into slight errors, they are neither so glaring, or numerous, as to detract much from their merits, or render them unworthy of a place in every lawyer's library." Reports of Cases in the Court of King's Bench, &c., from 1726-31. 2 vols. folio, Lon., 1744. Frequently condemned, and yet often cited. The accuracy of some of the reports is proved by a comparison with other reporters. Not of much authority in general."-LORD KENYON. See Wallace's Reporters: Marvin's Legal Bibl. Barnby, Mrs. Novels, 1803, '4, '8. Barne, Miles. Sermons, 1670, '75, '82, '83, '84. Barne, Thos. Serm. at Paul's Crosse, 1591. Oxf.,1591. Barnes, Major Tour through St. Helena, 1817. Barnes, Albert, b. 1798, is a native of Rome, New York. In 1817 he entered Fairfield Academy, Connectieut, where he remained nearly three years. In 1819 he entered the senior class of Hamilton College, and graduated in July, 1820. He had intended devoting himself to the practice of the law, but was led by convictions of duty to prepare for the ministry. He pursued his theological studies at the Princeton Seminary. He was licensed April 23, 1823, at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, by the Presbytery of Elizabethtown. After preaching at various places in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, he took charge of the First Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey. In 1830 he received a call from the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and was installed June 25, 1830, and still continues pastor of that congregation, (1858.) The particulars of the ecclesiastical experience of this eminently useful and highly esteemed gentleman it does not come within our province to notice. In this country and in Great Britain, Mr. Barnes (for he has repeatedly refused the title of D.D. from conscientious motives) is widely known for his commentaries on the books of the New Testament, (pub. at intervals, in eleven volumes,) on Job, Isaiah, and Daniel. The notes upon the New Testament have been very extensively cireulated among Sunday-school teachers, and others, and form one of the most useful instrumentalities in the Scriptural education of the young. With the doctrinal views of the author we have here nothing to do: it is however but justice to others to remark that many of the eminent gentlemen whose favourable opinions of Mr. Barnes we shall quote below, do not coincide with his views in several important points. Mr. Barnes's style is plain. simple, and direct; and though his pages teem with the materiel of deep scholarship, yet he is, for the most part, eminently happy in making himself intelligible and Interesting to every class; while the rich practical remarks, every now and then grafted upon the critical details, transfuse the devotional spirit of the writer into the bosom of his reader.”—Amer. Biblical Repository. "We here have a work [Notes on the Epistle to the Romans] better calculated, probably, than any other single volume that could be named, to furnish a correct and competent acquaintance with that important part of Scripture of which it treats,-and one that may be safely recommended to all classes, not only on this particular ground, but also on its general merits as a manual of Christian doctrines and of Christian ethics-of experimental and practical godliness. We should like to see it in the hands of all our young people."-Congregational Magazine. Of the same work the Rev. James Hamilton remarks: "Judging from that specimen I cannot but rejoice in the popu larity and extensive circulation of the work. [The Notes on the New Testament.] The notes are simple, direct, and satisfactory; the production of a mind clear, fresh, and furnished with abundant learning, which is not ostentatious of itself." The late very distinguished divine, Rev. J. Pye Smith, D.D., remarks : "Of Barnes's Notes on the New Testament, I purchased, as they mrived, the volumes of the New York edition." " The Notes of Albert Barnes, practical and explanatory, on the New Testament, possess great excellence. They give within a short compass the results of extensive reading and of much thought; and they generally bring out the sense of the text with clearness force."-Rev. William Lindesay, D.D., Prof. Bib. Criti cism, U. P. Synod. "Barnes has many excellencies as a commentator. His industry is great, and he has made a free but not unfair use of all available sources of information. Possessed naturally of a clear and vigorous understanding, his opinions are uniformly expressed in a brief, perspicuous manner. He has a singular facility in drawIng practical conclusions from the doctrinal statements and historical incidents of the Scripture. They are distinguished by good sense and piety; they are natural without being obvious: and often so striking and pointed as to partake of the character of originality."-Rev. N. McMichael, Prof. of Eccles. Hist. U. P. Synod. "I have perused a considerable portion of Barnes's Notes on the New Testament, to ascertain their suitableness for the use of Sabbath-school teachers, and for the instruction of the young in families. These notes are neither very learned nor very profound: but they are characterized by good sense, earnest piety, and the natural graces of a style remarkable for its simplicity and ease.”— Rev. W. M. Hetherington, LL.D.. Free St. Paul's, Edinburgh. Barnes is so well known in this country as a commentator who sombines some of the most important qualifications for the work he has undertaken, that he needs no further recommen lation. 1 know no guide to the understanding of the sacred oracles more trustworthy. With respectable biblical scholarship, there is connected so much of evangelical sentiment, and genuine spiritu ality of mind, that I earnestly wish the work were in the hands of all persons who are engaged as missionaries or teachers of the young."