at Caermarthen, and educated at Oxford. After officiating, London. He was elected a Fellow of Christ Church, five years at Evesham in Worcestershire, he was conse- Cambridge, and succeeded the celebrated Perkins as lecerated Bishop of Bangor in 1616. The Practice of Piety. turer of St. Andrew's Church. This work had an extraordinary popularity; the 51st ed. was pub. Lon., 1714. Trans. into French, Welsh, Hungarian, and Polish. Bayly, Richard. Sermon, Lon., 1640, 8vo. Bayly, Robert. Parallel of the Liturgy, with the Mass Book, 1661, 4to. Bayly, Tho., d. 1670, Bishop of Killala and Achonry, Theophilact's Comments on St. Paul, Lon., 1636. Sermon on Gal. v. 12; preached before King Charles I. in the time of the Great Rebellion, Lon., 1707, 8vo. Bayly, Thomas, youngest son of Lewis, Bishop of Bangor, was educated at Cambridge. In 1638 he was made sub-dean of Wells. In 1649 he pub. Certamen Religiorum, or a Conference between King Charles I. and Henry, late Marquis of Worcester, concerning Religion, in Ragland Castle, 1646. The Royal Charter granted unto Kings by God himself, with a Treatise wherein it is proved that Episcopacy is Jure Divino, 1649, 8vo. This work gave offence, and the author was imprisoned in Newgate, where he wrote his Herba Parietis, or the Wall Flower as it grows out of the Stone Chamber belonging to the Metropolitan Prison, fol. 1650. He escaped to the continent, and became a zealous Roman Catholic, and in 1654 pub. at Douay, the End to Controversy between the Roman Catholic and Protestant Religions, &c. Several other works are ascribed to our author. Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 1797-1839, was born near Bath, England, where his father was an eminent solicitor. He was intended for the church, and studied for some time at Oxford. After his marriage, in 1826, he resided for some years at a country seat in Sussex. In 1831 he experienced a melancholy reverse in his pecuniary affairs, and for the rest of his life was a sufferer from many mortifications to which poverty subjects those whose habits and tastes have been formed amid affluence and elegance. His literary industry was very great. In a few years he wrote no less than thirty-six pieces for the stage, several Novels and Tales, and his "songs came to be numbered by hundreds." We give the titles of his publications: Aylmers, a novel, 3 vols. post 8vo. Kindness in Women, tales, 3 vols. post 8vo. Parliamentary Letters, and other Poems, 12mo. Rough Sketches of Bath, 12mo. Weeds of Witchery, poems, r. 8vo. To which must be added, Poetical Works and Memoir by his Widow, 2 vols. post 8vo. Mr. Bayly's songs are among the best known and most generally admired in the language. Who is not familiar with the touching pathos of The Soldier's Tear; We met,-'twas in a Crowd; Oh, no, we never mention Her; the joyous abandon of I'd be a Butterfly; or the good-natured satire of My Married Daughter could you see; and Why Don't the Men Propose? "The poems and songs of Mr. Haynes Bayly will not be entitled to a high place in the literature of our age; a certain air of insubstantiality attaches to them all; the pathos rarely goes down to the springs of the human feelings, and the humour scarcely exceeds the playfulness which marks elegant society in its daily ap pearances," He possessed a playful fancy, a practised ear, a refined taste, and a sentiment which ranged pleasantly from the fanciful to the pathetic, without, however, strictly attaining either the highly imaginative, or the deeply passionate."-MOIR. Bayly, William, d. 1810, an eminent astronomer, accompanied Capt. Cook in 1772, and pub. the results of his observations under the title of Astronomical Observations on board the "Resolution" and "Adventure," in a voyage round the world in 1772, Lon., 1774, 4to. Several subsequent publications appeared upon the same subject. Baylye, Thos. A Glympse of Paradise, 1710, 8vo. Baynam, Wm., 1749–1814, of Virginia. Con. to Med. Journals. Baynard, Edward, M.D. Profess. Treatises, Lon., 1694-1706. A Commentary on the 1st chap. of the Epistle to the Ephesians, handling the controversy of Predestination, Lon., 1618. "A useful Puritan exposition."-BICKERSTETH. "Dr. Sibbs acknowledges himself indebted to Bayne, instrumentally, for his conversion."-LOWNDES. also wrote a Commentary upon a portion of the Epistle to Devotions unto a Godly Life, Lon., 1618, 8vo. Bayne the Colossians, (1635,) and other works, pub. 1618-43. Bayne, Rev. Peter, whilst pursuing his theological studies at Edinburgh, contributed to the Edinburgh Magazine a number of critical articles on the writings of Sir Archibald Alison, De Quincey, Tennyson, Ruskin, Mrs. Browning, and other authors, which attracted attention and commendation. Some of these papers have been reprinted in Nos. 2 and 3. 1. The Christian Life, Social and Individual, Lon., 1855, p. 8vo; Bost., 1857, 12mo. "The master idea on which it has been formed is, we deem, wholly original; and we regard the execution of it as not less happy than the conception is good."-HUGH MILLER. 