Blake
ELI WHITNEY, an Amerícan inventor, born in Westboro, Mass., Jan. 27, 1795; graduated at Yale University in 1816. He began business with his uncle, Eli Whitney, in the manufacture of fire-arms; and in 1834 founded, near New Haven, Conn., the pioneer factory for the manufacture of domestic hardware. In 1857 he invented the widely known stone and ore crusher called the Blake crusher, which introduced a new era in road making and mining industries, and is used throughout the world. He died in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 17, 1886.
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Blake (EDWARD an English statesman)
EDWARD, an English statesman, born in Adelaide, Ont., Canada, Oct. 13, 1833; was educated at Upper Canada College and Toronto University; called to the bar in 1856; and engaged in practice in Toronto. He entered public life in 1867; was Premier of Ontario in 1871- 1872, Minister of Justice in 1875-1877, and the recognized leader of the Canadian Liberal party in 1880-1891. He declined the appointments of Chancellor of Upper Canada in 1869, Chief Justice of Canada in 1875, and Chief Justice of Ontario in 1897, and also the honor of knighthood. In 1892 he was invited by the leaders of the Anti-Parnellites in Ireland to enter the British House of Commons as the representative of an Irish constituency. Consenting, he removed to South Longford, was elected for that district, and in 1895 was re-elected. In 1896 he was appointed a member of the Judiciary Committee of the Privy Council. He died in Toronto, 1912.
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Blake (WILLIAM an English poet)
WILLIAM, an English poet and artist, born in London, Nov. 28, 1757; learned to draw; became a noted illustrator and engraver; had a printshop in WILLIAM BLAKE London; and exhibited at the Royal Academy. His imagination was strange, powerful, grotesque, and poetic; and his belief was that his poems and drawings were communications from the spirit world. His "Poetical Sketches" (London, 1783); "Songs of Innocence" (1789), and "Songs of Experience" (1794), contain pastoral and lyrical poems of great beauty. His "Prophetic Books," including "Book of Thel" (1789); "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" (1790); "Book of Urizen" (1794); "Book of Los" (1795); "Book of Ahania" (1795); "Jerusalem" (1804), and "Milton" (1804), are famous. His greatest artistic work is in "Illustrations to the Book of Job" (1826). He died in London, Aug. 12, 1827.
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Blakelock
RALPH ALBERT, an American painter, born in New York City, Oct. 15, 1847; was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1869; was self-educated in art. His paintings include "Ta-vo-kok-i; or, the Circle Dance of the Kavavite Indians," "Cloverdale, Cal.," "Moonlight," "The Indian Fisherman," "A Landscape," "On the Face of the Quiet Waters," "Cumule," etc. Examples of his work are exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and public galleries in Washington, Worcester, etc. For years his work was unappreciated, so that his mind became affected and he spent some years in an asylum. The National Academy paid him tardy recognition by making him an associate in 1913 and an academician in 1915. He died in 1916.
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Blanc (II)
MARIE THÉRÈSE (THERESE BENTZON), a French novelist and littérateur, born at Seine-Port, Sept. 21, 1840. She has been for many years on the editorial staff of the "Revue des Deux Mondes," to which she has contributed notable translations and reviews of many American, English, and German authors. Her literary essays on these contemporaneous writers were collected in "Foreign Literature and Customs" (1882) and "Recent American Novelists" (1885). Her first work to attract attention was "A Divorce" (1871). Two other novels, "A Remorse" (1879), and "Tony" (1889), were crowned by the French Academy. jects from the Sahara in a westerly di- Other stories are "Georgette" and "Jacqueline" (1893). The fruit of her first visit to the United States was "Condition of Woman in the United States" (1895); "Au Dessus de l'Abime" (1905). She died in 1907.
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Blanc (PAUL JOSEPH a French genre)
PAUL JOSEPH, a French genre painter; studied under Bin and Cabanel. He won the Grand Prize of Rome in 1867; the first class medal of the Paris Salon in 1872; the decoration of the Legion of Honor in 1878; and the first class medal in the Paris Exposition of 1889. One of his best known works is a decorative composition depicting events in the life of Clovis. He died July 5, 1904.
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Blanc-Mange
in cookery, a name of different preparations of the consistency of a jelly, variously composed of dissolved isinglass, arrow root, maize flour, , etc. with milk and flavoring substances.
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Blanca
a city of Argentina, Buenos Aires, about 450 miles S. W. of the city of that name. It is well built, having good streets and many handsome public public buildings. It is an important railway center and has an excellent harbor. The leading exports are wool and grain. The city is the principal naval base of Argentina. Pop. about 75,000.
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Blanchfleur
Granddaughter of the Duke of Ferrara and heroine of the romance Florice and Blanchefleur, which is probably of Spanish origin. She and Florice, son of the King of Murcia, loved each other from infancy, and she gave him a magical ring. He was banished for his love and Blanchfleur was eventually shipped to Alexandria to be sold as a slave. Florice, however, found her there, partly by aid of the mystic ring, and they were happily united.
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Blanching
or ETIOLATION, a process of culture restored to by gardeners to prevent certain secretions which in ordinary circumstances, take place in the leaves of plants, and to render them more pleasant and wholesome for food. Artificial blanching is managed (1) by earthing up the leaves and succulent stems of plants, such as celery, asparagus, etc. For this purpose celery is planted in trenches, and earth is gradually drawn in round the stems as they advance in growth. (2) By tying together the leaves with strings of matting, as is sometimes done with lettuce, endive, etc. (3) By overlaying, which can be done with tiles, slates, pieces of board, or utensils made for the purpose. The most common is the blanching used profound. He lectured widely on the to exclude the light from seakale, rhubarb, and some other culinary vegetables, in which the green color is to be avoided.
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