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of the claims of authors -to fair treatment from 

 their publishers, and devoted an immense amount 

 of time and thought to the work of the Society 

 of Authors, an organization of which he was 

 chairman in 1887-'92. He had also been secre- 

 tary of the Palestine Exploration Fund from 

 1868. In 1890 he was knighted. With Edward 

 H. Palmer, Besant wrote Jerusalem, the City of 

 Herod and Saladin (1871), and with Walter H. 

 Pollock The Charm and Other Drawing-room 

 Plays (1898). A list of the works written by 

 Besant and Rice includes Relady Money Morti- 

 boy (1871); My Little Girl (1873); This Son of 

 Vulcan (1876); The Golden Butterfly (1876); 

 The Case of Mr. Lucraft, and Other Tales (1876) ; 

 With Harp and Crown (1877); The Monks of 

 Thelema (1878); By Celia's Arbor (1878); 'Twas 

 in Trafalgar's Bay (1879); The Seamy Side 

 (1880); Sir Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor 

 of London (1881); The Ten Years' Tenant, and 

 Other Stories (1881); and The Chaplain of the 

 Fleet (1881). The various books of which Besant 

 was sole author comprise Studies in Early French 

 Poetry (1868) ; When George the Third was King 

 (1872); The French Humorists from the Twelfth 

 to the Nineteenth Century (1873); Book of 

 French (1877); Gaspard de Coligny (1879); 

 Rabelais, for Classics Series (1879) ; The Revolt 

 of Man (1882); All Sorts and Conditions of Men 

 (1882); Readings in Rabelais (1883); All in a 

 Garden Fair (1883); Life and Achievements of 

 Edward H. Palmer (1883); The Captain's Room 

 (1883); The Art of Fiction, a lecture (1884); 

 Dorothy Forster (1884); Uncle Jack (1885); 

 Children of Gibeon (1886); To Call Her Mine 

 (1886); Katherine Regina (1887); The World 

 Went very Well Then (1887); The Holy Rose 

 (1887); The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies (1888); 

 Fifty Years, Ago (1888); Herr Paulus (1888); 

 The Inner House (1888); For Faith and Free- 

 dom (1888) ; The Bell of Saint Paul's (1889) ; The 

 Lament of Dives (1889); Captain Cook (1890); 

 Armorel of Lyonnesse (1890); The Demoniac 

 (1890); The Chaplain's Secret (1891); Saint 

 Katherine's by the Tower (1891); The Ivory 

 Gate (1892); London (1892); Verbena Camellia 

 Stephanotis, and Other Stories (1892); Dorothy 

 Wallis (1892); The Rebel Queen (1893); History 

 of London, abridged (1893); Beyond the Dreams 

 of Avarice (1895) ; In Deacon's Orders, and Other 

 Stories (1895); Westminster (1895); The City 

 of Refuge (1896); Master Craftsman (1896); 

 The Rise of the Empire (1897); A Fountain 

 Sealed (1897); The Queen's Reign (1897); The 

 Changeling (1898) ; The Pen and the Book (1898) ; 

 South London (1898); The Orange Girl (1899); 

 The Alabaster Box (1900); The Fourth Genera- 

 tion (1900); East London (1901); The Lady of 

 Lynn (1901); The Way Out (1901); The Story 

 of King Alfred (1901). 



Bhopal, Shah Jehan, Begum of, born in 1838; 

 died June 16, 1901. Her mother, Sikandar Be- 

 gum, resisted the efforts of her advisers in 1857 

 to induce her to join the Indian mutiny, instead 

 of which she sheltered at great risk the English 

 officers fleeing from Indore. The daughter suc- 

 ceeded to the throne in 1868. Her second hus- . 

 band, Sirdar Mohammed Sadik Hussein, while 

 she was in retirement, mismanaged the state and 

 was deprived of power about 1882 by the Indian 

 Government, which sent Col. Ward to conduct 

 the administration and the finances. Her own 

 rule had been firm and just, and since that period 

 the state has made great progress with native 

 ministers. She was fond of Europeans, and was 

 noted for liberality and benevolence as well as 

 for administrative qualities. Her daughter and 

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successor, the Nawab Sultan .fehan, horn in 1867, 

 is the third consecutive female ruler of IJhopal. 



