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The Nuttall Encyclopaedia Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Nuttall Encyclopaedia novel. A total of 464 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.by P. Austin Nuttall.PREFACE "The NUTTALL ENCYCLOPaeDIA&q
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.by P. Austin Nuttall.PREFACE "The NUTTALL ENCYCLOPaeDIA" is the fruit of a project to provide, in a concise and condensed form, and at a cheap rate, an epitome of the kind of information given in the larger Encyclopaedi
- 1 The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.by P. Austin Nuttall.PREFACE "The NUTTALL ENCYCLOPaeDIA" is the fruit of a project to provide, in a concise and condensed form, and at a cheap rate, an epitome of the kind of information given in the larger Encyclopaedi
- 2 ABEL, SIR F. A., a chemist who has made a special study of explosives; _b_. 1827.ABEL, HENRY, an able Norwegian mathematician, who died young (1802-1828).AB'ELARD, PETER, a theologian and scholastic philosopher of French birth, renowned for his diale
- 3 ABSALOM, a son of David, who rebelled against his father, and at whose death David gave vent to a bitter wail of grief. A name given by Dryden to the Duke of Monmouth, son of Charles II.ABSOLUTE, THE, the philosophical name for the uncreated Creator, or c
- 4 ACHaeAN LEAGUE, a confederation of 12 towns in the Peloponnesus, formed especially against the influence of the Macedonians.ACHae'ANS, the common name of the Greeks in the heroic or Homeric period.ACHAI'A, the N. district of the Peloponnesus, ev
- 5 ADAMAS'TOR, the giant spirit of storms, which Camoens, in his "Luciad," represents as rising up before Vasco de Gama to warn him off from the Cape of Storms, henceforth called, in consequence of the resultant success in despite thereof, the
- 6 ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, a high-lying, picturesque, granite range in the State of New York; source of the Hudson.ADJUTANT, a gigantic Indian stork with an enormous beak, about 5 ft.in height, which feeds on carrion and offal, and is useful in this way, as st
- 7 ADVOCATE, LORD, chief counsel for the Crown in Scotland, public prosecutor of crimes, and a member of the administration in power.ADVOCATES, FACULTY OF, body of lawyers qualified to plead at the Scottish bar.ADVOCATES' LIBRARY, a library belonging to
- 8 AESON, the father of Jason, was restored to youth by Medea.ae'SOP, a celebrated Greek fabulist of the 6th century B.C., of whose history little is known except that he was originally a slave, manumitted by Iadmon of Samos, and put to death by the Del
- 9 AGESILA'US, a Spartan king, victorious over the Persians in Asia and over the allied Thebans and Athenians at Coronea, but defeated by Epaminondas at Mantinea after a campaign in Egypt; _d_. 360 B.C., aged 84.AGGAS, RALPH, a surveyor and engraver of
- 10 AGRIP'PA, M. VIPSANIUS, a Roman general, the son-in-law and favourite of Augustus, who distinguished himself at the battle of Actium, and built the Pantheon of Rome (63-12 B.C.).AGRIPPI'NA, the daughter of Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia, and thus t
- 11 AINSWORTH, R., an English Latin lexicographer (1660-1743).AINSWORTH, W. H., a popular English novelist, the author of "Rookwood" and "Jack Sheppard," as well as novels of an antiquarian and historical character (1805-1882).AIN-TAB (20)
- 12 AK'YAB (37), the capital of Aracan, in British Burmah, 90 m. SE. of Calcutta.AL RAKIM, the dog that guarded the SEVEN SLEEPERS (q. v.), and that stood by them all through their long sleep.ALABA'MA (1,513), one of the United States of N. America,
