BOISE 89 brary, excellent schools, hospitals, and other public buildings. Its industries in- clude meat packing, stone quarrying, and manufactures of cigars, cement, etc. It is an important wool market. Pop. (1890) 2,311; (1910) 17,358; (1920) 21,393. BOISE, JAMES ROBINSON, an Amer- ican educator, born in Blandford, Mass., Jan. 27, 1815; was graduated at Brown University, in 1840; and served there as tutor of Latin and Greek and as Pro- fessor of Greek till 1850. In 1862, he became Professor of the Greek Language and Literature in the University of Mich- igan; in 1868, was called to the same chair in the University of Chicago; and, in 1877, became Professor of New Testa- ment Interpretation in the Baptist Union Theological Seminary. On the establish- ment of the new University of Chicago, he was made Professor-Emeritus of New Testament Greek. He published several classical text books, including editions with original notes of Xenophon's "Ana- basis" and the first six books of Homer's "Iliad," besides "Notes" on the Epistles to the Galatians, Romans, etc. He died in Chicago, Feb. 9, 1895. BOISGOBEY, FORTUNE ABRAHAM DU (bwa-go-ba'), a French novelist, born in Granville, Sept. 11, 1821. In 1844-1848 he was paymaster in the army at Algiers, and began to write in 1868, somewhat on the lines of Emile Gab- oriau. His novels include "The Scoun- drels" (Paris, 1873) ; "Chevalier Casse- Cou" (1873) : "The Mysteries of Modem Paris" (1876); "The Demi-Monde Un- der the Terror" (1877) ; "The Old Age of M. Lecoq" (1878); and "The Cold Hand" (1879). He died in February, 1891. BOIS-LE-DXTC (bwa-le-diic'), a forti- fied city of North Brabant, Holland, founded by Godfrey of Brabant in 1184, at the point where the Dommel and Aa Unite to form the Diest; has manufac- tures of cloth, hats, cotton goods, etc., and a good trade in grain, its water traf- fic being equal to that of a considerable maritime port. The cathedral is one of the finest in the Netherlands. Pop. about 35,214. The Duke of York was defeated here by the French in 1794. BOISSIER, GASTON (bwa-sya), a French biographical and critical writer, born at Nimes, 1823. He was a member of the Academy, and had won celebrity with "Cicero and His Friends," "Life of Madame de Sevign^," "Archaeological Walks in Rome and Naples," and nu- merous contributions to magazines. He died in Paris, June 10, 1908. BOKHARA BOITO, ARRIGO (bo-e'to), an Italian poet and musician, born at Padua, in 1842. His father was an Italian painter and his mother a Polish lady. His li- brettos, written for Verdi, Bottesini and others, and his own operas, "Mefistofele" GASTON BOISSIER and "Nerone," are of a high order of poetry. In 1877 he published a separate volume of verse. BOKER, GEORGE HENRY, an Amer- ican poet and dramatist, born in Philadel- phia, Pa., Oct. 6, 1823. He graduated from Princeton in 1842; studied law; and was United States Minister to Turkey in 1871-1875, and to Russia in 1875-1879. His plays include "Calaynos" (1848) ; "Anne Boleyn" (1850) ; "Francesca da Rimini;" "The Betrothed;" and "All the World's a Mask." Collected plays and poems (Boston, 1856). Also "Poems of the War" (1864) ; "Konigsmark and other Poems" (1869) ; "The Book of the Dead" (1882); and "Sonnets" (1886). He died Jan. 2, 1890. BOKHARA, a khanate of central Asia, formerly vassal to Russia, bounded N. by Russian Turkestan, W. by Khiva and the Transcaspian Territory of Russia, S. by Afghanistan, and E. by Chinese Turkes- tan; area about 93,000 square miles. The country in the W. is to a great extent occupied by deserts; in the E. are nu- merous ranges of mountains. Cultivation is mainly confined to the valleys of the
