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course of publication); contributor to: "Revue historique"; "Revue des Deux Mondes"; "Revue critique"; "Revue archfiologique " ; "Le Correspond- ant"; "Revue internationale de I'enseignement"; "La Province"; "Revue d'Auvergne"; "Revue des etudes grecques ; " Byzantinische Zeitschrift"; "Re- vue des cours et conferences"; "Revue des id^es"; "Le Larousse Mensuel"; "Revue de I'Art Chretien". ARTICLES: Commineb, Philippe de; Crusades; Dandolo, Enrico; Doria, Andrea; Foulqtje de Neuilly; Fregoso, Federigo; Froibsart, Jean; Gesta Dei per Francos; Godfrey OF Bouillon; Guiscard, Robert; Jacques de Vitry; Jeru- salem, Latin Kingdom of; Joinville, Jehan, Sire de; La Valbtte, Jean Parisot de; Manuscripts ; Manuscripts, Illumi- nated; MicHAUD, JosEPH-FRANgois; Montfaucon, Bernard de;

NOGAKBT, GuiLLAUME DE; PALEOGRAPHY; PaBTOUREAUX, CrU-

8ADE OF THE; Peter de Bloib; Peter the Hermit; Polo, Marco; Raymond IV; VI; VII; Tancred, Prince of Antioch; Turkish Empire; Vespers, Sicilian; Villehardouin, Geof- TBOi de; William of Poitiers; William of Tybe.

Brennan, Reverend Andrew James, s.t.d., a.m., b. at Towanda, Pennsylvania, 14 December, 1877. Education: parochial school, Towanda; Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts; American College, Rome. Ordained 1904; professor of Latin and Greek, St. Thomas's College, Scranton, 1905-1908; chancel- lor and secretary to the Bishop of Scranton 190S-

ARTICLE: Scranton, Diocese of.

Brennan, Michael Henry, lawyer, b. at Mill- creek, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 9 February, 1851, son of Patrick Brennan, one of the three com- missioners who settled the "Bates Turnout" coal strike, 1847. Education: common schools of Schuyl- kill County; State University, Ann Arbor, Michigan. School teacher in Michigan and Wisconsin; admitted to the Bar 1880; married Mary R. Coyle of Ann Arbor 1882; municipal judge, Ann Arbor, 1882-1886; removed to Devils Lake, North Dakota, 1886; city attorney for two years; appointed by President Roosevelt register of the U. 8. Land Office, Devils Lake, North Dakota, 1907; resigned to become candidate for district judge 1908; defeated by a "no popery" opposition; member of the North Dakota Board of Bar Examiners; GaeUc student. Has been vice-president and executive committeeman. North Dakota Bar Association; represented North Dakota at meeting of American Bar Association, Saratoga, 1900; delegate to Congress for Uniform Divorce Laws, Washington, D. C; visited Mexico as agent for Land Finance Company, 1909. Knight of Columbus. Contributor to local periodicals and to the papers of the North Dakota Historical Society.

ARTICLE: North Dakota.

Briault, Reverend Maurice, c.s.sp., b.a., mis- sionary, b. at Percy, Manche, France, 3 November, 1874. Education: College of St. Lo; Preparatory Seminarv, Mortain. Ordained 1898; missionary at Gaboon," French Congo, 1898- . Contributor to various reviews.

ARTICLE: Gaboon.

Bridge, Reverend James, s.j., m.a., b. at Wigan, Lancashire, England, 3 April, 1871. Education: Mt. St. Mary's College, Chesterfield; St. Mary's Hall, Stonyhurst College, Blackburn; London University; Oxford. Entered the Society of Jesus 1888; ordained 1906; Professor of philosophy, Stonyhurst College, Blackburn; St. Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool; at present stationed at St. Wilfrid's, Preston, England.

ARTICLES: Homoousion; Libellatici, Libelli; Lucy, Saint; Malebranche, Nicolas; Martyrs, Acts of the; Nob- EiB, Sylvester; Persecution.

Britten, Jambs, k.s.g., b. in London, 3 May, 1846. Became a Catholic 1867; engaged in social work and choir training at various times at Brentford, Isle- worth, and South wark, London; assistant, Kew Herbarium, London, 1869-1871; assistant, Botanical Department, British Museum, London, 1871-1909;


hon. secretary, English Catholic Truth Society, 1884-

Knight of St. Gregory 1897; resident in London.

