, 255.

Auckland, Lord, on agreeing with Macaulay, 323.

Aulard, F. A., on Taine, 83.

Bagehot, Walter, on presidential office, 204, 217.

Baltimore, railroad riot of 1877, 252.

Balzac, Honore de, importance to historians, 50, 73.

Bancroft, George, use of footnotes, 33;
remuneration, 78;
T. W. Higginson on, over-fondness for manuscript sources, inaccuracy
of quotations, 294.

Beauregard, P. G. T., and burning of Columbia, 304.

Bemis, George, and Lecky, 157.

Bigelow, John, as journalist, 90;
on importance of Godkin to _The Nation_, 275.

Bismarck, Fuerst von, on power of press, 89.

Blaine, J. G., value of "Twenty Years," 33;
on power of Congress over President, 216;
on Hayes and Packard, 248.

Boer War, Godkin on, 290.

Boston, H. G. Wells's criticism considered, 138.

Boston Athenaeum, editions of Gibbon in, 138.

Bourne, E. G., and preparation of author's history, as critic, 85, 86,
197-199;
essay on, 191-200;
malady, 191, 192;
physique, 191;
death, 192;
education, 192;
works, 193-195;
professorships, 193;
on Marcus Whitman, 193;
on Columbus, 194, 195;
on Philippines and Monroe Doctrine, 195;
unfinished biography of Motley, 196;
critical notices, 196, 197;
thoroughness, 196;
interest in American Historical Association, 196;
desultory reading, 199;
and editorship of publications of Massachusetts Historical
Society, 199.

Bowles, Samuel, as journalist, 90.

Brown, John, Pottawatomie Massacre and election of 1856, 88.

Browning, Oscar, on Carlyle, 41.

Brunetiere, Ferdinand, on French literary masters, 73.

Bryan, W. J., campaign of 1896, 228, 286.

Bryant, W. C., as journalist, 90;
and Greeley, 269.

Bryce, James, importance of "Holy Roman Empire," 60, 61;
on Federal Constitution, 203;
on presidential office, 204, 205, 235, 240;
on Godkin and _The Nation_, 276, 286, 295;
on Herbert Spencer, 293.

Buchanan, James, as President, 213.

Buckle, H. T., enthusiasm, 38;
influence on Lecky, 154.

Burt, S. W., appointment by Hayes, 255.

Bury, J. B., edition of Gibbon, 61;
on Gibbon, 109, 110.

Butler, Joseph, influence on Lecky, 154.

Cabinet, Grant's, 186, 278;
character of Jackson's, 210;
Pierce and Buchanan controlled by, 213;
Hayes's, 221, 246-248, 262.

Cabot, Char