2. Essays in Biographical Criticism: 1st Ser., 1857, 12mo; 2d Ser., 1858, 12mo. These two vols. were pub. at the request of the Boston publishers. See N. Amer. Rev.. July, 1858, 274. "They indicate the traits of mind and heart which render The Christian Life' so intensely suggestive and vitalizing, and at the same time display a critical power seldom equalled in comprehensiveness, depth of insight, candid appreciation, and judicial integrity."-N. Amer. Rev. Baynes, C. R. Notes and Reflections during a Ramble in the East, &c. An Overland Journey to India, &c., p. 8vo, Lon., 1843. "So many other travellers and authors have preceded him over every inch of his ground, that it was impossible to have original information to communicate."-Literary Gazette. Baynes, E. D. Ovid's Epistles, 1818, vol. i. 8vo. Baynes, H. S. The Church at Philippi, or the Doctrine and Conduct of the Early Christians illustrated; with a recomm. Introduc. by J. P. Smith, D.D., Jon., 1834, 12mo. "Intended to serve as a historical commentary upon St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians." Baynes, or Baines, Ralph, d. 1559, a native of Yorkshire, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1555 he was, by Queen Mary, made Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. Previously he had been royal professor of Hebrew at Paris. Prima Rudimenta in Linguam Hebraicam, Paris, 1550, 4to. Baynes, Robt. Discourses, Moral and Religious, adapted to a Naval Audience, preached on board his Majesty's ship the "Tremendous," during the years 1802, '03, and '04, Lon., 1807, 8vo. A Fast Sermon, 1809. Baynes, Roger. Praise of Solitariness, Lon., 1577, 4to. The Baynes of Agvisgrane, Aug., 1617, 4to. Baynham, William. Con. to Med. Tracts, 1791. Baynton, Thomas. Medical Works, 1799-1813. Beach, Abraham, of Connecticut, d. 1828. Hearing the Word. A Serm., American Preacher, iii. A Funeral Serm. on Dr. Chandler, 1790. works, pub. 1732-72. Theolog. Beach, Philip. Letters to T. Burnet, Lon., 1736, 8vo. Beach, Thos. Eugenio; a poem, Lon., 1737, 4to. Beach, W. W. Abradates and Panthea, 1765, 4to. Beachcroft, Robt. P. Sermons, 1809-16. Beacher, L. Account of V. Gertru, Lon., 1665, 4to. Beacon, R. Solon his Follie, or a Politique Discourse, touching the Reformation of Common-weales conquered, declined, or corrupted, Oxf., 1594, 4to. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. Beacon, Thomas. See BECON. Beadle, John. The Diary of a Thankful Christian Lon., 1656, 8vo. Beadon, Richard, D.D., Bishop of Bath and Wells. A Fast Day Sermon, 1793, 4to. A Sermon, 4to. Beak, Francis. Letters against Anabaptists, Lon.,1701. Beal, John, 1603-1683, an English divine and philosopher, contributed many papers to Phil. Trans., 1666, '67, Diseases from Vicious Blood, Lon., Bayne, Alexander, d. 1737, Prof. Law in Edinburgh Univ. Hope's Minor Practicks from MS., with a Discourse on the Rise and Progress of the Law of Scot-'69, '70, '75, '76, '77. land, and the Method of Studying it, 1726. Other Treatises, Edin., 1747, '48, '49. Bayne, D., or K., M.D. Prof. treat., Lon., 1727-38. Bayne, or Baine, James, 1710-1790, minister in Edinburgh. He preached a sermon against Foote's "Minor" Foote rejoined in "An Apology for the Minor, in a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Baine, by Samuel Foote, Esq.," 1771. Discourses on Various Subjects, 1778, 8vo. Bayne, or Baynes, Paul, d. 1617, was a native of Beale, Bart. 1700, 8vo. Beale, John. Horticult. works, Oxf. & Lon., 1653-77. Beale,John. Work on the German Flute, Lon., 1812, fol. Beale, Lionel S., M.D., Professor of Physiology and General and Morbid Anatomy in King's College, London The Laws of Health in their Relations to Mind and Body A Series of Letters from an Old Practitioner to a Patien 8vo. p. "We gladly welcome Mr. Beale's work. The observations are those of a most experienced and intelligent practitioner, and do equal credit to his head and heart. It is not to the lay reader only that Mr. Beale's work will be acceptable; and we augur for it an extensive popularity."-Lon. Lancet. Treatise on Distortions and Deformities, 8vo. The Mi- Baronet's Family, Lon., 3 vols. P. "An absolutely complete gentlewoman."-Woodford. "That masculine poet, as well as painter, the incomparable Mrs. Beale."-Oldys's MSS. Beale, Robert, d. 1601, a civilian and statesman, was a zealous Protestant, and on account of his religious principles resided on the Continent during the reign of Queen Mary. He embraced the occasion to form a valuable historical library. He wrote a treatise on the marriage of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, with Mary, the French queen; another on the marriage of the Earl of Hertford with Lady Catherine Grey; and his discourse on the Parisian massacre, in the form of a letter to Lord Burghley, is in the Cotton MSS. in the British Museum. His principal work is a collection of some of the Spanish historians, entitled Rerum Hispanicarum Scriptores, France, 1579, 2 vols. fol. Some letters of his will be found in Lodge's Illustrations of British History, and in Wright's Queen Elizabeth and her Times. Bealey, Joseph. Observations, 1790. Sermons, 