-Rev. William Brock, Bloomsbury, London. "I consider Barnes's Notes on the New Testament to be one of the most valuable boons bestowed in these latter days on the Church of Christ. The perspicuous and forcible manner in which he presents the sense of Scripture, and the decidedly practical bearing with which he universally invests his expositions, cannot vigorous piety."-Rev. E. Henderson, D.D., London. fail to recommend the work to all persons of enlightened and "Barnes's Notes on the New Testament are entitled to recom mendation for their general simplicity and practical usefulness They are of such a description that they may be read with interest and profit by all.”—Rev. Alex. Hill, D.D., Prof. of Divinity in the University of Glasgow. "There are some peculiar excellencies in Barnes, and these are such, and so important, as to give his book special claims on our attention and gratitude. The clearness and simplicity of his ex position, his devotional spirit, and his practical remarks, greatly | enhance his commentary ." - Ren. James Morgan, D.D., Bel fast. "His style is generally plain and perspicuous, but where occa sion offers, energetic and effective."-Rev. H. Cooke, D.D., LL.D., Belfast. "The primary design of Barnes's Commentary on the New Tes tament, is to furnish Sunday-school teachers with a plain and simple explanation of the more common difficulties of the book which it is their province to teach. For this purpose it is admi rably adapted: and if it be carefully perused by the interesting class of benefactors for whose advantage it is immediately intended, it cannot fail, under the divine blessing, greatly to ad vance their efficiency and usefulness."-Rev. David King, LL.D„ United Presb. Church, Glasgow. mendations of Blackie & Son's (Glasgow, Edin., and Lon.) The above opinions, which are all connected with com. edition, with supplementary notes, are the more to be prized, as each one of the divines cited objects to some of Mr. Barnes's doctrinal views. The supplementary notes ives to this real or supposed want of soundness in the faith, are intended, and by these gentlemen accepted, as correctWe subjoin an expression of opinion from a very distin. guished authority: "Barnes is an admirable commentator. The ease and vigour of his style; the clear and natural manner in which he elicits the sense of the text; the point, variety, and impressiveness of his practical reflections, and the evangelical spirit which pervades the whole, combine to render him deservedly popular."-Rev. John Horris, D.D., Author of Mammon, dc. "Mr. Barnes has attained to just celebrity both in America and England, as a sound and judicious expositor of Holy Scripture. His comments on Isaiah, on the Gospels, on the Acts of the Apes tles, and on the Epistle to the Romans, have all enhanced his credit as 'a scribe well instructed in the mysteries of the king dom.' Sermons on As an interpreter of the word of God, he is remarkably free from vague hypothesis and hazardous speculation.”—Lon. Ev. M. The sale of the eleven vols. of Notes on the New Testament is said to have reached nearly 400,000 vols. up to 1856. Inquiry into the Scriptural Views of Slavery, 12mo; new ed., 1857. Manual of Prayers, 12mo. Revivals, 12mo. The Way of Salvation, 12mo. Practical Sermons designed for Vacant Congregations, 12mo. The Church and Slavery, 1857, 12mo. Prayers adapted to Family Worship; new ed., 1858, 12mo. Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews, N. York, 1855, 2 vols. 12mo. The Atonement, in its Relations to Law and Moral Government, 1859, 12mo. Barnes, Barnaby, b. about 1569, was younger son to Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Durham. He became a student of Brasenose College in 1586, and left without a degree. In 1591, according to Dr. Bliss. (Athen. Oxon., edit. 1815,) he accompanied the Earl of Essex into France. He relieved his military duties by writing sonnets, &c. Parthenophil and Parthenope. Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies, and Odes. The Printer's Address is dated May, 1593; see an account of this volume in Beloe's Anecdotes, vol. ii. pp. 77-79. Many of the Sonnettes are inscribed to Henry, Earl of Southampton; the most vertuous, learned, and bewtifull Ladie Marie, Countesse of Pembrooke; to the right vertuous and most bewtifull, the Lady Strangue. The Lady Brigett Manners, &c. Neither Wood nor Watt seem to have known any thing of this book. A copy in the Bib. Anglo-Poet. is priced £30. The opening sonnet is in a very pious strain: 66 Thy wounds, my Cure, deare Sauiour! I desire To pearce my thoughts! thy fierie Cherubinne, (By kindling my desires,) true zeale t' infuse, Thy loue my theame, and Holy Ghost my muse." The Sonnettes are 100 in number, and are succeeded by a Hymne to the glorious honovr of the most blessed and indivisible Trinitie. A Divine Centvrie of Spiritual Son nets, Lon., 1595; reprinted in the second vol. of the Hel conia. Dedicated to Dr. Tobie Mathew. Foure Bookes of Offices, enabling privat Persons for the speciall Service of all good Princes and Policies, Lon., 1606, folio, dedicated to King James. See Restituta, vol. iv. p. 127-135. Devil's Charter, a Tragædie; conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the Sixt, Lon., 1607, 4to. Barnes in 1598 wrote a Sonnet, prefixed to Florio's World of Words; in 1606 he presented another, printed as a preface to Fame's Memorial to Ford, and in the same year translated Cicero's Offices. See Ellis's Specimens for several of Barnes's Sonnets, which "at least have the merit of combining an arbitrary recurrence of rhyme with the dignified freedom of blank verse." We have an amusing specimen of humility in his dedication of his Offices to King James: he presents his work "under a speciall pardon for his boldness in daring to do it as a poore unlearned scholler, which offereth his ignorance in some rude exercise unto his learned schoole-master." "So little however is his work to be regarded as proceeding from the head or hand of an unlearned scholar, that it consists chiefly of citations from the writings of the ancient historians, philoso phers, and poets, who penned their productions in the Greek and Latin languages."