E. C. B. - RIGHT REV. EDWARD CUTHBERT BUTLER

e. c. b. - right rev. edward cuthbert butler, o.s.b., d.litt. (dubl.). abbot of downside abbey, bath. - basilian monks; benedict of nursia; benedictines; st bernardin of siena. e. f. s. - edward fairbrother strange. assistant-keeper, victoria and albert museum, south kensington. member of council, japan society. author of numerous works on art subjects; joint-editor of bell's "cathedral" series. - beardsley, aubrey vincent. e. g. - edmund gosse, ll.d. see the biographical article: gosse, edmund. - baggesen; ballade; barnfield; beaumont, sir john; belgium: _literature_; biography. e. g. b. - edward granville browne, m.a., m.r.c.s., m.r.a.s. sir thomas adams's professor of arabic and fellow of pembroke college, cambridge. fellow of the british academy. author of _a traveller's narrative, written to illustrate the episode of the bab_; _the new history of mirza ali muhammed the bab_; _literary history of persia_; &c. - babiism. e. h. m. - ellis hovell minns, m.a. lecturer and assistant librarian, and formerly fellow of pembroke college, cambridge. university lecturer in palaeography. - bastarnae. ed. m. - eduard meyer, d.litt. (oxon.), ll.d., ph.d. professor of ancient history in the university of berlin. author of _geschichte des alterthums_; _geschichte des alten aegyptens_; _die israeliten und ihre nachbarstamme_; &c. - bactria; bagoas; bahran; balash; behistun. e. ma. - edward manson. barrister-at-law. joint-editor of _journal of comparative legislation_, author of _short view of the law of bankruptcy_; &c. - bankruptcy: _comparative law_ e. m. t. - sir edward maunde thompson, g.c.b., d.c.l., ll.d., litt.d. director and principal librarian, british museum, 1888-1909. fellow of the british academy. corresponding member of the institute of france and of the royal prussian academy of sciences. author of _handbook of greek and latin palaeography_. editor of the _chronicon angliae_, &c. joint-editor of _publications of the palaeographical society_. - autographs. e. n. s. - e. n. stockley. captain, royal engineers. instructor in construction at the school of military engineering, chatham. for some time in charge of the barracks design branch of the war office. - barracks. e. pr. - edgar prestage. special lecturer in portuguese literature in the university of manchester. commendador, portuguese order of s. thiago. corresponding member of lisbon royal academy of sciences and lisbon geographical society. - azurara; barros. e. tn. - rev. ethelred leonard taunton (d. 1907). author of _the english black monks of st benedict_; _history of the jesuits in england_. - baronius. e. v. - rev. edmund venables, m.a., d.d. (1819-1895). canon and precentor of lincoln. author of _episcopal palaces of england_. - basilica (_in part_). f. c. b. - francis crawford burkitt, m.a., d.d. norrisian professor of divinity, cambridge. fellow of the british academy. part-editor of _the four gospels in syriac transcribed from the sinaitic palimpsest_. author of _the gospel history and its transmission_; _early eastern christianity_; &c. - bible: _new testament, higher criticism._