1810. Bean, Charles. Sermons, 1707-16. Bear, John. Sermon, 1748, 8vo. Bearblock, James. On Tithes, Lon., 1805-09. Bearcroft, Philip, D.D., 1697-1761, master of the Charter-House, and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, pub. An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton, Esq., and of his foundation in the Charter-House, Lon., 1737, 8vo. Sermons, &c., 1726-48. Bearcroft, William. Fast Sermon, 1756, 8vo. Beard, Henry. Impris. of Debtors, Lon., 1801, 8vo. Beard, J. R., D.D. 1. Voices of the Church, Lon., 1845, 8vo. 2. Historical and Artistic Illustrations of the Trinity, 8vo. 3. Illustrations of the Divine in Christianity, 4. People's Dict. of the Bible, 2 vols. 8vo. mons and Prayers for Families, 2 vols. 8vo. 6. Unitarianism Exhibited in its Actual Condition, 8vo. 7. Religious Knowledge, 1856, 2 vols. p. 8vo. 8. A Revised English Bible the Want of the Church and the Demand of the Age, 1857, cr. 8vo. Other works. 8vo. 5. Ser Beard, Richard, M.D. Med. Con. to Phil. Trans., 1726. Beard, Thomas, D.D., an author of the Elizabethan period, is best known as the compiler of the Theatre of God's Judgments, Lon., 1597, 4to, in which he is said to have been assisted by Dr. Thos. Taylor. "In the third edit., 1631, 4to, from page 542 to the end is for the first time added. The 4th, and generally esteemed best, edit. appeared in 1648, small 4to." A Retractive from the Romish Religion, Lon., 1616, 4to. "Extremely useful as an adjunct to the shop library; a pocket Pharmacopoeia Universalis, containing, in addition to the officinal formulæ, those magistral preparations which are so continually required at the hands of the dispenser."-Lon. Annals of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 3. The Druggists' General Receipt-Book, 3d ed. 24mo. "The General Receipt-Book is an extensive appendix to the Pocket Formulary. No Pharmaceutist who possesses the latter, ought to be without the former, for the two form a complete Counter Companion."-Lon. Annals of Pharmacy. Beasly, Thos. J. Legal treatises, Dubl., 1837-44 Lectures relative to the profession of Attorney and Solicitor, 8vo, Dubl., 1842. "These Lectures are fraught with valuable historical informa tion upon the origin of Attorneys in ancient and modern times, and contain many valuable suggestions relative to their duties and responsibilities." Beasly, W. Inclosing Waste Lands, 1812. Beaton, Beton, or Bethune, David, 1494–1546, Archbishop of St. Andrew's in Scotland, and Cardinal of the Roman Church, was educated in the University of St. Andrews, and studied divinity at the University of Paris, where he took orders. According to Dempster, he wrote, 1. Memoirs of his own Embassies. 2. A Treatise of Peter's Primacy, and 3. Letters to several persons. Of these last there are said to be some copies preserved in the King's Library at Paris. "His high station in the Church placed him in the way of great employments; his abilities were equal to the greatest of the; nor did he reckon any of them to be above his merit.... His learning and controversies of the age."-ROBERTSON. early application to public business kept him acquainted with the His persecution of the Protestants, and especially the death of George Wishart, was punished by his assassination in his castle, in 1546, by John and Norman Lesley, Peter Carmichael, and James Melvil. See Biog. Brit., Mackenzie, Hume, Robertson. Beaton, Beton, or Bethune, James, 1517-1603, Archbishop of Glasgow, and nephew to the preceding, was educated in Paris, under the care of his uncle the cardinal. He is said to have written, 1. A Commentary on the Book of Kings. 2. A Lamentation for the kingdom of Scotland. 3. A Book of Controversies against the Sectaries. 4. Observations upon Gratian's Decretals. 5. A Collection of Scotch Proverbs. None of these have been printed.-DEMPSTER: Biog. Brit. Beatson, Lt.-Col. Alexander. War with Tippoo Sultaun, Lon., 1800, 4to. A work on St. Helena, Lon., 1816, 4to. "This work contains little else than statistical, meteorological, and agricultural, observations on the Island, and plans for its better administration and cultivation.” Beatson, John. Theological works, Lon., 1774, '77, '79, '89. Beatson, Robt., 1742-1818. Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain and Ireland, Edin., 1786, 8vo; 3d ed., Lon., 1806, 8vo, 3 vols. This is the best ed. of this useful work, which is a compilation from Dugdale's Sum.. mons to Parliament, The Historical Register, and works of like character. Haydy's Book of Dignities is founded upon the Political Index. Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, 1727-90, Lon., 1790, 3 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., Lon., 1804, 6 vols. 8vo. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Fife, Edin., 1794, 4to. land is well discussed."