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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



Bell, Laura. Pendennis, Thackeray. One of the 

 sweetest heroines in English literature. 



Bell, Peter. Peter Bell, Wordsworth. An extremely 

 prosaic man. 



Hellas ton, Lady. Tom Jones, Fielding. One of Tom 

 Jones' sweethearts. 



Bellenden, Lady, Old Mortality, Scott. A Tory 

 gentlewoman. 



Belphoabe. The Faery Queene. Spenser. A pseu- 

 donym for Queen Elizabeth. 



Belvidera. Venice Preserved, Otivay. The heroine 

 of the poem. 



Benedick. Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare. 

 A confirmed bachelor who was converted to matrimony 

 by the lovely Beatrice. From this gentleman comes the 

 name Benedick or Benedict applied to married men 

 who were not going; to marry. 



Bennet, Mrs. Amelia, Fielding. An improper char- 

 acter. 



Benvolio. Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. One of 

 Romeo's friends. 



Bertram. All's Well, that Ends Well, Shakespeare. 

 The hero of the play, who marries Helena. 



Bianca. Othello, Shakespeare. Oassio's sweetheart. 



Birch, Harvey. The Spy, Cooper. The chief char- 

 acter of the novel. 



liilfil. Tom Jones, Fielding. Allworthy's nephew, 

 a talebearer. 



Blember, Miss Cornelia. Dombey and Son, Dickens. 

 A bluestocking governess. 



Bobadil, Captain. Every Man in His Humor, Jon- 

 son. A boasting coward. 



Boauf , Front de. Ivanhoe, Scott. One of King 

 John's followers. A ferocious scoundrel. 



Bomii, Noddy. Our Mutual Friend, Dickens. The 

 good-natured occupant of Boffin's Bower. 



Bois Guilbert, Brian de. Ivanhoe, Scott. The 

 master of the Knights Templars. 



Boniface. The Beaux Stratagem, Farquhar. A 

 landlord. Hence applied to landlords generally. 



Booby, Lady. Joseph Andrews, Fielding. One of 

 the minor characters. 



Booth. Amelia, Fielding. The hero of the story. 



Bottom, Nick. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 

 Shakespeare. A ridiculous weaver with whom Titania, 

 the queen of the fairies, is forced to fall in love by a 

 charm. 



Bounderby, Josiah. Hard Times, Dickens. A pro- 

 saic, matter-of-fact manufacturer. 



Bowles, Tom. Keneltn Chillingly, Bidivcr. A black- 

 smith. 



Bowline, Tom. Roderick Random, Smollett. A 

 sailor, whose name has been applied to mariners ever 

 since. 



Box and Cox. Box and Cox, Morton. The heroes of 

 the farce. 



Bradwardine, Baron. Waverley, Scott. The father 

 of Rose Bradwardine. 



Bramble, Matthew. Humphrey Clinker, Smollett. 

 A walking epitome of dyspepsia. 



Brangtons. Evelina, Miss Burney. Very vulgar 

 people. 



Brass, Sally and Sampson. Old Curiosity Shop, 

 Dickens. A shystering lawyer and his sister. 



Brick, Jefferson. Martin Chuzzleivit, Dickens. A 

 ridiculous American editor. 



Bridgenorth, Major Ralph. Peveril of the Peak, 

 Scott. A prominent officer in the Puritan Army. 



Bridget, Mrs. Tristram Shandy, Sterne. Tristram's 

 nurse. 



Brown, Tom. Tom Brown's School Days and Tom 

 Brown at Oxford, Thos. Hiighes. The hero of one of 

 the best boys* books ever written in English. 



Bucket, Inspector. Bleak House, Dickens. A de- 

 tective. 



Bumble. Oliver Twist, Dickens. A beadle. 



Caius, Doctor. Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakes- 

 peare. Ann Page's "Welsh lover. 



Caliban. The Tempest, Shakespeare. Prospero's mon- 

 strous servant. 



Candor, Mrs. The Rivals, Sheridan. A scandal 

 monger. 



Carker. Dombey and Son, Dickens. A scoundrelly 

 clerk. 



Casslo. Othello, Shakespeare. Othello's lieutenant. 



Caudle, Mrs. Curtain Lectures, Douglas Jerrold. 

 An artistic scold. 



Caustic, Col. The Lounger. Mackenzie. A satirical 

 gentleman. 



Celia. As You Like It, Shakespeare. Rosalind's 

 cousin. 



