BRYCE, RIGHT HON.  JAMES, P.C., D.C.L., etc. (1838).—­Historical and political writer, etc. The Holy Roman Empire (1862), Transcaucasia and Ararat (1877), The American Commonwealth (1888), Studies in History and Jurisprudence (1901), Studies in Contemporary Biography (1903), etc.

BUCHAN, JOHN (1875).—­Novelist, etc. Musa Piscatrix (1896), Scholar-Gipsies (1896), John Burnet of Barns (1898), The Watcher by the Threshold (1902), and A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906).

BUDGE, ERNEST A. WALLIS, Litt.D., etc.—­Orientalist, etc.  Has produced ed. of numerous Assyrian and Egyptian texts. The Dwellers on the Nile (1885), Excavations at Aswan (1888), Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys, etc. (1891), Book of the Dead (1895), The Laughable Stories of Bar-Hebraeus (1896), A History of Egypt, etc. (1902), The Gods of Egypt (1903), The Egyptian Sudan (1907), etc.

BULLEN, ARTHUR HENRY (1857).—­Ed. of Old English writers.  Ed. Works of John Day, dramatist (1881), Collection of Old English Plays (1882-84), Selections from Poems of Michael Drayton (1883), ed.  Works of Marlowe, Middleton, Marston, Peele, Campion, Lyrics from the Song Books of Elizabethan Age (1886), England’s Helicon (1887), works of Thos.  Traherne, W. Strode, etc.

BULLEN, FRANK THOMAS (1857).—­Writer of nautical romances. The Cruise of the Cachalot, Idylls of the Sea, With Christ at Sea, A Whaleman’s Wife, Sea Wrack, Sea Puritans, A Son of the Sea, Frank Brown, etc.

BURNAND, SIR FRANCIS COWLEY (1836).—­Humorist and dramatist, ed. of Punch (1880-1906), to which he contributed Mokeanna, Strapmore, Happy Thoughts, etc.  Has written over 120 plays, including Black-eyed Susan, The Colonel, Contrabandista, His Majesty, etc.

BURNETT, MRS. FRANCES HODGSON (1849).—­Novelist and dramatist. That Lass o’ Lowrie’s (1877), Haworths (1879), A Fair Barbarian (1881), Through One Administration (1883), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Lady of Quality (1896), Making of a Marchioness (1901), etc.  Plays, Phyllis, The Showman’s Daughter, Esmeralda, Little Lord Fauntleroy, etc.

BURY, JOHN B., LL.D., etc. (1861).—­Historian. History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene (1889), History of Greece to Death of Alexander the Great (1900), Life of St. Patrick (1905); has ed. Pindar’s Nemean Odes and Isthmian Odes, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, and part of E.A.  Freeman’s works.

BUTCHER, SAMUEL HENRY, LL.D., etc. (1850).—­Scholar. Prose Translation of the Odyssey (1879), with A. Lang, Some Aspects of the Greek Genius (1891-1904), Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry, (1895, 1903). etc.