BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD Scots lawyer and man of letters, was born at Glasgow, and was called to the Scottish bar in 1832. He became sheriff substitute (1839), and then sheriff-principal (1867) of the county of Lanark. He was a member of the brilliant circle of Blackwood's Magazine, and figures in John Wilson's Noctes Ambrosianae as "Tallboys." His principal works were Summer and Winter Hours (1831) ; Life of Mary, Queen of Scots (2 vols., 1828-31), a brilliant defence, though rendered obsolete by later research; Romances and Minor Poems (1866), which show a sentimental, if undogmatic, sym pathy for Roman Catholicism.