—Donaldson's Agricult. Biog. Beattie. Aristotelis de Rhetorica, Camb., 1728, 8vo. Beattie, James, LL.D., &c., 1735-1803, was born at Laurencekirk, in Kincardineshire, Scotland, on the 20th of October. His father was a shopkeeper and farmer, and is tinguished for his productions. In 1749 James was sent said to have been something of a poet, though never disto the Marischal College, at Aberdeen, where he remained for four years. He studied divinity with the intention of taking orders, but relinquished this idea. In 1758 he obtained the situation of usher in the grammar-school of Aberdeen, and two years later was honoured by the appointment of Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in Marischal College, which post he retained until within a short period of his death. In 1760 he pub. a volume of poems, the most of which had appeared anonymously in the Scot's Magazine. A portion of these were reprinted in 1766, with the addition of a translation of one of Addison's Beasley, Rev. Frederick, 1777-1845, Prof. Moral Philos. Univ. Penna., 1813-28. 1. A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind, 1822, 8vo. 2. Examina-pieces, and some verses on the death of Churchill. tion of the Oxford Divinity. Beasley, Henry. 1. The Book of Prescriptions, 2900, English and Foreign, Lon., 24mo. 2. The Pocket Formulary and Synopsis of the British and Foreign Pharmacopoeias; 5th ed., enlarged, 24mo. These last, and indeed almost all of our author's earlier pieces, were not deemed by him worthy of a place in future editions of his works. In 1765 he pub. a poem entitled The Judgment of Paris. The design was good, but the poetry was not considered equal to the moral. In 1767 he was married to Miss Mary Dun, daughter of the rector of the grammar-school at Aberdeen. Some two years before his marriage he became acquainted with the poet Gray, and a friendship was established which was dissolved only by the death of the latter in 1771. In 1770 he pub. his Essay on Truth, which was intended as an antidote to the skeptical philosophy of Hume: he desired "To overthrow skepticism, and establish conviction in its place; a conviction not in the least favourable to bigotry or prejudice, far less to a persevering spirit, but such a conviction as produces firmness of mind and stability of principle, in a consistence with moderation, candour, and liberal inquiry." The success of this work was worthy of its excellent design. In less than four years it went through five editions, and had been translated into several foreign languages. He received encouragement to take orders in the Church of England, but declined the overture. In 1760, Beattie wrote to Dr. Blackwall that he had commenced "a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser," but he had "resolved to write no more poetry with a view to publication, till he saw some dawnings of a poetical taste among the generality of readers." The first book of The Minstrel, thus referred to, made its appearance in 1771, and was most favourably received. He was honoured by the intimacy of Johnson, Goldsmith, Reynolds, and Garrick; and in 1773 received a substantial token of royal favour in the shape of a pension of £200 per annum. Dr. Beattie gives a very interesting account of an interview with which he was honoured by George III. and the queen : "They both complimented me in the highest terms on my Essay, which they said was a book they always kept by them; and the king said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from the shelf. I never stole book but once,' said his majesty, and that was yours,' speak ing to me. I stole it from the queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read." He had heard that the sale of Hume's Essays had failed since my book was published; and I told him what Mr. Strahan had told me in regard to that matter." The author intended to add a second part to the Essay on Truth, but it was never completed. The second book of The Minstrel appeared in 1774, and was received with as much favour as the former. Shortly before this, Dr. Beattie had declined the offer of the Professorship of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. In 1776 he pub. by a subscription of nearly 500 names, a new edition of his Essay on Truth, with some other essays in the same volume: On Poetry and Music, On Laughter and Ludicrous Composition, and On the Utility of Classical Learning. In 1777 a new edition of The Minstrel was given to the world. In this edition was comprised a selection of the author's other poetical pieces. A Letter to Dr. Blair on Psalmody was printed, but not published, in 1778. A List of Scotticisms appeared in 1779, and during the next year he contributed to the Mirror some papers. His Evidences of the Christian Religion, 2 vols. Svo, was pub. 1786. "Dr. Beattie's Evidences of Christianity is, perhaps, the most popular, as it is certainly the most useful, of his prose writings."