His chief novels are :
Koningsmarke)
(1823);
(Tales of a Good Woman by a Doubtful Gentle-
man) (1823); John Bull in America) (1824);
Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham'
(1826); (The Dutchman's Fireside) (1831);
(Westward Ho!
(Tales of a Good Woman by a Doubtful Gentle-
man) (1823); John Bull in America) (1824);
Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham'
(1826); (The Dutchman's Fireside) (1831);
(Westward Ho!
Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary
8, 1893.
He wrote:
(The Oregon Trail : Prairie and Rocky Mount-
ain Life) (1849); "History of the Conspiracy
of Pontiac) (2 vols. , 1851); (The Pioneers of
France in the New World (1865); “The Jesuits
in North America) (1866); (La Salle and the
Discovery of the Great West) (1869); (The
Old Régime in Canada) (1874); (Count Fron-
tenac and New France under Louis XIV. ? (1877);
(Montcalm and Wolfe) (2 vols. , 1884); (A Half-
Century of Conflict' (2 vols. , 1892). *
Parley, Peter. See Goodrich.
Parmenides (pär-men'i-dēz). A celebrated
Greek philosopher of the fifth century B. C. ;
born at Elea in Southern Italy. He wrote but
one work on philosophy,-a didactic poem
in the epic metre and in the lonic dialect,
entitled “On Nature): fragments of it, in all
about 160 lines, have come down to our times.
It was divided into three sections, Proem,
(Truth, <Opinion. The fragments have been
rendered into English by Th mas Davidson. *
Parnell, Thomas. An Irish poet; born at
Dublin, 1679; died 1718. He was a minister
of the established Irish Church, and held a
cure of souls in Ireland, but spent most of his
life in England. His works are: a volume of
(Poems, in which is (The Hermit); a Life
of Homer) prefixed, and a translation of the
(Battle of the Frogs and Mice always suffixed,
to Pope's version of the Iliad.
Parny, Évariste Désiré Desforges, Viscomte
de (pär-nē'). A French poet; born in the Isle
of Bourbon, Feb. 6, 1753; died at Paris, Dec. 5,
1814. He won celebrity through his volume of
Erotic Poems, which first appeared in incom-
plete form 1778, completed 1781: Voltaire sa-
luted him, “My dear Tibullus. In 1799 he
published (The War of the Gods, afterward
enlarged and named (The Christianide): it is
a cynical and impious attack upon all religions.
He published (1805) (The Stolen Portfolio,' con-
taining Venus's Disguises,' (Gallantries of the
Bible, (Paradise Lost.
Parodi, Dominique Alexandre (pä-ro-de').
A French poet of Greek origin; born in the
island of Crete, Nov. 15, 1840. He spent his
early years at Smyrna, then lived for a time
at Milan, and afterward settled in Paris as a
journalist. He wrote: (The Last of the Popes,
a novel, in Italian; a volume of French verses,
(Passions and Thoughts) (1865); Messenian
Tales) (1867); (The Triumph of Peace) (1878);
(Flesh and Soul Cry Out) (1883). He wrote
also the tragedy (Rome Vanquished (1876),
and the Scriptural poem “Sephora' (1877).
Parr, Samuel. A famous English scholar
and educator; born at Harrow-on-the-Hill, Jan.
a
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15, 1747; died at Hatton, March 6, 1825. He
was chief assistant at Harrow, 1767-71; after-
wards master of schools at Colchester and Nor-
wich; and prebend of St. Paul's, London. He
was famous for extent and variety of learning
and for conversational powers. His writings
(8 vols. , 1828) include sermons, memoirs, re-
views, dissertations, etc. , -- a mass of crude schol.
arship not focused to any special field, and per-
ishing with itself. (Aphorisms, Opinions, and
Reflections by Dr. Parr) (1826) was an effort
to preserve some of the talk which helped to
make him a popular colossus in his day.
Parrot, Henry. An English epigrammatist ;
place and date of birth and death unknown.
In the first quarter of the 17th century he pub-
lished six volumes of licentious epigrams and
satires. One of the volumes was entitled
(Springes to Catch Woodcocks) (1613), and
contains 216 epigrams; another, 'Cures for the
Itch : Characters, Epigrams, Epitaphs) (1626).
Parsons, Eliza. An English novelist and
dramatist; born at Plymouth; died at Leyton-
stone in Essex, Feb. 5, 1811. She wrote the
farce Intrigues of a Morning; or, An Hour at
Paris) (1792), an adaptation of Molière's "Mon-
sieur de Pourceaugnac); the novels History
of Miss Meredith) (1790); (The Castle of Wolf-
enbach (1793); (The Peasant of Ardennes
Forest); (The Mysterious Visits); and others.
Parsons, Mrs. Frances Theodora (Smith)
(Dana). An American writer of Albany, N. Y. ;
born in New York State in 1861. Under the
name of “William Starr Dana” she has pub-
lished : (How to Know the Wild Flowers ); (AC-
cording to Season); (Plants and their Children.
Parsons, George Frederic. An American
journalist and miscellaneous writer; born in
Brighton, England, 1840. In 1863 he began
journalistic work at Vancouver Island ; subse.
quently was editor of the Sacramento (Cal. )
Record Union. In 1883 he became a member
of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune.
His works include: "Life of James Marshall,
discoverer of gold in California (1871); (Mid-
dle Ground,' a novel (1874).
Parsons, Gertrude. An English novelist;
born 1812; died at Teignmouth, Feb. 12, 1891.
Among her novels are: 'Thornberry Abbey)
(1846); (Emma Cross: A Tale) (1859); "Ruth
Baynard's Story) (1861); (Major Vandermere)
(1876). She wrote also "Life of St. Ignatius of
Loyola) (1860); "Life of St. Colette) (1879).
Parsons, Philip. An English miscellaneous
writer; born at Dedham in Essex, 1729; died
at Wye, June 12, 1812. His principal work is
(Monuments and Painted Glass in upwards of
100 Churches) (1794). He wrote also: Inef-
ficacy of Satire: a Poem (1766); Dialogues of
the Dead with the Living) (1779); (Simplicity :
A Poem (1784).
Parsons, Thomas William. An American
poet; born at Boston, Aug. 18, 1819; died Sept.
3, 1892. He made a metrical translation of the
first ten cantos of Dante's Inferno (1843),
and afterwards of the whole of the 'Inferno)
(1867). He published a volume of poems,
"Ghetto di Roma) (1854); (The Magnolia)
(1867); (The Old House at Sudbury' (1870);
(The Shadow of the Obelisk) (1872). *
Parsons, William. An English poet of the
18th century; died 1807. He wrote (A Poetical
Tour (1787); "Ode to a Boy at Eton (1706);
(Fidelity, or Love at First Sight, with Other
Poems) (1798).
Parthenius (pär-thē'nē-us). A Bithynian
poet said to have lived in Rome in the first
century B. C. He wrote Metamorphoses) and
other poems, none of which are preserved ex-
cept one on Amatory Affections,' dedicated to
the poet Cornelius Gallus.
Partington, Mrs. See Shillaber.
