Blunt
WILFRID SCAWEN, an Irish poet, born at Crabbet Park, Sussex, in 1840. He was attaché of legation at The Hague, Athens, Madrid, Buenos Ayres, and elsewhere. He supported Arabi' Pasha in the revolt in Egypt in 1881; and was imprisoned in 1888 for his insurrectionary actions in Ireland. He is author of "Sonnets and Songs by Proteus" (London, 1875); "The Love Sonnets of Proteus" (1881; new ed. 1885); "Ideas About India" (1885); and "Esther:" Young Man's Tragedy" a (1895). "Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt" (1907); "Gordon at Khartoum" (1911); "The Land War in Ireland" (1912); "Complete Works" (1914).
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Bluntschli
JOHANN KASPAR (blöntsh'lē), a Swiss jurist and statesman, born in Zurich, March 7, 1808; became professor in the newly founded university in that city in 1833. He took an active part in the political struggles that divided his country. In 1839 he led the Conservatives. He was a Councilor of State, and became a member of the Government and of the Federal Directory, and afterward worked for the formation of a moderate Liberal Conservative party in Switzerland. In 1848 he went to Munich as Professor of Civil and International Law. There he published his "Allgemeines Staatsrecht" (5th ed., 1876), on which his reputation as a jurisconsult chiefly rest. In 1861 he removed to Heidelberg University, and became a Privy Councilor of Baden, actively forwarding all Liberal measures in the state. He acted several times as president of the Protestantenverein, and died after delivering a speech at the synod of Baden at Karlsruhe, Oct. 21, 1881. He was the author of valuable histories of Zurich and of the Swiss Confederation, and of a number of works on law.
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Blytheville
a city of Arkansas, county-seat of Mississippi It is the co. on the Frisco Lines, the Arkansas Southbattle. ern, and other railroads. It is the center + of an important cotton and agricultural region and has manufactures of hard- species of the genus boa. The specific BOA wood products and lumber. Pop. (1910) 3,849; (1920) 6,447.
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Bo-Tree
the ficus religiosa, pipal, or sacred fig-tree of India and Ceylon, venerated by the Buddhists and planted near their temples. One specimen at Anuradhapura, in Ceylon, is said to have been planted before 200 b. c. It was greatly shattered by a storm in 1887.
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Boa
an enormous snake, said to have been anciently found in India. None, however, are at present known to exist there more than 6 feet long. The spelling bova is from bos, bovis = an ox. Boa is also the name of a genus of serpents, the typical one of the family boidæ. The species are found native only in America, analogous the genus in the East popиlarly confounded with it, namely python, being distinguished from it by the presence of intermaxillary teeth. This word is likewise applied to a long fur tippet or comforter worn by ladies around their necks. BOABDIL (properly Abu-Abdallah, and nicknamed Ez-Zogoiby, "the unlucky"), the last Moorish King of Gra- 6-Vol. II-Cyc nada, dethroned his father, Ab-ul-Hasan, in 1481, and two years later was defeated and taken prisoner by the Castilians near Lucena. He was set free on condition of paying tribute, and returned to Granada to struggle with his father and with his heroic uncle, Ez-Zaghal, for the throne. The fall of Malaga and Baza was but the prelude to the siege of the capital. The spot from which Boabdil looked his last on Granada still bears the last sigh of the Moor." He soon crossed name of el ultimo sospiro del Moro, "the to Africa and flung away his life in
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Boanerges
a Greek word translated in Mark iii: 17, "sons of thunder." It is of doubtful etymology, but is probably the Aramaic pronunciation of Hebrew beni regesh, regesh in Hebrew meaning tumult or uproar, but in Arabic and Aramæan thunder. It is an apgiven by Christ to two of His pellation pellation disciples, the brothers James and John, apparently on account of their fiery zeal.
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Boar
the uncastrated male of the swine (sus scrofa), or of any other species of the genus. The wild boar is the male of a swine either aboriginally wild or whose ancestors have escaped from domestication. The common wild boar WILD BOAR is sus scrofa; variety, aper. It is of a brownish black color; but the young are white or fawn colored, with brown stripes. It is wild in Europe, Asia and Africa, living in forests. Sus larvatus is the masked boar.
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Boar Fish
a genus of fishes in the carangidæ or horse mackerel family of acanthopterygii or bony fishes with spinous rays. The protrusible mouth presents a resemblance to a hog's snout, as the name suggests. The body has an oval compressed form like that of the related John Dory. The common boar fish (C. aper) is a well-known inhabitant of the Mediterranean, rarely caught on the coasts of England. The eyes are very large, and placed far forward; the body is of a carmine color, lighter below, and with seven transverse orange bands on the back.
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Board of Trade
. See Chamber Of Commerce
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Boardman
GEORGE DANA, an American clergyman and author, born in Tavoy, British Burma, Aug. 18, 1828; the American Baptist son missionary of the same name. He was educated in the United States, graduating at Brown University in 1852, and at Newton Theological Institution in 1855. He became pastor at Barnwell, S. C.; Rochester, N. Y., and of the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia. His chief works are "Studies in the Creative We Week"; "Studies in the Model Prayer"; "Epiphanies of the Risen Lord"; "Studies in the Mountain Instruction." He died in 1903.
RICHARD, an English missionary, born in 1738. He became a member of Wesley's conference in 1763, and volunteered for service in America in 1769. He preached in New York and through the Middle States till 1774, and then, returning to England, continued his itinerant ministry. He is known as one of the founders of Methodism in the United States. He died in Cork, Ireland, Oct. 4, 1782.
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Boas
FRANZ (bō'az), a German ethnologist, born in Minden, Westphalia, July 9, 1858; studied at Heidelberg, Bonn, and Kiel Universities, in 1877- 1882; traveled in the Arctic regions in 1883-1884; was assistant in the Royal Ethnographical Museum in Berlin, and privat docent in geography at the Uniin 1885-1886; and teacher of anversity thropology in Clark University, Worcester, Mass., in 1888-1892; Columbia, 1899-1901; curator American Museum Natural History, 1907-1908; President American Anthropological Society, 1910, and N. Y. Academy of Science. He spent much time among various American Indian tribes, and, among other works, has published "Baffin Land" (1885); "The Central Eskimo" (1888); "Indians of British Columbia" (1888-1892); "Mind of Primitive Man" (1911).
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