. Formerly Gilbart Lecturer on Banking. Author
of _The Law of Banking_; &c.

- Banks and Banking: _English Law_.

J. Sm.* - JOHN SMITH, C.B.
Formerly Inspector-General in Companies' Liquidation, 1890-1904, and
Inspector-General in Bankruptcy.

- Bankruptcy.

J. S. F. - JOHN SMITH FLETT, D.SC., F.G.S.
Petrographer to the Geological Survey. Formerly Lecturer on Petrology in
Edinburgh University. Neill Medallist of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Bigsby Medallist of the Geological Society of London.

- Basalt; Batholite.

J. T. Be. - JOHN T. BEALBY.
Joint author of Stanford's _Europe_. Formerly Editor of the _Scottish
Geographical Magazine_. Translator of Sven Hedin's _Through Asia, Central
Asia and Tibet_, &c.

- Baikal; Bessarabia (_in part_)

J. Vn. - JULIEN VINSON.
Formerly Professor of Hindustani and Tamil at the Ecole des Langues
Orientales, Paris. Author of _Le Basque et les langues mexicaines_; &c.

- Basques (_in part_).

J. V. B. - JAMES VERNON BARTLET, M.A., D.D. (St Andrews).
Professor of Church History, Mansfield College, Oxford. Author of _The
Apostolic Age_; &c.

- Barnabas.

J. W. He. - JAMES WYCLIFFE HEADLAM, M.A.
Staff Inspector of Secondary Schools under the Board of Education. Formerly
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Professor of Greek and Ancient History
at Queen's College, London. Author of _Bismarck and the Foundation of the
German Empire_; &c.

- Austria-Hungary: _History_; Bamberger; Bebel; Benedetti; Beust.

K. L. - REV. KIRSOPP LAKE, M.A.
Lincoln College, Oxford. Professor of Early Christian Literature and New
Testament Exegesis in the University of Leiden. Author of _The Text of the
New Testament_; _The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus
Christ_; &c.

- Bible: _New Testament: Texts and Versions_ and _Textual Criticism_.

K. S. - KATHLEEN SCHLESINGER.
Author of _The Instruments of the Orchestra_.

- Bagpipe; Banjo; Barbiton; Barrel-organ; Bass Clarinet; Basset Horn;
Bassoon; Batyphone.

L. A. - LYMAN ABBOTT, D.D.
See the biographical article: ABBOTT, L.

- Beecher, Henry Ward.

L. P.* - LOUIS MARIE OLIVIER DUCHESNE.
See the biographical article: DUCHESNE, L. M. O.

- Benedict (I.-X.)

L. J. S. - LEONARD JAMES SPENCER, M.A., F.G.S.
Assistant, Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, South
Kensington. Formerly Scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and
Harkness Scholar. Editor of the _Mineralogical Magazine_.

- Autunite; Axini