-Restituta: See ante. Barnes, Daniel H., d. 1818, a Baptist preacher, and an eminent conchologist of New York, originated and conducted, in conjunction with Dr. Griscom, the high Lyceum of natural history in that city. He presided over several seminaries, and refused the presidency of the college at Washington City. He contributed several valuable papers, illustrated by explanatory plates on Conchology, to Silliman's Journal, viz., Geological Section of the Canaan Mountain, v. 8-21; Memoir on the genera unio and alasmodonta, with numerous figures, vi. 107-127, 258-280; Five species of chiton, with figures, vii. 69-72; Memoir on batrachian animals, and doubtful reptiles, xi. 269-297, xiii. 66-70. On magnetic polarity, xiii. 70-73; Reclama tion of Unios, xiii. 358-364. (Sill. Jour. xv. 401; Allen's Amer. Biog. Dict.) school of New York; he was also an active member of the Barnes, David, D.D., 1731–1811, minister of Scituate, Massachusetts, pub. Sermons, 1756, '95, 1800, '01, '02, and 1803. A volume of his sermons, with a biographical sketch, has been published. Barnes, E. W., a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has pub. a number of compositions in poetry and prose in Annuals and Magazines. Barnes, George. Cicero, or the Complete Orator, in 3 Books or Dialogues, &c. Trans. into English, 1762. Barnes, Henry. Legal Treatises, &c. Notes of Cases in point of Practice, taken in the Court of Common Pleas, 1732-60. Best ed. 2 vols., Lon., 1815. "The cases in this volume are very briefly reported, and are not always to be relied on. Indeed. it could hardly be expected, in a volume containing more than 2500 cases, upon points of practice decided by various judges, whose opinions were not always coincident, that there would be uniformity and agreement throughout." -Marvin's Legal Bibl. We extract some opinions from Wallace's Reporters, which, with the volume cited above, should be in the library of every lawyer and man of general reading. Both of these excellent manuals have become very scarce, and should be reprinted. “Barnes has in general reported the practice of the court with accuracy."-SIR FRANCIS BULLER, "Many cases reported in Barnes are not law."-MR. JUSTICE HEATH. "When a 'rule absolute' was claimed from Chief Justice Abbot, and Barnes was instanced as authority, the chief justice replied, 'You may find rules absolute in Barnes for any thing."" ... "Barnes is an authority of little weight. His cases are so contradictory that they destroy each other."-WILLIAMS, of the N. York Bar. "The cases cited from Barnes are good as historical evidence to prove the point of practice in issue."-CHANCELLOR KENT. "Barnes is good authority, I believe, for points of practice, though for little beside."-CHIEF JUSTICE GIBSON of Penn. Barnes, J. Educational works, 1811-12. | Anglia. Wood tells us that "This learned person being very moderate man in his opinion, and deeply sensible by his great reading and observation of several corruptions of the Romish Church and Doctrine, which partly were expressed in his Discourse, but mostly in a book which he wrote, called Catholico-Romanus Pacificus," &c. Barnes was seized in Paris, "was carried out from the midst of that city by force, was divested of his habit, and like a four-footed brute, was in a barbarous manner tied to a horse, and violently hurried away into Flanders." He escaped from prison at Mechlin, but was retaken and thrown into a prison of the Inquisition, where he died after thirty years' confinement. Wood repels with scorn the story of Barnes's insanity whilst in prison: "Certain fierce people at Rome, being not contented with las Death, have endeavoured to extinguish his Fame, boldly publishing that he died distracted." Barnes, John. An Essay on Fate, and other Poems. Published at the age of 14, 1807. Barnes, John. A Tour through France, 1816. Barnes, Joseph. The Praise of Marie, Oxford. Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712, a learned divine, and professor of Greek at Cambridge, was a native of London. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, where his early pro ficiency in Greek was the subject of remark. In 1671 he was admitted a servitor in Emanuel College, Cambridge, was elected fellow in 1578, and in 1686 took the degree of B.D. In 1695 he was chosen Greek professor of the University of Cambridge. In his 15th year he pub. a collection of English poems, and was interested at an early age Geramia, or a New Discovery of a little sort of People, in several other works. He gave to the world in 1675, called Pigmies. In the next year appeared his poetical paraphrase of the History of Esther, which had been for a long time in preparation. Select Discourses appeared in 1680. In 1688 was pub. The History of that most victoThe author has imitated rious monarch, Edward III. Thucydides in putting long speeches into the mouths of his characters. Nicolson remarks: "Above all, Mr. Joshua Barnes has diligently collected whatever was to be had, far and near, upon the several passages of this great King's reign. His quotations are many; and generally, his authors are as well chosen as such a multitude can be supposed to have been. His inferences are not always becoming a statesman; and institution of the Garter from the Phoenicians, is extremely oblig sometimes his digressions are tedious. His deriving of the famous ing to good Mr. Sammes; but came too late, it seems, to Mr. Ashmole's knowledge, or otherwise would have bid fair for a choice post of honour in his elaborate book. In short, this industrious author seems to have driven his work too fast to the press, before he had provided an index, and some other accoutrements, which might have rendered it more serviceable to his readers."