- 13 ALBA'NIA, a region in Balkan peninsula, on the Adriatic, extending from Servia to Greece.ALBANO, LAKE OF, a small crater-like lake 15 m. SE. of Rome, near which rises the Castel Gandolfo, where the Pope has a villa.ALBANY, the old Celtic name for the
- 14 ALBRECHT. See ALBERT.ALBRIZZI, a powerful Florentine family, rivals of the Medicis and the Alberti.ALBUE'RA, a Spanish village 12 m. SE. of Badajoz, scene of a victory (May 16, 1811) of General Beresford over Marshal Soult.ALBUFE'RA, a lake on t
- 15 AL'DERSHOT, a permanent camp, established in 1855, for instruction in military manoeuvres, on a moorland 35 m. SW. of London.ALDINE EDITIONS, editions, chiefly of the cla.s.sics, issued from the press of Aldus Manutius in Venice in the 16th century,
- 16 ALEXANDER NEVSKY, grand-duke of Russia, conquered the Swedes, the Danes, and the Teutonic Knights on the banks of the Neva, freed Russia from tribute to the Mongols, is one of the saints of the Russian Church.ALEXANDER OF HALES, the _Doctor irrefragabilis
- 17 ALGEBRA, a universal arithmetic of Arabian origin or Arabian transmission, in which symbols are employed to denote operations, and letters to represent number and quant.i.ty.ALGE'RIA, in the N. of Africa, belongs to France, stretches between Morocco
- 18 ALLARD', a French general, entered the service of Runjeet Singh at Lah.o.r.e, trained his troops in European war tactics, and served him against the Afghans; died at Peshawar (1785-1839).ALLEGHA'NY (105), a manufacturing city in Pennsylvania, on
- 19 ALMA, a river in the Crimea, half-way between Eupatoria and Sebastopol, where the allied English, French, and Turkish armies defeated the Russians under Prince Menschikoff, Sept. 20, 1854.ALMACK'S, a suite of a.s.sembly rooms, afterwards known as Wil
- 20 ALSA'TIA, Whitefriars, London, which at one time enjoyed the privilege of a debtors' sanctuary, and had, till abolished in 1697, become a haunt of all kinds of nefarious characters.ALSEN (25), a Danish island adjacent to Sleswig, one of the fine
- 21 AMALRIC, one of the leaders in the crusade against the Albigenses, who, when his followers asked him how they were to distinguish heretics from Catholics, answered, "Kill them all; G.o.d will know His own;" _d_.1225.AMALTHE'A, the goat that
- 22 AMERICA, SOUTH, lies in great part within the Tropics, and consists of a high mountain range on the west, and a long plain with minor ranges extending therefrom eastward; the coast is but little indented, but the Amazon and the Plate Rivers make up for th
- 23 AM'PHITRITE, a daughter of Ocea.n.u.s or Nereus, the wife of Neptune, mother of Triton, and G.o.ddess of the sea.AMPHIT'RYON, the king of Tiryns, and husband of Alcmene, who became by him the mother of Iphicles, and by Zeus the mother of Hercule
- 24 ANAXIMANDER, a Greek philosopher of Miletus, derived the universe from a material basis, indeterminate and eternal (611-547 B.C.).ANAXIM'ENES, also of Miletus, made air the first principle of things; _d_. 500 B.C.; A., of Lampsacus, preceptor and bio
- 25 ANDRE, JOHN, a brave British officer, tried and hanged as a spy in the American war in 1780; a monument is erected to him in Westminster Abbey.ANDRe II., king of Hungary from 1205 to 1235, took part in the fifth crusade.ANDREA DEL SARTO. See SARTO.ANDREA
- 26 ANGERS' (77), on the Maine, the ancient capital of Anjou, 160 m. SW.of Paris, with a fine cathedral, a theological seminary, and a medical school; birthplace of David the sculptor.ANGERSTEIN, JOHN, born in St. Petersburg, a distinguished patron of th
- 27 ANKARSTRoM, the a.s.sa.s.sin of Gustavus III. of Sweden, at a masked ball, March 15, 1792, for which he was executed after being publicly flogged on three successive days.ANKLAM (12), an old Hanse town in Pomerania, connected by railway with Stettin.ANKOB