Parton, James. An American writer; born
at Canterbury, England, Feb. 9, 1822; died at
Newburyport, Mass. , Oct. 17, 1891. He wrote
many valuable biographies, as :'Life of Horace
Greeley) (1855); Life and Times of Aaron
Burr) (1857); (General Butler in New Orleans)
(1863); “Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
(1864); (Famous Americans of Recent Times)
(1870); Life of Thomas Jefferson) (1874);
(Life of Voltaire) (1881). Among his other
works are: (Humorous Poetry of the English
Language) (1857); (Tr of Enterprise,
Ingenuity, and Public Spirit! (1871); (Topics
of the Time) (1871); (Caricature in all Times
and Lands) (1875). *
Parton, Sara Payson Willis. ["Fanny
Fern. ”) An American essay-writer, sister of
N. P. Willis and wife of James Parton; born in
Portland, Me. , July 9, 1811; died in Brooklyn,
N. Y. , Oct. 10, 1872. She is said to have con-
tributed an article each week, for sixteen years,
to the New York Ledger. She published two
novels,-(Ruth Hall (1854), a slightly veiled
autobiography, and Rose Clark) (1857); and
collections from her contributions to the weekly
press.
Partridge, John. An English poet and trans-
lator; he flourished in the latter half of the 10th
century. Besides prose work, he wrote: (The
Most Famouse and Worthie Historie of the
Worthy Lady Pendavola); (The Worthye His-
torie of the Most Noble and Valiaunt Knight
Plasidas); (The Notable Hystorie of the Two
Famous Princes of the World, Astianax and
Polixena) -- all published in 1566.
Partridge, William Ordway. An American
sculptor and writer on art; born in France in
1861. He is a resident of Milton, Mass. , and
the author of Art for America) (1894); (The
Song Life of a Sculptor) (1894); (The Tech-
nique of Sculpture' (1895).
Parzanese, Pierpaulo (pär-tsän-ā'zė). An
Italian poet; born at Ariano in the kingdom
of Naples, about 1800; died 1852. He wrote:
(Popular Songs); “Songs of the Poor); (Mis-
cellaneous Verses); (The Man of Viggiano.
Pascal, Blaise (päs-käl'). A celebrated
French philosopher and mathematician; born
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a
)
at Clermont Ferrand in Auvergne, June 19,
1623; died at Paris, Aug. 19, 1662. Among
his writings are: Letters Written by Louis
Montalte to a Friend in the Provinces, better
known as the Provincial Letters(1656);
(Thoughts on Religion (Pensées), published
several years after the author's death. *
Pasqué, Ernst (päs-kā'). A German story.
writer and musician; born at Cologne, Sept. 3,
1821 ; died at Alsbach, March 20, 1892. Among
his novels are: (The Grenadier of Pirmasens)
(1875); ( The Prima Donna) (1879); (The Vaga-
bonds) (1886); (Stories of Musicians) (1887);
Magdalena : Story of a German Paris Lion)
(1890).
Pasquier, Étienne (päs-kyā'). A celebrated
French jurisconsult; born at Paris, 1529; died
there, 1615. His greatest work is (Researches
on France,' in nine books, treating of the magis.
tracies, States-general, Church affairs, famous
trials, origin of French poetry, the French
language, etc. ; very important are Pasquier's
Letters) (1619).
Passarge, Ludwig (päs-är'gė). A German
miscellaneous writer ; born at Wollitnick near
Heiligenbeil, East Prussia, Aug. 6, 1825. He
traveled extensively in Europe, and wrote:
(From the Weichsel Delta' (1857); (Fragments
from Italy) (1860); “Sweden, Wisby, and Copen-
hagen) (1867); (Summer Tours in Norway
(2d ed. 1884. He wrote also : Henrik Ibsen)
(1883); Baltic Stories) (1884); From Con-
temporary Spain and Portugal (1884); and
translated several works of Scandinavian poets.
Passerat, Jean (päs-ėr-ä'). A French poet
and scholar; born at Troyes, 1534 ; died at Paris,
1602. Among his works are: (Verses of Love
and the Chase); Metamorphosis of a Man into
a
a Bird); he wrote a complete commentary on
Rabelais's works, but shortly before his death
committed it to the flames.
Pater, Walter (Horatio). An English lit-
erary and art critic; born at London, 1839;
died at Oxford, July 30, 1894. He wrote : (The
Renaissance : Studies in Art and Poetry) (1873);
(Marius the Epicurean) (1885); (Imaginary
Portraits) (1887); Appreciations (1889); Plato
and Platonism' (1893); "Greek Studies) and
Miscellaneous Studies and Essays,' posthu-
mously published (1895). *
Paterculus, Gaius Velleius (pa-tér'kū-lus).
A Roman historian; born about 19 B. C. ; died
after 30 A. D. He was a prefect or legate in
the Roman army under Tiberius, and saw active
service in Germania, Pannonia, and Dalmatia.
His only extant work is the Historiæ Romanæ,
in two books; a compendium of universal, but
more particularly of Roman, history. It is
generally trustworthy, and valuable for confirma-
tory evidence.
Patmore, Coventry Keassey Deighton. An
English poet; born at Woodford in Essex, July
23, 1823; died 1896. He wrote: The Angel
in the House) (4 parts, 1854–62; 7th ed. 1877);
(The Unknown Eros) (1877); (Amelia) (1878);
(Religio Poetæ) (1893); (The Rod, the Root
and the Flower) (1895); also Principle in
Art, and Other Essays. ) (1889). *
Patmore, Peter George. An English miscel-
laneous writer; born at London, 1786; died
Dec. 19, 1855. He wrote: (Imitations of Cele-
brated Authors, or Imaginary Rejected Articles)
(1826); My Friends and Acquaintances, being
Memorials, Mind-Portraits, and Personal Recol.
lections,' etc. (1854); Marriage in Mayfair,' a
comedy (1854).
Patten, George Washington. An American
poet; born in Newport, R. I. , Dec. 25, 1808; died
in Houlton, Me. , April 28, 1882. Educated at
West Point, he served in the Mexican and
Seminole wars. He acquired some reputation
a writer, and has been called the “poet-
laureate of the army. ) Among his lyrics are :
(The Seminole's Reply,' once declaimed by
most American schoolboys; Joys that We've
Tasted); and (An Episode of the Mexican
War. He published in book-form : Artillery
Drill (1861); (Army Manual) (1863); (Voices
of the Border,' a collection of his poems (1867).
Pattison, Mark. An English critic and his-
torian of literature; born at Hornby in York-
shire, Oct. 10, 1813; died at Harrogate, July 30,
1884. His writings were for the most part con-
tributions to the quarterlies, and notes and com-
mentaries on classic authors ancient and modern.
His chief book is (Isaac Casaubon) (1875), a
life of the great scholar giving a vivid picture
of literary life in the 16th century. His auto-
biographical (Memoirs (1883) come down only
to the year 1860.
Patton, Jacob Harris. An American histor-
ical writer; born in Fayette County, Pa. , May
20, 1812. Among his publications are: (A Con-
cise History of the American People) (2 vols. ,
1860-82); (Yorktown, 1781-1881) (1881); (The
Democratic Party, its History and Influence)
(1884); and (The Natural Resources of the
United States) (1888).
Paul, John. See Webb, Charles Henry.
Paulding, James Kirke. An American novel-
ist; born in Dutchess County, N. Y. , Aug. 22,
1779; died at Hyde Park, N. Y. , April 6, 1860.
He founded, with Washington Irving, the satir-
ical journal Salmagundi. He wrote: (Lay of
a Scotch Fiddle) (1813); (The United States
and England' (1814); (The Diverting History
of John Bull and Brother Jonathan) (1816).
