Birkenhead, Sir John, a newspaper writer and pamphleteer during the great rebellion, i. 159.
Black Cloaks, a political nickname for a party in Naples, iii. [82].
Blenheim, secret history of the building of, iii. [102]-111; drawn from MSS., [103], note.
Bonaventure de Perriers, specimen of his stories, i. 128.
Book of Sports, effect of, ii. 148.
Books, collections of, see Libraries; collectors of, see Collectors; reviews of, and criticisms on, see Literary Journals and Sketches of Criticism; destruction of, see Title; lost, i. 47-57; prices of, in early times, 76; treatise on the art of reading printed, 78; curious advertisements of, 157; titles of, 288; various opinions as to the size of, 347; difficulties encountered in publishing many books of merit, 375; works of another description better remunerated, 377; leaves of, origin of their name, ii. 23, note; table-books, 26; derivation of the name “book,” 28; description of the form and condition of ancient, ib.; censors and licensers of, 216; catalogue of, condemned at the Council of Trent, ib.; inquisitors of, ib.; see Index; burning of, anecdote of its good effect in promoting their sale, 219; mutilations caused by the censors in Camden’s works, Lord Herbert’s History of Henry VIII., and the Poems of Lord Brooke, 220; anecdotes of purloiners of, iii. [316]-319; predilection of celebrated men to particular, iii. [340]-343; calculations as to their present number, [342]; different terms for amateurs of, [343]; which have been designed but not completed, [493], [494].
Booksellers, two ruined by one author, ii. 533.
Borrowers, destructive to collections of books, i. 12.
Botanic Garden, Darwin’s remarks on, i. 341.