- 28 ANTHE'MIUS, the architect of the church of St. Sophia in Constantinople; _d_. 534.ANTHON, CHARLES, a well-known American cla.s.sical scholar and editor of the Cla.s.sics (1797-1867).ANTHRAX, a disease, especially in cattle, due to the invasion of a l
- 29 ANTIS'THENES, a Greek philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, the master of Diogenes, and founder of the Cynic school; affected to disdain the pride and pomp of the world, and was the first to carry staff and wallet as the badge of philosophy, but so os
- 30 APOCRYPHA, THE, a literature of sixteen books composed by Jews, after the close of the Hebrew canon, which though without the unction of the prophetic books of the canon, are instinct, for most part, with the wisdom which rests on the fear of G.o.d and lo
- 31 AQUA'RIUS, the Water-bearer, 11th sign of the Zodiac, which the sun enters Jan. 21.AQUAVIVA, a general of the Jesuits of high authority (1543-1615).A'QUILA (20), capital of the province of Abruzzo Ulteriora, on the Alterno, founded by Barbarossa
- 32 ARANDA, COUNT OF, an eminent Spanish statesman, banished the Jesuits, suppressed brigandage, and curtailed the power of the Inquisition, was Prime Minister of Charles IV., and was succeeded by G.o.doy (1719-1798).ARANJU'EZ (8), a town 28 m. SE. of Ma
- 33 ARCTU'RUS, star of the first magnitude and the chief in the N.constellation Bootes.ARDeCHE, an affluent of the Rhone, source in the Cevennes; gives name to a department traversed by the Cevennes Mountains.ARDEN, a large forest at one time in England,
- 34 ARGYLL, a n.o.ble family or clan of the name of Campbell, the members of which have held successively the t.i.tle of Earl, Marquis, and Duke, their first patent of n.o.bility dating from 1445, and their earldom from 1453.ARGYLL, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, 1ST MA
- 35 ARKWRIGHT, SIR RICHARD, born at Preston, Lancas.h.i.+re; bred to the trade of a barber; took interest in the machinery of cotton-spinning; with the help of a clockmaker, invented the spinning frame; was mobbed for threatening thereby to shorten labour and
- 36 ARNIM, COUNT, amba.s.sador of Germany, first at Rome and then at Paris; accused in the latter capacity of purloining State doc.u.ments, and sentenced to imprisonment; died in exile at Nice (1824-1881).ARNIM, LUDWIG ACHIM VON, a German poet and novelist (1
- 37 ARTEMI'SIA, queen of Halicarna.s.sus, joined Xerxes in his invasion of Greece, and fought with valour at Salamis, 440 B.C. A. II., also queen, raised a tomb over the grave of her husband Mausolus, regarded as one of the seven wonders of the world, 35
- 38 AS'CAPART, a giant conquered by Bevis of Southampton, though so huge as to carry Bevis, his wife, and horse under his arm.ASCENSION, a bare volcanic island in the Atlantic, rising to nearly 3000 ft., belonging to Britain, 500 m. NW. of St. Helena, an
- 39 ASPHALT, a mineral pitch of a black or brownish-black colour, consisting chiefly of carbon; also a limestone impregnated with bitumen, and more or less in every quarter of the globe.ASPHALTIC LAKE, the DEAD SEA (q. v.), so called from the asphalt on its s
- 40 AS'TEROIDS, or Planetoids, small planets in orbits between those of Mars and Jupiter, surmised in 1596, all discovered in the present century, the first on Jan. 1, 1801, and named Ceres; gradually found to number more than 200.AS'TI (33), an anc
- 41 ATHEISM, MODERN, ascribed by Ruskin to "the unfortunate persistence of the clergy in teaching children what they cannot understand, and in employing young consecrate persons to a.s.sert in pulpits what they do not know."ATHELNEY, ISLE OF, an isl
