INDEX. 



Parish schools of Scotland, 183. 



Parliament, the, 42 ; origin of, 134; constitution, 

 178 ; functions of, 180. 



Parliament, the Long, 145. 



Parse, to, 583. 



Parsees, the, 285, 437. 



Parmigiano, painter, 654. 



Parnassus, 216. 



Parnassus, Mount, 81, 86. 



Parthenon, the, 94. 



Paste, 795. 



Past tense in d or ed, 23. 



Patagonia, 329. 



Patans or Afghans, the, 284. 



Pathos, in style, 740. 



Paton, Sir Noel, painter, 176, 654. 



Patriarch of Constantinople, 415. 



Patriarchal Society, 34. 



Patricians, zoo. 



Pauperism in Britain, 192. 



Pausanias, 93. 



Pawnbroking, 524. 



Paz, La, 325. 



Peat-bogs of Ireland, 257. 



Pedestrian feats, in Gymnastics, 660. 



Pegu, 174, 286. 



Pei-ho, 274. 



Pekin, 288. 



Pelasgian nations, 90. 



Peloponnesian war, 94. 



Peloponnesus, now Morea, 8r. 



Peninsula, the (Spain and Portugal), 21 r. 



Peninsular campaigns, 167, 168. 



Pennsylvania, United States, 316. 



Pentateuch, criticism of the, 385-388 ; Pentateuch, 

 the Samaritan, history of, 390. 



Pepin d'Heristal, 113. 



Pepin le Bref, 1 1 5. 



Pericles, 93. 



Pernambuco, 328. 



Perpetual edict of Hadrian, 51, 52. 



Perseus, king of Macedon, 106. 



Persia, 276. 



Persian language, 25. 



Persians, the ancient, 78 ; Persian empire, 80. 



Personality of God, 377. 



Perspective, in Drawing, 646-648. 



Persuasion, art of, in Rhetoric, 746. 



Perth, description of, 255. 



Peru, republic of, 324. 



Peruvians, the, belief of, 437. 



Peshito, the, or old Syriac version of the Scrip- 

 tures, 392. 



Peter the hermit, 123. 



Peter's pence, 120. 



Petition of right, 144. 



Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigentum, 90. 



Phidias, Greek sculptor, 94, 655. 



Philip- Augustus, 121, 124. 



Philip of Macedon, 96. 



Philippine group of islands, 297. 



Phillips's fire-annihilator, 792. 



Phoenicia, ancient history of, 72 ; Phoenician 

 confederation of cities, 38. 



Phoenicians, the, in Anthropology, 6. 



Phonetics, 21. 



Photo-galvanography, 783. 



PHOTOGRAPHY, 777-784. 



Photo-lithography, 768 ; process of, 783. 



Photo-zincography, 783. 



Phrygian mode in Music, 706. 

 104 



Physics, terrestrial, logic of the science, 366. 



Physiology, logic t>f the science, 367. 



Pianoforte, the, 701. 



Picts' houses, 252, 732. 



Picts, the, 130 ; Picts' wall, the, lyx 



Pietermaritzburg, 293. 



Pile-dwellings of Switzerland, 728. 



Pilgrim Fathers, the, 143. 



Pindar, 92. 



Pindarees, war with the, 283. 



Pints and quarts, and other measures, 707. 



Pitch, in Music, 690. 



Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 159-167. 



Piyadesi, king, 429. 



Plague in England, 137; in London, 150; in 



Athens, 94. 



Plane, definition of a, 627. 

 Plaster, adhesive, 796. 

 Plata, La, river, 322. 

 Plate-printing, 775. 

 Plato, 96. 

 Plautus, 112. 



Pleaskin, cape in Ireland, 27a 

 Pleasure and pain, in Ethics, 382. 

 Plebeians, 102. 

 Plebiscite, the, 102. 

 Plebiscitum, the, 50, 

 Plebs, the, 100, 

 Pliny, 112. 

 Pluto, 83. 

 Plymouth, 240. 

 Plymouth Brethren, 414. 

 Poetic and literary art, 749. 

 Point de Galle, 285. 

 Poitiers, battle of, 125, 137. 

 Pola, 218. 



Poles, the, in Anthropology, 6. 

 POLITICAL ECONOMY, 465-480. 

 Polydorus, sculptor, 656. 

 Polygeny, in Anthropology, 15. 

 Polyhedra, in Geometry, 631. 

 Polynesia, 304. 

 Polytheism, 417. 

 Pomaerium, the, 99. 

 Pomatum, 799 ; pomade divine, 800. 

 Pompey, 109.' 

 Pontine marshes, 214. 

 Pool, game of, 68 1. 

 Poonah, 285. 

 Poor-law amendment act, 503, 506; poor rate-, 



503, 504 ; poor-law board, 304. 

 Poor-laws, 501-508 ; English, 502 ; Scottish, 505 ; 



Irish, 507. 

 Popayan, 324. 

 Pope, Alexander, 158. 

 Popes and emperors, struggle of {.Middle Age 



History), 120. 



Popes, origin of the, 401 ; election of, 120, 402. 

 Popish plot, the, 151. 

 Population, 497-501; Malihusian theory, 497; 



British population and social statistics, 191. 

 Population, in Social Statistics, (39. 

 POPULATION POOR-LAWS LIFE-ASSURANCE, 



497-512. 



Populus, the, loot 



Port-au- Prince, capital of Haiti, 336. 

 Port-of-Spain, town in Trinidad, 333. 

 Portsmouth, 239. 



Portugal (Middle Age History), 12$. 

 Portugal and Spain, 21 1, 212. 

 Poseidon (Neptune), 83, 84. 



