OPPENHEIM, E. PHILLIPS (1866).—­Novelist. The Master Mummer, Mysterious Mr. Sabin, A Prince of Sinners, Conspirators, etc.

“ORCZY, BARONESS” (MRS. MONTAGU BARSTOW).—­Novelist and playwright. The Emperor’s Candlesticks, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905), A Son of the People (1906), I will Repay (1906), etc.

OXENHAM, JOHN.—­Novelist. God’s Prisoner (1898), John of Gerisau (1902), White Fire (1905), Giant Circumstance, The Long Road, etc.

PATRICK, DAVID, LL.D. (1849).—­Ed. of Chambers’ Encyclopaedia (1888-92), Chambers’ Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1901-3), and Chambers’s Biographical Dictionary (with F.H.  Groome) (1897).

PAIN, BARRY (1868).—­Novelist, etc. In a Canadian Canoe (1891), Stories and Interludes (1892), Graeme and Cyril (1893), Kindness of the Celestial (1894), The Romantic History of Robin Hood (1898), Lindley Kays (1904), Wilhelmina in London (1906), Shadow of the Unseen (1907), etc.

PASTURE, MRS. HENRY DE LA (BONHAM).—­Novelist and dramatist. The Little Squire (1894), A Toy Tragedy, Deborah of Tod’s (1897), Catherine of Calais (1901), Peter’s Mother (1905), The Tyrant (1909).

PAUL, HERBERT WOODFIELD (1853).—­Historian and biographer. Men and Letters (1901), History of Modern England, Stray Leaves (1906), Queen Anne (1906), Lives of W.E.  Gladstone, Matthew Arnold (English Men of Letters), Lord Acton, and Froude.

PEARS, SIR EDWIN (1835).—­War correspondent, etc, Fall of Constantinople (1885), The Destruction of the Greek Empire (1903), etc.

PEMBERTON, MAX (1863).—­Novelist. The Sea Wolves (1894), The Impregnable City (1895), Christine of the Hills (1897), Pro Patria (1901), Dr. Xavier (1903), Red Morn (1904), The Hundred Days (1905), The Fortunate Prisoner (1909), etc.

PHELPS, ELIZABETH STUART (MRS. H.D.  WARD) (1844).—­American novelist. The Gates Ajar (1869), Hedged In (1870), Story of Avis (1877), An Old Maid’s Paradise (1879), Beyond the Gates (1883), The Madonna of the Tubs (1887), The Gates Between (1887), Struggle for Immortality (1889), Come Forth (with H.D.  Ward, 1890), Avery, Trixy (1904), etc.

PHILLIPS, CLAUDE.—­Writer on art. Picture Gallery of Charles I., The Earlier Work of Titian, The Later Work of Titian, Lives of Reynolds, Watteau, etc.

PHILLIPS, STEPHEN (1868).—­Poet. Marpessa (1890), Eremus (1894), Christ in Hades (1896), Poems (1897), Paolo and Francesca (1899), Herod (1900), Ulysses (1902), The Sin of David (1904), Nero (1906), etc.