Baum
(LYMAN) FRANK, an American author, born in 1856 in Chittenango, N. Y. He received an academic education, entered the newspaper field, and for several years edited papers in Chicago and elsewhere. He was best known as a writer for children. "The Wizard of Oz," a musical comedy made from one of his books, had a run of several years in New York and Chicago. Other works include "Mother Goose in Prose" (1897); "Baum's Fairy Tales" (1908); "Patchwork Girl of Oz" (1913).
He died in 1920.
BAVARIA looking the river Spree, 35 miles W. of Görlitz by rail. It is the chief town of an administrative district of the same name. Pop. about 50,000. The chief buildings are a former cathedral (1497), and the Castle of Ortenburg, dating from 958, and a frequent residence of the Kings of Bohemia. The leading industries are manufactures of woolens, fustian, linen, hosiery, leather, and gunpowder. Bautzen was first made a town under Otho I. It suffered greatly in the war with Hussites, and still more during the Thirty Years' War. Here Napoleon won a barren victory over Russians and Prussians, May 20-21, 1813.