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LEFT BAILEY 386 BAJAZET ing law was admitted to the bar in 1883. In 1885 he removed to Gainesville, Tex. He entered politics and was a member of the 52d and 56th Congresses, taking a prominent part in the deliberations of the House of Representatives and quick- ly becoming one of the most conspicuous members. He was elected Senator in 1907. In 1911, before the expiration of his term, he resigned. Though later withdrawing his resignation, he refused to stand for re-election. In the Senate he was one of the leaders of the Democratic party. He was a candidate for Governor of Texas in 1920, but was defeated. BAILEY, LIBERTY HYDE, an Amer- ican horticulturist, born in South Haven, Mich., March 15, 1858; graduated at the Michigan Agricultural College in 1882; was associate to Dr. Asa Gray at Har- vard University in 1882-1883; Professor of Horticulture and Landscape Garden- ing in the Michigan Agricultural Col- lege in 1883-1888; and in the last year became Professor of Horticulture in Cornell University. In 1903 he became Dean of the College of Agriculture and director of the experimental station, re- tiring in 1913. He was an associate editor of the revised edition of "John- son's Universal Cyclopaedia" (1892- 1896), and editor of "American Garden- ing." He published a large number of technical works, including "Annals of Horticulture," "Evolution of Our Na- tive Fruits," "Principles of Fruit Grow- ing," "Text-book of Agriculture," "Cy- clopedia of American Horticulture" (1900 - 1902) ; " Cyclopedia American Agriculture" (1907-1909). BAILEY, WILLIAM WHITMAN, an American botanist, born in West Point, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1843. He was educated at Brown and Harvard, having been a pupil of Prof. Asa Gray. In 1867 he was botanist of the United States Geo- logical Survey of the 40th parallel; in 1867-1869 assistant librarian of the Providence Athanaeum. He was ap- pointed Instructor in Botany at Brown University in 1877, and became professor there in 1881. He published "Botanical Collectors' Handbook" (1881); "Botan- izing" (1899); "Poems" (1910). Died Feb. 20, 1914. BAILLIE, JOANNA, a Scottish au- thor, born at Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Sept. 11, 1762; removed in early life to London. Here in 1798 she published her first work, entitled "A Series of Plays," in which she attempted to delineate the stronger passions by making each pas- sion the subject of a play. The series was followed up by a second volume in 1802, and a third in 1812. A second series appeared in 1836, and a complete edition of her whole dramatic works in 1850. She also published a volume of miscellaneous poetry, in 1841. Her only plays performed on the stage were a tragedy, the "Family Legend," and "De Montfort." She died in Hempstead, Feb. 23, 1851. BAIRETJTH. See Bayreuth. BAIZE, a sort of coarse woolen fabric with a rough nap, now generally used for linings, and mostly green or red in color. BAJA (ba'ya), an Italian seaport town, W. of Naples. It is the ancient Balae. BAJA, a market town of Hungary, near the Danube, 90 miles S. of Pest. It is celebrated for its annual swine fair, and its trade in grain and wine. Pop. about 22,500. BAJAZET (b!-a-zed'), or BAY- AZEED, I., an Ottoman Sultan, born 1347, succeeded his father, Amurath I., in 1389. He was the first of his family who assumed the title of Sultan. The Turkish Empire at this time extended W. from the Euphrates to the shores of Europe, and Amurath had crossed the Bosphorus, subdued the greater part of Thrace, and fixed the seat of his power at Adrianople. Bajazet wrested the N. parts of Asia Minor from the dominion of various Turkish emirs whose power had long been established there. In Europe he conquered Macedonia and Thessaly, and invaded Moldavia and Hungary. Sigismund, King of the latter country, met him at the head of 100,000 men, including the flower of the chivalry of France and Germany, but was totally defeated at Nicopoli, on the Danube, Sept. 28, 1396. Bajazet was preparing for an attack on Constantinople, when he was interrupted by the approach of Timur the Great, by whom he was defeated at Angora, in Anatolia, July 28, 1402. He was taken captive, and died about nine months afterward, at Antioch in Pisidia, He was succeeded by Mohammed I. BAJAZET II., a Sultan of the Turks; he succeeded his father, Mohammed II., in 1481. His brother, Zizim, unsuccessfully contested the empire with him, assisted by Caith Bey, Sultan of the Egyptian Mamelukes. Bajazet undertook an expe- dition against Caith Bey, but was de- feated, with great loss, near Mount Tau- rus in Cilicia, in 1489. He was more fortunate in Europe, where, in the same year, his generals conquered Croatia and Bosnia. Bajazet was engaged in long and bloody hostilities with the Molda-