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AMELIA E. BARR

Glasgow, Scotland. In 1850 she married Wm. Barr, and four years later they came to this country and settled in Texas, where the husband and three children died of yellow fever at Galveston in 1867. With her three remaining children (daughters) , Mrs. Barr removed t o New York, where she began to write for the religious periodicals and t o publish a series ^of semi-historical Stales and novels. *The more popular of the latter are A Bow of Orange Ribbon, Jan Vedder's Wife, A Daughter of Fife, Friend Olivia, Beads of Tasmer, Sister to Esau, A Rose o/ a Hundred Leaves, The Lone House and Prisoners of Conscience. She has also written Romance and Reality, The Hallam Succession^ Young People of Shakespeare's Time, A Border Shepherdess, Bernicia, Feet of Clay, Remember the Alamo and a number of other stories.

Barre, Vt., a city in Washington County, six miles from Montpelier. It is one of the most important granite centers in this country. The city has a school for young men and women, the Spaulding High School, Goddard Seminary, a public library, opera house, banks, newspapers, etc. It has the service of three railroads. Population, 10,734-

Barras (bd'rd'), Paul Franfois Jean Nicolas, Comte de, a prominent man in the French Revolution, was born in June, 175$. He served in his youth as a soldier in India against the English, leaving the army with the rank of captain. His dissipation soon made away with his fortune, and he Joined the Revolution in the hope of regaining it. He became a member of the states-general in 1789, of the national convention in 1792, and was an active opponent of the royalist party, voting for the execution of the king. He conducted the siege of Toulon, where he first met Napoleon, and put down with great cruelty a revolt in the south of France. He was active in overthrowing Robespierre in 1794. In 1795 he was appointed general-in-chief, and by calling Napoleon Bonaparte to his aid put down the rebellion which was just starting. About the middle of 1794 he became dictator, but his love of pleasure made him unpopular, and he had to yield to Napoleon HI 1799. His later years, until his death in 1829, were spent in conspiracies against the government.

Barrie, Sir James, greatest of modern Scotch novelists, made a baronet in 1913, was born at Kirriemuir ("Thrums"), a little Porfar weaving town, May 9, 1860, and educated at Dumfries Academy and at the University of Edinburgh. He began his literary career as a leader-writer on a newspaper in Nottingham, England, then became a journalist in London, contributing under the pen name of Gavin Ogilvy to the British Weekly, the Speaker and the National Observer. His first book, Better Dead, a satire on London life, appeared in 1877, and was followed by two more important and far more successful works, A u I d Licht Idylls and When a Man's Single. These were followed by A Window in Thrums (1889), which won fame for the novelist; after which appeared An Edinburgh Eleven, My Lady Nicotine, Sentimental Tommy and a memoir of his mother, Margaret Ogilvy. His first long story now appeared, The Little Minister, in which he shows himself the literary artist. In 1892 appeared a comedy, Walker London, which enjoyed a phenomenal run. Tender sympathy and shrewd humor, mark his style. His later works, beside a dramatic version of The Little Minister, also very successful on the stage, are The Professor's Love Story, Tommy and Grizel, Peter Pan and Alice-sit-by-the-fire.

Barrie, county seat of Simcoe County, Ont., is a pleasant city of 6,575 inhabitants, situated 839 feet above the sea on the north side of Kempenfeldt Bay (Lake Simcoe). The Grand Trunk Railway runs through it, and here starts the Lake Simcoe steamer, traversing a beautiful body of water 30 miles long and 26 wide. In the vicinity was fought that war in which the Iroquois Indians completely destroyed the power of theHurons. The summer temperature makes the spot a favorite resort.

Barrows, John Henry, president of Oberlin College, Ohio, and a minister of the Presbyterian church, was born at Medina, Mich., in 1847, and in 1867 graduated from Olivet College, Mich. He subsequently studied at Yale, Union and Andover theological seminaries, and from 1881 to 1895 was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Chicago. During the Columbian exposition (1893) held in that city, he was chairman of the general committee on religious congresses. In 1896 he resigned his pastoral charge in Chicago and proceeded to India, to lecture on reHgious subjects under the auspices of

JAMES M. BARRIE