-English Histo rical Library. The want of an index! How often have we groaned over indexless books! How often have we been obliged to do for ourselves what the witless author would not do for us-and make an index to his book! His edition of Euripides, dedicated to Charles, Duke of Somerset, was pub. in Duke of Marlborough; and in 1701 he pub. an edition of 1694. In 1705 appeared his Anacreon, dedicated to the Homer: the Iliad dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke, and the Odyssey to the Earl of Nottingham. He wrote many other treatises, a list of which, including those which he had published, and those which he contemplated giving to the world, will be found prefixed to the edition of his Anacreon, pub. in 1705. We here find enumerated no less than 43 works! His facility in writing and speaking Greek was remarkable. He tells us in the parody of Homer, prefixed to his poem on Esther, that he could compose sixty Greek verses in an hour. He also avows in the preface to Esther that he found it much easier to write his annotations in Greek than in Latin, or even in English, "since the ornaments of poetry are almost peculiar to the Greeks, and Barnes, John, an English Roman Catholic, of a Lan- since he had for many years been extremely conversant in cashire family, studied for some time at Oxford, But being always in animo Catholicus, he left it, and his countrv, and going into Spain, was instructed in Philosophy and Divinity by the famous Doctor J. Alp. Curiel, who was wont to call Barnes by the name of John Huss because of a spirit of contradiction which was always observed in him."-WOOD. Theo In 1625, at which period he was one of the confessors of the Abbey of Chelles, he pub. a work against mental reservation, entitled Dissertatio contra equivocationes, Paris; a French trans. was pub. at the same time. philus Raynaud attempted to answer this book in 1627. In the same year, Barnes wrote Catholico-Romanus Pacificus: an edition was pub. at Oxford in 1680; part of it had been before made use of by Dr. Basire in his Ancient Liberty of the Britannic Church. He also wrote an answer to Clement Reyner's Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Homer, the great father and source of the Greek poetry." He could off-hand turn a paragraph in a newspaper, or a hawker's bill, into any kind of Greek metre, and has been Bentley used to say of Barnes that he "understood as often known to do so among his Cambridge friends. Dr. much Greek as a Greek cobbler:" meaning doubtless by mechanic," than the erudition, taste, and judgment of a this that he had rather the "colloquial readiness of a vulgar scholar. The inscription suggested for his monumentfirst used by Menage in his satire upon Pierre Montmaurwe think too profane for repetition. The Greek Anacreon. tiques written for his monument have been thus translated "Kind Barnes, adorn'd by every Muse, No poet ever chanted sweeter. H' excelle1 in Grammar Mystery, That ever trod on English ground.” See the Biog. Brit., where find, also, this note: Mr. Barnes read a small English Bible, that he usually carried about with him, one hundred and twenty-one times over, at leisure hours." All this is upon his monument. Barnes, Juliana. See BERNERS. Barnet, A. Funeral Sermon, Ps. ii. 3, 4, 1794. 1809. Barnewall, R. V. Reports of Cases in King's Bench, with E. H. Alderson, 1817-1822, pub. in 5 vols., Lon., 1818-1822. (A continuation of Maule and Selwyn's Reports.) With C. Cresswell, 1822-1830, pub. in 10 vols., Lon., 1830-1835; with J. L. Adolphus, 1830 to H. T. 4 Wm. IV., pub. in 5 vols., Lon., 1831-1835. Continued by Adolphus and Ellis, 1835-1856. Barnfield, Barnefield, or Barnefielde, Richard, b. 1574, was entered at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1589. He wrote The Affectionate Shepherd, pub. 1594, 12mo; Cynthia, 1595, 12mo. The author bespeaks the patience of the reader for his rude conceit of Cynthia: "If for no other cause, yet for that it is the first imitation of the Barnes, Robert, a reformer and martyr in the reign verse of that excellent poet, Maister Spencer, in his Fayrie Queene,” of Henry VIII., came to the stake in consequence of ad- ' In 1589 he pub. The Encomium of Lady Pecunia, or vocating Luther's doctrines, in answer to a sermon of the Praise of Money. The Complaint of Poetrie for the Bishop Gardiner. He wrote Supplicacion vnto Prynce H. Death of Liberalitie. The Combat between Conscience the VIII. The Cause of my Condempnation. The hole and Covetousnesse in the Minde of Men; and poems in Disputacion between the Byshops and Doctour Barnes, divers humours. A second edit. of this work, consideraLondon, by me, Johan Byddell, 1534, 4to. Again, by Hugh bly altered, appeared in 1605. Greene's Funerals was Syngelton sine anno. Articles of his Faith, pub. in Latin erroneously attributed to Barnfield, but the ode, As it fell and in Dutch. Vitæ Romanorum Pontificum, &c. The upon a Day-which was printed in England's Helicon, list extends from St. Peter to Alexander II., pub. with a 1600, signed Ignoto, and had the year before been given preface by Luther at Wirtemberg, 1536; afterwards at as Shakspeare's, in the Passionate Pilgrim,-really beLeyden, 1615, together with Bale's Lives of the Popes. longs to our author. Come live with me, and be my love, Luther pub. an account of the martyrdom of this holy man. is another well-known poem of our author's. See Rose's Works collected by John Fox, Lon., 1573: this edition in- Biog. Dict.; Ellis's Specimens; Ritson's Bib. Poet.; Warcludes the works of W. Tyndall and John Frith. tou's Hist. of Eng. Poetry. It is interesting to us to read the opinions of any of Shakspeare's contemporaries upon the great bard; therefore we shall quote a few lines of Barnfield's, written in 1598, eighteen years before Shakspeare's death: Barnes, Robt., of Mag. Coll. Visit. Ser., Oxf., 1626. Barnes, Robert, M.D., b. 1816. Norwich, England. Pamphlets and Memoirs on Obstetrics, Hygiene, &c.,1850,'58. Barnes, Robt., of Mag. Coll. Vist. Ser., Oxf., 1626. Barnes, S. Con. to Med. Chir. Trans., 1818. Barnes, Susan Rebecca, an American poetess, is a daughter of Mr. Richard H. Ayer of the city of Manchester, in New Hampshire. Her poems are marked by many felicities of expression; and they frequently combine a masculine vigour of style, with tenderness and a passionate earnestness of feeling."