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LEFT BARTHOLOMEW, ST. 432 BARTLETT BARTHOLOMEW, ST., the apostle, probably the same person as Nathanael, mentioned, in the Gospel of St. John, as an upright Israelite, and one of the first disciples of Jesus. He is said to have taught Christianity in the south of Arabia, and to have carried there the Gospel of St. Matthew, in the Hebrew language, according to Eusebius. Chry- sostom mentions that he preached in Armenia and Natolia. The ancient church had an apocryphal Gospel bear- ing his name, of which nothing has been preserved. The Catholic Church cele- brates a feast in his honor, on the 24th of August. BARTHOU, LOUIS, a French states- man, born in 1862. He entered public life at an early age and occupied many important positions in the French Gov- ernment, including service as Minister of Public Works and Minister of the Interior. He was appointed Minister of Justice in the first cabinet of President Poincard in 1913. On the fall of this ministry in Ma,rch of the same year, he was appointed Premier and Minister of Public Instruction. He was one of the chief figures in the controversy between the French Government and the Roman Catholic Church, on the question of the separation of church and state and was especially zealous in carrsdng out the legislation passed in order to effect this separation. BARTLESVILLE, i city of Oklahoma, the county-seat of Washington co. It is on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail- roads. It is in the Mid-Continent Oil Field, the growth of which has been the most notable phase of the petroleum in- dustry in recent years. The town has a kbrary, a court house, an Elks Home, city hall, and other public buildings. There are smelters of zinc and deposits of natural gas. Pop. (1910) 6,181; (1920) 14,417. BARTLETT, SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD, an English politician, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., of American parents, in 1849; graduated at Christ Church College, Ox- ford, in 1872; admitted to the bar in 1877 ; was a member of Parliament from Eye division of Suffolk in 1880-1885; and from Ecclesall division of Suffolk since 1895; was Civil Lord of the Admiralty in 1885-1886, and 1886-1892. He is the author of "The Battlefields of Thessaly" (1897). He died in London, 1902. BARTLETT, FREDERICK ORIN, an American writer, born in Haverhill, Mass., in 1876. He was educated in the public schools and at Harvard Univer- sity. For several years he was engaged in newspaper work. His best known books are "The Web of the Golden Spider" (1909) ; "The Lady of the Lane" (1912); "The Triflers" (1917). He was a frequent contributor of short stories to magazines. BARTLETT, JOHN, an American au- thor and publisher, born in Plymouth, Mass., June 14, 1820; became a publisher in Cambridge in 1836, and senior partner in the Boston publishing house of Little, Brown & Co., in 1878. His works include "Familiar Quotations" (1854); "The Shakespeare Phrase-Book" (1882) ; "Cat- alogue of Books on Angling, Including Ichthyology, Pisciculture, etc." (1882) ; "The Shakespeare Index"; "The Com- plete Concordance to Shakespeare's Dra- matic Works" (1894); and "Poems." He died Dec. 3, 1905. BARTLETT, PAUL WAYLAND, an American sculptor, born in New Haven, Conn., in 1865. He was educated in the public schools of New Haven and Boston and studied sculpture in Paris. At the age of 14 he exhibited a bust of his grandmother in the Paris salon. He made many notable pieces of sculpture, in- cluding the statue of General Joseph Warren m Boston, the statue of Lafa- yette in Paris, which was a gift to France from the school children of the United States, a statue of Columbus in the Congressional Library, six statues on the front of the New York Public Library, and a statue of Benjamin Franklin. His works are found in many of the leading art galleries in the United States and abroad. He was a member of several societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters. BARTLETT, ROBERT ABRAM, an American explorer, born at Brigus, New- foundland, in 1875. After several years spent at sea he took part in the Peary expedition of 1897-1898 as commander of the vessel. This was followed by sev- eral other trips, including the journey with Peary in 1905-1909, which ended in the discovery of the North Pole. He fol- lowed this with several other expeditions to the Arctic regions, including the Crocker Land Relief Expedition to North Greenland in 1917. During the World War he was marine superintendent of the Army Transport Service. He was awarded several medals for his services in explorations and received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College in 1920. BARTLETT, SAMUEL COLCORD, an American educator, born in Salisbury. ^ N. H., Nov. 25, 1817; was educated at Dartmouth College, teaching there and