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LEFT BEABDSLEY 457 BEATTIE was editor of "Recreation" from 1905 to 1906. He was one of the organizers of the Boy Scouts movement of the United States and was national scout commis- sioner and honorary vice-president of the Boy Scouts of America. He was the author of many books for boys, includ- ing "American Boys' Handy Book" (1882); "Dan Beard's Animal Book" (1907) ; "The Buckskin Book and Buck- skin Calendar" (1911) ; "Shelters, Shacks and Shanties" (1914). He was chief of the school of woodcraft known as the Dan Beard Out-Door School. BEARDSLEY, AUBREY, an English author and illustrator, born in Brighton, in 1874; received a grammar school edu- cation; began working for London peri- odicals and publishers in 1892; and soon became widely known by his striking designs for posters and book covers. In 1894 he became art editor of "The Yellow Book," and while supplying it with il- lustrations, contributed drawings also to the "Savoy" and "Le Courrier Fran- gaise." He illustrated "Bons Mots" (1892) ; Malory's "La Morte d'Arthur" (1893) ; Oscar Wilde's "Salome" (1894) ; "The Rape of the Lock" and "An Album of Fifty Drawings" (1896) ; and wrote and illustrated "The Story of Venus and Tannhauser" (1895) ; and a novel, "Un- der the Hill" (1896). He died in Men- tone, France, March 16, 1898. BEARDSTOWN, a city of Illinois, in Cass CO. It is on the Illinois river, and on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroads. It has railroad repair shops, manufactures of flour, cement posts, etc. It has also a considerable fishing in- dustry. There is a park;, a Carnegie library, and a city hall. Pop. (1910) Q,107; (1920) 7,111. BEAR LAKE, GREAT, an extensive sheet of fresh water in the Mackenzie district of Canada, between about 65° and 67° 32' N. lat.; and under the 120th degree of W. long.; of irregular shape; ai-ea about 14,000 square miles. The water is very clear, and the lake abounds in fish. Bear Lake river, the outlet at the S. W. extremity of Great Bear Lake, runs S. W. for 70 miles and joins the Mackenzie river. BEARN (byarn), formerly one of the 32 provinces into which France was di- vided, and now forming the greatest portion of the department of Basses- Pyrenees. The inhabitants are chiefly Gascons, with a strong infusion of Basque blood, and they speak the purest Gascon dialect. Beam was a portion of Aquitania under the Romans,, and, after the downfall of that Empire, under its ruling dukes, it was a country of con- siderable importance. From the inter- marriage of the ruling family, the counts of Foix, with that of Navarre, sprang the French monarch, Henry IV., who, because he was born and brought up in B6am, was derisively called Le Bearnois. BEAR RIVER, a river of the United States, 400 miles long; rises in the N. of Utah, and flows N. into Idaho; turns abruptly S., re-enters Utah, and empties into Great Salt Lake. BEATON, DAVID, Cardinal Arch- bishop of St. Andrew's, Scotland, bom in 1494. He became Abbot of Arbroath in 1525, Lord Privy Seal three years later, was sent on several missions to France, received a cardinal's hat in 1538, and in the fallowing year became Primate. On the death of James V., he, by craft and determination, secured to himself the chief power in Church and State, being named Lord High Chan- cellor of Scotland,, and Papal Legate. He opposed an alliance with England, and especially distinguished himself as a persecutor of the Reformers. The trial and burning of George Wishart for heresy took place under his direction, and a short time afterward Beaton was as- sassinated at St. Andrew's in May, 1546. With his death, church tyranny came to an end in Scotland. BEATRICE, city and county-seat of Gage CO., Neb.; on the Big Blue river, and several railroads; 40 miles S. of Lincoln, the State capital. It is the seat of the State Institution for Feeble- Minded Youth; and has an attractive court house. United States Government Building, water works, electric light and street railway plants, public library, National banks, excellent water power, flour and planing mills, tile and barbed wire works, creamery, iron foundry, and manufactories of gasolene engines, wind mills, and farming implements. It is the center of a rich agricultural country. Pop. (1910) 9,356; (1920) 9,664. BEATTIE, JAMES, a Scottish poet and miscellaneous writer, born at Laurencekii-k, Kincardineshire, Oct. 25, 1735; studied at Marischal College, Aber- deen, for four years, and received the M. A. degree. In 1753 he was appointed schoolmaster at Fordoun, afterward master of the Grammar School of Aber- deen, and ultimately Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in Marischal College. In 1760 he published a volume