Bauer, Bruno

( bou'er,) a modern German Biblical critic and political writer, B. at Eisenberg, 1808, who, at an early age, commenced his theological disquisitions by reviewing Strau ' Life of Jesus, and other works. Many of his works contain very bold and speculative opinions, and one of them, Christianity Unveiled, was destroyed in 1843 at Zurich, before its publication. In his Review of the Epistles attributed to St. Paul, he argues that the four leading ones were not written by the apostle, but are the production of the 2d century. He is the author of Western Dictatorship; The Actual Position of Ru ia; Germany and Ru ia; Ru ia and England, . D. 1882. Bauff, in Mi ouri, a post-office of Taney co. Bauge, n. [Fr.] (Com.) A drugget made in France, with thread spun upon thick, coarse wool. Baugé, ( bozhai,) a town of France, dep. of Maine et Loire, 23 m. E.N.E. of Angers. The English, under the Duke of Clarence, were defeated here in 1421. Pop. 3,515. Baugh'man, in Ohio , a post-township of Wayne co., 15 m. E.N.E. of Wooster; pop . 2,067. Baugh's Station, in Kentucky , a post-office of Logan co. Bauhinia, ( baw - hin'i -a,) n. ( Bot . ) A genus of plants, suborder Cæsalpinica . The plants of this genus are generally remarkable for having the leaves divided into two twin lobes. This peculiarity induced Linnæus to give the name Bauhinia to the genus, in commemoration of the two brother botanists, John and Caspar Bauhin. Most of the species are twining plants, found in the woods of hot countries, stretching acro from tree to tree, and forming an almost impenetrable barrier to the traveller. The flowers of many are very beautiful. B. porrect a is a small tree, a native of the West Indies, and known in Jamaica by the name of the Mountain Ebony, from its wood being sheathed with black. The bark of one or two species is made into ropes, and a gum is procured from others. The flowers and buds of B. to mentos a ar dried and used in India as an astringent in cases of dys entery; and the bark of B. variegata contains a sufficient quantity of tannin to make it useful in tanning.