One of the founders of the Folk-lore Society; took prominent part in establishing "Newman House", which proved unsuccessful; re-established Catholic Truth Society, with W. H. Cologan, 1884; first to suggest Cathohc Needlework Guild; inaugurated EngUsh Annual CathoUc Conferences. Original member Enghsh Dialect Society; Fellow of the Linnean Society. Edited: "Old Country and Farm- ing Words" (for English Dialect Society); Aubrey, "Remains of Gentilisme and Judaisme" (for Folk- lore Soceity) ; Turner, " Names of Herbs " (for English Dialect Society) ; volume of plates and descriptions of plants collected by Banks and Solander during Captain Cook's First Voyage around the World (for British Museum); compiled "Dictionary of English Plant Names "j in collaboration with Robert Holland (for English Dialect Society) ; contributor to scientific and other periodicals; editor of: publications of Cathohc Truth Society (since 1884); "Journal of Botany" (since 1880); "Cathohc Book Notes" (since 1896). ARTICLE: Truth Societies, Catholic.

Brock, Reverend Henry Matthias, s.j., a.b., B.sc, b. at Boston, 8 May, 1876. Education: primary schools, Boston; Boston College; Massachu- setts Institute of Technology; Jesuit scholasticates of Frederick and Woodstock, Maryland, St. Andrew-on- Hudson, Poughkeepsie, New York, and Hastings, England; St. Ignatius College, Valkenburg, Holland. Entered the Society of Jesus 1900; professor of physics. Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachu- setts, 1905-1909; ordained 1912; professor of physics, Boston College, Boston, 1912-1914; at St. Andrew-on- Hudson, Poughkeepsie, 1914-1915; professor of physics, astronomy and higher mathematics, Wood- stock College, _Md., 1915- . Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Alumni Associations of Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contributor to: "American Catholic Quarterly Review"; "America".

ARTICLES: Admont; Afflighem; Albero de Montreuil; Albert, Archbishop of Magdeburg; Aldersbach; Alexandre, DoM Jacques; Amorbach; Barrande, Joachim; Belgrado, Giacopo; Bernard, Claude; Bonaparte, Charles-Lucien- JuLES- Laurent, Prince of Canino and Musignano; Boncom^ PAGNi, Balthasah; Bonvet, Joachim; Branly, Edouard ; Bruno the Saxon ; Cardan, Girolamo ; Carnoy, Jean-Baptiste ; Casey, John; Castracane degli Antelminelli, Francesco; Cauchy, AuGUSTiN-Louis; Cavalieri, Bonaventura; Cibot, Pierre- Martial; CoRlSLis, Gaspard-Gustave de; Curley, James; Danti, Ignazio; Daubr^e, Gabriel-Auguste; Denza, Fran- cesco; Desainb, Paul-Quentin; Dumont, Hubert- Andr^; Elie de Beaumont, Jean-Baptiste-Armand-Louis-Leonce; Eppinq, Joseph; Eubebius of Alexandria; Ferdinand, Bless- ed, Prince of Portugal; Feuillet, Louis; Fexlmillner, Placidus; Fontana, Felice; F5rster, Arnold; Forbter, Thomas Ignatius Maria; Fresnel, Augustin Jean; Gerbil- LON, Jean-Francois; Gbimaldi, Francesco Maria; Halloy, Jean-Baptiste-Julien d'Omaliub; Hautefeuille, Jean de; HaiJy, Ren^-Just; Hell, Maximilian; Mann, Theodore Au- gustine; Mayer, Christian; Moigno, FRANgois-NAPOL:6oN- Marie; Riccioli, Giovanni Battista; Ruysch, John; Schein- ER, Chbistopheb; Schott, Gaspar; Schwarz, Berthold.

Brom, Very Reverend Canon, Gisbert, s.t.d., Ph.D., Litt.D., b. at Utrecht, Holland, 3 February, 1864. Education: seminaries of Hegeveld and Drie- bergen, Holland; Minerva, Rome; Vatican School of Pateography. Ordained 1886; vicar at Groningen, Holland, 1889-1895; rector at Utrecht 1895-1904; editor-in-chief of "Het Centrum" 1898-1904; director of the Dutch Historical Institute, Rome, 1904^ ; canon of Santa Maria ai Monti, Rome. Secretary of the Dutch Committee for International Scientific Congresses and of the Nuyens Foundation; orator of the General Assembly of the International Congress of the Immaculate Conception, Rome, 1904. Mem- ber of the Royal Historical Commission; correspond- ing member of the Royal Academy of Sciences;