His chief novels are : Koningsmarke) (1823);
(Tales of a Good Woman by a Doubtful Gentle-
man) (1823); John Bull in America) (1824);
Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham'
(1826); (The Dutchman's Fireside) (1831);
(Westward Ho! ) (1832); (The Puritan and his
Daughter) (1849). He wrote also (Letters on
Slavery) (1835), and "Life of George Washing-
ton) (2 vols. , 1854). *
Pauli, Reinhold (pou'lē). A German his.
torian; born at Berlin, May 25, 1823; died at
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Bremen, June 3, 1882. Among his writings are:
(King Alfred and his place in the History of
England (1851); (History of England,' con-
tinuation of Lappenberg's work (Vols. iii. , iv. , V. ,
1853-58); Pictures of Ancient England) (1860);
(History of England from the Treaties of Peace
1814-15) (3 vols. , 1864-75).
Paulus, Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob
(pou'lus). A German theologian and Oriental-
ist; born in Leonberg, Würtemberg, Sept. I,
1761; died at Heidelberg, Aug. 10, 1851. He
was professor of Oriental languages at Jena
(1789) and Heidelberg (1811). He was the
author of a Philological, Critical, and Histor-
ical Commentary on the New Testament? (4
vols. , 1800-4); Exegetic Manual on the First
Three Gospels) (1830-33 and 1841-42 ); and
similar works.
Paulus Diaconus (pâ'lus di-ak'o-nus) (Paul
the Deacon). An early Langobardian histo-
rian in the eighth century. He wrote a (Ro.
man History, coming down to the time of
Justinian. In the court of Charlemagne he was
one of the chiefs of the literary circle. By
the order of Charlemagne he compiled a col-
lection of homilies, Homiliarius); he wrote
also (History of the Bishops of Metz,' and a
(History of the Langobardi, which however
he did not live to complete.
Pausanias (pâ-sā'nē-as). A Greek traveler
of the second century of our era; a native of
Lydia. He wrote in ten books (The Tour of
Greece, commonly called Pausanias's De-
scription of Greece. *
Pautet, Jules (põ-tā'). A French publicist
and poet; born at Beaune, 1799 ; died 1870.
Among his writings are: Evening Songs )
(1838); Abdul Medjid,' a lyric chant (1840);
(Ernest, or the Savoyard Vicar's Confession of
Faith) (1858); (The Pope, Austria, and Italy)
(1859); Vercingetorix and Cæsar, a poem
(1865).
Pavlov, Nikolai Philippovitsh (päv'lov). A
Russian story-writer and poet; born at Moscow,
1802; died 1854. He wrote: (Mary Stuart,' a
tragedy (1828); "Lyric Poems) (1831); two series
of (Stories) (1831-35); and a series of Dramas)
(1850).
Payn, James. An English editor and well-
known novelist. He was born at Cheltenham
in 1830, and graduated at Cambridge in 1854,
beginning at once a notable literary career.
From 1858 he edited Chambers' Journal, for
which he wrote exclusively for many years. In
1882 he became editor of the Cornhill Maga-
zine. His works reach upwards of 100 books,
the best-known being: Lost Sir Massing-
berd”; ( By Proxy); (The Luck of the Darrells);
(The Talk of the Town); “Some Literary Rec-
ollections) (1886); and (Gleams of Memory)
(autobiographical), 1894.
Payne, John. An English poet and Oriental
scholar; born in London, Aug. 23, 1842. He
studied for the bar, and in 1867 became a
solicitor. Among his works are: (The Masque
of Shadow) (1870); Intaglios) (1871); "Songs
of Life and Death) (1872); (Lautrec) (1878);
a translation of the Poems of Francis Villon)
(1878); New Poems) (1880); Francis Villon
-a Biographical Study) (1881); a close and
scholarly translation of the Arabian Nights'
Entertainments, with the addition of those
volumes of Arabian Tales) not included in
the common (1882 et seq. ); and a translation
of the Rubaiyát) of Omar Khayyam, includ-
ing over 800 quatrains, several hundred more
than have been before translated (1897). He
has also made a translation of Dante's (Divina
Commedia,' which is unpublished. Mr. Payne
is a profound Oriental scholar, and a writer of
vigorous vernacular English.
Payne, John Howard. An American
dramatist and author; born in New York city,
June 9, 1792; died in Tunis, Africa, April 10,
1852. A precocious child, a successful acta-
and author, his chief fame rests upon the lyric
(Home, Sweet Home, which occurs in one of
his dramas, the (Maid of Milan. From 1841
until his death he was consul at Tunis; his
remains were removed to Washington in 1883.
Of his plays, Brutus, Virginius,' and 'Charles
II. ' still remain popular.
Payne, William Hudson. An American
journalist and novelist; born in Illinois in 1865.
He is the author of "Jerry the Dreamer' (1896),
a novel.
Payne, William Morton. An American lit-
erary critic, editor of the Dial, Chicago; born
in Massachusetts, 1858. He has published (Our
New Education'; 'Little Leaders,' a collection.
Paz Soldan, Mariano Felipe (päth sõl-dän').
A Peruvian geographer and historian; born at
Arequipa, August 1821 ; died at Lima, Dec. 31,
1886. He was director of public works, twice
minister of justice, and the author of (Geo-
graphical Atlas of Peru' (1861); History of
Independent Peru) (1866); Dictionary of the
Argentine Republic) (1884); History of the
War of the Pacific) (1884); etc. During the
Chilean occupation he was exiled to Buenos
Ayres.
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer. An American
writer and educator, of celebrity ; born at Bil-
lerica, Mass. , May 16, 1804; died at Jamaica
Plain, Mass. , Jan. 4, 1894. She became a teacher
in Boston in 1822; and was one of the first to
introduce the kindergarten system in the United
States. Besides contributions to periodicals she
published: (First Steps to History) (1833 );
Æsthetic Papers) (1849); ( The Polish-American
System of Chronology) (1852); (Chronological
History of the United States) (1850); Remi-
niscences of Dr. Channing) (1880); "Letters to
Kindergarteners) ( 1886 ); and (The Last Even-
ing with Allston, and Other Papers) (1887).
Peacock, John Macleay. A Scotch verse.
writer; born at Kincardine, March 31, 1817;
died at Glasgow, May 4, 1877. His works are :
(Poems and Songs) (1864); ( Hours of Reverie
)
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)
(1867); and some previously unpublished verses
contained in his Life and Works) (1880).
Peacock, Thomas Brower. An American
verse-writer; born in Ohio, 1852, and ng in
Topeka, Kan. He has written: Rhyme of
the Border War,' and (The Vendetta : Poems
of the Plains. )
Peacock, Thomas Love. An English novel.
ist and poet; born at Weymouth, Oct. 18, 1785;
died at lower Halliford, near Chertsey, Jan. 23,
1866. He first wrote poems : (The Monks of
St. Mark) (1804); (Palmyra (1806); (The Gen-
ius of the Thames) (1810); “The Philosophy of
Melancholy) (1812); and some dramas. His
principal novels are : (Headlong Hall (1815);
Melincourt) (1816); Maid Marian) (1822);
(The Misfortunes of Elphin' (1824); (Crotchet
Castle) (1831); (Gryll Grange) (1860). *
Peake, Richard Brinsley. An English dram-
atist; born at London, Feb. 19, 1792; died Oct.
