[Baretti, Giuseppe], an Italian lexicographer, born in Turin; taught Italian in London, patronised by Johnson, became secretary of the Royal Academy (1719-1789).
[Barfleur], a seaport 15 m. E. of Cherbourg, where William the Conqueror set out with his fleet to invade England.
[Bârfrüsh] (603), a town S. of the Caspian, famous for its bazaar.
[Bar`guest], a goblin long an object of terror in the N. of England.
[Bari, The], a small negro nation on the banks of the White Nile.
[Baring, Sir Francis], founder of the great banking firm of Baring Brothers & Co.; amassed property, value of it said to have been nearly seven millions (1740-1810).
[Baring-Gould, Sabine], rector of Lew-Trenchard, Devonshire, celebrated in various departments of literature, history, theology, and romance, especially the latter; a voluminous writer on all manner of subjects, and a man of wide reading; b. 1834.
[Barham, Richard Harris], his literary name Thomas Ingoldsby, born at Canterbury, minor canon of St. Paul's; friend of Sidney Smith; author of "Ingoldsby Legends," published originally as a series of papers in Bentley's Miscellany (1788-1879).
[Barkis], a carrier-lad in "David Copperfield," in love with Peggotty. "Barkis is willin'."
[Barker, E. Henry], a classical scholar, born in Yorkshire; edited Stephens' "Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ," an arduous work; died in poverty (1788-1839).