Barbour
RALPH HENRY, American writer, born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1870. He received an academic education and began early in life to contribute to periodicals and magazines under the pen name of Richard Stillman Powell. He was a prolific writer of boys' story books, which whi include "The Junior Trophy" (1908); "Benton's Venture" (1914); (1914); "The Brother of a Hero " (1914); "The Lucky Seventh (1915); "Hearts Content" (1915); etc.
BARBUDA (bar-bö'da), one of the Leeward Islands, West Indies, annexed by Great Britain in 1628; about 15 miles long and 8 wide; lying N. of Antigua.
It is flat, fertile, and healthy. Corn, cotton, pepper, and tobacco are the principal produce. There is no harbor, but a well sheltered roadstead on the W. side. It is a dependency of Antigua.
Pop. about 1,000, mostly colored.