4, 1847. Among his plays are: (Amateurs and
Actors,' a musical farce (1818); (The Duel, or
my Two Nephews) (1823); Presumption, or
the Fate of Frankenstein (1824); 'Comfortable
Lodgings, or Paris in 1750) (1827); Before
Breakfast) (1828); (The Title Deeds, a three-
act comedy in prose (1847).
Peale, Charles Willson. An American
artist, inventor, and miscellaneous writer; born
in Maryland, April 16, 1741; died in Philadel-
phia, Feb. 22, 1827. He attained distinction
as a portrait painter, and also as a naturalist.
He wrote : Essay on Building Wooden Bridges)
(1797); “Discourse Introductory to a Course of
Lectures on Natural History) (1800); Do-
mestic Happiness) (1816).
Peale, Rembrandt. An American artist and
writer on art; born in Bucks County, Pa. , Feb.
22, 1778; died in Philadelphia, Oct. 3, 1860.
He was a renowned portrait painter, and the
author of Notes on Italy) (1831); Portfolio of
an Artist) (1839); (Graphics) (1845).
Peard, Frances Mary. A popular English
novelist, daughter of Commander G. S. Peard,
R. N. ; born at Exminster, Devon, in 1835.
Among her numerous novels and historical ro-
mances, which have been popular both in Eng.
land and the United States, are : Unawares)
(1870); (The Rose-Garden) (1872); «Thorpe
Regis) (1874); (Cartouche) (1878); (Schloss and
Town (1882); (The Asheldon School-Room)
(1883); Prentice Hugh' (1887); (The Blue
Dragon); (The Interloper. )
Peattie, Mrs. Elia Wilkinson. An Ameri-
can journalist and miscellaneous writer; born
in Michigan in 1862. She is connected with
the Chicago press. Her works include: (The
Judge,' a novel (1891); (With Scrip and Staff,
a story of the Children's Crusade (1891); (A
Mountain Woman, and Other Stories) (1896).
Peck, George Wilbur. An American poli-
tician and humorist; born in New York State
in 1840. He was at one time mayor of Milwau-
kee, and subsequently governor of Wisconsin.
In 1883 he published Peck's Bad Boy and
his Pa,' a humorous book which attained im-
mediate popularity and was subsequently suc-
cessfully dramatized. His other works include:
(A Compendium of Fun (1883); “How Private
George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion
(1887).
Peck, Harry Thurston. An American
scholar and literary critic; born at Stamford,
Conn. , 1856. He is a graduate of Columbia
College, and professor of Latin in that institu-
tion, now Columbia University. Since 1895 he
has been the American editor of the Bookman.
Among his works are: (The Semitic Theory of
Creation) (1886); (Suetonius) (1889); Latin
Pronunciation (1890); Dictionary of Classical
Antiquities and Literature) (1897).
Peck, Samuel Minturn. A popular Amer-
ican poet; born in Tuscaloosa, Ala. , 1854. He
was educated at the University of Alabama, and
later studied medicine in New York. He is a
resident of his native place, where he devotes
his time to literature and farming. Among his
works are: (Cap and Bells) (1886); (Rings and
Love Knots) (1892); (Rhymes and Roses);
(Fair Women of To-Day. ?
Peckham, John. An English mediæval theo-
logian; archbishop of Canterbury; died 1292.
He was a voluminous writer on theological
and scientific subjects. Among his works are :
(Common Perspective); (Theory of the Plan-
ets. In verse he wrote: “The Nightingale,
Harbinger of Pleasant Weather); Defense of
the Mendicant Friars.
Pedersen, Christiern (pā'der-sen). A Dan-
ish scholar and historical writer; born about
1480, at Svendborg on the island of Fuynen;
died 1554. He was an ardent Reformer. By
his translation of Luther's Bible - the Bible
of Christian III. , so called — he contributed
largely to the formation of the literary lan-
guage of Denmark. He wrote several histori.
cal works, and translated the Danish History)
of Saxo Grammaticus.
Pedouë, François (ped-ö-ā'). A French
poet; born at Paris, 1603; died at Chartres,
1667. His works are: Essays in Poetry and
in Praise of a Lady) (1624); Early Works of
the Sieur Pedouë); and (The Polished Citizen)
(1631). Thereafter he renounced poetry and
set about compiling a work on mystical the-
ology, (The Granada Collection. )
Peebles, Mrs. Mary Louise (Parmalee ).
[“ Lynde Palmer. ”] An American writer of
juvenile tales; born in Lansingburg, N. Y. ,
Dec. 10, 1833. Among her books are :( The Little
Captain) (1861); Helps over Hard Places)
(1862); (The Good Fight) (1865); (The Hon-
orable Club) (1867); Drifting and Steering)
(1867); (Archie's Shadow) (1869); "Jeannette's
Cisterns) (1882).
Peele, George. An English dramatist; born
1553 (? ); died 1597 (? ). He wrote: (The Ar-
raignment of Paris,' a comedy (1584); (The
Chronicle History of Edward I. (1593); (The
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а
(
Battle of Alcazar) (1594); (The Old Wives'
Tale) (1595); David and Bethsabe) (1599);
(Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes) (1599). *
Peet, Stephen Denison. An American cler-
gyman and archæologist; born at Euclid, O. ,
Dec. 2, 1830. He is a Congregational minister
of Wisconsin, and an authority on the works
of the mound-builders and American archæol-
ogy in general. Among his works are : (Ancient
Architecture in merica) (1884); Picture Writ-
ing) (1885); (The Effigy Mounds of Wisconsin)
(1888); Prehistoric America) (1890-95).
Pelabon, Étienne (pā-lä-bôn). A Provençal
poet; born at Toulon, 1745; died at Marseilles,
1808. He wrote a two-act comedy in patois
verse (1790), which had extraordinary success.
He wrote also: Patriotic Reunion,' in verse
and in one act; Matthew and Anne); (The
Sansculottes.
Peladan, Josephin (pā-lä-dan'). [(The Sar. ”]
A French mystical writer; born at Lyons, 1859.
He gave himself out to be a descendant of the
last of the Babylonian kings, and as such took
the name or title of (Sar,” and assumed a
theatrical garb. He reinstituted the Templar
Order of the Rosy Cross, of which he was
grand master. For the (salon of the Rosy
Cross ) he prepared dramatic pieces, among
them : (The Son of the Stars,' a sort of Wag-
nerian-Chaldaic play in three acts (1892); and
(Babylon,' a tragedy in four acts (1893). His
masterpiece is a romantic cyclus, 'Latin Deca-
dence,' a mixture of astrology, mysticism, and
esotericism. The first romance in the cyclus is
(The Supreme Vice) (1886); others are (The
Man-Woman'(1890);( The Woman-Man (1891).
He has written also (Asthetic Decadence) and
(Ochlocratic Art) (1880).
Pellegrin, Simon-Joseph (pel-gran'). A
French dramatist; born at Marseilles, 1663; died
at Paris, 1745. Among his works are : Poly-
dorus,' a tragedy (1705); Death of Ulysses)
(1706); (The New World,' comedy (1723); (Di-
vorce of Love and Reason) (1724); Pastor
Fido: (1726); (Hymen's School; or, Her Hus-
band's Sweetheart) (1742). He wrote also a
great many religious poems.
Pelletan, Pierre Clément Eugène (pel-ton').
A French publicist; born Oct. 29, 1813; died Dec.
