Paris, 1878); and
_Acta Sancti Brendani.... Original Latin Documents connected with the
Life of St Brendan_, by P.F. Moran (Dublin, 1872).

BRENHAM, a city and the county-seat of Washington county, Texas, U.S.A.,
situated in the S.E. part of the state, about 68 m. N.W. of Houston.
Pop. (1890) 5209; (1900) 5968, including 2701 negroes and 531
foreign-born; (1910) 4718. Brenham is served by the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe (controlled by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe) and the Houston
& Texas Central railways. It is the seat of Blinn Memorial College
(German Methodist Episcopal), opened as "Mission Institute" in 1883, and
renamed in 1889 in honour of the Rev. Christian Blinn, of New York, a
liberal benefactor; of Brenham Evangelical Lutheran College, and of a
German-American institute (1898). The municipality owns and operates the
waterworks. The city is situated in an agricultural and cotton-raising
region, and has cotton compresses and gins, cotton mills, cotton-seed
oil refineries, foundries and machine shops, and furniture and wagon
factories. Brenham was settled about 1844, was incorporated in 1866, and
was chartered as a city in 1873.

BRENNER PASS, the lowest (4495 ft.) and one of the most frequented
passes across the Alps in all ages, though the name itself rarely occurs
in the middle ages, the route over it being said to lie through "the
valley of Trent." It may be described as the great gate of Italy, and by
it most of the Teutonic tribes made their way to Italy. One reason of
its importance is that many side passes in the end join this great
thoroughfare. It was crossed no fewer than 66 times by various emperors,
between 793 and 1402. A carriage road was constructed over it as far
back as 1772, while the railway over it was built in 1864-1867. From
Innsbruck to the summit of the pass is a distance by rail of 25 m. The
line then descends through the Eisack valley past Brixen (34 m.) to
Botzen (24 m.). Thence it follows the valley of the Adige to Trent (35
m.) and on to Verona (56-1/2 m.)--in all 174-1/2 m. by rail from
Innsbruck to Verona. (W. A. B. C.)

BRENNUS, the name, or perhaps the official title, of two chiefs of the
Celtic Gauls.

(1) The first Brennus crossed the Apennines in 391 B.C., ravaged
Etruria, and annihilated a Roman army of about 40,000 men on the Allia
some 12 m. from Clusium (July 16, 390). Rome thus lay at his mercy, but
he wasted time, and the Romans were able t