— SIE WM. FORBES. In 1790 he gave to the world the first volume of his Elements of Moral Science, edited a new edition of Addison's periodical papers, and contributed a paper to the Royal Society of Edinburgh's publications. Three years later appeared the second volume of the Elements of Moral SciThe death of his two sons in 1790 and 1796, and other domestic afflictions, greatly impaired his health, which had been for many years declining, and after much suffering, he died on the 18th of August, 1803. He pub. in 1779 the Miscellanies of his son, James Hay Beattie. He was buried beside his two sons in the churchyard of St. Nicholas, Aberdeen. ence. Of the character of Dr. Beattie, it is only necessary to say that he was a philanthropist and a Christian of no common order. An Account of his Life and Writings, with many of his letters, was pub. at Edin., 2 vols. 4to, in 1806, by Sir William Forbes. We find frequent reference to our author in Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson. Johnson remarks to Boswell: "You are a great favourite of Dr. Beattie. Of Dr. Beattle I should have thought much, but that his lady puts him out of my head: she is a very lovely woman.... We all love Beattie. Mrs. Thrale says, if ever she has another husband, she'll have Beattie. ... Beattie's book [Essay on Truth] is, I believe, every day more liked; at least, I like it more as I look more upon it." With this favourable opinion the author was highly pleased. He writes to Boswell: You judge very rightly in supposing that Dr. Johnson's fa vourable opinion of my book must give me great delight. Indeed, it is impossible for me to say how much I am gratified by it; for there is not a man on earth whose good opinion I would be more ambitious to cultivate" On another occasion, Johnson contrasted Beattie favour. ably with Robertson: There is more thought in the novelist than in the historian. There is but a shallow stream of thought in history.' BoswELL: But surely, sir, an historian has reflection?' JOHNSON: Why, but she cannot write like [Beattie;] neither can [Robertson.]'. yes, sir: and so has a cat when she catches a mouse for her kitten: Such was his sensibility, and so much was he affected by pathetic poetry, that when he was reading Dr. Beattie's Hermit, in my presence, it brought tears into his eyes. . . . The particular passage which excited this strong emotion was, as I have heard from my father, the third stanza, "Tis Night,' &c."-J. BOSWELL, Jr. "The fourth."-MARKLAND. The Essay on Truth is now but little read. The Edinburgh Reviewer of Sir William Forbes's volumes censures the Essay in no measured terms: "Every one has not the capacity of writing philosophically; but every one may be at least temperate and candid; and Dr. Beat nious, than for its defects in argument and originality. There are tie's book is still more remarkable for being abusive and acrimono subjects, however, in the wide world of human speculation, upon which such vehemence appears more groundless and unao countable, than the greater part of those which have served Dr. Beattie for topics of declamation or invective." "Beattle, the most agreeable and amiable writer I ever met with, searches are diversified and embellished by a poetical imagination, the only author I have seen whose critical and philosophical rethat makes even the driest subject and the leanest a feast for an epicure in books. He is so much at his ease, too, that his own character appears in every page, and, which is very rare, we see not only the writer, but the man; and the man so gentle, so well tempered, so happy in his religion, and so humane in his philosophy, that it is necessary to love him if one has any sense of what is lovely."-Cow PER. The Minstrel was designed to "trace the progress of a poetical genius, born in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason, till that period at which he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a minstrel." "I find you are willing to suppose, that, in Edwin, I have given only a picture of myself as I was in my younger days. I confess the supposition is not groundless."-Beattie to Lady Forbes. "The beauty of external nature was never more finely worshipped than in the conclusion of the ninth stanza, which Gray truly pronounced to be inspired."-Edin. Encyclopædia. Bishop Warburton pronounced Dr. Beattie to be "superior to the whole crew of Scotch metaphysicians." Beattie, James Hay, 1768-1790, son of the preced. ing, a "most amiable and promising youth." Miscellanies, Essays, and Fragments, with an account of his Life and Character, by James Beattie, LL.D., Lon., 1799, 12mo. "The English poems display an energy of expression, a vivacity of description, and an opposite variety of numbers, far beyond the years of the author." Beattie, William, M.D., the friend, fellow-traveller, and biographer of the late W. H. Bartlett, assisted the latter in several of his publications. 1. Residence in Germany, Lon., 1822-26, 2 vols. 8vo. 2. The Pilgrim in Italy, 12mo. 3. The Castles and Abbeys of England, imp. 8vo, 2 Series; 2d Ser., 1851. 