13, 1884. Under the signature "An Unknown,'
he won distinction as a literary and phil-
osophical critic and writer on social questions
in the Paris Presse. Noteworthy among his
writings are: (The Extinguished Lamp,' a philo-
sophical novel (1840); Dogma : the Clergy and
the State) (1848); (Rights of Man (1858);
(Some People and Others) (1873), a curious
collection of personal reminiscences.
(The Oregon Trail : Prairie and Rocky Mount-
ain Life) (1849); "History of the Conspiracy
of Pontiac) (2 vols. , 1851); (The Pioneers of
France in the New World (1865); “The Jesuits
in North America) (1866); (La Salle and the
Discovery of the Great West) (1869); (The
Old Régime in Canada) (1874); (Count Fron-
tenac and New France under Louis XIV. ? (1877);
(Montcalm and Wolfe) (2 vols. , 1884); (A Half-
Century of Conflict' (2 vols. , 1892). *
Parley, Peter. See Goodrich.
Parmenides (pär-men'i-dēz). A celebrated
Greek philosopher of the fifth century B. C. ;
born at Elea in Southern Italy. He wrote but
one work on philosophy,-a didactic poem
in the epic metre and in the lonic dialect,
entitled “On Nature): fragments of it, in all
about 160 lines, have come down to our times.
It was divided into three sections, Proem,
(Truth, <Opinion. The fragments have been
rendered into English by Th mas Davidson. *
Parnell, Thomas. An Irish poet; born at
Dublin, 1679; died 1718. He was a minister
of the established Irish Church, and held a
cure of souls in Ireland, but spent most of his
life in England. His works are: a volume of
(Poems, in which is (The Hermit); a Life
of Homer) prefixed, and a translation of the
(Battle of the Frogs and Mice always suffixed,
to Pope's version of the Iliad.
Parny, Évariste Désiré Desforges, Viscomte
de (pär-nē'). A French poet; born in the Isle
of Bourbon, Feb. 6, 1753; died at Paris, Dec. 5,
1814. He won celebrity through his volume of
Erotic Poems, which first appeared in incom-
plete form 1778, completed 1781: Voltaire sa-
luted him, “My dear Tibullus. In 1799 he
published (The War of the Gods, afterward
enlarged and named (The Christianide): it is
a cynical and impious attack upon all religions.
He published (1805) (The Stolen Portfolio,' con-
taining Venus's Disguises,' (Gallantries of the
Bible, (Paradise Lost.
Parodi, Dominique Alexandre (pä-ro-de').
A French poet of Greek origin; born in the
island of Crete, Nov. 15, 1840. He spent his
early years at Smyrna, then lived for a time
at Milan, and afterward settled in Paris as a
journalist. He wrote: (The Last of the Popes,
a novel, in Italian; a volume of French verses,
(Passions and Thoughts) (1865); Messenian
Tales) (1867); (The Triumph of Peace) (1878);
(Flesh and Soul Cry Out) (1883). He wrote
also the tragedy (Rome Vanquished (1876),
and the Scriptural poem “Sephora' (1877).
Parr, Samuel. A famous English scholar
and educator; born at Harrow-on-the-Hill, Jan.
a
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15, 1747; died at Hatton, March 6, 1825. He
was chief assistant at Harrow, 1767-71; after-
wards master of schools at Colchester and Nor-
wich; and prebend of St. Paul's, London. He
was famous for extent and variety of learning
and for conversational powers. His writings
(8 vols. , 1828) include sermons, memoirs, re-
views, dissertations, etc. , -- a mass of crude schol.
arship not focused to any special field, and per-
ishing with itself. (Aphorisms, Opinions, and
Reflections by Dr. Parr) (1826) was an effort
to preserve some of the talk which helped to
make him a popular colossus in his day.
Parrot, Henry. An English epigrammatist ;
place and date of birth and death unknown.
In the first quarter of the 17th century he pub-
lished six volumes of licentious epigrams and
satires. One of the volumes was entitled
(Springes to Catch Woodcocks) (1613), and
contains 216 epigrams; another, 'Cures for the
Itch : Characters, Epigrams, Epitaphs) (1626).
Parsons, Eliza. An English novelist and
dramatist; born at Plymouth; died at Leyton-
stone in Essex, Feb. 5, 1811. She wrote the
farce Intrigues of a Morning; or, An Hour at
Paris) (1792), an adaptation of Molière's "Mon-
sieur de Pourceaugnac); the novels History
of Miss Meredith) (1790); (The Castle of Wolf-
enbach (1793); (The Peasant of Ardennes
Forest); (The Mysterious Visits); and others.
Parsons, Mrs. Frances Theodora (Smith)
(Dana). An American writer of Albany, N. Y. ;
born in New York State in 1861. Under the
name of “William Starr Dana” she has pub-
lished : (How to Know the Wild Flowers ); (AC-
cording to Season); (Plants and their Children.
Parsons, George Frederic. An American
journalist and miscellaneous writer; born in
Brighton, England, 1840. In 1863 he began
journalistic work at Vancouver Island ; subse.
quently was editor of the Sacramento (Cal. )
Record Union. In 1883 he became a member
of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune.
His works include: "Life of James Marshall,
discoverer of gold in California (1871); (Mid-
dle Ground,' a novel (1874).
Parsons, Gertrude. An English novelist;
born 1812; died at Teignmouth, Feb. 12, 1891.
Among her novels are: 'Thornberry Abbey)
(1846); (Emma Cross: A Tale) (1859); "Ruth
Baynard's Story) (1861); (Major Vandermere)
(1876). She wrote also "Life of St. Ignatius of
Loyola) (1860); "Life of St. Colette) (1879).
Parsons, Philip. An English miscellaneous
writer; born at Dedham in Essex, 1729; died
at Wye, June 12, 1812. His principal work is
(Monuments and Painted Glass in upwards of
100 Churches) (1794). He wrote also: Inef-
ficacy of Satire: a Poem (1766); Dialogues of
the Dead with the Living) (1779); (Simplicity :
A Poem (1784).
Parsons, Thomas William. An American
poet; born at Boston, Aug. 18, 1819; died Sept.
3, 1892. He made a metrical translation of the
first ten cantos of Dante's Inferno (1843),
and afterwards of the whole of the 'Inferno)
(1867). He published a volume of poems,
"Ghetto di Roma) (1854); (The Magnolia)
(1867); (The Old House at Sudbury' (1870);
(The Shadow of the Obelisk) (1872). *
Parsons, William. An English poet of the
18th century; died 1807. He wrote (A Poetical
Tour (1787); "Ode to a Boy at Eton (1706);
(Fidelity, or Love at First Sight, with Other
Poems) (1798).
Parthenius (pär-thē'nē-us). A Bithynian
poet said to have lived in Rome in the first
century B. C. He wrote Metamorphoses) and
other poems, none of which are preserved ex-
cept one on Amatory Affections,' dedicated to
the poet Cornelius Gallus.
Partington, Mrs. See Shillaber.
