Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bent, James" to "Bibirine" by Various
1893. During those ten years she made several extended tours, including
visits to America in 1886-1887 and 1888-1889. Between 1891 and 1893 she
again visited America (North and South), Australia, and the chief
European capitals. In November 1893 she opened the Renaissance with _Les
Rois_ by Jules Lemaitre, which was followed by _Sylvestre_ and Morand's
_Izeyl_ (1894), Sardou's _Gismonda_ (1894) and Edmond Rostand's _La
Princesse lointaine_ (1895). In 1895 she also appeared with conspicuous
success as Magda in a French translation of Sudermann's _Heimat_. For
the next few years she visited London almost annually, and America in
Chapters
- Chapter 1 Ch.1
- 2. (From the O. Eng. _beonet_, a coarse, rushy grass growing in wet Ch.2
- 1691. An able writer and skilful diplomatist, Bentivoglio was marked out Ch.3
- 1794. His father owned the _General Evening Post_ in conjunction with Ch.4
- episode of 1832-1833. As the South under Calhoun's lead became Ch.5
- 1854. An unsuccessful campaign for the governorship of Missouri in 1856 Ch.6
- 1. Beowulf, with fourteen companions, sails to Denmark, to offer his Ch.7
- 2. All fear being now removed, the Danish king and his followers pass Ch.8
- 3. Richly rewarded by Hrothgar, Beowulf returns to his native land. He Ch.9
- 4. After Beowulf has reigned prosperously for fifty years, his country Ch.10
- 5. The news of Beowulf's dear-bought victory is carried to the army. Ch.11
- 1863. The chief articles of export are cereals, flour, wool, hemp, skins Ch.12
- 2. BERENICE, daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus, wife of Antiochus Theos Ch.13
- 3. BERENICE, the daughter of Magas, king of Cyrene, and the wife of Ch.14
- 4. BERENICE, also called CLEOPATRA, daughter of Ptolemy X., married as Ch.15
- 5. BERENICE, daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, eldest sister of the great Ch.16
- 2. BERENICE, daughter of Agrippa I., king of Judaea, and born probably Ch.17
- 1729. In 1730 his enemy and rival, Prince Dolgoruki, was interned here Ch.18
- 5140. It lies pleasantly in the narrow well-wooded valley of the Ch.19
- 1587. He succeeded to his mother's estate of Charlton in Wiltshire, was Ch.20
- 24. VI. Songs and lyric choruses with orchestra, two vols. VII. Songs Ch.21
- 1842. The English language is universal. The colony is ecclesiastically Ch.22
- 1609. Sir George, from whom the islands took the alternative name of Ch.23
- book i. by William, abbot of St Thierry near Reims; book ii. by Ch.24
- 1820. He was educated at Sherborne school, and Trinity College, Oxford. Ch.25
- 1846. He was specially interested in legal history and in church Ch.26
- 1824. Prince Frederick removed the ducal residence to Ballenstedt in Ch.27
- introduction to his story of Arthur of Little Britain he excuses its Ch.28
- introduction to _Huon of Bourdeaux_ (Early English Text Society Ch.29
- 1880. In 1878 she published a prose sketch, _Dans les nuages; les Ch.30
- 1893. During those ten years she made several extended tours, including Ch.31
- 1896. In that year she made a success with an adaptation of Alfred de Ch.32
- Introduction and General View, 1836; pt. ii, Greek Poetry, 1845; pt. Ch.33
- 547. Aethelfrith, king of Bernicia, united Deira to his own kingdom, Ch.34
- 1755. He became known as one of the most expert epigrammatists in the Ch.35
- 1759. Having finished his literary studies, he was, according to custom, Ch.36
- 6. 45 Assyrian " 526 " Ch.37
- 1853. He published in 1883 a work _Ethnographie moderne des races Ch.38
- 1776. Although Thomas Reynolds in his _Iter Britanniarum_ (1799), an Ch.39
- 1698. His second marriage, with Anne Bulkeley, took place in 1700. As a Ch.40
- 167. It is in poor preservation and was partly rebuilt in 1820. Remains Ch.41
- 1895. He died at Hampstead, on the 9th of June 1901. Sir Walter Besant Ch.42
- 1796. His vocation for literature was assisted by his tutor, the poet Ch.43
- 1. LUCIUS CALPURNIUS BESTIA, Roman tribune of the people in 121 B.C., Ch.44
- 2. LUCIUS CALPURNIUS BESTIA, one of the Catilinarian conspirators, Ch.45
- introduction and notes by G. Gravier (Rouen, 1874), and an English Ch.46
- 5281. It lies near the lower end of the fine Nant Ffrancon (valley of Ch.47
- 1905. Bethlehem has often been called the American Bayreuth. Among the Ch.48
- 1736. He taught the belles-lettres from 1739 to 1744 at Brescia, where Ch.49
- 2866. The Worcester-Shrewsbury line of the Great Western is here joined Ch.50
- 1783. With his father, who was an _avocat_ in the parlement of Grenoble, Ch.51
- introduction to the Daru family, with which the Beyles were connected. Ch.52
- introduction of additional cards. The cards rank as follows:--Ace, ten, Ch.53
- 1850. In 1851 he set up as a medical practitioner in Bombay, where his Ch.54