-Griswold's Female Poets of America, where see specimens: Imalee, &c. "Her poems have been favourably received, and show greater strength and vigour than those that are written by the generality of her sex."-Woman's Record. Barnes, Thomas, a Puritan divine of the 17th century, is mentioned by Cole as one of the authors of the University of Cambridge. Among his productions is The Wise Man's Forecast against the Evil Time, Lon., 1624; reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany. Barnes, Thomas. A Discourse on Exod xxxiii. 14, Lon., 1702. Barnes, Thomas. Of Propagat. Shrubs, Lon., 1758. Barnes, Thomas, 1747-1810, a Presbyterian minister, had, for thirty years, charge of a congregation in Manchester, England. He pub. in 1786 A Discourse upon the commencement of the Academy: an institution at Manchester, over which he presided from 1786 to 1798. He contributed some papers to the Trans. Manchester Society, and to other periodicals. A Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Thomas Threlked of Rochdale, April 13, 1806. This Mr. Threlked possessed a most remarkable memory: He was a perfect Living Concordance to the Scriptures. You could not mention three words except perhaps those words of mere connection which occur in hundreds of passages, to which he could not immediately, without hesitation, assign the Copter and Verse where they were to be found. And inversely, upon mentioning the Chapter and Verse, he could repeat the Words. It was, as might be expected, a favourite amusement of his fellow students to try his powers, and they were never known to fail him in a single instance. This Faculty continued with him unimpaired, to the day of his death. For, astonishing as the assertion may appear, it is believed by all his friends to be literally true, that he never through his whole life forgot one single number, or date combined with any name or fact, when they had been once joined together, and laid up in his Memory. When once there, they were engraved as upon marble." Thomas Barnes has been well called "A man of uncommon activity and diligence with his pen, and Is said to have written many hundred sermons which he never preached: a fact very extraordinary if we consider the number he must have been oblized to preach in the course of forty-two years." Barnes, William. Epigrams, Lon., 1803. Barnes, William Geo. Sermons and Discourses, Lon., 1752. "The subjects of these discourses are chiefly practical; and tho' there is nothing very striking or animated in them. yet they are worthy the perusal of all serious and well disposed persons."Lon. Monthly Review. Barnet. God's Lift-up Hand for Lancashire, 1648. "And Shakspeare, thou, whose honey-flowing vein, Well may the body die, but fame die never." A copy of the Affectionate Shepherd sold in Reed's sale for £16 108. Beloe notices a copy in Sion College Library. In 1816 James Boswell presented to the Members of the Roxburghe Club a reprint (34 copies, 4to) of Poems by Richard Barnfield, including Remarks by the late Edmund Malone. One of these copies was disposed of at Bindley's sale for £6 168. 6d. Boswell's sale, £4 68. Barnham, Sir Francis, a scholar and writer temp. James I., one of the 84 who were to compose an Academy Royal connected with the Order of the Garter. His History of his family has never been published. Barnham, T. C. A Series of Questions on the most important Points connected with a legal Education, designed for the Use of Students preparing for Examination, previously to their Admission in the Courts of Law and Equity, 4th ed. By E. Ings, 12mo, Lon., 1840. Barnum, Phineas T., born July 5th, 1810, in Bethel, Conn. Autobiography, N. Y., 1854. Writer and Lecturer on Agriculture and Temperance. nounced A History of Humbugs from the Earliest Ages to the Present Day. Has an Baro, or Baron, Peter, d. about 1600, was born at Etampes, in France, but resided the principal part of his life in Eugland, where he pub. a number of works. For this reason we have given him a place in our volume. He left his native country to avoid persecution, being a Protestant, and was received into the family of Lord Trea surer Burleigh. Upon the invitation of Dr. Pierce he settled at Cambridge, and there entered himself a student of Trinity College. In 1575 he was appointed successor to Dr. John Still as Margaret professor of divinity. His doctrine did not give satisfaction to some of his hearers. and he was involved in a number of controversies. Some went so far as to think that he was acting a traitor's part at Cambridge; designing to seduce those under his influence to the Roman Catholic Church. "For so it was, and they could not be beaten out of it, that they thought, that as a certain Spaniard named Ant. Corranus was brought to, and settled in. Oxon., purposely to corrupt the true doctrine; so Peter Baro, a French man was for Cambridge."-WOOD. Baro retained his chair until 1595, when he resigned, or as Wood says, was removed, "not without the consent of Dr. Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury." He removed to London, where he died about 1600. 1. In Jonam Pro. phetam Prælectiones XXXIX. 2. Conciones tres ad Clerum Cantabrigiensem, &c. 3. Theses Publicæ in scholis perorartæ et disputatæ. 