Parton, James. An American writer; born
at Canterbury, England, Feb. 9, 1822; died at
Newburyport, Mass. , Oct. 17, 1891. He wrote
many valuable biographies, as :'Life of Horace
Greeley) (1855); Life and Times of Aaron
Burr) (1857); (General Butler in New Orleans)
(1863); “Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
(1864); (Famous Americans of Recent Times)
(1870); Life of Thomas Jefferson) (1874);
(Life of Voltaire) (1881). Among his other
works are: (Humorous Poetry of the English
Language) (1857); (Tr of Enterprise,
Ingenuity, and Public Spirit! (1871); (Topics
of the Time) (1871); (Caricature in all Times
and Lands) (1875). *
Parton, Sara Payson Willis. ["Fanny
Fern. ”) An American essay-writer, sister of
N. P. Willis and wife of James Parton; born in
Portland, Me. , July 9, 1811; died in Brooklyn,
N. Y. , Oct. 10, 1872. She is said to have con-
tributed an article each week, for sixteen years,
to the New York Ledger. She published two
novels,-(Ruth Hall (1854), a slightly veiled
autobiography, and Rose Clark) (1857); and
collections from her contributions to the weekly
press.
Partridge, John. An English poet and trans-
lator; he flourished in the latter half of the 10th
century. Besides prose work, he wrote: (The
Most Famouse and Worthie Historie of the
Worthy Lady Pendavola); (The Worthye His-
torie of the Most Noble and Valiaunt Knight
Plasidas); (The Notable Hystorie of the Two
Famous Princes of the World, Astianax and
Polixena) -- all published in 1566.
Partridge, William Ordway. An American
sculptor and writer on art; born in France in
1861. He is a resident of Milton, Mass. , and
the author of Art for America) (1894); (The
Song Life of a Sculptor) (1894); (The Tech-
nique of Sculpture' (1895).
Parzanese, Pierpaulo (pär-tsän-ā'zė). An
Italian poet; born at Ariano in the kingdom
of Naples, about 1800; died 1852. He wrote:
(Popular Songs); “Songs of the Poor); (Mis-
cellaneous Verses); (The Man of Viggiano.
Pascal, Blaise (päs-käl'). A celebrated
French philosopher and mathematician; born
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a
)
at Clermont Ferrand in Auvergne, June 19,
1623; died at Paris, Aug. 19, 1662. Among
his writings are: Letters Written by Louis
Montalte to a Friend in the Provinces, better
known as the Provincial Letters(1656);
(Thoughts on Religion (Pensées), published
several years after the author's death. *
Pasqué, Ernst (päs-kā'). A German story.
writer and musician; born at Cologne, Sept. 3,
1821 ; died at Alsbach, March 20, 1892. Among
his novels are: (The Grenadier of Pirmasens)
(1875); ( The Prima Donna) (1879); (The Vaga-
bonds) (1886); (Stories of Musicians) (1887);
Magdalena : Story of a German Paris Lion)
(1890).
Pasquier, Étienne (päs-kyā'). A celebrated
French jurisconsult; born at Paris, 1529; died
there, 1615. His greatest work is (Researches
on France,' in nine books, treating of the magis.
tracies, States-general, Church affairs, famous
trials, origin of French poetry, the French
language, etc. ; very important are Pasquier's
Letters) (1619).
Passarge, Ludwig (päs-är'gė). A German
miscellaneous writer ; born at Wollitnick near
Heiligenbeil, East Prussia, Aug. 6, 1825. He
traveled extensively in Europe, and wrote:
(From the Weichsel Delta' (1857); (Fragments
from Italy) (1860); “Sweden, Wisby, and Copen-
hagen) (1867); (Summer Tours in Norway
(2d ed. 1884. He wrote also : Henrik Ibsen)
(1883); Baltic Stories) (1884); From Con-
temporary Spain and Portugal (1884); and
translated several works of Scandinavian poets.
Passerat, Jean (päs-ėr-ä'). A French poet
and scholar; born at Troyes, 1534 ; died at Paris,
1602. Among his works are: (Verses of Love
and the Chase); Metamorphosis of a Man into
a
a Bird); he wrote a complete commentary on
Rabelais's works, but shortly before his death
committed it to the flames.
Pater, Walter (Horatio). An English lit-
erary and art critic; born at London, 1839;
died at Oxford, July 30, 1894. He wrote : (The
Renaissance : Studies in Art and Poetry) (1873);
(Marius the Epicurean) (1885); (Imaginary
Portraits) (1887); Appreciations (1889); Plato
and Platonism' (1893); "Greek Studies) and
Miscellaneous Studies and Essays,' posthu-
mously published (1895). *
Paterculus, Gaius Velleius (pa-tér'kū-lus).
A Roman historian; born about 19 B. C. ; died
after 30 A. D. He was a prefect or legate in
the Roman army under Tiberius, and saw active
service in Germania, Pannonia, and Dalmatia.
His only extant work is the Historiæ Romanæ,
in two books; a compendium of universal, but
more particularly of Roman, history. It is
generally trustworthy, and valuable for confirma-
tory evidence.
Patmore, Coventry Keassey Deighton. An
English poet; born at Woodford in Essex, July
23, 1823; died 1896. He wrote: The Angel
in the House) (4 parts, 1854–62; 7th ed. 1877);
(The Unknown Eros) (1877); (Amelia) (1878);
(Religio Poetæ) (1893); (The Rod, the Root
and the Flower) (1895); also Principle in
Art, and Other Essays. ) (1889). *
Patmore, Peter George. An English miscel-
laneous writer; born at London, 1786; died
Dec. 19, 1855. He wrote: (Imitations of Cele-
brated Authors, or Imaginary Rejected Articles)
(1826); My Friends and Acquaintances, being
Memorials, Mind-Portraits, and Personal Recol.
lections,' etc. (1854); Marriage in Mayfair,' a
comedy (1854).
Patten, George Washington. An American
poet; born in Newport, R. I. , Dec. 25, 1808; died
in Houlton, Me. , April 28, 1882. Educated at
West Point, he served in the Mexican and
Seminole wars. He acquired some reputation
a writer, and has been called the “poet-
laureate of the army. ) Among his lyrics are :
(The Seminole's Reply,' once declaimed by
most American schoolboys; Joys that We've
Tasted); and (An Episode of the Mexican
War. He published in book-form : Artillery
Drill (1861); (Army Manual) (1863); (Voices
of the Border,' a collection of his poems (1867).
Pattison, Mark. An English critic and his-
torian of literature; born at Hornby in York-
shire, Oct. 10, 1813; died at Harrogate, July 30,
1884. His writings were for the most part con-
tributions to the quarterlies, and notes and com-
mentaries on classic authors ancient and modern.
His chief book is (Isaac Casaubon) (1875), a
life of the great scholar giving a vivid picture
of literary life in the 16th century. His auto-
biographical (Memoirs (1883) come down only
to the year 1860.
Patton, Jacob Harris. An American histor-
ical writer; born in Fayette County, Pa. , May
20, 1812. Among his publications are: (A Con-
cise History of the American People) (2 vols. ,
1860-82); (Yorktown, 1781-1881) (1881); (The
Democratic Party, its History and Influence)
(1884); and (The Natural Resources of the
United States) (1888).
Paul, John. See Webb, Charles Henry.
Paulding, James Kirke. An American novel-
ist; born in Dutchess County, N. Y. , Aug. 22,
1779; died at Hyde Park, N. Y. , April 6, 1860.
He founded, with Washington Irving, the satir-
ical journal Salmagundi. He wrote: (Lay of
a Scotch Fiddle) (1813); (The United States
and England' (1814); (The Diverting History
of John Bull and Brother Jonathan) (1816).
