Lord Beaconsfield (by Isa Carrington Cabell) 1804-1881
   A Day at Ems (’Vivian Grey’)
   The Festa in the Alhambra (’The Young Duke’)
   Squibs from ‘The Young Duke’:  Charles Annesley; The
          Fussy Hostess; Public Speaking; Female Beauty
   Lothair in Palestine (’Lothair’)

Beaumarchais 1732-1799
   Outwitting a Guardian (’The Barber of Seville’)
   Outwitting a Husband (’The Marriage of Figaro’)

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher 1584-1625
   The Faithful Shepherdess
   Song
   Song
   Aspatia’s Song
   Leandro’s Song
   True Beauty
   Ode to Melancholy
   To Ben Jonson, on His ‘Fox’
   On the Tombs in Westminster
   Arethusa’s Declaration (’Philaster’)
   The Story of Bellario (same)
   Evadne’s Confession (’The Maid’s Tragedy’)
   Death of the Boy Hengo (’Bonduca’)
   From ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen’

William Beckford 1759-1844
   The Incantation and the Sacrifice (’Vathek’)
   Vathek and Nouronihar in the Halls of Eblis (same)

Henry ward Beecher 1813-1887
   Book-Stores and Books (’Star Papers’)
   Selected Paragraphs
   Sermon:  Poverty and the Gospel
   A New England Sunday (’Norwood’)

Ludwig van Beethoven (by Irenaeus Stevenson) 1770-1827
   Letters:  To Dr. Wegeler; To the Same; To Bettina
      Brentano; To Countess Giulietta Guicciardi; To the
      Same; To His Brothers; To the Royal and Imperial
      High Court of Appeal; To Baroness von Drossdick;
      To Zmeskall; To the Same; To Stephan v.  Breuning

Carl Michael Bellman (by Olga Flinch) 1740-1795
   To Ulla
   Cradle-Song for My Son Carl
   Amaryllis
   Art and Politics
   Drink Out Thy Glass

Jeremy Bentham 1748-1832
   Of the Principle of Utility (’An Introduction to the
          Principles of Morals and Legislation’)
   Reminiscences of Childhood
   Letter to George Wilson (1781)
   Fragment of a Letter to Lord Lansdowne (1790)

Jean-Pierre de Beranger (by Alcee Fortier) 1780-1857
   From ‘The Gipsies’
   The Gad-Fly
   Draw It Mild
   The King of Yvetot
   Fortune
   The People’s Reminiscences
   The Old Tramp
   Fifty Years
   The Garret
   My Tomb
   From His Preface to His Collected Poems

George Berkeley 1685-1753
   On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America
   Essay on Tar-Water (’Siris’)