4. Precationes quibus Usus est Author in suis Prælectionibus inchoandis et finiendis. The three first-named were trans. into English by John Ludham. The whole were pub. in one vol., Lon., 1579, folio, by the care of Osmond Lake. Baro wrote several other works, which were pub. in 1580, 1613, et sine anno. Baro, Baron, or Bonaventura, b. about 1600, d. 1696, was a Fitz-Gerald of Burnchurch in the county of Kilkenny. He was born at Clonmell in Ireland, and was a nephew of the celebrated Luke Wadding, a Franciscan friar, eminent for his theological works. Baro entered the Order of St. Francis, and resided almost entirely at Rome. He was attached to the college of St. Isidore, a society of the Order of St. Francis, founded by Wadding, for the education of Irish students in the liberal arts, divinity, and controversy, to serve as a seminary out of which the mission into England, Scotland, and Ireland might be supplied. Baron was celebrated for the purity of his Latin style. His Opuscula varia were pub. in 1666. This contains his Metra Miscellanea, pub. 1645; Orations, 1645; Prolusiones Philosophicæ, 1651; Scotus Defensus, 1662; and all his separate works pub. ante 1666. Theologia was pub. at Paris in 1676, in 6 vols. Vol. 1st of The Annales Ordinis SS. Trinitatis Redemptionis Captivorum, which begins with the year 1198 and is carried down to 1297, was pub. at Rome in 1686. Barret, Robert. The Tarrier, Lon., 1660; Cmpsnion, &c., 1699. Barret, or Barrett, Stephen, 1718-1801, & clas sical teacher and poet, wrote War, a Satire; and rans. Ovid's Epistles into English Verse, (1759;) the latte: work is thought inferior to the former. Barrett, Bryan. The Code Napoleon, &c., 1812. Barrett, Eaton Stannard, author of several poems, novels, and humorous effusions, the best known of which is The Heroine, or Adventures of Cherubina, a novel in 3 vols., Lon., 1813. "The idea of this work is not new, since the pernicious effects of indiscriminate novel-reading have been already displayed by pleasing story of Rosella; but the present tale is more extravagant Mrs. Lenox in The Female Quixote, and by Miss Charlton in the than either of those works; and the heroine's cruelty towards her father indisposes the reader for being interested in her subsequent fate. Mr. Barrett may also be censured for not confining his ridifarce,' both in his frequent sarcasms on the clergy, and in his ludicule to allowable subjects: what should be great he turns to crous parodies of scenes taken from our best novels: although it might be presumed that, if Cherubina's reading had been limited to respectable works of fiction, or if these had made the chief impression on her mind and memory, she would not have fallen into the follies which she commits. Still, however, her adventures are written with great spirit and humour; and they afford many scenes at which To be grave exceeds all power of face."—Lam, M. Kev. Woman; a Poem, Lon., 1810, sm. 8vo. Baron, John. Sermons pub. at Oxf., 1699, 1703. Baron, Peter. Sermons, Acts xx. 23, 24, 8vo, 1742. Barrett, Elizabeth B. See BROWNING. Mrs. Baron, Richard, d. 1768, a dissenting minister, but Barrett, Francis, Professor of Chemistry, Natural more noted as an ardent advocate for the cause of civil and Occult Philosophy, pub. The Magus, or Celestial Inand religious liberty, pub. what may perhaps be called telligencer, being a Complete System of Occult PhilosoThomas Gordon's Collection of Curious Tracts. 1. A Cor-phy, illustrated with a great variety of curious engrav. dial for Low Spirits. 2. The Pillars of Priestcraft and ings, magical and cabalistical figures, &c., Lon., 1801, 4to; Orthodoxy shaken; enlarged to 4 vols., Lon., 1768. 3. Im- Lives of Alchemistical Philosophers, with a Critical Cata pression revised and improved with many additional Ar- logue of Books in Occult Chemistry, and a Selection of ticles, Lon., 1763, 12mo, in 3 vols. Baron edited a numthe most Celebrated Treatises on the Theory and Practice ber of works reprinted by Thomas Hollis, among which of the Hermetic Art, 1815, 8vo. The ignorant may dis were the Iconoclastes of Milton, and a complete edition of miss the "System of Occult Philosophy" with a contemptu. the works of this great poet. ous laugh, but the student of human nature will naturally feel a desire to investigate the pretensions of a "science" which has turned the brains of so many men of vast learn. ing and unquestioned integrity of purpose. Baron, Robert, b. about 1630, was a student at Cambridge. He pub. in 1647 The Cyprian Academy, Poculia Castalia, &c., Lon., 1650. He was also the author of Mirza, a Tragedy; Gripus et Hegio; and Deorum Dona. See Winstanley, Philips, and Biog. Dramat., for other pieces ascribed to Baron: some of which are evidently not his. "The author seems [in Mirza] to have propos'd for his pattern the famous Catiline, writ by Ben. Jonson, and has in several places not only hit the model of his Scenes: but even imitated the Language tolerably, for a young writer." See Langbaine's Dramatick Poets: this author quotes an Anagram on Baron by his friend, John Quarles: "Ana Robertus Baronus Baron, Robert, professor of divinity in Marischal College, Aberdeen, was the author of Metaphysica Generalis, Lugd. Bat., 1657, which was in great favour with eminent scholars on the continent. He pub. several theological works, 1621-27, and '31. He was elected to the see of Orkney, but was never consecrated, being driven by persecution from Scotland. He died at Berwick. Baron, Samuel. Description of the Kingdom of Baron, William. Assize Sermon, 1683, 4to. Barrett, Henry. The Alps; from the German of Haller, Lon., 1796. Barrett, John, D.D., 1746?-1821, Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and Professor of the Oriental Languages in that University. An Enquiry into the Origin of the Constellations that compose the Zodiac, and the Uses they were intended to promote, 1800, 8vo. "As several authors have given an explanation of the signs of the Zodiac, it was to be presumed that Dr. Barrett would attempt to demolish their theories, before he advanced his own; and ac cordingly, his first pages contain an examination of the systems of Macrobius, La Pluche, and La Nauze. In opposing these hy potheses, Dr. B. is more happy than in establishing his own: for, though endowed with much learning, and qualified by much re search, he has fallen into the wildest and most fanciful conjec tures."