- 42 AT'TICA, a country in ancient Greece, on the NE. of the Peloponnesus, within an area not larger than that of Lanarks.h.i.+re, which has nevertheless had a history of world-wide fame and importance.ATTICISM, a pure and refined style of expression in a
- 43 AU'ERBACH, BERTHOLO, a German poet and novelist of Jewish birth, born in the Black Forest; his novels, which have been widely translated, are in the main of a somewhat philosophical bent, he having been early led to the study of Spinoza, and having b
- 44 AUREOLA, a wreath of light represented as encircling the brows of the saints and martyrs.AURILLAC (14), capital of the dep. of Cantal, on the Jourdanne, affluent of the Dordogne, built round the famous abbey of St. Geraud, now in ruins.AU'ROCHS, a Ge
- 45 AUVERGNE', an ancient province of France, united to the crown under Louis XIII. in 1610, embracing the deps. of Puy-de-Dome, Cantal, and part of Haute-Loire, the highlands of which separate the basin of the Loire from that of the Garonne, and contain
- 46 AYACU'CHO, a thriving town in Peru, founded by Pizarro in 1539, where the Peruvians and Colombians achieved their independence of Spain in 1824, and ended the rule of Spain in the S. American continent.AYA'LA, PEDRO LOPEZ D', a Spanish sold
- 47 BAB-EL-MANDEB (i. e. the Gate of Tears), a strait between Asia and Africa forming the entrance to the Red Sea, so called from the strong currents which rush through it, and often cause wreckage to vessels attempting to pa.s.s it.BABER, the founder of the
- 48 BACUP (23), a manufacturing town in Lancas.h.i.+re, about 20 m. NE. of Manchester.BADAJOZ' (28), capital of a Spanish province of the name, on the Guadiana, near the frontier of Portugal; a place of great strength; surrendered to Soult in 1811, and t
- 49 BAHREIN' ISLANDS (70), a group of islands in the Persian Gulf, under the protection of Britain, belonging to Muscat, the largest 27 m. long and 10 broad, cap. Manamah (20); long famous for their pearl-fisheries, the richest in the world.BAHR-EL-GHAZA
- 50 BA'LAAM, a Midianitish soothsayer; for the account of him see Num.xxii.-xxiv., and Carlyle's essay on the "Corn-Law Rhymes" for its application to modern State councillors of the same time-serving type, and their probable fate.BALACLA&
- 51 BALKASH, LAKE, a lake in Siberia, 780 ft. above sea-level, the waters clear, but intensely salt, 150 m. long and 73 m. broad.BALKH, anciently called Bactria, a district of Afghan Turkestan lying between the Oxus and the Hindu-Kush, 250 m. long and 120 m.
- 52 BANBURY, a market-town in Oxfords.h.i.+re, celebrated for its cross and its cakes.BANCA (80), an island in the Eastern Archipelago, belonging to the Dutch, with an unhealthy climate; rich in tin, worked by Chinese.BANCROFT, GEORGE, an American statesman,
- 53 BANVILLE, THEODORE DE, a French poet, born at Moulins; well characterised as "_Roi des Rimes_," for with him form was everything, and the matter comparatively insignificant, though, there are touches here and there of both fine feeling and sharp
- 54 BARCELO'NA (280), the largest town in Spain next to Madrid, on the Mediterranean, and its chief port, with a naval a.r.s.enal, and its largest manufacturing town, called the "Spanish Manchester," the staple manufacture being cotton; is the
- 55 BARMACIDE FEAST, an imaginary feast, so called from a story in the "Arabian Nights" of a hungry beggar invited by a Barmacide prince to a banquet, which proved a long succession of merely empty dishes, and which he enjoyed with such seeming gust
- 56 BARReRE. See BAReRE.BARRETT, WILSON, English actor, born in Ess.e.x; made his _debut_ at Halifax; lessee of the Grand Theatre, Leeds, and of the Court and the Princess's Theatres, London; produced his Hamlet in 1884; _b_. 1846.BARRIE, JAMES MATTHEW,
