"Pelleas and Ettarre," Tennyson's,
xiii, 465.

Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.),
era of, i, 250, 275.
Penance and Self-expiation, Doc-
trine of, taught by the theolo-
gians of the Middle Ages, vii,
121.

Penates, or familiar household gods

of the Romans, 135, 136.
Pendleton, Edmund.-(1721-1803.)
American statesman, xi, 271,
273.

Pendulum, Galileo's construction of

the first, vi, 432.
Penn, William.-(1644-1718.) Eng-

lish Quaker and founder of
Pennsylvania, vi, 242; xi, 43;
Penn proprietaries of the prov-
ince, 72-76.

Pennsylvania, Quaker Colony in,
xi, 43; anti-Masons in, xii, 78.
"Pennsylvania Gazette," founded
by Franklin, xi, 59.
Pennsylvania University, founding
of, xi, 70.

Penny Postage, English, Sir Row-
land Hill's introduction
(1840), x, 59.

of

Pensacola, Florida, threatened by
the British (1814), xii, 36;
General Andrew Jackson re-
sides at, 45.

"Penseroso, Il," Milton's, xiii, 331.
Pension List (U. S.) at close
of Harrison's Administration
(1893), xii, 301.

Pentecost, Day of, vi, 231.
People, anciently ground down and
oppressed, iii, 24; voice ignored
in legislation, had and claimed
no rights, 24.

People, Enfranchisement of the
(English), x, 317. See Glad-
stone, W. E.

People, Welfare of the, Confucius's
aim, i, 173.

English statesman and premier
(1809-12), ix, 235, 244; assas-
sination of, 248; x, 68.

Père la Chaise, Paris, vii, 65.
Pericles.-(495-429 B. C.) Athe-

nian statesman, Athens in his
time the centre of Greek civili-
zation, i, 250; culmination of
ancient art in, 294.
Périer,

Casimir.(1777-1832.)
French statesman and financier,
ix, 335.
Perry, Commodore Matthew.-
(1794-1858.) American naval
Commander, xiv, 290; xv, 432.
Persephone, Queen of Hades, i,
119. See Proserpine.

Persepolis, ancient capital of
Persia, xiv, 352, 362, 365.
Pershing, John J.

-

(1860- .)
American soldier, places Ameri-
can forces at disposal of Foch,
XV, 132.
Persia (Iran), the country, its
situation, climate, products, and
people, iv, 29-31; its people
honest, thrifty, truthful and
brave, 30; a branch of Aryan
family, 31; their priests, the
Magi, 33; the palaces at
Ecbatana, Susa, and Persepolis,
35; gems and signet rings of

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Peter the Great. (1672-1725.)

Emperor of Russia (1689-1725),
viii, 93; theme: his "Services
to Russia," 331; enlightened
barbarian toiling for civilization,
331; absolute sovereign when
Russia was
an inland and iso-
lated state, 332; genius and
policy, 333; family and child-
hood, 333; aided during minor-
ity by queen-regent Sophia and
Prince Galitzin, the latter of
whom Peter exiles to Siberia,
333; under his preceptor, Le-
fort, he learns military tactics

and serves in his regiment, 335.
337; ambition for commercial
and maritime greatness for Rus
sia, 337; passion for navigation,
and sailor's life, 338; seeks
seaports by war, 339; attacks
Azof and is beaten, 341; wing
at length and raises armies on
European model, 341, 342; em-
bassies to European courts, 343;
masters art and ship-building,
344; Mentchikof his prime.
minister, 345; visits England
and Holland, 345; at Vienna,
346; crushes the turbulent
Streltzi (his own guards), 347;
reforms in his army (cuts off his
soldiers' beards and shortens
their coats), 348; alters the
calendar, erects mills and digs
canals, 349; head of the
Church, 350; war with Charles
XII and invades Sweden, 350,
351; beaten at Narva (1704),
351; victorious at Pultowe
(1709), 352; loses 20,000 men
in war with Turks and at Azof,
but terms made for him by his
wife Catherine, 353; builds St.
Petersburg on marshes of the
Neva, 354; capital removed to
it from Moscow, 355; tour of
Europe, 357; disinherits his
worthless son, Alexis, 360;
crowns his wife, 362; death and
estimate, 363-365.

