Beverly
a city in Essex co., Mass.; on the Boston and Maine railroad; 2 miles N. of Salem. It was founded Oct. 14, 1668; was incorporated as a city, March 23, 1894; contains several villages; and is connected by trolley lines with Salem, Peabody, Gloucester, and Wenham. It is the seat of the New England Institute for the Deaf and Dumb; is principally engaged in the manufacture of ladies' boots and shoes, and leather; has considerable shipping and fishery interests; contains high and graded schools, a public library, a National bank, a number of handsome residences belonging to Boston business men. Pop. (1910) 18,650; (1920) 22,561.
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Bevis of Hampton
the hero of a popular English medieval romance. The son of Sir Guy, Earl of Hamtoun, who was treacherously murdered by Divoun, Emperor of Almayne, he was given by his false mother to some heathen merchants to be sold for a slave among the Paynim. By them he was carried to Ermony, where he soon became dear to King Ermyn, and dearer still to his only daughter Josian. His chief exploits were the overthrow of Brademond of Damascus, of a monstrous boar, of the giant Ascapard, whom he spared to become 1-Vol. II-Cyc his squire, and of a dreadful dragon near sword Morglay he Cologne. His famous Arundel was won in battle; his horse more romantic the gift of Josian. Still his carrying episodes in his story are in a sealed letter his own death-warrant escape from to the vassal Brademond, his seven years' his noisome dungeon after his wife imprisonment and recovery of , love, though who had preserved his King Ynor of nominally the wife of returned to Eng- Mombraunt. He next death, then land to avenge his father's Ynor in sailed for Ermony and defeated last great fight a desperate battle. His , when he was in the streets of London forced slaughtered 60,000 citizens, and terms. The King Edgar to grant him romance was edited by Dr. E. Kölbing Text Society, in for the Early English 1885.
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Bewick
THOMAS, an English wood Northumberland in engraver, born in , an 1753. He was apprenticed to Beilby , and executed' the engraver in Newcastle woodcuts for Hutton's "Mensuration" so admirably that his master advised him engraving. to turn his attention to wood proceeded to London With this view he , Society of and, in 1775, received the engraving. Arts prize for the best wood entered into Returning to Newcastle, he , and became partnership with Beilby engraver and known as a skilled wood to "Gay's designer by his illustrations etc. He quite Fables," "Æsop's Fables," issue, in established his fame by the Quadrupeds." 1790, of his "History of in 1804 In 1797 appeared the first, and Birds," the second, volume of his "British finest of his generally regarded as the may be works. Among his other works cited the engravings for Goldsmith's, "Traveller," and "Deserted Village," ," and Somerville's Parnell's "Hermit "Chase." He died in 1828.
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Beyers
CHRISTIAN FREDERICK, ; a South African general, born 1869 law as died Dec. 8, 1914. He chose the with distinction a profession, but served (1899-1902) and during the Boer War until he became assistant rose in rank commandant-general. A notable exploit was his capture of the British camp at ac- Nooitgedacht. After the close of the the tive fighting, he was chairman of to congress that met at Vereeniging draft the treaty of peace. He later became speaker of the Transvaal Assembly. When the World War broke out, to he thought he saw an opportunity which he had throw off British rule, to never been in heart reconciled, and rebecame establish Boer control. He a leading figure in a conspiracy that in- Delarey, and other cluded DeWet, that received former Boer leaders, and -styled prophet a stimulus from a self the overwhose "revelations" foretold Beyers, at the throw of the British. against head of volunteers, advanced defeated by Pretoria, but was utterly flee with General Botha and forced to followers into the only a remnant of his Here he suffered Orange Free State. in rout and other reverses, and while river, Dec. attempting to cross the Vaal and was 8, 8, 1914, fell from his horse in the rebeldrowned. His associates movelion were also defeated and the ment suppressed.
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Beyle
MARIE HENRI (bāl), of better known under the pseudonym novelist and critic, "Stendhal," a French Among born in Grenoble, Jan. 23, 1783. and his works are: "Rome, Naples Forence in 1817," "History of Painting in Italy," and "About Love"; but his celebrity now rests principally upon "The Chartreuse of Parma," original, witty and absorbing; and to a less extent upon "The Red and the Black." He died in Paris, March 23, 1842.
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Beyrut
or BEIRUT, a city of Syria, port and the chief port of Syria, the for Damascus, southeast of Cyprus, on the south shore of St. George's Bay, with a , picturlighthouse on the point beyond esquely located at almost the very base Lebanon range of mountains. The of the winding city climbs a slope, has narrow, streets, is surrounded by many gardens, assumed to have the and is correctly on the coast. The healthiest climate hot, but the winters are summers are in the vicinity. The mild and palms grow country were city and the neighboring French and the scene of fighting between TURKEY and Turkish forces in 1920. See more SYRIA. The French language is Arabic. used than any other except Pop. about 150,000.
or BEIRUT, a vilayet of . Syria, formerly a possession of Turkey of Peace be- By the terms of the Treaty and the Allied tween that country of the in- Powers, Beyrut became a part over which dependent state of Syria, power. See France was given mandatory mandato SYRIA. The vilayet extends along the from eastern shore of the Mediterranean below Sidon Latakia to Tripoli, and from vilayet 6,180 nearly to Jaffa. Area of 533,500. square miles. Pop. about
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Bezel
The grooved metal ring of a watch or clock that holds the crystal or glass in position.
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