BATCH'ELOR, George ( 1836—). An American Unitarian minister. He was born at Southbury, Conn., and graduated at Harvard College, the Divinity School, Meadville (1866), and was secretary of the American Unitarian Association from 1893 to 1897; of the National Conference from 1870 to 1880, and chairman of that body in 1893-94. Besides numerous sermons, published in leading religious and other reviews, he, has published a work entitled Social Equilibrium (1887).
BATCHELOR'S BAN'QUET, The, A satirical pamphlet by Dekker (1603), doubtless suggested by a Fifteenth-Century French satire, entitled Les quinze joyes de mariage (q.v.).
BATCHIAN, bat-shyan'.
See Batjan.
BATE, William Brimage (1820—). An American soldier and legislator. He was born near Castilian Springs, Tenn,, and when a boy was employed as clerk on a steamboat. He served as a volunteer during the Mexican War, and afterwards edited a newspaper at Gallatin, Tenn., where he also began to practice law in 1852. Previously he had been sent to the State Legislature, and from 1854 to 1858 held the office of attorney-general for the Nashville District, He joined the Confederate Army as a private, rose to the rank of major-general, and surrendered in 1865 with the Army of the Tennessee. After the war he resumed the practice of law, and for many years was active in the political interests of the Democratic Party. He was Governor of Tennessee from 1882 to 1886; was elected United States Senator in 1887, and was reëlected in 1893 and 1899.
BATEAU, b.a'tf/.
See Boat.
BATE'MAN, Sir Frederic (1824-1904). An English physician and scientific writer. He graduated at the University of Aberdeen in 1850, and in 1870 was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. His appointments include that of consulting physician to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. His Aphasia, and the Localization of Speech (1870) was crowned by the Academy of Medicine of France.
BATEMAN, Kate Josephine (1842—). An American actress. She was born at Baltimore, Md., the daughter of Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman, an actor and theatrical manager. Her mother was also an actress. With her sister, Ellen (later Mrs. Greppo), she appeared on the stage almost in infancy, and exhibited unusual talent. In 1862 she began her career in New York as Julia, Pauline, Juliet, and Lady Macbeth, and made a remarkable success in London in 1863 as Leah, She married George Crowe, the former editor of the London News, in 1866, and temporarily abandoned the stage, but returned to it in 1868, making a special success in Medea in 1872, and with Henry Irving in Macbeth in 1875, The next year she played the title role in Tennyson's Queen Mary, and afterwards managed one of the London theatres.
BATEMAN, Newton (1822-97). An American educator. He was born at Fairfield, N. J., graduated in 1843 at Illinois College, studied at Lane Theological Seminary, and from 1847 to 1851 was professor of mathematics at Saint Charles College, From 1858 to 1868 he was State Superintendent of Public Instruction for Illinois, and in 1875 was appointed president of Knox College.
BATES, Arlo (1850—). An American au-
thor. He was born at East Machias, Maine, and
was graduated from Bowdoin (1876), He be-
came the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier
(1880-93) and afterwards professor of English
in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Among his novels are The Pagans (1884); The
Wheel of Fire (1885); The Philistines (1888);
The Puritans (1899); and Love in a Cloud
(1900). His poems are collected in Berries of
the Brier (1886); Sonnets in Shadow (1887);
A Poet and His Self (1891); Told in the Gate
(1892); The Torchbearers (1894); and Under
the Beech Tree (1899); his criticisms in Talks
on Writing English (1897), and Talks on the
Study of Literature (1898).
BATES, Blanche (1873—). An American
actress, born at Portland, Ore. She made her
debut in San Francisco in a benefit performance
of Brander Matthews's This Picture and That,
and by 1895 was acting leading comedy parts in
the Frawley stock company in the West. Among
her early successes were her Mrs. Hillary in
The Senator, Phyllis in The Charity Ball, and
Nora in A Doll's House. She joined Daly's com-
pany in 1898. and at Daly's Theatre, New York,
early in 1899 made a sensation as Mirtza in
The Great Ruby. The same season she appeared
as Miladi with James O'Neill in The Three
Musketeers. In 1901 she appeared as Cigarette
in Under Two Flags at the Garden Theatre in
New York City, Consult Strang, Famous Ac-
tresses of the Day in America (Boston, 1899).
BATES, Charley. A pupil of the Jew Fagin, and companion of the 'Artful Dodger,' in Dickens's Oliver Twist.
BATES, Charlotte Fiske (Mme. Rogé) (1838—). An American writer, born in New York City. She has published a volume of verse, under the title Risks and Other Poems (1879), has contributed many articles to magazines, and edited the Longfellow Birthday Book; The Seven Voices of Sympathy (1881); and the Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song (1882), In editing the first-named works she coöperated with the poet Longfellow, whom she also assisted in compiling his Poems of Places. In 1891 she married M. Adolphe Rogé, who died in 1896.
BATES, Edward (1793-1869), An American lawyer and statesman. He was born in Belmont, Va,, of Quaker parentage; was left an orphan at 12, and was brought up by an elder brother. In 1814 he removed to Saint Louis, Mo,, where he studied law in the office of Rufus Eaton, and in 1816 began to practice. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1820, was successively Attorney-General and District Attorney for his State, and from 1827 to 1829 was a member of Congress. For the next 25 years he devoted himself wholly to his profession, and refused to take any part in public affairs, even declining an appointment to the Secretaryship of War in President Fillmore's Cabinet. He was appointed judge of the Saint Louis land court in 1853, presided over the Whig National Convention in 1853, and subsequently became one of the leaders of the Republican Party. At the national nominating convention in Chicago in 1860, his name was proposed for the Presidency, and he received 48 votes on the first ballot.
