BARBAULD, ANNA LETITIA AIKIN.  Born at Kibworth-Harcourt, Leicestershire,
  Eng., June 20, 1743; died at Stoke-Newington, Mar. 9, 1825.  Poet and
  essayist. Life and Death.

BENET, WILLIAM ROSE.  Born at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, Feb. 2, 1886. 
  Graduated from Albany, N.Y., Academy 1904; Ph.B. from Sheffield
  Scientific School of Yale University 1907.  Reader for Century
  Magazine 1907-11; assistant editor of the same 1911-14. 2d Lieutenant
  U.S.  Air Service 1914-18.  Assistant editor of the Nation’s Business
  1919.  His books are “Merchants from Cathay,” “The Falconer of God,”
  “The Great White Wall,” and “The Burglar of the Zodiac.” His Ally;
  Mistress Fate.

BENJAMIN, PARK.  Born at Demerara, British Guiana, Aug. 14, 1809; died at
  New York City, Sept. 12, 1864.  Connected with various periodicals.
  Press On.

BINNS, HENRY BRYAN. Ultimate Act.

BRADFORD, GAMALIEL.  Born at Boston, Mass., Oct. 9, 1863; privately
  tutored till 1882; entered Harvard College 1882 but was obliged to
  leave almost immediately because of ill health.  Contributor of essays
  and poems to various magazines; has a remarkable insight into the
  characters of historical figures, and in a few pages reveals their
  inner souls.  Among his books are “Types of American Character,” “A
  Pageant of Life,” “The Private Tutor,” “Between Two Masters,” “Matthew
  Porter,” “Lee, the American,” “Confederate Portraits,” “Union
  Portraits,” “A Naturalist of Souls,” and “Portraits of American
  Women.” God; Heinelet; The Joy of Living.

BRALEY, BERTON.  Born at Madison, Wis., Jan. 29, 1882.  Graduated from the
  University of Wisconsin 1905; reporter on the Butte, Mont., Inter
  Mountain 1905-6; later with the Butte Evening News and the
  Billings, Mont., Gazette; with the New York Evening Mail 1909;
  associate editor of Puck 1910; free lance writer since 1910; special
  correspondent in Northern Europe 1915-16; in France, England, and
  Germany 1918-19.  Among his books are “Sonnets of a Freshman,” “Songs
  of a Workaday World,” “Things as They Are,” “A Banjo at Armageddon,”
  “In Camp and Trench,” and “Buddy Ballads.” Opportunity; Playing the
  Game; Start Where You Stand; Success; The Conqueror.

BRANCH, ANNA HEMPSTEAD.  Born at New London, Conn.  Graduated at Adelphi
  Academy, Brooklyn, 1893, from Smith College 1897, and from the
  American Academy of Dramatic Art, New York, 1900.  Among her books are
  “The Heart of the Road,” “The Shoes That Danced,” “Rose of the Wind,”
  and “Nimrod, and Other Poems.” Gladness.

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT.  Born at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, Eng., Mar. 6,
  1806; died at Florence, Italy, June 30, 1861.  A semi-invalid all her
  life.  Married Robert Browning 1846, and resided in Italy for the
  remainder of her life.  Author of “Casa Guidi Windows,” “Aurora Leigh,”
  and “Sonnets from the Portuguese.” Cares.