PHILLPOTTS, EDEN (1862).—­Novelist. Down Dartmoor Way (1894), Lying Prophets (1896), Children of the Mist (1898), Sons of the Morning (1900), The River (1902), The Secret Woman (1905), The Whirlwind (1907), etc.

PINERO, SIR ARTHUR WING (1855).—­Dramatist. The Magistrate, Sweet Lavender, The Profligate, The Weaker Sex, Lady Bountiful, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, The Benefit of the Doubt, The Princess and the Butterfly, The Gay Lord Quex, His House in Order, Mid Channel, etc.

POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK, F.R.Hist.S. (1869).—­Historical writer. The Jesuits in Poland (1892), England under Protector Somerset (1900), Henry VIII. (Gougiel Series, 1902), Life of Thomas Cranmer (1904), etc., and has contributed largely to The Dictionary of National Biography, and to the Cambridge Modern History, and ed. Political Pamphlets, Tudor Tracts, etc.

POLLARD, ALFRED WILLIAM (1859).—­Bibliographer, etc. Books about Books (1893), Bibliographica (1894-96), Early Illustrated Books (1893), Italian Book Illustrations (1894), etc.; and has ed. English Miracle Plays (1890), Herrick, Chaucer (Globe ed.), etc.

POLLOCK, WALTER HERRIES (1850).—­Poet and miscellaneous writer. The Modern French Theatre (1878), Verse, Old and New, Sealed Orders and other Poems, Lectures on French Poets, A Nine Men’s Morrice, King Zub, Jane Austen, her Contemporaries and Herself, etc.

POOLE, REGINALD LANE, Ph.D. (1857).—­Historical writer. History of the Huguenots of the Dispersion (1880), Illustrations of the History of Modern Thought (1884), Wycliffe and Movements for Reform (1889), Historical Atlas of Modern Europe (1897-1902), etc.

PRAED, MRS. ROSA CAROLINE MACKWORTH ("MRS. CAMPBELL PRAED”) (1851).—­Australian novelist. Policy and Passion (1881), Nadine (1882), The Head Station (1885), Miss Jacobsen’s Chance (1887), December Roses (1893), The Insane Root, The Luck of the Leura (1907), etc.

PREVOST, FRANCIS, (see BATTERSBY).

PROTHERO, GEORGE WALTER, Litt.D., LL.D., etc. (1848).—­Historian. Life and Times of Simon de Montfort (1877), Memoir of Henry Bradshaw (1889), ed.  Voltaire’s Louis Quatorze, Select Statutes, etc., of Elizabeth and James I., co-ed. of Cambridge Modern History, etc.

PROTHERO, ROWLAND EDMUND, M.V.O. (1852).—­Biographer, etc. Life and Correspondence of Dean Stanley (1893), ed. Letters of Edward Gibbon, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, The Psalms in Human Life, etc.