4. Scotland Illustrated, 1838, 2 vols. 4to. 5. The Waldenses Illustrated, 1838, 4to. 6. The Danube: its History, Scenery, &c., 1844, 12mo. 7. Life and Letters of Thos. Campbell, 3 vols. p. 8vo. See BART LETT, WILLIAM HENRY. Death of Nelson, Lon., 1807, 8vo. Beauchamps, Lord. Con. to Phil. Trans., 1741 containing divers sortes of Hands, &c., Lon., 1570, 4to. Beauchesne, John de, and John Baldon. Booke "I apprehend them to have been written by Mr. Beauchesne, a schoolmaster in Blackfriars, and cut on wood by Mr. Baldon.". HERBERT. Beauclerc, Rt. Rev. James, Lord-Bishop of Here. ford, d. 1787. Sermon preached before the Lords, on 1 Sam. xv. 23, (Jan. 30,) Lon., 1752, 4to. Beaufort, D. A., Rector of Lym. Scripture Sufficient without Tradition. The Norrisian Prize Essay for 1840, Lon., 1841, 8vo. Beaufort, Daniel Augustus, Rector of Navan, in the county of Meath. A work on the Church of Rome, Dubl., 1788, 8vo. Memoir of a Map of Ireland, &c., Dubl. and Lon., 1792, 4to. "An exceedingly valuable work, containing a succinct account of the civil and ecclesiastical state of Ireland, and an Index of all the places which appear on the author's map."-LOWNDES. Beaufort, Rear-Admiral Sir Francis, K.C.B., F.R.S., &c., late Hydrographer to the Admiralty, d. 1857. Karamania; or, A Brief Description of the South Coast of Asia Minor and of the Remains of Antiquity, Lon.,1817, 8vo. "A valuable addition to the maritime geography and antiquities of a part of Asia not described hitherto." Beaufort, John. The Daughter of Adoption, Lon., 1800, 4 vols. 12mo. Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, and mother of Henry VII., 1441-1509, translated from French into English, The Mirrour of Golde for the sinfull Soule, printed by Pynson, in 4to. Treatise of the Imitation of Christ; printed at the end of Dr. Wm. Atkinson's English trans. of the three first books, 1504. A Letter to her son is printed in Howard's Collection of Letters. Her Will, which is very curious, is in the Collection of Royal and Noble Wills, p. 376, 1780, 4to. "That she was a zealous patroness of literature is obvious from the testimony of several publications which were undertaken and executed at the command, exhortation, or enticement, of the priness Margaret." "Right studious she was in bokes, which she had in grete number, both in Englysh and in Latin, and in Frenshe; and for her exercise, and for the profyte of others, she did translate divers matters of devocyon out of the Frensh into Englysh."-Bishop Fisher's Mornynge Remembraunce. See Park's Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors. 1813-17. Beaulieu, Luke de, Chaplain to Lord Jeffries, and Prebendary of Gloucester. Theolog. works, 1674-1706. Beauman, Wm. Sermon on Mal. ii. 7. Beaumont. Dutch Albanus, Lon., 1712, 8vo. Beaumont, Alex. History of Spain, 1812, 8vo. Beaumont, Barber. Provident, or Parish Banks, Lon., 1816, 8vo. Beaumont, Charles. The Coal Trade, Lon., 1789,4to. Beaumont, Francis, 1585?-1615-16, and John Fletcher, 1576-1625, united themselves so closely during life, that "in death they have not been divided by the biographer. Francis Beaumont was descended from the ancient and noble family of the name, whose residence was at Grace-Dieu in Leicestershire. His grand-father, John Beaumont, was Master of the Rolls, and his father, Francis, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas. He was entered a gentleman-commoner of Broadgates' Hall, (now Pembroke College,) Oxford, Feb. 4, 1596-97. After leaving college he became a member of the Inner Temple; but is not supposed to have become very profoundly versed in the principles of jurisprudence. A translation of the fable of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus from Ovid into English rhyme and much enlarged, printed in 1602, 4to, is ascribed to his pen, though not without question. Of Beaumont's life but very little is known. He married Ursula, a daughter of Henry Isley, of Sundridge, in Kent, by whom he left two daughters. He died before he had attained his 30th year, and was buried near the entrance of St. Benedict's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, near the Earl of Middlesex's monument. Bishop Corbit honoured the departed poet by the following epitaph: ON MR. FRANCIS BEAUMONT. As would ask ten good heads to husband it:- BEAUMONT is dead! by whose sole death appears and Milton. Sir E. Brydges is of opinion that the third song in the play of Nice Valour afforded the first hint of the Il Penseroso." John Fletcher was the son of Richard, successively Bishop of Bristol, Worcester, and London. He was educated at Cambridge, probably at Bene't College, and had the reputation of respectable proficiency in the classics. As many of the plots of his plays were taken from the Spanish, French, and Italian, it is a fair inference that he was versed in those languages. It is believed that he was never married. He died of the plague, in London, in 1625, and was buried in St. Saviour's, Southwark. In addition to the pieces written exclusively by Fletcher, and his labours in conjunction with Beaumont, he assisted Ben Jonson and Middleton in The Widow, and is supposed to have been also a literary partner with Shakspeare, Massinger, and some other authors. The Two Noble Kingsmen was formerly very confidently attributed to Fletcher and Shakspeare; though later opinions deprive the latter of any share in the authorship. Still the title-page of the first edition carries the name of both, and the assertion the time, may be supposed to have been as good judges as seems to have been unquestioned by those who, living near the ingenious skeptics of modern times. However, we offer no opinion upon the subject. Langbaine declares that Shakspeare was one of the authors; and the following remarks are worthy of consideration: "Since the truth of this statement was never questioned until modern times, although many of Shakspeare's friends were living when the play was published; since all the old critics mention Shakspeare as one of the writers of it;-and, more than all, sincə the internal evidence fally bears out the tradition, we think the genuineness of it can scarcely be questioned. If Shakspeare did not assist Fletcher, who then did? None of the plays which | "Out of the fifty-two plays, Beaumont had no share in the first THE WILDGOOSE CHASE. 