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Born at IMG:content-0234.png:[blocks in formation] Beverley (bev'er-li). [ME. Beverly , Beverli, Bever like , AS. Beferlic , Beucrlic , Beoferlic , Beo forlic , from befer , beaver, and lic , body (by Bosworth supposed to stand for leá , leáh , lea, field).] A town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in lat. 53° 50′ N., long. 0° 26′ W. It contains Beverley Minster and St. Mary's Church. The former is a church of the 13th and 14th centuries, with double transepts, and a Perpendicular façade flanked by two towers resembling that of York. The fine nave dates from about 1350; the choir is Early English, with a modern sculptured screen and handsome old stalls. The minster measures 334 by 64 feet. Population (1891), 12,539. Beverley (bev'er-li). The gamester in Edward Moore's tragedy of that name. Garrick created the actre es of the time. the part. Mrs. Beverley was a favorite character with Beverley. The jealous lover of Be linda in Murphy's play "All in the Wrong.” Beverley, Con stance de. The perjured nun in Scott's poem "Marmion." She loves Marmion, and Beverley, Ensign. The character a umed by Captain Absolute in Sheridan's comedy "The Rivals" to win the love of the romantic Lydia, who will not marry any one so suitable as the son of Sir Anthony. Beverley, John of. See John of Beverley . Beverly (bev'er-li). A city in E ex County, Ma achusetts, situated 17 miles northeast of Boston. Population (1900), 13,884. Beverly (bev'er-li), Robert. Born in Virginia about 1675: died 1716. An American historian. office previously held by his father, Major Robert Beverly, Paris, Sept. 5, 1787: died there, Dec. 9, 1850. A French mineralogist and physicist. He became He became clerk of the Council of Virginia about 1697, an IMG:content-0235.png:[blocks in formation] Bevis of Hampton ton in his "Polyolbion." An old English poem on Bevis was in the 15th or 16th century turned into a prose romance and printed about 1650. He was originally called Beuves d'Antone , from the Italian Buovo d'Antona , a name corrupted into d'Hantone in French and Hampton in English. "Beuves d'Hantone or Bevis of Hampton is the subject of an old French story which was embodied in the 'Reali di Francia' and is only connected with Charle magne by the mention of King Pippin and the hero's kinship with the sons of Aymon (he was the father of Maugis (Malagigi in Italian) and the uncle of Renaud (Rinaldo), four sons of Aymon). As a French prose romance it was printed by Vérard about 1500. It has been printed separately in Italian at Bologna in 1480." Encyc . Brit ., XX. 653. Bevis. The horse of Lord Marmion in Sir Walter Scott's poem "Marmion." Bevis Marks. A thoroughfare in St. Mary Axe, near Hounds ditch, London. It is referred to in Dickens's "Old Curiosity Shop." Bewick (bū'ik), Thomas. Born at Cherry burn, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, Aug., 1753: died at Gates head, near Newcastle, Nov. 8, 1828. An English wood-engraver. He was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to Ralph Bielby, a copperplate engraver at Newcastle. His first work of any importance was the woodcuts to Hutton's book on mensuration (1770); after this he did most of Bielby's wood-engraving busine . At the expiration of his apprenticeship he went to London, but returned shortly to Newcastle, where he entered into partnership with Bielby and occupied his old shop in St. Nicholas Churchyard till a short time before his death. Among his chief works are the illustrations of "Gay's Fables" (1779), "Select Fables" (1784), a "General History of Quadrupeds" (1790), and his most famous work, "The History of British Birds" (1797), in which he showed the knowledge of a naturalist combined with the skill of an artist. His last work was the illustrations of "Æsop's Fables," upon which he was engaged six years. He was a isted by his son Robert Elliot, and by some of his pupils. Bex (bā). A small town in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, near the Rhône 27 miles southeast of Lausanne. Bexar (ba-Här' or bā-är') Territory or District. A region in western Texas adjoining New Mexico, and bounded by the Rio Pecos on the southwest. Area, about 25,000 square miles. Bexley, Baron. See Vans it tart . Beyerland. See Beierland . Beylan. See Beilan . Beyle (bal), Marie Henri. Born at Grenoble, France, Jan. 23, 1783: died at Paris, March 23, 1842. A French writer and critic, best known by his pseudonym "De Stendhal." He was the author of lives of Napoleon, Haydn, Mozart, Ro ini, and Metastasio, "His to ire de la peinture en Italie" (1817), "Racine et Shakespeare" (1823-25), novels "Armance mance" (1827), "Le rouge et le noir" (1830), "La Chartreuse de Parme" (1339), etc. For a time he called himself de Beyle. Beylerbeg Serai (bā'ler-beg' se-ri'). A summer-palace in Constantinople, finished in 1865 by Abdul-Aziz, on the Bosporus. The water façade displays great purity and harmony of design, and the grand staircase and ceremonial saloons, decorated in a Turkish modification of the Moorish style, are masterpieces in their way.