The following are the chief works which are illustrated with drawings by Beardsley: the _Bon Mot_ Library, _The Pall Mall Budget_, and _The Studio_ (1893), Sir Thomas Malory's _Morte d'Arthur_ (1893-1894), _Salomé_ (1894), _The Yellow Book_ (1894-1895), _The Savoy Magazine_ (1896), _The Rape of the Lock_ (1896).
See also J. Pennell, _The Studio_ (1893); Symons, _Aubrey Beardsley_ (1898); R. Ross, _Volpone_ (1898); H.C. Marillier, _The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley_ (1899); Smithers, _Reproductions of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley_; John Lane, _The Later Works of Aubrey Beardsley_ (1901); R. Ross, _Aubrey Beardsley_ (1908). (E. F. S.)
BEARDSTOWN, a city of Cass county, Illinois, U.S.A., in the W. part of the state, on the E. bank of the Illinois river, about 111 m. N. of St Louis, Missouri. It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio South-Western, and the Burlington (Chicago, Burlington & Quincy) railways, and by steamboats plying between it and St. Louis. Pop. (1890) 4226; (1900) 4827 (444 foreign-born); (1910) 6107. The industrial establishments of the city include flour, planing and saw mills, the machine shops (of the St Louis division) of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway, ice factories, pearl button factories and a shoe factory. The fishing interests are also important. Beardstown was laid out in 1827 and was incorporated as a city in 1896. It was named in honour of Thomas Beard, who settled in the vicinity in 1820. During the Black Hawk War (1832) it was a base of supplies for the Illinois troops. The old court house in which Abraham Lincoln, in 1854, won his famous "Armstrong murder case," is now used for a city hall.
BEARER, strictly "one who carries," a term used in India for a palanquin-bearer, and now especially for a body-servant. The term is also used in connexion with military ambulances, and "bearer" companies formed part of the Royal Army Medical Corps until amalgamated with the field-hospitals to form field-ambulances (1905). In banking and commerce the word is applied to the holder or presenter of a cheque or draft not made payable to a specific person; it has also a technical use, as in printing, of anything that supports pressure in machinery, &c.