Professor at the College de France. Director of the Ecole des
Hautes Etudes. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Member of the
Institute. Author of _Geographie de la Gaule au VI. siecle;
Documents relatifs au comte de Champagne et de Brie;_ &c.

Blois: _Countship of._

A. Me.
MRS ALICE MEYNELL.
Author of _Poems_; _Later Poems_; _The Rhythm of Life and other
Essays_; &c.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.

A. M. C.
MISS AGNES MARY CLERKE.
See the biographical article: CLERKE, A.M.

Brahe, Tycho.

A. N.
ALFRED NEWTON, F.R.S.
See the biographical article: NEWTON, ALFRED.

Bunting; Bustard; Buzzard.

A. S. C.
ALAN SUMMERLY COLE, C.B.
Formerly Assistant Secretary, Board of Education, South
Kensington. Author of _Ornament in European Silks_; _Catalogue of
Tapestry_, _Embroidery_, _Lace and Egyptian Textiles in Victoria
and Albert Museum_; &c.

Brocade.

A. T. Q.-C.
SIR ARTHUR T. QUILLER-COUCH.
See the biographical article: QUILLER-COUCH, Sir A.T.

Brown, Thomas Edward.

A. W. H.*
ARTHUR WILLIAM HOLLAND.
Formerly Scholar of St John's College, Oxford. Bacon Scholar of
Gray's Inn, 1900. Burdett, Sir Francis.

Brandenburg: _Margraviate;_ Burdett, Sir Francis.

A. W. Po.
ALFRED WILLIAM POLLARD, M.A.
Assistant Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum. Fellow of
King's College, London. Hon. Secretary, Bibliographical Society.
Editor of _Books about Books_ and _Bibliographica_. Joint-editor
of _The Library_. Chief Editor of the "Globe" _Chaucer_.

Book;
Book Collecting.

A. W. R.
ALEXANDER WOOD RENTON, M.A., LL.B.
Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. Editor of
_Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England_.

Boarding-House.

B. R.
SIR BOVERTON REDWOOD, D.SC., F.R.S. (Edin.), F.I.C., ASSOC. INST.
C.E., M. INST. M.E.
Adviser on Petroleum to the Admiralty, Home Office, India Office,
Corporation of London, and Port of London Authority. President of
the Society of Chemical Industry. Member of the Council of the
Chemical Society. Member of Council of Institute of Chemistry.
Author of _Cantor Lectures on Petroleum_, _Petroleum and its
Products_, _Chemical Technology_, &c.

Bitumen.

C. B.*
CHARLES BEMONT, D.ES.L., LITT.D. (Oxon.).
See the