- 57 BARTOLOMME'O, FRA, a celebrated Florentine painter of sacred subjects, born at Florence; an adherent of Savonarola, friend of Raphael; "St. Mark" and "St. Sebastian" among his best productions (1469-1517).BARTOLOZ'ZI, FRANCES
- 58 Ba.s.sANO, DUC DE, an intriguing French diplomatist in the interest of Bonaparte, and his steadfast auxiliary to the last (1763-1839).Ba.s.sANO, JACOPO DA PONTE, an eminent Italian painter, chiefly of country scenes, though the "Nativity" at his
- 59 BATTAS, a Malay race, native to Sumatra, now much reduced in numbers, and driven into the interior.BATTERSEA, a suburb of London, on the Surrey side of the Thames, opposite Chelsea, and connected with it by a bridge; with a park 185 acres in extent; of pl
- 60 BEACHES, RAISED, elevated lands, formerly sea beaches, the result of upheaval, or left high by the recession of the sea, evidenced to be such by the sh.e.l.ls found in them and the nature of the debris.BEACHY HEAD, a chalk cliff in Suss.e.x, 575 ft. high,
- 61 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the hero and heroine of a famous fairy tale.Beauty falls in love with a being like a monster, who has, however, the heart of a man, and she marries him, upon which he is instantly transformed into a prince of handsome presence and n.
- 62 BEE, THE, a periodical started by Goldsmith, in which some of his best essays appeared, and his "Citizen of the World."BEECHER, HENRY WARD, a celebrated American preacher, born at Litchfield, Connecticut; pastor of a large Congregational church,
- 63 BELFAST (256), county town of Antrim, and largest and most flouris.h.i.+ng city in the N. of Ireland; stands on the Lagan, at the head of Belfast Lough, 100 m. N. of Dublin; is a bright and pleasant city, with some fine streets and handsome buildings, Pre
- 64 BELLAY, JOACHIM DU, French poet; author of sonnets ent.i.tled "Regrets," full of vigour and poetry; wrote the "Antiquites de Rome"; was called the Apollo of the Pleiade, the best poet and the best prose-writer among them (1524-1560).BE
- 65 BEM, JOSEPH, a Polish general, born in Galicia; served in the French army against Russia in 1812; took part in the insurrection of 1830; joined the Hungarians in 1848; gained several successes against Austria and Russia, but was defeated at Temesvar; turn
- 66 BENGUE'LA, a fertile Portuguese territory in W. Africa, S. of Angola, with considerable mineral wealth; has sunk in importance since the suppression of the slave-trade.BENICIA, the former capital of California, 30 m. NE. of San Francisco; has a commo
- 67 BERBRUGGER, a French archaeologist and philologist; wrote on Algiers, its history and monuments (1801-1869).BERCHTA, a German Hulda, but of severer type. See BERTHA.BERCY, a commune on the right bank of the Seine, outside Paris, included in it since 1860;
- 68 BERMU'DAS (15), a group of 400 coral islands (five inhabited) in mid-Atlantic, 677 m. SE. of New York; have a delightful, temperate climate, and are a popular health resort for Americans. They produce a fine arrowroot, and export onions. They are hel
- 69 BERTHA, G.o.ddess in the S. German mythology, of the spinning-wheel princ.i.p.ally, and of the household as dependent on it, in behalf of which and its economical management she is often harsh to idle spinners; at her festival thrift is the rule.BERTHA, S
- 70 BESSEMER PROCESS. See BESSEMER.BESSIeRES, JEAN BAPTISTE, DUKE OF ISTRIA, marshal of France, born at Languedoc, of humble parentage; rose from the ranks; a friend and one of the ablest officers of Napoleon, and much esteemed by him; distinguished himself i
- 71 BHOD-PA, name given to the aborigines of Thibet, and applied by the Hindus to all the Thibetan peoples.BHOPAL' (952), a well-governed native state in Central India, under British protection, with a capital city (70) of the same name; under a governme