Petrarch.

(1304-74.) Italian

poet, vii, 26, 39; xiii, 159.
Phædo of Elis.-(4th cent. B. C.).
Greek philosopher and disciple
of Socrates, i, 215, 216.
Phalanx in war introduced by
Sparta, iii, 247; adopted by
Philip of Macedon, 248; Athe-

nian, 248; Macedonian, 249;
under Alexander, 250.
Pharamond. Reputed first King
of the Franks, viii, 199.
Pharaoh.-Deceived by Abraham,
ii, 50; the Pharaoh of Joseph's
era, 63-68.

Pharaoh (? Rameses II), of
Moses's era, ii, 99; daughter of
rescues Moses, 99; Moses's
flight from, 129.

Pharaoh of the Children of Israel,
The, xiv, 377.
Pharaohs.-Monuments of the, iii,

sculptor, i, 250; example of art
among the Greeks, 283; lived
in culminating period of Grecian
glory, 285; his statues of Mi-
nerva, 285; of
Jupiter at
Olympia, 286; adorning of the
Parthenon, 285, 303; artists of
his age aided by the poets, his
torians, and philosophers, 293;
distinguishing excellence, 286,
287; work of his scholars, 304,
305; sculptures of, iii, 97, 116-
118.

Philadelphia, British evacuation of
(1778), xi, 139.

Philadelphia, 1st Continental Con-

gress at (1774), xi, 50, 57-60,
70, 154.
Philadelphia

Constitutional Con-

vention, Hamilton a delegate, xi,
189.

Philip, King of Macedon.-(382-
336 B. C.) ii, 243; adopts and
improves on the Spartan
phalanx, iii, 248; adopts stand-
ing armies, 249.

Philip II.-King of Spain (1556-
98), his father, the Emperor
Charles V, bestows on him Spain
and the Low Countries, viii, 144.
Philip of Burgundy, vii, 102.
Philip of Spain, xiii, 466.
Philippa, Queen of Edward III.-
(1312-69.) vii, 70.

Philistine Age, xiv, 73.

Philistines, The, ii, 35; smitten in
battle by Saul, 155, driven back
by David, 161.

Phillimore, Sir W. G.-(b. 1845.)
English jurist and legal writer,
xi, 357.

Philips, Mark.-English politician,
X, 79.

Phillips, Wendell. (1811-84.)
American orator and abolition-
ist, xi, 77, 224; xii, 154.
Phillips Academy, Exeter, Webster
fitted for college at, xii, 148.
Philology, Science of, i, 69, 70.
Philosophers, Greek, ii, 118.
Philosopher's Stone, and Elixir of
Life, in China, root of Chem-
istry of the West; xiv, 264.
Philosophy, Ancient, i, 183; Greek
distinctive featuré of ancient
civilization, 185; platonic, 220;
a system of dialectics, 328;
Stoic, 232.

"Philosophy of Clothes," Carlyle's,
xiii, 214.

Philosophy, Roman and Greek, i,
237; Greek, as exemplified in
Socrates, 249.

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Polar

Sea, Frobisher penetrates
the, viii, 87.

Pole, Reginald, Cardinal.—(1500-
58.) vii, 227.

Poles, insurrection of (1831), x,
204.

Polignac, Prince Jules. (1780-
1847.) French diplomat, ix, 44,
216.

Political economy, xil, 314.

Political equality, xii, 312.
Political Morality, ix, 67. See
Burke, Edmund.

Political parties, American, Rise of,
xi, 164; xii, 50..

Political power in the West, xii,
270.
Political

troubles with Great
Britain (1761), xi, 222.
Political wirepullers, xii, 204.
Politicians, Machine, xii, 204.

Politics, a game, xii, 204.

Politics, Personal, xii, 23. See
Jackson, President Andrew.