66 1621. 1621. 1621. 1622. Produced the 14th May, 1622. 22d June, 1622. RULE A WIFE AND HAVE A Wife. His brother, also, Sir John Beaumont, intimates that A WIFE FOR A MONTH. the mental powers of the poet were overtasked: "Beaumont's poems are all of considerable, some of them of hizh, merit."-DR. BLISS. "His original poems give him very superior claims to a place in our collections. Although we find some of the metaphysical conceits so common in his day, particularly in an elegy on Lady Markham, he is in general more free from them than his contemporaries. His sentiments are elegant and refined, and his versifi cation is unusually harmonious. Where have we more lively imagery, or in greater profusion, than in the sonnet, Like a Ring without a Finger? is amatory poems are sprightly and original, and some of his lyrics rise to the impassioned spirit of Shakspeare 3d Feb., 1625. "For this latter set of dates we have Sir Henry Herbert, the licenser's, manuscript, as authority; which also decides the corre sponding dramas to be by Fletcher alone, except the Maid of the Mill, wherein he had Rowley's assistance. That the Faithful Shepherdess was Fletcher's sole production, there is no doubt, and every evidence. Two other plays by him, licensed in 1623, are lost,-The Devil of Dowgate; or, Usury put to Use, and The Wandering Lovers. For the former set of dates we have authority not so direct. but sufficient; and Fletcher seems to have written with out help all the dramas, dated and undated, save the last two, which he left imperfect, and which Malone says were finished by Sherley. These eighteen plays, therefore, furnish criticism a fair, broad ground whereupon to judge of Fletcher's individual style. Concerning the other thirty-three dramas. (half a dozen excepted) We may perhaps add The Woman Hater, produced about 1606–7, we can ascertain the times of their representation, or, at least, publication, with various degrees of precision; but it is difficult to apportion their authorship-I might say, impossible-though easy enough to hypothesize, and yet easier to pronounce about it.... Besides the above-mentioned definite class of Eighteen attributable almost entirely to Fletcher, I shall mark out another of Nine, all of which may have been partly written by Beaumont, as they were composed or made public before his death, and some of them even claim him for their chief author on good evidence.” THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE. PHILASTER; OR, LOVE AND MADNESS. THE MAID'S TRAGEDY. KING AND NO KING. THE HONEST MAN'S FORTUNE. THE COXCOMB. CUPID'S REVENGE. THE SCORNFUL LADY. 1613. Published in 1616. "I add The Scornful Lady, though not published till after the death of Beaumont, because it was written some years earlier; and I omit the Woman Hater, though published before that epoch, because he is understood to have had no share in this work." "Even from the above small class we can select but three dramas, verified as joint compositions of our English Damon and Pythias, to wit, Philaster, The Maid's Tragedy, King and No King. The former two, indeed, if they be not equi-valuable with all the other plays together of this collection, are beyond doubt those on which has depended, and ever will depend, its principal charm, and the chief renown of Beaumont and Fletcher. King and No King also renders their genius apparent in its brightest phase. Critics, however, go further than I can. They affirm that of the fifty-two plays, those under-named-sixteen or seventeen (if we include The Knight of the Burning Pestle)-vindicate the time-honoured title of our volume. Beaumont, it is thought, was co-parent to these, but no more than these. I will particularize such of their dates as have been ascertained." THE KNIGHT Of the Burning PESTLE. First represented PHILASTER. THE MAID'S TRAGEDY. FOUR PLAYS IN ONE. KING AND NO KING. THE HONEST MAN'S FORTUNE. THE COXCOMB. CUPID'S REVENGE. THE SCORNFUL LADY. WIT WITHOUT MONEY. WIT AT SEVERAL WEAPONS. THE LITTLE FRENCH LAWYER. THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY. THE LAWS OF CANDY. THE KNIGHT of Malta. in 1611. Written before 1611. "Partnership in but seventeen out of fifty-two plays gives Beaumont small apparent claim on the total joint-stock reputation. It seems possible, however, that some others, not brought out till after his death, may have been planned, and partly or wholly written, with his co operation before it."