Builder's itch, x, 313. Bull Run, battle of, iii, 200. Bulwer-Lytton, and Disraeli, v, 333; on Verdi, xiv, 274. Bunker Hill, battle of, iii, 140. Bunsen, Robert, German chemist, xii, 351. Bunyan, John, and Oliver Cromwell, ix, 331. Buonarroti, Michel Agnola, iv, 6. Burbank, Luther, and Andrew Carnegie, xi, 290. Burgoyne, British general, iii, 168. _Burial of Sir David Wilkie at Sea, The_, Turner's painting, i, 138. Burke, Edmund, ix, 164; xii, 179; appearance of, vii, 160; birthplace of, vii, 159; at Bath, xii, 169; _English Settlements in North America_, vii, 172; Blackstone and, vii, 164; Frances Burney and, vii, 161; Charles Fox and, vii, 179; William Gerard Hamilton and, vii, 174; Warren Hastings and, vii, 161; Samuel Johnson and, v, 162; vii, 165; Hannah More and, vii, 161; Thomas Paine and, ix, 173; Reynolds and, iv, 305; vii, 160, 174; Marquis of Rockingham and, vii, 177; Richard Shackleton and, vii, 165; Cicero compared with, vii, 174; Goldsmith compared with, vii, 161; Daniel Webster compared with, iii, 204; influence of Bolingbroke on, vii, 168; Macaulay on, vii, 173; on the Hessians, xi, 149; on the Irish, xi, 335; on Malthus, ix, 11; _On the Sublime_, vii, 172, 318; _The Vindication of Natural Society_, vii, 168; on William Pitt, vii, 186; parentage of, vii, 159; wife of, vii, 170; quoted, iii, 48; referred to, i, 280; v, 188. Burke, John, _Peerage_, iii, 8, 210; iv, 303. Burne-Jones, Edward, v, 12; avatar of Giorgione, iv, 158; avatar of Raphael, vi, 12; Botticelli and, vi, 71; influence of, on Morris, v, 15; William Morris and, xiii, 254; marriage of, ii, 125; referred to, iii, 150. Burney, Frances, ii, 183; xii, 183; Reynolds and, iv, 299; Jane Austen compared with, ii, 247; Edmund Burke and, vii, 161. Burns, James A., ix, 283. Burns, Robert, worth as a poet, v, 97; love-affairs of, v, 102; classification of his poems, v, 103; his moral and religious nature, v, 105; main facts in the life of, v, 115; as a farmer, v, 26; Aubrey Beardsley compared with, vi, 73. Burr, Aaron, iv, 193; vii, 191; member of Washington's family, iii, 166; character of, iii, 175; parentage of, iii, 176; attorney-general of N. Y. State, iii, 177; vice-president, iii, 177; quarrel of, with Alexander Hamilton, iii, 177; duel of, with Hamilton, iii, 179; arrest of, iii, 180; death of, iii, 181; U. S. Senator, iii, 177. Burr, Margaret, wife of Gainsborough, vi, 139. Burroughs, John, x, 249; xii, 273; Elbert Hubbard and, xii, 376; Rousseau and, ix, 394; Prof. Youmans and, viii, 346; on Henry Thoreau, viii, 423; quoted, v, 108. Bushnell, Uncle Billy, i, p xxv; vii, 189. Business, as a profession, ix, 130; success in, xi, 355. Businessman, definition of a, xi, 315. Butler, Ben, Wendell Phillips and, vii, 388. Butterbriefe, vii, 126. _Butterfly, The_, Wordsworth, i, 214.