BABBITT

IRVING (1865), university profe or; he graduated from Harvard in 1889 and studied in Paris, 1801-2. He was instructor Romance languages, Williams College, 1893-4; Profe or of French literature, Harvard, 1912. Author: Literature and the American College, 1908; The New Laokoén, 1910; The Masters of Modern French Criticism, 1912; Rou eau and Romanticism, 1919; Editor Tatne’s ‘Introduction al His to ire del a, Litter at ure Anglaise,” 1898; Renan’s BABBIT’S METAL, a bearing or antifriction alloy containing tin, antimony, and copper. (1851), bishop; 6. Newport, R. I. He graduated from Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Ma ., 1891. He was ordained deacon, 1877; priest, 1891; P, E. Church; became a istant pastor Grace Church, Hyde Park, Ma ., 1892-1903; archdeacon of New Bedford, 1899-1903, and of Ma achusetts, 1903ne sehen of P. EH, Church, April 10, BABEL, name given to city of BabyJon, somewhere in the neighborhood of which place the descendants of Noah (Genesis 11), after the deluge, attempted to build a tower which should reach up to heaven, but God punished the builders with a confusion of tongues; derived from Hebrew, balbel, ‘to confound.’ Arabia and Africa, forming entrance to E.), strait; (15 miles wide) between Red Sea; means ‘Gate of Tears’ owing to record of shipwrecks; there is now a lighthouse on Perim in middle of strait. of the Mogul dynasty; s. of Omar tan), and descended from Timur; was a he soldier, and conquered all northern ndia, 97), Fr. agitator and _ journalist; originally a land surveyor, he became an adherent of the extreme party at the outbreak of the Revolution (1789); was commended by Marat, but opposed the aims of Robes pierre during the Terror. He launched a paper called the Tribune of the People in which, over the signature of ‘Gracchus Babeuf,’ he advocated a system of communism by which all property should be distributed with the most strict equality. To further his views, B. a ociated himself with a pe to overthrow the Directory, which, eing discovered, B. was guillotined