His chief novels are : Koningsmarke) (1823);
(Tales of a Good Woman by a Doubtful Gentle-
man) (1823); John Bull in America) (1824);
Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham'
(1826); (The Dutchman's Fireside) (1831);
(Westward Ho! ) (1832); (The Puritan and his
Daughter) (1849). He wrote also (Letters on
Slavery) (1835), and "Life of George Washing-
ton) (2 vols. , 1854). *
Pauli, Reinhold (pou'lē). A German his.
torian; born at Berlin, May 25, 1823; died at
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Bremen, June 3, 1882. Among his writings are:
(King Alfred and his place in the History of
England (1851); (History of England,' con-
tinuation of Lappenberg's work (Vols. iii. , iv. , V. ,
1853-58); Pictures of Ancient England) (1860);
(History of England from the Treaties of Peace
1814-15) (3 vols. , 1864-75).
Paulus, Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob
(pou'lus). A German theologian and Oriental-
ist; born in Leonberg, Würtemberg, Sept. I,
1761; died at Heidelberg, Aug. 10, 1851. He
was professor of Oriental languages at Jena
(1789) and Heidelberg (1811). He was the
author of a Philological, Critical, and Histor-
ical Commentary on the New Testament? (4
vols. , 1800-4); Exegetic Manual on the First
Three Gospels) (1830-33 and 1841-42 ); and
similar works.
Paulus Diaconus (pâ'lus di-ak'o-nus) (Paul
the Deacon). An early Langobardian histo-
rian in the eighth century. He wrote a (Ro.
man History, coming down to the time of
Justinian. In the court of Charlemagne he was
one of the chiefs of the literary circle. By
the order of Charlemagne he compiled a col-
lection of homilies, Homiliarius); he wrote
also (History of the Bishops of Metz,' and a
(History of the Langobardi, which however
he did not live to complete.
Pausanias (pâ-sā'nē-as). A Greek traveler
of the second century of our era; a native of
Lydia. He wrote in ten books (The Tour of
Greece, commonly called Pausanias's De-
scription of Greece. *
Pautet, Jules (põ-tā'). A French publicist
and poet; born at Beaune, 1799 ; died 1870.
Among his writings are: Evening Songs )
(1838); Abdul Medjid,' a lyric chant (1840);
(Ernest, or the Savoyard Vicar's Confession of
Faith) (1858); (The Pope, Austria, and Italy)
(1859); Vercingetorix and Cæsar, a poem
(1865).
Pavlov, Nikolai Philippovitsh (päv'lov). A
Russian story-writer and poet; born at Moscow,
1802; died 1854. He wrote: (Mary Stuart,' a
tragedy (1828); "Lyric Poems) (1831); two series
of (Stories) (1831-35); and a series of Dramas)
(1850).
Payn, James. An English editor and well-
known novelist. He was born at Cheltenham
in 1830, and graduated at Cambridge in 1854,
beginning at once a notable literary career.
From 1858 he edited Chambers' Journal, for
which he wrote exclusively for many years. In
1882 he became editor of the Cornhill Maga-
zine. His works reach upwards of 100 books,
the best-known being: Lost Sir Massing-
berd”; ( By Proxy); (The Luck of the Darrells);
(The Talk of the Town); “Some Literary Rec-
ollections) (1886); and (Gleams of Memory)
(autobiographical), 1894.
Payne, John. An English poet and Oriental
scholar; born in London, Aug. 23, 1842. He
studied for the bar, and in 1867 became a
solicitor. Among his works are: (The Masque
of Shadow) (1870); Intaglios) (1871); "Songs
of Life and Death) (1872); (Lautrec) (1878);
a translation of the Poems of Francis Villon)
(1878); New Poems) (1880); Francis Villon
-a Biographical Study) (1881); a close and
scholarly translation of the Arabian Nights'
Entertainments, with the addition of those
volumes of Arabian Tales) not included in
the common (1882 et seq. ); and a translation
of the Rubaiyát) of Omar Khayyam, includ-
ing over 800 quatrains, several hundred more
than have been before translated (1897). He
has also made a translation of Dante's (Divina
Commedia,' which is unpublished. Mr. Payne
is a profound Oriental scholar, and a writer of
vigorous vernacular English.
Payne, John Howard. An American
dramatist and author; born in New York city,
June 9, 1792; died in Tunis, Africa, April 10,
1852. A precocious child, a successful acta-
and author, his chief fame rests upon the lyric
(Home, Sweet Home, which occurs in one of
his dramas, the (Maid of Milan. From 1841
until his death he was consul at Tunis; his
remains were removed to Washington in 1883.
Of his plays, Brutus, Virginius,' and 'Charles
II. ' still remain popular.
Payne, William Hudson. An American
journalist and novelist; born in Illinois in 1865.
He is the author of "Jerry the Dreamer' (1896),
a novel.
Payne, William Morton. An American lit-
erary critic, editor of the Dial, Chicago; born
in Massachusetts, 1858. He has published (Our
New Education'; 'Little Leaders,' a collection.
Paz Soldan, Mariano Felipe (päth sõl-dän').
A Peruvian geographer and historian; born at
Arequipa, August 1821 ; died at Lima, Dec. 31,
1886. He was director of public works, twice
minister of justice, and the author of (Geo-
graphical Atlas of Peru' (1861); History of
Independent Peru) (1866); Dictionary of the
Argentine Republic) (1884); History of the
War of the Pacific) (1884); etc. During the
Chilean occupation he was exiled to Buenos
Ayres.
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer. An American
writer and educator, of celebrity ; born at Bil-
lerica, Mass. , May 16, 1804; died at Jamaica
Plain, Mass. , Jan. 4, 1894. She became a teacher
in Boston in 1822; and was one of the first to
introduce the kindergarten system in the United
States. Besides contributions to periodicals she
published: (First Steps to History) (1833 );
Æsthetic Papers) (1849); ( The Polish-American
System of Chronology) (1852); (Chronological
History of the United States) (1850); Remi-
niscences of Dr. Channing) (1880); "Letters to
Kindergarteners) ( 1886 ); and (The Last Even-
ing with Allston, and Other Papers) (1887).
Peacock, John Macleay. A Scotch verse.
writer; born at Kincardine, March 31, 1817;
died at Glasgow, May 4, 1877. His works are :
(Poems and Songs) (1864); ( Hours of Reverie
)
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)
(1867); and some previously unpublished verses
contained in his Life and Works) (1880).
Peacock, Thomas Brower. An American
verse-writer; born in Ohio, 1852, and ng in
Topeka, Kan. He has written: Rhyme of
the Border War,' and (The Vendetta : Poems
of the Plains. )
Peacock, Thomas Love. An English novel.
ist and poet; born at Weymouth, Oct. 18, 1785;
died at lower Halliford, near Chertsey, Jan. 23,
1866. He first wrote poems : (The Monks of
St. Mark) (1804); (Palmyra (1806); (The Gen-
ius of the Thames) (1810); “The Philosophy of
Melancholy) (1812); and some dramas. His
principal novels are : (Headlong Hall (1815);
Melincourt) (1816); Maid Marian) (1822);
(The Misfortunes of Elphin' (1824); (Crotchet
Castle) (1831); (Gryll Grange) (1860). *
Peake, Richard Brinsley. An English dram-
atist; born at London, Feb. 19, 1792; died Oct.
4, 1847. Among his plays are: (Amateurs and
Actors,' a musical farce (1818); (The Duel, or
my Two Nephews) (1823); Presumption, or
the Fate of Frankenstein (1824); 'Comfortable
Lodgings, or Paris in 1750) (1827); Before
Breakfast) (1828); (The Title Deeds, a three-
act comedy in prose (1847).
