Bacon—The history of the learned Friar Bacon. Printed and sold in Aldermary Churchyard, London. 12mo. pp. 24.
Bakhtyār Nama (The); a Persian romance translated from a manuscript text by Sir William Ouseley, edited with introduction and notes by W. A. Clouston. Privately printed, 1883, 8vo. pp. li. 232.
Contents: Introduction. Cap. i. History of King Azādbakht and the vizier's daughter, ii. Story of the ill-fated merchant and his adventures. iii. Story of the impatient Prince of Aleppo, iv. Story of Abū Saber; or the patient man. v. Story of the King of Yemen and his slave Abraha. vi. Story of King Dadin and his two viziers, vii. Story of the King of Abyssinia, showing the artifice of women, viii. Story of the jewel merchant. ix. Story of Abū Temām. x. Story of the King of Persia. Conclusion. Notes and Illustrations.
Barber (G. D.) Ancient oral records of the Cimri or Britons in Asia and Europe, recovered through a literal aramitic translation of the old Welsh bardic relics. London, 1855, 8vo. pp. xviii. 41.
Subjects of the Gododin: Chess—Hindu irruption to the Tigris and West—Coshier described—The events in Genesis xiv.—The Chinese cycle 6666 before the flood—The Argonauts, Cyzicus, and Cabiri—Carthaginians—Cadytyrus Pul-asr—Mistletoe—Garter—Druids—British riddle—The Ken et Ur, Van, &c.
Barker (William Burckhardt.) Lares and Penates; or Cilicia and its Governors; being a short historical account of that province from the earliest times to the present day, together with a description of some household gods of the ancient Cilicians, broken up by them on conversion to Christianity, first discovered and brought to this country by the author. Edited by William Francis Ainsworth. London, 1853, 8vo. pp. xiv. 394.
The part relating to Lares and Penates occupies pages 145-252.
Barleycorn—The arraigning and indicting of Sir John Barleycorn, Knt. newly composed by a well-wisher to Sir John and all that love him. Printed and sold in Aldermary Churchyard, London. 12mo. pp. 24.
Beaumont (John). Gleanings of antiquities, containing . . . . . . . iii. Some notes concerning familiar spirits. London: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms, in Warwick Lane. 1724. 8vo. pp. vii. 206.}}
The part relating to familiar spirits is contained in pp. 189-206.
Beaumont (John). An historical, physiological, and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices, containing an account of the genii or familiar spirits, both good and bad, that are said to attend men in this life, and what sensible perceptions some persons have had of them (particularly the author's own experience for many years), also of apparitions of spirits after death, divine dreams, divinations, second-sighted persons, &c., likewise the power of witches and the reality of other magical operations clearly asserted, with a refutation of
