266; Mark Marsden and, ix, 246; J. S. Mill and, xiii, 171; John Morley and, ix, 271; biography of, ix, 243; Paine and Ingersoll compared with, ix, 243; law practise of, ix, 256; on the clergy, xii, 154; services of, ix, 243; wife of, ix, 255. Brahms, Johannes, and the Schumanns, xiv, 337. Brain power described, i, 342. Brain versus Brawn, vi, 51. Bramante, Italian architect, iv, 26. Brann the Iconoclast, ix, 97. Brantwood, i, 88. Brashear, John, maker of telescopes, xii, 178. Breathing habit, the, viii, 159. Breeds in birds and animals, ix, 275. Breton, Jules, ix, 198. Bridge of Sighs, Venice, iv, 150; v, 200. Bright, John, Robert Owen and, ix, 226; Richard Cobden and, ix, 149, 231; Gladstone on, ix, 238; on the Corn Laws, ix, 216; Sir Robert Peel on, ix, 238; on taxation, ix, 228. Bright, Dr. Richard, physician, ix, 224. Bright's Disease, iii, 123.