BARRICADES

hastily improvised barriers composed of paving stones, wagons, trees, or other suitable materials thrown up as obstacles in street fighting. Raising barricades was the favorite Paris i an method of commencing insurrection. Chief Days of the Barricades— May 12, 1588, used by League with a view to.deposing Henry III. in favor of Duke of Guise; Aug. 27, 1648, first important manifesto of Fronde; during revolutions of 1830, 1848, and 1871. Barricades were used by Sinn Feiners in Dublin (1916), and repeatedly by BelProll aga Ger. invasion of Belgium 1914). capital of Simcoe co., Ontario, Canada; summer resort; breweries. Pop. 6,400. BARRIE£, SIR JAMES MATTHEW (1860), Scot. novelist and dramatist; b. Kirriemuir; made his reputation with sketches and novels of Scot. life, A Window in Thrums (1889), The Little Minister (1891), etc., and plays of a delicate fancy and whimsical satire (e.g.) The Admiral Crichton and Quality Street (1903), the former perhaps the ne finest comedy of recent days;]Peter Pan (1904); What Every Woman Knows (1908); Der Tag (1914), a dramatic piece touching on the war; Dear Brutus (1918). Echoes} of the War (1918); Mary Rose (1920), etc. Created baronet in 1913; fen lord rector of St. Andrews Univ.