=BALBO, CESARE.= _b._ 1789, _d._ 1853. =Italian writer and statesman.= TONIOTTO AND MARIA; A TALE OF THE CONSCRIPTION. _Tr._ [1872]. LIFE AND TIMES OF DANTE ALIGHIERI.... _Tr._ F. J. Bunbury. 2 v. 1852. =BALZAC, HONORÉ DE.= _b._ 1799, _d._ 1850. =French novelist.= AFTER DINNER STORIES. _Tr._ 1885. BUREAUCRACY. _Tr._ by K. P. Wormeley. 1889. CESAR BITTOREAU. (1838.) _Tr._ by J. H. Simpson, 1860. [_Vol. 1. of the Balzac Series_]. CHOUANS, THE. (1829.) _Tr._ 1889. COMEDY OF HUMAN LIFE. _Tr._ by K. P. Wormeley. 1885. COUNTRY DOCTOR. (1833.) _Tr._ 1887. COUSIN PONS. (1846.) _Tr._ 1885. DUCHESSE DE LANGEAIS. (1834). _Tr._ 1885. EUGENE GRANDET. (1833.) _Tr._ 1886. GREAT MEN OF THE PROVINCES. _Tr._ 1893. HOUSE OF CLAES. _Tr._ 1887. HUMAN COMEDY. _Tr._ E. Sedgwick, etc., 1895. LOUIS LAMBERT. (1832.) _Tr._ by K. P. Wormeley, 1889. MAGIC SKIN. _Tr._ 1888. MODESTE MIGNON. (1844.) _Tr._ 1888. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER: or, LA MARANA. _Tr._ 1842. [1st Series of 'Scènes de la Vie Parisienne'.] PERE GORIOT: _or_, UNREQUITED AFFECTION. _Tr._ 1860. SERAPHITA. (1831-3.) _Tr._ by G. F. Parsons, 1889. TWO BROTHERS. 1888. His acuteness of observation and brilliant fancy, often unnatural and extravagant, has largely influenced modern English romancists. =BANDELLO, MATTEO.= _b._ 1480, _d._ 1561. =Italian novelist and Dominican monk.= CERTAIN DISCOURSES. _Tr._ by Geffrie Fenton, 1567. THE TRAGICAL HISTORYE OF ROMEUS AND JULIET, written first in Italian by Bandello, and now in Englishe by Ar.[thur] Br.[oke]. 1562. A MOST LAMENTABLE AND TRAGICAL HISTORIE, WHICH A SPANISH GENTLEWOMAN NAMED VIOLENTA EXECUTED UPON HER LOVER DIDACO.... Newly translated into English meeter by T. A. [Thomas Acheley]. 1576. 'The Bishop of Agen, was the most important of the Italian _novellieri_. His "Novello" is a popular story, derived from the French _fabliau_, full of spirited action, and true to the life of his time'. Shakespeare, Massinger and other English dramatists derived some of their plots from B. Thus 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Measure for Measure', 'Othello', etc., are all from the 'Novello'. The Elizabethans also imitated B. largely. The stories of Bandello enjoyed a wide vogue in France and England, and formed matter for the exploitation of every class of our Elizabethan dramatists and writers of fiction. =BARBADILLO, DON ALONSO GERONIMO DE SALAS= _b._ 1580, _d._ 1630. =Spanish poet and dramatist.= FORTUNATE FOOL. _Tr._ from the Spanish by Philip Ayres. 1670. =BARBOUR, JOHN.= _b._ 1316, _d._ 1396. THE BRUCE. _Ed._ Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1870-77. The Bruce is a history in verse of the life and deeds of Robert Bruce. =BARCLAY, JOHN.= _b._ 1582, _d._ 1621. ARGENIS; or THE LOVES OF POLIARCHUS AND ARGENIS. 1611.