Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Mr. Carnegie’s relations with, 125-29.

Baring Brother, dealings with, 168, 169.

Barryman, Robert, an ideal Tom Bowling, 28, 29.

Bates, David Homer, quoted, 45, 46, 100.

Beecher, Henry Ward, and Matthew Arnold, 300;
  and Robert G. Ingersoll, 300, 301;
  on Herbert Spencer, 336, 337.

Behring Sea question, 350, 353-55.

Bessemer steel process, revolutionized steel manufacture, 184, 185,
  229.

Billings, Dr. J.S., of the New York Public Libraries, 259;
  director of the Carnegie Institution, 260.

Billings, Josh, 295;
  and Matthew Arnold, 303-05;
  anecdotes, 304, 305.

Bismarck, Prince, disturbs the financial world, 169.

Black, William, 298.

Blaine, James G., visits Mr. Carnegie, 216;
  and Mr. Gladstone, 320, 321, 328;
  a good story-teller, 341-43, 357;
  his Yorktown address, 341;
  at Cluny Castle, 344;
  misses the Presidency, 345;
  as Secretary of State, 345, 352-56;
  at the Pan-American Congress, 346.

Bliss, Cornelius N., 363.

Borntraeger, William, 136;
  put in charge of the Union Iron Mills, 198;
  anecdotes of, 199-201.

Botta, Professor and Madame, 150.

Braddock’s Cooeperative Society, 250.

Bridge-building, of iron, 115-29;
  at Steubenville, 116, 117;
  at Keokuk, Iowa, 154;
  at St. Louis, 155.

Bright, John, 11;
  and George Peabody, 282.

British Iron and Steel Institute, 178, 180.

Brooks, David, manager of the Pittsburgh telegraph office, 36-38,
  57-59.

Brown University, John Hay Library at, 275.

Bruce, King Robert, 18, 367.

Bryan, William J., and the treaty with Spain, 364.

Bull Run, battle of, 100.

Buelow, Prince von, 368, 370.

Burns, Robert, quoted, 3, 13, 33, 307, 313;
  Dean Stanley on, 271;
  rules of conduct, 271, 272.

Burroughs, John, and Ernest Thompson Seton, 293.

Butler, Gen. B.F., 99.

Cable, George W., 295.

Calvinism, revolt from, 22, 23, 74, 75.

Cambria Iron Company, 186.

Cameron, Simon, in Lincoln’s Cabinet, 102, 103;
  a man of sentiment, 104;
  anecdote of, 104, 105.

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 313;
  and Trust for the Universities of Scotland, 269, 271;
  Prime Minister, 312, 313.

Carnegie, Andrew, grandfather of A.C., 2, 3.

Carnegie, Andrew, birth, 2;
  ancestry, 2-6;
  fortunate in his birthplace, 6-8;
  childhood in Dunfermline, 7-18;
  a violent young republican, 10-12;
  goes to school, 13-15, 21;
  early usefulness to his parents, 14;
  learns history from his Uncle Lauder, 15, 16;
  intensely Scottish, 16, 18;
  trained in recitation, 20;