336
��INDEX.
��Olney, Cowpcr house at, 57 ; ' Olney Hymns,'
60 ; Covvper's pew at, 72 Oratory, founded in King William Street,
Strand, 35
Owens College Jubilee, 170 Oxford University Press, its publications, 281
��Page (John T.), on Cowper and Lamb, 72 ; on Sir Rowland and Lady Hill, 233 ; and Ebsworth, 302
Palgrave (W. G.), pension to widow, 137 Palliser (Sir W.), pension to widow, 132 Palmer (Prof. A.), pension to widow, 127 Palmer (Prof. E. H.), pension to widow, 140 Palmerston (Lord), contributes to The Globe,
181 ; and Sunday bands in the parks, 204 Paper, made from rag, esparto grass, and
wood pulp, 194
Paper duty, reduced, 4 ; repealed, ib. ; amount paid by W. & B. Chambers, 165 ; and H. G. Bonn, 280
Parcel Post, in 1905, 220 ; in 1907, 224 Paris, taxes on books in, 21 ; population greater than that of London, tfe. ; book- sellers in 1871, 275 ; Ebsworth at, 294 Paris (Dr. J. A.), geologist, pension to daughter,
107 Parker (Dr. Joseph) and City Temple pulpit,
253
Parkes (Sir Henry), pension to sister, 141 Parliament, Houses of, burnt, 79 Parris (E. T.), pension to daughter, 113 Parry (Col. G. S.) on Ebsworth family, 304 Partridge (S. W.), his death, 281 Pater (Walter), pension to sisters, 104 Paterson (John) suggests Thames Embank- ment, 245
Patey (C. H. B.), pension to widow, 141 Patmore (Coventry), Saturday Review on, 208 Pattison (Mark), contributor to Saturday
Review, 211
Paxton (Sir Joseph), his Victorian Way, 203 Payn (James), a " model editor," 91 ; first
novel, 164
Payne (John), Civil List pension, 106 Peacock (E.) on Ocean Penny Post, 221 Pearson (C. H.), pension to widow, 104 Peel (John), " Do you ken John Peel ? " 190 Peel (Sir Robert), practical sympathy with
literature, 96 ; visit to Edinburgh, 291 Peel (Sir William), Naval Brigade in Indian
Mutiny, 271
Penance in white sheet, 24 Penn (William) and Charles L, 298, 325 Penny Magazine, Cassell's, 166 Penny Magazine, Knight's, 163 Penny Post founded by J. Whitaker, 274 Pensions for literature. See Civil List. Pepys (S.) on Hill, violin -maker, 304 Percy (Bishop), neighbour of Cowper, 68 Peter the Great, death of his first wife, 24 Petrie (Dr. G.), pension to daughter, 122 Philatelic Exhibition, 1890, 218 Philip (J. Birnie), pension to widow, 113 Phoenix Fire Office, ite history, 81, 83
��Photography, early discoveries in, 39 Pickford (Rev. John) on Bishop Percy and
Cowper, 68 Pierce (G. W.), friend of Longfellow, death,
229 Pierpoint (R.) on date of Lord Mayor's Show,
252
Pinkett (Governor), pension to widow, 134 Place (Francis) and the Duke of Wellington,
180
Pollock (W. H.), editor of Saturday Review, 210 Polytechnic, its history, 187 Poor Man's Guardian, ite career, 4 Pope (Alex.), his villa at Twickenham, 14 ;
as translator of Homer, 65 Portal (Sir G. H.), pension to widow, 143 Postage, foreign, reductions in, 220, 224 Postage, Imperial Penny, 220, 221 Postage, Penny, Quarterly Review on dangers of, 217 ; first day, 218 ; growth, 219 ; agita- tion for, 221 Post cards, introduced, 217 ; number in 1905,
220 ; in 1907, 224
Post Office, history from 1856 to 1906, 216-25 Powell (Prof. Baden), pension to widow, 108 Power (Frank), pension to sisters, 133 Prague, Ebsworth threatened with arrest at,
295
Press. See Newspapers. Prideaux (Col. W. F.) on King Edward in
Scotland, 90
Prideaux (Sir W. S.), history of the Gold- smiths' Company, 251 Prime Minister, his official precedence, 257 Prince Consort. See Albert (Prince). Printing, first Hebrew books printed in
England, 149 ; and Jews, 150 Proctor (R. A.), pension to widow, 109 Prout (Father), contributor to The Globe, 182 Press, Unstamped. See Newspapers and
Taxes on Knowledge. Psychological Society founded by Serjeant
Cox, 186
Publishers, taken into custody for libel, 24 ; formerly called booksellers, 179 ; and under- selling, 275
Publishers' Association formed, 276 Publishers' Circular, its history, 258 ; on violin sales, 268 ; and Paris booksellers in 1871, 275
Pugin (Welby), pension to wife, 112 Punch, on Joseph Whitaker, 283 ; on Heath
Wilson, 294
Purnell (T. ), death, xxxi
Puttick & Simpson, sale of Ebsworth's books, xxxii ; history of the firm, 267-9
Q
��Quaritch (B.), gives record price for a Caxton,
170 ; his history, 280 Quarterly Review on dangers of Penny Postage,
217
Quebec Gazette, early Canadian paper, 195 Queens as members of Order of the Garter, 89 Quevedo, allusion hi Cowper, 66 Quiver, list of ite editors, 166
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