Babrius First Century A.D. 
   The North Wind and the Sun
   Jupiter and the Monkey
   The Mouse that Fell into the Pot
   The Fox and the Grapes
   The Carter and Hercules
   The Young Cocks
   The Arab and the Camel
   The Nightingale and the Swallow
   The Husbandman and the stork
   The Pine
   The Woman and Her Maid-Servants
   The Lamp
   The Tortoise and the Hare

Francis Bacon (by Charlton T. Lewis) 1561-1626
   Of Truth (’Essays’)
   Of Revenge (same)
   Of Simulation and Dissimulation (same)
   Of Travel (same)
   Of Friendship (same)
   Defects of the Universities (’The Advancement of Learning’)
   To My Lord Treasurer Burghley
   In Praise of Knowledge
   To the Lord Chancellor
   To Villiers on his Patent as a Viscount
   Charge to Justice Hutton
   A Prayer, or Psalm
   From the ‘Apophthegms’
   Translation of the 137th Psalm
   The World’s a Bubble

Walter bagehot (by Forrest Morgan) 1826-1877
   The Virtues of Stupidity (’Letters on the French Coup
     d’Etat’)
   Review Writing (’The First Edinburgh Reviewers’)
   Lord Eldon (same)
   Taste (’Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning’)
   Causes of the Sterility of Literature (’Shakespeare’)
   The Search for Happiness (’William Cowper’)
   On Early Reading (’Edward Gibbon’)
   The Cavaliers (’Thomas Babington Macaulay’)
   Morality and Fear (’Bishop Butler’)
   The Tyranny of Convention (’Sir Robert Peel’)
   How to Be an Influential Politician (’Bolingbroke’)
   Conditions of Cabinet Government (’The English Constitution’)
   Why Early Societies could not be Free (’Physics and
     Politics’)
   Benefits of Free Discussion in Modern Times (same)
   Origin of Deposit Banking (’Lombard Street’)

Jens Baggesen 1764-1826
   A Cosmopolitan (’The Labyrinth’)
   Philosophy on the Heath (same)
   There was a Time when I was Very Little

Philip James Bailey 1816-
   From “Festus”:  Life:  The Passing-Bell; Thoughts;
   Dreams; Chorus of the Saved

Joanna Baillie 1762-1851
   Woo’d and Married and A’
   It Was on a Morn when We were Thrang
   Fy, Let Us A’ to the Wedding
   The Weary Pund o’ Tow
   From ‘De Montfort’
   To Mrs. Siddons
   A Scotch Song
   Song, ‘Poverty Parts Good Company’
   The Kitten

HENRY MARTYN BAIRD 1832- The Battle of Ivry (’The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre’)

Sir Samuel white baker 1821-1893
   Hunting in Abyssinia (’The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia’)
   The Sources of the Nile (’The Albert Nyanza’)