- 72 BILLAUD-VARENNES, JEAN NICOLAS, "a grim, resolute, unrepentant"member of the Jacobin Club; egged on the mob during the September ma.s.sacres in the name of liberty; was president of the Convention; a.s.sisted at the fall of Robespierre, but coul
- 73 BISCAY, BAY OF, a bay in the Atlantic, extending from Cape Ortegal, in Spain, to Cape Finisterre, in France, and 400 m. broad, of depth varying from 20 to 200 fathoms, and, under SW. winds particularly, one of the stormiest of seas.BISCHOF, KARL GUSTAV, c
- 74 BLACK SEA, or EUXINE, an inland sea, lying between Europe and Asia, twice the size of Britain, being 700 m. in greatest length and 400 m. in greatest breadth; communicates in the N. with the Sea of Azov, and in the SW., through the Bosphorus, the Sea of M
- 75 BLASPHEMY, defined by Ruskin as the opposite of euphemy, and as wis.h.i.+ng ill to anything, culminating in wis.h.i.+ng ill to G.o.d, as the height of "ill-manners."BLATANT BEAST, Spenser's name for the ignorant, slanderous, clamour of the
- 76 BLUEBEARD, a wealthy seigneur, the owner of a castle; marries a beautiful woman, and leaves her in charge of the keys of the apartments in his absence, with injunctions not to unlock any of the doors, an injunction which she fails to respect, and finds to
- 77 BOEHME, JACOB, a celebrated German mystic, born at Gorlitz; of an imaginatively meditative turn from boyhood as a neat-herd, and afterwards in his stall as a shoemaker; spent his whole life in meditation on divine things; saw in the Bible a revelation of
- 78 BOISSIERE, a French lexicographer (1806-1885).BOISSY D'ANGLAS, COUNT, a member and president of the Convention in Paris, noted for his firmness and coolness during the frenzy of the Revolution: one day the Parisian mob burst in upon the Convention, s
- 79 BONAR, HORATIUS, a clergyman of the Free Church of Scotland, and a celebrated hymn writer, born at Edinburgh (1808-1889).BONAVENTURA, ST., cardinal, surnamed the Seraphic Doctor, his real name John Fidenza, born in Tuscany; entered the Franciscan Order; w
- 80 BOOTON, an island in the Malay Archipelago, SE. of Celebes; subject to the Dutch.BOPP, FRANZ, a celebrated German philologist and Sanskrit scholar, born at Mayence; was professor of Oriental Literature and General Philology at Berlin; his greatest work, &
- 81 BORROWDALE, a valley in the Lake District, W. c.u.mberland, celebrated for its beautiful scenery.BORTHWICK CASTLE, a ruined peel tower, 13 m. SE. of Edinburgh, where Queen Mary and Bothwell spent four days together in June 1567.BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, JEAN
- 82 BOTZARIS, one of the heroes of the war of Greek independence (1789-1823).BOUCHARDON, a celebrated French sculptor (1698-1762).BOUCHER, a French painter, born at Paris (1703-1770).BOUCHER DE PERTHES, French naturalist and anthropologist, born in Ardennes (
- 83 BOURDON, SEBASTIAN, a French painter, born at Montpellier; his _chef-d'oeuvre_ "The Crucifixion of St. Peter," executed for the church of Notre Dame (1616-1671).BOURDON DE L'OISE, a French revolutionist, member of the Convention; banis
- 84 BOYDELL, JOHN, an English engraver and print-seller, famous for his "Shakespeare Gallery," with 96 plates in ill.u.s.tration of Shakespeare, and the encouragement he gave to native artists; he issued also Hume's "History of England,&qu
- 85 BRAHMANAS, treatises on the ceremonial system of Brahminism, with prescriptions bearing upon ritual, and abounding in legends and speculations.BRAHMAPUTRA (i. e. son of Brahma), a river which rises in Tibet, circles round the E. of the Himalayas, and, aft
