Abercorn, Marq. and Marchioness of,
Allegra, death of; buried at Harrow,
Athenaeum Club,
Austen, Miss Jane, “Northanger
  Abbey,”; Novels published
  by Murray,
Austria, Empress of,

Baillie, Miss Joanna,
Ballantyne & Co. (John & James),
  bill transactions with Murray;
  partnership with
  Scott; proposed edition of
  “British Novelists,”; Works
  of De Foe; James B. meets
  Murray at Boroughbridge;
  appointed Edinburgh agents for
  Q.R.; views on Q.R.;
  close alliance with Murray;
  financial difficulties;
  breach with Murray; failure
  of Edinburgh Ann.  Reg.;
  “Waverley,”; “Lord of the
  Isles,”; “Don Roderick,”;
  Scott’s proposed letters
  from the Continent; proposal
  to Murray and Blackwood
  about Scott’s works; in
  debt to Scott; “Tales of
  my Landlord,” “The Black
  Dwarf,”; bankruptcy;
  death of John Ballantyne,
Barker, Miss,
Barrow, Sir John, induced by
  Canning to write for Q.  R.;
  visit to Gifford; consulted
  by Murray about voyages or
  travels; nicknamed “Chronometer”
  by B. Disraeli,
Bartholdy, Baron,
Barton, Bernard,
Basevi, junr., George,
Bastard, Capt.,
Beattie, Dr.,
Bedford, Grosvenor,
Bell, Lady,
Bell & Bradfute,
Bellenden, Mary,
Belzoni, Giovanni,
Berry, Miss, edits “Horace Walpole’s
  Reminiscences,”
Blackwood, William, appointed
  Murray’s Agent for Scotland;
  visits Murray; intimacy with
  Murray; early career;
  threatens Constable with proceedings
  for printing Byron’s
  “Poems,”; refuses to sell
  “Don Juan,”; alliance and
  correspondence with Murray;
  Ballantyne’s proposals
  about Scott’s works; Blackwood’s
  Magazine started;
  Murray’s remonstrance about the
  personality of articles;
  Hazlitts libel action;
  interested with Murray in various
  works,
Blackwood’s Magazine started
  (first called Edinburgh Magazine);
  article attacking
  Byron; “Ancient Chaldee
  MS.,”; “The Cockney
  School of Poetry,”; personality
  of articles,;
  “Hypocrisy Unveiled,” etc.;
  Murray retires from—­Cadell and
  Davies appointed London Agents
  for,
Blessington, Countess of, “Conversations
  with Lord Byron,”
Blewitt, Octavian,
Borrow, George,
  his youth;
  capacity for learning languages;
  appointed Agent to the Bible Society—­Russia, Norway, Turkey and Spain,
  his translation of the Bible;
  called Lavengro,
  his splendid physique,
  “Gypsies of Spain,”
  “The Bible in Spain,”
  as a horse-breaker,
  remarks on Allan Cunningham’s death,
  asked to become a member of the Royal Institution,
“Boswell’s Johnson,”
  Croker’s edition of,
Bray, Mrs.,
Brockedon, William,