-Introduction to Mozon's edition, Lon., 1839, 2 vols. 8vo. Beaumont was author, in addition to his works already named, of a drama entitled The History of Mador, King of Great Britain, now lost. Several other compositions have been attributed to our literary partners, as well as to Fletcher, in conjunction with others; in The History of Cardenio, Shakspeare is said to have been his colleague. (See Darley's Introduction, and Weber's edition, Lon., 1802, Svo, 1814, 14 vols.) This edition was severely handled by Gifford and Oct. Gilchrist. not far from the play-house, both bachelors, lay together,... the same cloaths and cloake, &c., between them." We proceed to quote the opinions of a number of writers upon the works of our distinguished poet. Shirley, in the preface to the first collected edition, (1647 see ante,) after a laboured description of the constituents of true poetry, remarks, "This, you will say, is a vast comprehension, and hath not hap- "Thou hast left unto the times so great That 'twill be hard, I fear, to prove thy will: And from it learn those melancholy strains THOMAS PEYTON. "And, by the court of Muses be 't decreed, On Shakspeare's gentler muse in thee full grown All these good plays, but those of others toc: "Fair star, ascend! the joy, the life, the light We, bowing, sing; and whilst we praise, we pray." The bad taste, if not impiety, of this apostrophe is not at all singular in our old writers. We quote the complimentary epistle of Ben Jonson in answer to Beaumont's letter to the former on The Fox: "To MR. FRANCIS BEAUMONT. We do not discontinue quotations from want of matter, for of the Commendatory Verses inscribed to Fletcher, to Beaumont, and to both together, there are no less than twenty-five sets! We have already mentioned the early editions of Beaumont's Poems. The Golden Remains of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, 2d edit., with other Drolleries by severall Wits of these present Times, was pub., Lon., 1660, 8vo. The first collected edition of the comedies and tragedies was pub., Lon., 1647, folio, with portrait of Fletcher. This edition contains a dedication by ten comedians to Philip, the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. It was edited by John Shirley, and contained 36 plays, printed for the first time. Also, Lon., 1650, in 4to; 1679, folio; 1711, 7 vols. 8vo; with notes by Theobald, Seward, and" Sympson, 1750, 10 vols. 8vo; with notes by various commentators, 1778, 10 vols. 8vo, edit. by George Colman; edit. by Theobald, 1780, 10 vols.; with notes by Henry Weber, 1812, 14 vols. 8vo, with portraits; edited by Dyce, 184346, 11 vols. 8vo. Moxon's beautiful edition, 1839, has been before referred to. This enterprising and highly respectable publisher has issued, in the same superior style, the works of Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Dryden, Spenser, Massinger and Ford, Wycherley, Congreve, Van-wit was equal to Mr. Beaumont's judgment, and was so luxuriant, brugh, and Farquhar. To some of the works of this selection there are such grave objections, that we cannot desire their circulation, and there is hardly one author of the whole to whom the pruning-knife should not be applied before he becomes an inmate in the domestic circle. Our remarks upon certain dramatic writers (see COLLIER, JEREMY) may be consulted in this connexion. The friendship existing between Beaumont and Fletcher was of the most endearing kind. Aubrey tells us, in his remarks upon Beaumont, Gerard Langbaine tells us, and a better judgment; he so admirably well understood the art "To speak first of Mr. Beaumont, he was master of a good wit, of the stage, that even Jonson himself thought it no disparage ment to submit his writings to his correction. . . . Mr. Fletcher's that, like superfluous branches, it was frequently prun'd by his judicious partner. These poets perfectly understood breeding, They knew how to describe the manners of the age; and Fletcher and, therefore, successfully copy'd the conversation of gentlemen. had a peculiar talent in expressing all his thoughts with life and briskness."-Account of Dramat. Poets, 1691. With reference to Jonson's deference to Beaumont's judgment, we may barely refer to the amusing error of Dryden, who will have it that "Rare Ben" submitted "all of his plots" to the supervision of his sagacious friend; which, Mr. Darley truly remarks, "There was a wonderful consimility of phansy between him and "Would prove our author indeed a precocious genius, as Every Mr. Jo. Fletcher, which caused that dearnesse of friendship between Man in His Humour was produced in 1596, when Beaumont was them. I have heard Dr. Jo. Earle (since Bish. of Sarum) say, who but ten years old. But Dryden seems to have been the loosest knew them, that his maine businesse was to correct the overflow-speaker, not an intentional liar, among all our great literati." Ings of Mr. Fletcher's witt. They lived together on the Banke side, Dryden tells us that Beaumont and Fletcher's plays in |