-Lon. Monthly Review. Essay on the Earlier Part of the Life of Swift, with seve ral original pieces ascribed to him, 1808, 8vo. This work is incorporated in Nichols's edit. of Swift. "We see no ground for questioning any of his conclusions Those who are fond of similar investigations will be much enter tained by his researches."-Lon. Monthly Review. Evangelium secundum Matthæum, ex Codice. Barr, John. Thanksg. Serm. after Rebellion, 1746, 8vo. give place to another work. Barr, Robt. M. Penna. State Rep., 1845-56, Phil. Barrand, Philip. New book of Single Cyphers, Barrell, Miss. Riches and Poverty, 1808; The Test of Virtue, and other Poems, 1811. Barrell, And. Fens in Norfolk, Suffolk, &c., 1642. Barret, Onsow. Treatise on the Gout, 1785. Barret, Phineas. European Exchanges, Lon., 1722. Barret, Robert. Theorike and Pracktike of Moderne Warres, Discoursed in Dialogue Wise, Lon., 1598, folio. George Chalmers is of the opinion that Shakspeare refers to this work in his "All's Well that Ends Well." "In the Prolegomena, he discusses, at considerable length and much ability, the gospel genealogy of our Lord.... An elegant fac simile of this work is given in Mr. Horne's Introduction; and an excellent critique on it will be found in the third volume of the Bibl. Bib., and the works referred to. See Orme' old series of the Eclectic Review, pp. 193 and 586.” Barrett, Joseph. A Funeral Sermon, Lon., 1699. Barrett, Joseph. Sermons, 1795, 1806-13. Barrett, Richard A. F. A Synopsis of Criticisms upon those Passages of the Old Testament in which Modern Commentators have differed from the Authorized Version; together with an Explanation of Various Difficulties in the Hebrew and English Texts, 2 vols., in 2 Pts. each, and vol. iii., Pt. 1, large 8vo, Lon., 1847. Perhaps in no department of letters have there been more important additions to the library than in that which treats of the history, preservation, integrity, and interpretation of the sacred text. Among the new works on this subject, Mr. Barrett's is said to deserve a high place: "This laborious and learned work is indispensable to the Biblical student. The Hebrew, Greek, and English versions of doubtful passages are given in juxtaposition, and the different opinions of commentators are quoted at length." This portion of the work, all yet pub., (1853,) includes all the historical books,-finishing at Esther.-Darling's Cyc. Bibl. Barrett, Serenus. Sermons, &c., 1715-22-25. Barrett, William, d. 1789, an eminent Surgeon at Bristol, pub. in 1788 the History and Antiquities of the eity of Bristol, 1 vol., 4to. This work had been in preparation for twenty years. Park calls it "A motley compound of real and supposititious history." "The promiscuous mode of citing authors, we had almost said, Concealing authorities, is unworthy a correct or faithful writer. "The book abounds with curious and authentic information; and, in excuse for many of its inaccuracies. it may be necessary to remind the reader that it is the first which has ever been published on that subject."-Lon. Gent. Mag., lix. 533: but see pages 921-924, same vol. Mr. Barrett was the gentleman who urged Chatterton to produce the poems which he declared he had transcribed from the originals in Rowley's handwriting. Many of the "original MSS." were in Mr. Barrett's possession. For an interesting paper on Chatterton's forgeries, see Gent. Mag. for 1789, p. 1081; and see the name in this volume. Barrey, Lod. Ram Alley, or Merry Tricks; a Comedy, Lon., 1612, 4to. See Biog. Dramat. Barrie, Alex. A Collection of Prose and Verse, Edin., 1781. Barrifee, Wm., Lt. Col. Mars, his Trivmph, Lon., 1639, 4to. Militarie Discipline, Lon., 1639, 4to; 4th ed., 1643. Barrington, Hon. Daines, 1727-1800, was the burth of five celebrated sons of an illustrious father, John, Lord Viscount Barrington. He studied for some time at Oxford, which he quitted for the Temple, and was admitted to the bar. He retired from the bench (being a judge in Wales) in 1785, and devoted himself to the study of antiquity, natural history, &c. The fruits of his researches were given to the public in 1766, in his learned Observations on the Statutes, 4to. This work has been frequently reprinted, 1767, '69, '75. 5th edit. 1795. The later editions contain new matter. "Mr. Barrington, in his Observations, has contributed very much to the elucidation of the more ancient laws of England, by introducing historical illustrations of the times during which the statutes were enacted. The volume abounds in curious, learned, and valuable information."-Marvin's Legal Bibl. "Like an active general in the service of the public, the author storms the strongholds of chicane, wheresoever they present themselves, and particularly fictions, without reserve." "Mr. Daines Barrington is more of the antiquarian and historian than of the philosopher or lawyer. He has selected from the earliest volume of our statute-book a number of acts, upon which he has given a commentary, curious rather in an antiquarian point of view, than in its illustration of the changes introduced into our legal polity. Many of the statutes commented upon afford an ample field for the display of much research into the manners and customs of the times. Others again throw much light upon the historical events of the period. Upon some occasions the author digresses considerably, but the matter thus introduced is always curious and valuable."