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LEFT BUBNABY 249 BURNETT China, Siam, and Assam, through which they greatly enlarged the Empire. This brought them into contact with the Brit- ish, and, in 1824, war was declared against them on account of their en- croachments on British territory and their seizure of British subjects. The war terminated in the cession of the provinces of Aracan and Tenasserim to the British. Peace continued for some years, but latterly various acts of hos- tility were committed by the Burmese, and, in 1852, the maltreatment of Brit- ish subjects occasioned a second war, at the end of which the British possessions were extended to include the whole of Pegu. The third and last war occurred in 1885 in consequence of the arrogance and arbitrary conduct of King Theebaw. The result was that Upper Burma was annexed to the British Empire by proc- lamation of the Viceroy of India, Jan. 1, 1886. The area thus annexed was about 200,000 square miles, of which half be- longed to the Kingdom proper, and half to the semi-independent Shan states. BUBNABY, FBEDEBICK GUSTA- VUS, an English descriptive writer, born in Bedford, March 3, 1842. He served in the Royal Horse Guards, in which he became lieutenant-colonel in 1881. In 1875 he made his famous ride to Khiva — a journey that presented great diffi- culties. In 1876 he rode through Asiatic Turkey and Persia. Of both these jour- neys he published narratives. He was slain in the battle of Abu-Klea, Jan. 17, 1885. BUBNAND, SIB FBANCIS COWLEY, an English author and dramatist, bom Nov. 29, 1836; was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He pro- duced a large number of pieces, chiefly extravaganzas and burlesques; several dramas; and some very successful com- edies. He joined Henry J. Byron in starting "Fun," but left that paper for "Punch," then edited by Mark Lemon. in 1863. His contributions to "Punch'* included "How, When, and Where" and "Happy Thoughts," which in book form had an extended sale. He was editor of "Punch" from 1880 to 1906. He wrote the libretto for Sullivan's "Chieftain" (1894). BUBNE-JONES, SIB EDWARD COLEY, an English painter, bom in Birmingham, Aug. 28, 1833; was edu- cated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he formed a lifelong friendship with William Morris. In 1857 he studied in London under Rossetti, who exerted a powerful influence over his early work. From the first Burne-Jones' subjects were poetical and romantic, and his treatment of them imaginative and idealistic, while his coloring was singu- larly pure and beautiful. Most of his earlier works were done in water-color, among them "Merlin and Vivien," "Tho Wine of Circe," and "Love Among the Ruins." Not until 1870 did he become known as a painter in oils, in which field his style and subjects were inspired chiefly by the early Italian Renaissance. Among his later pictures are "The Days of Creation," "Venus' Mirror," "Chant d'Amour," "The Golden Stairs," "The Tree of Forgiveness," "King Cophetua," "The Legend of the Briar Rose," "The Brazen Tower," "The Bottom of the Sea," etc. His skill in stained glass is shown by the windows of Christ Church, Oxford. He was one of the founders of the New Gallerj^ and was made a bar- onet in 1894. He died in London, July 17, 1898. BUBNET, the English name for poterium, a genus of plants belonging to the order roseacex (roseworts). It is also called salad bumet and lesser bur- net. The common or garden salad bur- net {poterium sanguisorba) is a herbace- ous plant one or two feet high, with pinnate leaves and dull purplish flowers. The leaves taste and smell like cucuni- ber, and are eaten in salad. The muri- cated bumet, or salad bumet (^4. muri- catum), has larger fruit than the former, to which it is closely allied. It is not common. There are other species. The great burnet is sanguisorba offici- nalis. BUBNETT, FBANCES HODGSON, an Anglo-American novelist, born in Man- chester, England, Nov. 24, 1849. Her family removed to Tennessee in 1865. She early wrote stories. In 1873 Miss Hodgson married Dr. Burnett, and, in 1875, settled in Washing-ton, where she has since resided. After various short stories, she published as a serial in "Scribner's Magazine" "That Lass o' Lowrie's," which became very popular, was promptly issued in book form (1877), and was dramatized. It was fol- lowed by a number of novels, among which are "Haworth's" (1879) ; "Louisi- ana" (1881) ; "Esmeralda," "A Fair Barbarian" (1882) ; "Through One Ad- ministration" (1883) ; "Little Lord Fauntleroy," a juvenile story, also dramatized (1887); "The Pretty Sister of Jose" (1889) ; "The One I Knew Best of All," an autobiography (1893); "A Lady of Quality" (1895) ; "His Grace of bsmonde" (1897); "L Tembarom" (1913); "The Lost Prince" (1915); "Whito People" (1917) ; etc. In 1898 she obtained a divorce from Dr. Burnett, and in 1900 married Stephen Townsend.