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Title: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1
"Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"

Author: Various

Release Date: December 10, 2008 [EBook #27478]

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THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA

A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INFORMATION

ELEVENTH EDITION

VOLUME III

AUSTRIA LOWER to BISECTRIX

[E-Text Edition of Volume III - Part 1 of 2, Slice 1 of 3 - AUSTRIA LOWER
to BACON]

* * * * *

INITIALS USED IN VOLUME III. TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS,[1] WITH
THE HEADINGS OF THE ARTICLES IN THIS VOLUME SO SIGNED.

A. C. P. - ANNA C. PAUES, PH.D.
Lecturer in Germanic Philology at Newnham College, Cambridge. Formerly
Fellow of Newnham College. Author of _A Fourteenth Century Biblical
Version_; &c.

- Bible, English.

A. C. S. - ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.
See biographical article: SWINBURNE, ALGERNON C.

- Beaumont and Fletcher.

A. F. P. - ALBERT FREDERICK POLLARD, M.A., F.R.HIST.SOC.
Professor of English History in the University of London. Fellow of All
Souls' College, Oxford. Assistant Editor of the _Dictionary of National
Biography_, 1893-1901. Lothian prizeman (Oxford), 1892; Arnold prizeman,
1898. Author of _England under the Protector Somerset_; _Henry VIII._;
_Life of Thomas Cranmer_; &c.

- Balnaves; Barnes, Robert; Bilney.

A. Go.* - REV. ALEXANDER GORDON, M.A.
Lecturer on Church History in the University of Manchester