I ides Festus (1839), he published The Angel 

 Vorld, and Other Poems (1850) ; The Mystic, and 

 Other Poems (1855); The Age, a Colloquial Sat- 

 ire (1858) ; The International Policy of the Great 

 Powers (1861); and The Universal Hymn (1868). 

 Barail, Gen. du, French soldier, born in 1820; 

 died in Neuilly, Jan. 24, 1902. He took part as a 

 lieutenant in the capture of Abdul Kader, served 

 several years in Algeria and performed distin- 

 guished services as commandant of Laghouat, 

 served in the Mexican campaign as colonel, com- 

 manded a division of cavalry in the war of 1870, 

 and fought at Mars-la-Tour and St. Privat, 

 and was taken to Germany a prisoner at the sur- 

 render of Metz. On returning to France after 

 the peace he was placed in command of a division 

 in the Versailles cavalry army corps, and took 

 an active part in suppressing the Paris Com- 

 mune. On May 29, 1873, when the Thiers Cab- 

 inet was overturned, Marshal MacMahon made 

 him Minister of War, and when the Reactionary 

 ministry was driven out he was assigned to the 

 command of the engineer corps and retired short- 

 ly afterward. 



Barlow, William. Henry, English civil engi- 

 neer, born May 10, 1812; died Nov. 14, 1902. He 

 was a brother of the eminent engineer Peter Wil- 

 liam Barlow. He was educated for the engineer- 

 ing profession at the Royal Dockyard, Woolwich, 

 England, and at the age of twenty was sent to 

 Constantinople to superintend the erection of 

 buildings and machinery for the Turkish Govern- 

 ment. He was resident engineer to the Midland 

 Railway in 1842-'57, and as consulting engineer of 

 that system designed the St. Pancras terminal sta- 

 tion in London, with a roof of 240 feet span. The 

 new Tay Bridge was constructed by him, 1880-'87. 

 He went to the United States in 1876 as one of the 

 judges of the Centennial Commission, was a fel- 

 low of the Royal Society, was admitted a member 

 of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1845, and 

 was its president in 1880. He published Illumina- 

 tion of Lighthouses (1837); Diurnal Electric 

 Tides and Storms (1848); Resistance of Flexure 

 in Beams (1865) ; and The Logograph (1874). 



Baxter, Mrs. Lucy E. (Barnes), English au- 

 thor, born in Mere, Wiltshire, England, about 

 1835 ; died in Florence, Italy, Nov. 10, 1902. She 

 was a daughter of the Rev. William Barnes, the 

 Dorsetshire poet, and was educated at home. She 

 began at eighteen to contribute stories to ladies' 

 annuals, and throughout her life she clung to the 

 pen name her father had suggested, of " Leader 

 Scott." In 1867 she married S. T. Baxter, and 

 thenceforward resided in Italy. She was popular 

 in Italian literary and artistic circles, and was 

 an honorary member of the Accademia delle 

 Belle Arti. Her published books include The 

 Painter's Ordeal; A Nook in the Apennines 

 (1879); Fra Bartolommeo and Andrea del Sarto, 

 in the Great Artists Series (1889) ; Fra Angelico, 

 in the same series (1881) ; The Renaissance of Art 

 in Italy (1882); Messer Agnolo's Household: A 

 Cinque* Cento Florentine Story (1882); Ghiberti 

 nd Donatello, with Other Early Italian Sculptors 

 1882) : Luca della Robbia, in Great Artists Se- 

 (1883); A Bunch of Berries and the Diver- 

 ons Thereof (1883); Sculpture: Renaissance 

 nd Modern (1886) ; Tuscan Studies and Sketches 

 {1887) ; The Life of William Barnes, Poet and 

 'hilologist (1887); Vincigliata and Mariano 



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architecture of Europe to the labors of a great 

 masonic guild, the Magistri Comacini, but her 

 theory has not met with much support from com- 

 petent authorities. 



Beckles, Edward Hyndman, English coloni- 

 al prelate, born in Barbados in 1810; died Dec. 5, 

 1902. He was the son of the president of the 

 island, and after obtaining an education at Cod- 

 rington College, Barbados, he was admitted to the 

 priesthood of the Anglican Church in 1844. A 

 short curacy at Holy Trinity Church, Port of 

 Spain, Trinidad, 1843-'44, was succeeded by the 

 incumbency of several years of St. Michael's par- 

 ish, Diego Martin, in the same island, and for six 

 years of this period he was chaplain to the Eng- 

 lish forces there. He then passed a short time in 

 England, holding brief curacies in London, but 

 in 1853 became rector of St. Peter's, in the island 

 of St. Kitts. In 1860 he was made Bishop of 

 Sierra Leone, but he resigned his see in 1869, and, 

 going to England, was successively minister of 

 Berkely Chapel, London, 1869-'70; rector of 

 Wootten, Kent, 1870-73, and vicar of St. Peter's, 

 Bethnal Green, London, 1873-1902. He had been 

 incapacitated for active parish duty for several 

 years preceding his death. In 1877-'82 he was 

 supervising bishop of the Episcopal churches in 

 Scotland. 



Belcredi, Count Richard, Austrian statesman, 

 born in 1823; died in Gmiinden, Dec. 3, 1902. 

 His family had been prominent in Austrian poli- 

 tics for several generations, and he had a brilliant 

 administrative career, becoming Statthalter of 

 Bohemia in 1864. In the following year he was 

 made Prime Minister of Austria. He was the 

 leader of the Feudal Conservative element, which 

 promoted the federal system in Austria, and was - 

 placed at the head of the Government appointed 

 to carry out this plan, but the defeat of the Aus- 

 trian army brought the centralistic German 

 party once more into power. His ministry was 

 signalized by the suspension of the Constitution. 

 The disastrous war with Prussia had for its re- 

 sult the return to a constitutional regime and the 

 compromise with Hungary. Belcredi retired in 

 1867. In 1881 he was recalled from obscurity to 

 the post of president of the Court of Administra- 

 tive Justice and made a member of the House of 

 Lords. 



Bennett, Alfred William, English botanist, 

 born in London, England, in 1833; died Jan. 23, 

 1902. He received his education at University 

 College, London, and for many years was a lec- 

 turer on botany at St. Thomas's Hospital, Lon- 

 don. He published (with G. Murray) a Hand- 

 book of Cryptogamic Botany (1889) and a val- 

 uable Flora of the Alps (1896). 



Bennigsen, Rudolf von, German politician, 

 born in Liineburg, July 10, 1822; died Aug. 8, 

 1902. He studied law and entered the Hanoverian 

 civil service in 1846, resigning his office in 1857 

 to take a seat in the lower chamber of the Diet, 

 where he joined with Dr. von Miquel in founding 

 the German National Union with the object of 

 realizing the federation of the German states 

 under the headship of Prussia with a strong con- 

 stitutional Central Government. He endeavoivd 

 to avert the annexation of Hanover to Prussia 

 in 1866 by a declaration of neutrality, and after 

 the incorporation was accomplished he strove all 

 the harder to bring about German unity with 



(1891) ; The Orti Oricellari (1893) ; Echoes of Old popular parliamentary institutions, and the Na- 

 (1894); The Castle of Vincigliata tional Liberal party of which he was the leader 



extended its activity and organization to all 

 parts of Germany. When the North German 

 Federation was constituted in 1867 he was elected 



lorence 



(1897) ; The Cathedral Builders (1899) ; and Filip- 

 di Ser Brunellesco (1901). The Cathedral 

 Builders, her most important work, is a scholarly 

 ind ingenious attempt to refer the medieval 



to the North German Reichstag and to the Prus- 



