BECKE, GEORGE LOUIS (1848).—­Novelist. By Reef and Palm (1890), A First Fleet Family (1896), Pacific Tales (1897), Tom Wallis (1900), Yorke, the Adventurer (1901), Chinkie’s Flat (1903), etc.; and with W. Jeffery, His Native Wife (1896), The Mutineer, Admiral Phillip (1899), The Tapu of Benderah, etc.

BEECHING, REV.  HENRY CHARLES, D.Litt. (1859).—­Miscellaneous writer. In a Garden and other Poems (1895), Pages from a Private Diary (1898), various vols. of sermons, etc., including Seven Sermons to Schoolboys (1894), The Grace of Episcopacy (1906); has ed. A Paradise of English Poetry (1892), Lyra Sacra (1894), and various English classics, etc.

BEERBOHM, MAX (1872).—­Essayist and dramatic critic, The Works of Max Beerbohm, The Happy Hypocrite, Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen, More (1898), Yet Again (1909), etc.

BEESLY, EDWARD SPENCER (1831).—­Writer on history and philosophy. Catiline, Clodius, and Tiberius (1878), Queen Elizabeth (1892), has translated various works of Aug.  Comte, etc.

BELL, HENRY THOMAS MACKENZIE (1856).—­Poet and critic. Spring’s Immortality and other Poems, Christina Rossetti, Pictures of Travel and other Poems (1898), Collected Poems (1901).

BELLOC, HILAIRE (1870).—­Miscellaneous writer. The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts (1896), More Beasts for Worse Children (1897), The Moral Alphabet, Danton (1899), Lambkin’s Remains (1900), Robespierre (1901), Caliban’s Guide to Letters (1903), Mr. Burden (1904), Esto Perpetua (1906), The Historic Thames (1907), The Path to Rome, etc.

BENNETT, ENOCH ARNOLD (1867).—­Novelist, etc. A Man from the North (1898), Polite Farces (1899), Anna of the Five Towns (1902), A Great Man (1904), The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907), Buried Alive (1908), Old Wives’ Tale (1908), etc.

BENSON, ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER (1862).—­Poet, biographer and miscellaneous writer. Poems (1893), Lyrics (1895), The Professor and other Poems (1900), The House of Quiet (1903), Peace and other Poems (1905), From a College Window (1906), Beside Still Waters (1907), books on Tennyson, Rossetti, E. Fitzgerald, Walter Pater, etc.

BENSON, EDWARD FREDERIC (1867).—­Novelist. Dodo (1893), Rubicon (1894), Judgment Books (1895), The Babe B.A. (1897), Vintage (1898), Scarlet and Hyssop (1902), Image in the Sand (1905).  Plays, Aunt Jeannie (1902), House of Defence (1907), etc.

BERDOE, EDWARD (1836).—­Writer on Browning, etc. Browning’s Message to his Time (1890), Browning Cyclopaedia (1891), Biographical and Historical Notes to Browning’s Complete Works (1894), Browning and the Christian Faith (1896), A Browning Primer (1904), and various books on medicine, etc.