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Eng., I. 11. Blanqui (blon-kē'), Jérôme Adolphe. Born at Nice, France, Nov. 20, 1798: died at Paris, Jan. 28, 1854. A noted French political economist. His works include "L'His to ire de l'économie politique en Europe, etc." (1837-38), "Voyage en Angleterre 1824," Blanqui, Louis Auguste. Born at Puget-Theniers, Alpes-Mar i times, France, Feb. 7, 1805: died at Paris, Jan. 1, 1881. A French socialist and political agitator, brother of Jérôme Adolphe Blanqui. He took part in insurrectionary movements in 1839, 1848, and 1871. Blanzy (blon-zē'). A town in the department of Saône-et-Loire, France, 19 miles south of Autun. Population (1891), commune, 4,942. Blarney (blär'ni). A village in Cork, Ireland, miles northwest of Cork. It contains a noted castle built in 1446 by Cormack MacCarthy, and now forming a picturesque ivy-clad ruin centered about a high, square, battlemented and machicolated keep. The fame of the castle is due to its po e ion of the wonder-working Blarney stone, a block bearing the name of the founder and the date, built into the south angle of the keep twenty feet below the top since acce to it is tell high impos. sible, a substitute has been provided within the battlements to receive the ki es of tourists. Blarney, Lady. One of the town ladies, or rather ladies of the town, in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wake field," who make the acquaintance of the vicar's innocent family under false pretenses. The other is Mi Carolina Wilhelmina Skeggs. Blash field (blash'feld), Edwin How land. merly the property of the Hatton family. About the origin of its title there are various traditions. The place is much built over with poor houses. It is introduced by Dickens in "Little Dorrit" as the residence of the Plornishes, Daniel Doyce, and others. Bleek (blāk), Fried rich. Born at Ahrensböck, Holstein, July 4, 1793: died at Bonn, Germany, Feb. 27, 1859. A German biblical critic, profe or of theology at Bonn 1829-59. Bleek, Wilhelm He in rich Immanuel. Born at Berlin, March 8, 1827: died at Cape Town, Cape Colony, Aug. 17, 1875. A noted African linguist. He went to Natal, South Africa, in 1855, and in 1856 to Cape Town, where he was appointed librarian of Sir George Grey's library. In this capacity he wrote his "Catalogue of Sir George Grey's Library" (3 vols., 1858-63), "Hottentot Fables" (1864), "Comparative Grammar of South African Languages" (1862-69). He died while working at a dictionary of the Bushman language. Blefuscu (ble-fus'kū). An island described in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." It was separated from Lilliput by a channel, and was intended to satirize France. The inhabitants were pygmies. Gulliver wades acro the channel and carries off its entire fleet. Bleibtreu (blib'troi), Georg. Born at Xanten, Rhenish Pru ia, March 27, 1828: died at Berlin, Oct. 16, 1892. A German battle-painter, His chief paintings are "Battle of Katzbach" (1857), "Battle of Waterloo" (1858), etc. Blemyes, or Blemmyes (blem'i-ēz). [Gr. Βλέμνες , Βλέμμες.] In ancient history, a nomadic Ethio pian tribe, infesting Nubia and Upper Egypt. See Bisharin . They were frequently at war with the Romans, and were often defeated under Aurelian, Probus,