Chadband. Bleak House, Dickeng. A hypocrite. 



Chamont. The Orphans, Otway. The hero of the 

 play. 



Chillingly, Keiielm. Ketnliu chillingly. Buiwer 

 The hero of the novel. 



Christabei. Chrisfulirl. Cnhriilije. The heroine of 

 the poem. 



Christiana. Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan. The wife 

 of the hero Christian. 



Chuzzlewit, Jonas and Martin. Martin c/, ,/-,;/, 

 ivit, JHckens. The first a miser and murderer, the sec- 

 ond the hero of Dickens' story. 



Clare, Ada. Bleak House, Dickens. The wife of 

 Carstone, and one of the most important characters in 

 the story. 



Clifford, Paul. Paul Clifford, Buhcer. A beautiful 

 highwayman hero. 



Clinker, Humphrey. Humphrey Clinker, Smollett. 

 A philosophical young man who meets very singular 

 adventures. 



Coalebs. Calebs in Search of a Wife, Hannah .\fon. 

 A gentleman who has very precise ideas on the subjects 

 of matrimony and woman. 



Coldstream, Sir Charles. Used l'j>, Matthews. A 

 fatigued and weary man of the world. 



Consuelo. Consuelo, George Sand. The heroine of 

 the novel, a rather inflammable young lady. 



Copper Captain, The. Rule a Wife and. Hurt' a 

 Wife, Beaumont and Fletcher. A nickname applied to 

 Perez, the boastful coward of the play. 



Copperfleld, David. David Copperfield, Dirl.-1-ns. 

 The hero of the novel, supposed to be a picture of 

 Dickens' own life and character. 



Cordelia. King Lear, Shakespeare. The faithful 

 daughter of the king in the play. 



Corirme. Corinne, Mme. de Sta'el. The heroine of 

 de StaeTs greatest work. 



Costigan, Captain. Pendennis, Tlitic/.rrtiy. The 

 father of Pendennis' first sweetheart, a hard drinking 

 but amusing old man. 



Coverley, Sir Roger de. Spectator. A/lilison. A 

 model country gentleman of the olden time. 



Crane, Ichabod. Sleepy Hollow, Irnny. The school- 

 master in the sketch. 



Crawley, Rawdon. Vanity Fair, Thackeray. The 

 hero of "the novel without a hero." The husband of 

 Becky Sharp. 



Cressida. Troilus ail < n.^ii/n. Shakespeare. The 

 heroine of the play, in love with Troilus. 



Crummies, Vincent. Nicholas Nickleby, Dickens. 

 A theatrical head of a theatrical family. 



Crusoe, Robinson. Robinson Crusoe, DeFoe. The 

 hero of the most remarkable novel ever written. It has 

 been translated into every civilized language on the 

 globe. The story relates Crusoe's adventures on a desert 

 isle upon which he was cast by the sea, and is one of 

 intense interest. 



Cuttle, Captain. Dombey and Son, />/'<;,. ,/x. A 

 nautical character who indulges in a number of queer 

 mannerisms. 



Cymbeline. Cymbeline, Shakespeare. A heroic king 

 of Britain. 



Dalgarno, Lord. The Fortunes of Nigel, Scott. A 

 Scottish nobleman of bad character. ' 



Dalgetty, Dugald. Waverley, Scott. A famous and 

 well drawn soldier of fortune, whose name has become 

 proverbial. 



Deans, Davie, \'A\\M. and Jeanie. Heart of Miillo- 

 thian, Scott. Famous^characters in the story, .lea me 

 is the heroine. 



Dedlock, Lady, and Sir Leicester. Jilcak House, 

 Dickens. Husband and wife, proud anil unfortunate, 

 but noble people. 



Delamaine, Geoffrey. Man and Wife, Coll lux. A 

 man of muscle. 



Delphine. Delphinc, .!//<. de Statl. The heroine of 

 the novel. 



Deronda, Daniel. Daniel Derondn. Ueorye Eliot. 

 The hero of the novel, one of the best character sketches 

 which George Eliot has made. 



Desdemona. Othello, Shakespeare. The unfortunate 

 heroine of the play, wife of the Moor Othello. 



Diddler, Jeremy. Raising the Wiiul. Klvny. Th 

 prototype of all modern deadbeats. 



Dimuiesdale, Rev. Arthur. The Scarlet Letter, 

 Hawthorne. The seducer of Hester Prynne. 



Dods, Meg. St. Ronan's Well, Scott. A landlady. 



