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Page 519 - BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Selections. With Notes and Introduction by Leigh Hunt. BECKMANN (J.) History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins. With Portraits of Beckmann and James Watt. 2 vols. NS BELL (Robert).— See Ballads, Chaucer, Green.