-Retrospective Review, vol ix., p. 250: read the whole of this long article. In 1767 was pub. his Naturalist's Calendar; in 1773 his edit. of the Saxon trans. of Orosius, ascribed to King Alfred. In 1775 appeared his tracts on the Possibility of reaching the North Pole. These tracts were designed to promote a favourite project of Mr. Barrington's, which he had the pleasure of seeing carried out in the voyage of Captain Phipps, afterwards Lord Mulgrave. It must be allowed that the learned author bestowed much time and labour on this subject, and accumulated an amazing quantity of written, traditionary, and conjectural evidence, in proof of the possibility of circumnavigating the globe; but when his testimonies were examined, they proved rather ingenious than satisfactory."-Chalmers's Biog. Dict. The edit. of 1818 contains some of Capt. Beaufoy's speculations on the same subject. These tracts are also contained in his Miscellanies on Various Subjects, [Natural History, &c.,] pub. 1781, 4to. Mr. Barrington contributed several papers to the Archeologia, 1770, '75, '77, and to the Phil. Trans., 1767, '71, '73. Barrington, George, superintendent of the convicts at Parainatta. A Voyage to New South Wales, 1795. Soquel, 1800. The History of New South Wales, 1803, 2 vols. This author was the well known, or, rather, widely known, light-fingered gentleman to whom is ascribed the witty couplet: "True patriots we! For be it understood, We left our country for our country's good." On the voyage out Barrington gained the good-will of the officers of the ship, by assisting so materially to quell conspiracy of the convicts, that he was considered the preserver of the vessel and the lives of the honest men on board. age to N. S. Wales,] being well aware that there are metho is of "One Mr. Shute is named the secretary to Lord Wharton [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.] He is a young man, but reckoned th shrewdest head in England. . . . As to his principles, he is a moderate man, frequenting the church and meeting indifferently."— DEAN SWIFT. In 1723 his lordship retired from political life, and devoted himself to theological researches, for which he always cherished a predilection. He married a daughter of Sir William Daines, by whom he had six sons; the five who lived to man's estate all became distinguished characters. 1. William, Lord Barrington; 2. John, a major-general in the army; 3. Daines, justice of Chester; 4. Samuel, an admiral; 5. Shute, Bishop of Durham. Lord Barrington pub. a number of works, 1696-1733, the principal of which is Miscellanea Sacra; or a New Method of considering so much of the History of the Apostles as is contained in Scripture; in an Abstract of their History, an Abstract of that Abstract, and four Critical Essays, Lon., 1725, 2 vols. 8vo. A new edit., under the supervision of the author's son, the Bishop of Durham, in 3 vols., 1770, 8vo. The 1st edit. was pub. anonymously. "This work contains some very valuable information on subjects not usually discussed. The first essay is on the teaching and witness of the Spirit, and affords some ingenious illustrations of the miraculous gifts of the primitive churches. The second is which the nature of the apostolic office is particularly examined. on the distinction between Apostles, Elders, and Brethren, in The third is on the time when Paul and Barnabas became, and were known to be, apostles; in which he contends that Paul was not constituted an apostle till his second visit to Jerusalem, mentioned Acts xxii. 17-21. The last is on the Apostolical decree, Acts xv. 23-30."-Orme's Bibl. Bib. The 2d edit. contains an Essay On the Several Dispensations of God to Mankind, in the order in which they lio in the Bible; or a Short System of the Religion of Nature and Scripture, 1st edit., 1725. Both works will be found in the Rev. G. Townsend's edit. of Viscount Barrington's works, Lon., 1828, 3 vols. "Much valuable information may be derived from this work. [An Essay, &c.]"-Quarterly Review. Dr. Benson acknowledges his obligation to the Miscel lanea Sacra, in his history of the first planting of Christianity, and in some other of his works. "The merit of this work [Miscellanea Sacra] is generally ac knowledged."-REV. T. H. HORNE, durable monument of his literary reputation. Few writers in the "His theological works will always remain the fairest and most last century possessed higher qualifications for the attainment of a profound and extensive knowledge of the Scriptures."-REV. GEO. TOWNSEND. Barrington, Sir Jonah, 1767-1834, Judge of the Court of Admiralty in Ireland. Personal Sketches of his Own Time, Lon., 1830, 3 vols. 8vo. Historic Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs relative to the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland, 5 parts, pub. 1809-15, in 4to, at 21s. per part. Published complete in 2 vols. imp. 4to, 1835, with 40 portraits, at £5 58. "This remarkable work was begun publishing in parts several years ago, and excited a considerable sensation at the time. It several were speedily published. From some unexplained cause, was announced to appear in ten parts, at one guinea each, and however, the progress of the work was suddenly suspended, and reports were circulated of its having been officially suppressed on account of the freedom of its language; which gave the published parts a great marketable value, and they could not afterwards be obtained at any price. It remained for that enterprising publisher, Mr. Colburn, to rescue it from being lost to the public, which he did by purchasing the whole materials, after they had been sup pressed for several years, from the family. The work is now com pleted as originally intended by the author." The Historic Memoirs have been issued in cheap form, entitled The Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation. Barrington, Hon. and Rt.Rev.Shute, 1734-1826, successively Bishop of Llandaff, Salisbury, and Durham, was the sixth son of the first Lord Barrington. (See ante.} He was educated at Eton, and in 1752 became a gentle. man-commoner at Merton College, Oxford. His lordship "We distrusted the pretensions of the ostensible author [Voy-edited in 1770 an edit. of his learned father's Miscellanes |