- Austria-Hungary: _History_; Bamberger; Bebel; Benedetti; Beust.
K. L. - REV. KIRSOPP LAKE, M.A. Lincoln College, Oxford. Professor of Early Christian Literature and New Testament Exegesis in the University of Leiden. Author of _The Text of the New Testament_; _The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ_; &c.
- Bible: _New Testament: Texts and Versions_ and _Textual Criticism_.
K. S. - KATHLEEN SCHLESINGER. Author of _The Instruments of the Orchestra_.
- Bagpipe; Banjo; Barbiton; Barrel-organ; Bass Clarinet; Basset Horn; Bassoon; Batyphone.
L. A. - LYMAN ABBOTT, D.D. See the biographical article: ABBOTT, L.
L. P.* - LOUIS MARIE OLIVIER DUCHESNE. See the biographical article: DUCHESNE, L. M. O.
L. J. S. - LEONARD JAMES SPENCER, M.A., F.G.S. Assistant, Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, South Kensington. Formerly Scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Harkness Scholar. Editor of the _Mineralogical Magazine_.
- Autunite; Axinite; Azurite; Barytes; Bauxite; Biotite.
L. V.* - LUIGI VILLARI. Italian Foreign Office (Emigration Dept.). Formerly Newspaper Correspondent in East of Europe. Author of _Italian Life in Town and Country_; &c.
- Azeglio; Bandiera, A. and E.; Bassi, Ugo; Bentivoglio, Giovanni.
L. W. K. - LEONARD WILLIAM KING, M.A., F.S.A. Assistant to the Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum. Lecturer in Assyrian at King's College, London. Conducted Excavations at Kuyunjik (Nineveh) for British Museum. Author of _Assyrian Chrestomathy_; _Annals of the Kings of Assyria_; _Studies in Eastern History_; _Babylonian Magic and Sorcery_; &c.
M. A. C. - MAURICE A. CANNEY, M.A. Assistant Lecturer in Semitic Languages in the University of Manchester. Formerly Exhibitioner of St John's College, Oxford. Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew Scholar (Oxford), 1892; Kennicott Hebrew Scholar, 1895; Houghton Syriac Prize, 1896.
M. D. Ch. - SIR MACKENZIE DALZELL CHALMERS, K.C.B., C.S.I., M.A. Trinity College, Oxford. Barrister-at-Law. Formerly Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Home Department. Author of _Digest of the Law of Bills of Exchange_; &c.
M. G. - MOSES GASTER, PH.D. (Leipzig). Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic Communities of England. Vice-President, Zionist Congress, 1898, 1899, 1900. Ilchester Lecturer at Oxford on Slavonic and Byzantine Literature, 1886 and 1891. Author of _A New Hebrew Fragment of Ben-Sira_; _The Hebrew Version of the Secretum Secretorum of Aristotle_.