eived
with general enthusiasm. Banffy's resoluteness enabled him to weather all
these storms, and his subsequent negotiations with Austria as to the quota
and commercial treaties, to the considerable political advantage of
Hungary, even enabled him for a time to live at peace with the opposition.
But in 1898 the opposition, now animated by personal hatred, took advantage
of the ever-increasing difficulties of the government in the negotiations
with Austria, and refused to pass the budget till a definite understanding
had been arrived at. They refused to be satisfied with anything short of
the dismissal of Banffy, and passion ran so high that on the 3rd of January
1899 Banffy fought a duel with his most bitter opponent, Horanszky. On the
26th of February Banffy resigned, to save the country from its "ex-lex," or
unconstitutional situation; he was decorated by the king and received the
freedom of the city of Buda. Subsequently he contributed to overthrow the
Stephen Tisza administration, and in May 1905 joined the Kossuth ministry.

See article "Banffy," by Marczall, in _Pallas Nagy Lexikona,_ Kot 17.

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BANG, HERMANN JOACHIM (1858- ), Danish author, was born of a noble family
in the island of Zealand. When he was twenty he published two volumes of
critical essays on the realistic movement. In 1880 he published his novel
_Haablose Slaegter_ ("Families without hope"), which at once aroused
attention. After some time spent in travel and a successful lecturing tour
in Norway and Sweden, he settled in Copenhagen, and produced a series of
novels and collections of short stories, which placed him in the front rank
of Scandinavian novelists. Among his more famous stories are _Faedra_
(1883) and _Tine_ (1889). The latter won for its author the friendship of
Ibsen and the enthusiastic admiration of Jonas Lie. Among his other works
are:--_Det hvide Hus_ (The White House, 1898), _Excentriske Noveller_
(1885), _Stille Eksistenzer_ (1886), _Liv og Dod_ (Life and Death, 1899),
_Englen Michael_ (1902), a volume of poems (1889) and of recollections (_Ti
Aar,_ 1891).

BANGALORE, a city of India, the capital of the native state of Mysore, and
the largest British cantonment in the south of India. It is 3113 ft. above
the sea, and 219 m. W. of Madras by rail. Pop. (1901) 69,447. The
foundation of the present fort was laid by a descendant of Kempe-Goude, a
husbandman of the neighbouring country, who, probably in the 16th century,