Peale, Charles Willson. An American
artist, inventor, and miscellaneous writer; born
in Maryland, April 16, 1741; died in Philadel-
phia, Feb. 22, 1827. He attained distinction
as a portrait painter, and also as a naturalist.
He wrote : Essay on Building Wooden Bridges)
(1797); “Discourse Introductory to a Course of
Lectures on Natural History) (1800); Do-
mestic Happiness) (1816).
Peale, Rembrandt. An American artist and
writer on art; born in Bucks County, Pa. , Feb.
22, 1778; died in Philadelphia, Oct. 3, 1860.
He was a renowned portrait painter, and the
author of Notes on Italy) (1831); Portfolio of
an Artist) (1839); (Graphics) (1845).
Peard, Frances Mary. A popular English
novelist, daughter of Commander G. S. Peard,
R. N. ; born at Exminster, Devon, in 1835.
Among her numerous novels and historical ro-
mances, which have been popular both in Eng.
land and the United States, are : Unawares)
(1870); (The Rose-Garden) (1872); «Thorpe
Regis) (1874); (Cartouche) (1878); (Schloss and
Town (1882); (The Asheldon School-Room)
(1883); Prentice Hugh' (1887); (The Blue
Dragon); (The Interloper. )
Peattie, Mrs. Elia Wilkinson. An Ameri-
can journalist and miscellaneous writer; born
in Michigan in 1862. She is connected with
the Chicago press. Her works include: (The
Judge,' a novel (1891); (With Scrip and Staff,
a story of the Children's Crusade (1891); (A
Mountain Woman, and Other Stories) (1896).
Peck, George Wilbur. An American poli-
tician and humorist; born in New York State
in 1840. He was at one time mayor of Milwau-
kee, and subsequently governor of Wisconsin.
In 1883 he published Peck's Bad Boy and
his Pa,' a humorous book which attained im-
mediate popularity and was subsequently suc-
cessfully dramatized. His other works include:
(A Compendium of Fun (1883); “How Private
George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion
(1887).
Peck, Harry Thurston. An American
scholar and literary critic; born at Stamford,
Conn. , 1856. He is a graduate of Columbia
College, and professor of Latin in that institu-
tion, now Columbia University. Since 1895 he
has been the American editor of the Bookman.
Among his works are: (The Semitic Theory of
Creation) (1886); (Suetonius) (1889); Latin
Pronunciation (1890); Dictionary of Classical
Antiquities and Literature) (1897).
Peck, Samuel Minturn. A popular Amer-
ican poet; born in Tuscaloosa, Ala. , 1854. He
was educated at the University of Alabama, and
later studied medicine in New York. He is a
resident of his native place, where he devotes
his time to literature and farming. Among his
works are: (Cap and Bells) (1886); (Rings and
Love Knots) (1892); (Rhymes and Roses);
(Fair Women of To-Day. ?
Peckham, John. An English mediæval theo-
logian; archbishop of Canterbury; died 1292.
He was a voluminous writer on theological
and scientific subjects. Among his works are :
(Common Perspective); (Theory of the Plan-
ets. In verse he wrote: “The Nightingale,
Harbinger of Pleasant Weather); Defense of
the Mendicant Friars.
Pedersen, Christiern (pā'der-sen). A Dan-
ish scholar and historical writer; born about
1480, at Svendborg on the island of Fuynen;
died 1554. He was an ardent Reformer. By
his translation of Luther's Bible - the Bible
of Christian III. , so called — he contributed
largely to the formation of the literary lan-
guage of Denmark. He wrote several histori.
cal works, and translated the Danish History)
of Saxo Grammaticus.
Pedouë, François (ped-ö-ā'). A French
poet; born at Paris, 1603; died at Chartres,
1667. His works are: Essays in Poetry and
in Praise of a Lady) (1624); Early Works of
the Sieur Pedouë); and (The Polished Citizen)
(1631). Thereafter he renounced poetry and
set about compiling a work on mystical the-
ology, (The Granada Collection. )
Peebles, Mrs. Mary Louise (Parmalee ).
[“ Lynde Palmer. ”] An American writer of
juvenile tales; born in Lansingburg, N. Y. ,
Dec. 10, 1833. Among her books are :( The Little
Captain) (1861); Helps over Hard Places)
(1862); (The Good Fight) (1865); (The Hon-
orable Club) (1867); Drifting and Steering)
(1867); (Archie's Shadow) (1869); "Jeannette's
Cisterns) (1882).
Peele, George. An English dramatist; born
1553 (? ); died 1597 (? ). He wrote: (The Ar-
raignment of Paris,' a comedy (1584); (The
Chronicle History of Edward I. (1593); (The
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(
Battle of Alcazar) (1594); (The Old Wives'
Tale) (1595); David and Bethsabe) (1599);
(Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes) (1599). *
Peet, Stephen Denison. An American cler-
gyman and archæologist; born at Euclid, O. ,
Dec. 2, 1830. He is a Congregational minister
of Wisconsin, and an authority on the works
of the mound-builders and American archæol-
ogy in general. Among his works are : (Ancient
Architecture in merica) (1884); Picture Writ-
ing) (1885); (The Effigy Mounds of Wisconsin)
(1888); Prehistoric America) (1890-95).
Pelabon, Étienne (pā-lä-bôn). A Provençal
poet; born at Toulon, 1745; died at Marseilles,
1808. He wrote a two-act comedy in patois
verse (1790), which had extraordinary success.
He wrote also: Patriotic Reunion,' in verse
and in one act; Matthew and Anne); (The
Sansculottes.
Peladan, Josephin (pā-lä-dan'). [(The Sar. ”]
A French mystical writer; born at Lyons, 1859.
He gave himself out to be a descendant of the
last of the Babylonian kings, and as such took
the name or title of (Sar,” and assumed a
theatrical garb. He reinstituted the Templar
Order of the Rosy Cross, of which he was
grand master. For the (salon of the Rosy
Cross ) he prepared dramatic pieces, among
them : (The Son of the Stars,' a sort of Wag-
nerian-Chaldaic play in three acts (1892); and
(Babylon,' a tragedy in four acts (1893). His
masterpiece is a romantic cyclus, 'Latin Deca-
dence,' a mixture of astrology, mysticism, and
esotericism. The first romance in the cyclus is
(The Supreme Vice) (1886); others are (The
Man-Woman'(1890);( The Woman-Man (1891).
He has written also (Asthetic Decadence) and
(Ochlocratic Art) (1880).
Pellegrin, Simon-Joseph (pel-gran'). A
French dramatist; born at Marseilles, 1663; died
at Paris, 1745. Among his works are : Poly-
dorus,' a tragedy (1705); Death of Ulysses)
(1706); (The New World,' comedy (1723); (Di-
vorce of Love and Reason) (1724); Pastor
Fido: (1726); (Hymen's School; or, Her Hus-
band's Sweetheart) (1742). He wrote also a
great many religious poems.
Pelletan, Pierre Clément Eugène (pel-ton').
A French publicist; born Oct. 29, 1813; died Dec.
13, 1884. Under the signature "An Unknown,'
he won distinction as a literary and phil-
osophical critic and writer on social questions
in the Paris Presse. Noteworthy among his
writings are: (The Extinguished Lamp,' a philo-
sophical novel (1840); Dogma : the Clergy and
the State) (1848); (Rights of Man (1858);
(Some People and Others) (1873), a curious
collection of personal reminiscences.
