BENEVOLENCES, iii. 218, 219.

BENTLEY, notice of his criticisms on Milton, i. 370-373.

BETHLEHEM Hospital, its original foundation, ii. 311, and note.

BETTERTON, anecdote of, i. 250.

BEZA, Theodore, an imitator of Calvin in abuse, i. 310; effect of
his work against toleration, iii. 245.

BIBLE, the prohibition of, ii. 19; various versions of, 20-23; a
_family_ one, 22; the Olivetan, iii. 155; corrupt state of the
English, formerly, 427; printing of, an article of open trade, 428;
shameful practices in the printing of, 428-431, and note; privilege
of printing granted to one Bentley, 430; Field's Pearl Bible
contained 6000 faults, 431; division of, into chapter and verse,
432.

BIBLIOMANE, iii. 343.

BIBLIOMANIA, i. 9.

BIBLIOGNOSTE, iii. 343.

BIBLIOGRAPHE, iii. 343.

BIBLIOGRAPHY, remarks on its importance, iii. 341.

BIBLIOPHILE, iii. 343.

BIBLIOTAPHE, iii. 343.

BIOGRAPHICAL parallels, iii. 425; a book of, proposed by Hurd, ib.;
between Budaeus and Erasmus, 426; instances of several, 427.

BIOGRAPHY, painted, a, iii. 137-141; remarks on, 414; sentimental,
distinguished from chronological, ib.; of Dante, by Boccacio and
Aretino, 415-419; domestic, 420-423; customary among the Romans,
424; comparative, a series of, projected by Elizabeth Hamilton, ib.

BIRCH, Dr., his great services to history, iii. 383.

BIRKENHEAD, Sir John, a newspaper writer and pamphleteer during the
great rebellion, i. 159.

BLACK Cloaks, a political nickname for a party in Naples, iii. 82.

BLENHEIM, secret history of the building of, iii. 102-111; drawn
from MSS., 103, note.

BONAVENTURE DE PERRIERS, specimen of his stories, i. 128.

BOOK of Sports, effect of, ii. 148.

BOOKS, collections of, see LIBRARIES; collectors of, see COLLECTORS;
reviews of, and criticisms on, see LITERARY JOURNALS and SKETCHES OF
CRITICISM; destruction of, see TITLE; lost, i. 47-57; prices of, in
early times, 76; treatise on the art of reading printed, 78; curious
advertisements of, 157; titles of, 288; various opinions as to the
size of, 347; difficulties encountered in publishing many books of
merit, 375; works of another description better remunerated, 377;
leaves of, origin of their name, ii. 23, note; table-books, 26;
derivation of the name "book," 28; description of the form and
condition of ancient, ib.;