- 86 BRAXY, an inflammatory disease in sheep, due to a change in food from succulent to dry; and the name given to the mutton of sheep affected with it.BRAY, a Berks.h.i.+re village, famous for Simon Aleyn, its vicar from 1540 to 1588, who, to retain his livin
- 87 BRETON DE LOS HERREROS, Spanish poet and dramatist; wrote comedies and satires in an easy, flowing style (1800-1873).BRETEUIL, BARON DE, an ex-secretary of Louis XVI. (1733-1807).BRETHREN OF THE COMMON LIFE, a Dutch branch of the "Friends of G.o.d,&q
- 88 BRIDGWATER, a seaport town in Somersets.h.i.+re, 29 m. SW. of Bristol.BRIDLEGOOSE, JUDGE, a judge in Rabelais' "Pantagruel," who decided cases by the throw of dice.BRIDLINGTON, a watering-place in Yorks.h.i.+re, 6 m. SW. of Flamborough Head
- 89 BRITANNIA, a name for Britain as old as the days of Caesar, and inhabited by Celts, as Gaul also was.BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE, a railway bridge spanning the Menai Strait, designed by Robert Stephenson, and completed in 1850; consists of hollow tubes of wr
- 90 BROMLEY (21), a market-town in Kent, 10 m. SE. of London, where the bishops of Rochester had their palace, and where there is a home called Warner's College for clergymen's widows.BROMPTON, SW. district of London, in Kensington, now called S.Ken
- 91 BROWN, HENRY KIRKE, an American sculptor, did a number of statues, a colossal one of Was.h.i.+ngton among them (1814-1886).BROWN, JOHN, American slavery abolitionist; settled in Kansas, and resolutely opposed the project of making it a slave state; in the
- 92 BRUCKER, historian of philosophy, born at Augsburg, and a pastor there; author of "Historia Critica Philosophiae" (1696-1770).BRUEYS, DAVID AUGUSTIN DE, French dramatist, born at Aix, an abbe converted by Bossuet, and actively engaged in propaga
- 93 BRYDGES, SIR SAMUEL EGERTON, English antiquary, born at Wootton House, in Kent; called to the bar, but devoted to literature; was M.P.for Maidstone for six years; lived afterwards and died at Geneva; wrote novels and poems, and edited old English writings
- 94 BUDE-LIGHT, a very brilliant light produced by introducing oxygen into the centre of an Argand burner, so called from the place of the inventor's abode.BUDWEIS (28), a Bohemian trading town on the Moldau, 133 m. NW. of Vienna.BUENOS AYRES (543), capi
- 95 BUNSBY, JACK, commander of a s.h.i.+p in "Dombey & Son," regarded as an oracle by Captain Cuttle.BUNSEN, BARON VON, a diplomatist and man of letters, born at Korbach; in Waldeck; studied at Marburg and Gottingen; became acquainted with Niebuhr a
- 96 BURNE-JONES, SIR EDWARD, artist, born at Birmingham, of Welsh descent; came early under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and all along produced works imbued with the spirit of it, which is at once mystical in conception and realistic in execu
- 97 BUSK, HANS, one of the originators of the Volunteer movement, born in Wales; author of "The Rifle, and How to Use it" (1815-1882).BUSKIN, a kind of half-boot worn after the custom of hunters as part of the costume of actors in tragedy on the anc
- 98 CABALLERO, FERNAN, the _nom de plume_ of Cecilia Boehl, a popular Spanish auth.o.r.ess, born in Switzerland, of German descent; a collector of folk tales; wrote charmingly; told stories of Spanish, particularly Andalusian, peasant life (1797-1877).CABANEL
- 99 CAGLIARI (44), the cap of Sardinia, and the chief port, on the S.coast, was a colony of Jews from the time of Tiberius till 1492, whence they were expelled by the Spaniards; lies on the slopes of a hill, the summit of which is 300 ft. high, and is on the
- 100 CALAS, JEAN, a tradesman of Toulouse, whose son committed suicide, and who was charged with murdering him to prevent his going over to the Catholic Church; was tried, convicted, and sentenced to torture and death on the wheel (1762); after which his prope