Gleason's Pictorial_ and _Ballou's
Monthly_ and many collections of quotations, and in 1872 became
editor-in-chief of the _Boston Daily Globe_, of which he was one of the
founders. He wrote a life of his father (1860), and a _History of Cuba_
(1854).

BALLSTON SPA, a village and the county-seat of Saratoga county, New York,
U.S.A., about 7 m. S. of Saratoga Springs. Pop. (1890) 3527; (1900) 3923;
(1910 U.S. Census) 4138. It is served by the Delaware & Hudson railway, and
is connected with Saratoga Springs, Albany, and Schenectady by electric
lines. There are several manufacturing establishments, among which are one
of the largest manufactories of paper-bags in the United States and a large
tannery. It is, however, as a popular summer resort that Ballston Spa is
best known. Many fine chalybeate and other springs rising through solid
rock from a depth of about 650 ft. furnish a highly effervescent water of
considerable medicinal and commercial value. The village has the Ballston
Spa public library, the Saratoga county law library and the Saratoga county
court house. Ballston Spa, which was named in honour of the Rev. Eliphalet
Ball, an early settler, was settled about 1787 by the grandfather of
Stephen A. Douglas, and was incorporated in 1855.

See E. F. Prose, _Centennial Hist. of Ballston Spa_, 1908.

BALLYCASTLE, a seaport and watering-place on the north coast of Co. Antrim,
Ireland, in the north parliamentary division, situated on a bay of the same
name opposite Rathlin Island. Pop. (1901) 1481. It is connected with the
Northern Counties (Midland) railway at Ballymoney by the Ballycastle light
railway. The town consists of two divisions, about a quarter of a mile
apart and connected by a fine avenue. Towards the close of the 18th century
Mr Hugh Boyd, obtaining the estate, devoted himself to the extension and
improvement of the town, establishing manufactures, endowing charities and
building churches; and succeeded in producing a temporary vitality. Upwards
of L150,000, including a large government grant, is said to have been
expended upon the pier and harbour; but the violence of the sea overthrew
the one and the other became filled with sand. To the east of the town are
the remains of Bonamargy Abbey, the burial-place of many of the MacDonnell
family. The Carey brook, by the side of which the abbey stands, was
formerly called the Margy, and on its waters according to tradition dwelt
the four children of Lir, change