Bismarck, Count Wilhelm, a Prussian ad- 

 ministrator, born in Frankt'ort-on-t lie-Mu 

 1852; died in Varzin, May 30, l!Hj). || ( . , A; 

 younger son of Prince Bismarck, He >,i.u<l 

 Bonn, entered the dragoon regimem. 

 guards' as a one-year volunteer, went, 

 front in 1870, and with his brother took 

 the charge at Mars la Tour, winning a l'i 

 ancy. In 1873 he was attached as a civilian to 

 the staff of Gen. von Manteuffel, Statt.ha.ltor ot 

 the Reichsland of Alsace-Lorraine, and at the 

 same time was elected member of the Reichstag 

 for Miihlhausen, Thuringia, which he represente< 

 till 1881, after which he represented Schlaw 

 Rummelsberg in the Prussian Chamber till 1885, 

 rising meanwhile in the administration to be 

 subpresident of the province of Hanover. When 

 his father was dismissed he did not, like his 

 brother Herbert, who was in the political service, 

 quit office, and in a short time he was advanced 

 to be chief president of East Prussia. He held 

 this office till his death, and in quarrels with 

 the municipality of Konigsberg his conduct was 

 considered arbitrary, although his character was 

 genial like that of his father, to whom he bore 

 a striking likeness. From his father he inherited 

 the estate of Varzin. 



Block, Maurice, a French statistician, born in 

 Berlin, Prussia, Feb. 16, 1816; died in Paris, Jan. 

 15, 1901. He lived in Paris from the age of five 

 years, became a naturalized Frenchman, entered 

 the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of 

 Agriculture and Commerce, became assistant su- 

 perintendent of the bureau, left the public service 

 to write for French and foreign periodicals, won 

 the Montyon prize for statistics in 1861, pub- 

 lished a great number of articles and studies on 

 statistical and economical subjects, and was 

 elected to the Academy of Moral and Political 

 Sciences as successor to Leonce de Lavergne. 



Bbcklin, Arnold, a Swiss painter, born in 

 Basel, Oct. 16, 1827; died in Fiesole, Tuscany, 

 Jan. 23, 1901. He was a silk-merchant's son, and 

 was driven out by his relatives when they could 

 not break his resolution to become an artist. 

 He was the pupil first of the romantic Diissel- 

 dorf painter Schirmer, from whose methods as a 

 colorist he gradually departed until no trace of 

 his master's influence can be discerned in his 

 riper works. He had received a good education 

 in the gymnasium when he arrived without a 

 heller in Diisseldorf, whence he wandered, penni- 

 less still, first to Antwerp, then to Paris, and 

 when the terrors of the revolution and his ex- 

 treme poverty drove him from there to Rome at 

 last, where his characteristic style unfolded. 

 Neither classic nor Renaissance examples at- 

 tracted him, but the landscape under the Italian 

 sky, as seen in the country around Rome; and 

 then the pagan mysteries of the ancient world 

 began to work upon his romantic spirit. He 

 put figures in his landscapes, not classic in con- 

 ception but transformed by German fancy and 

 humor into singular grotesque shapes. Needy as 

 ever, simple and ignorant of the world, careless 

 and light-hearted as a child, he astonished his 

 brother artists who commiserated his eccentric- 

 ity and his lack of worldly wisdom and of world- 

 ly goods by his brilliant flashes of thought and 

 imagination, his philosophical reflections, and the 

 extent of his learning. He took a beautiful wife 

 to share his wretched state. Lenbach and Heyse, 

 recognizing his high artistic gifts, induced him 

 to go to Munich, where Count Schack became in- 

 terested in him, and the few who believed in his 



