Oman, Charles William Chadwick (1860).—Historian. A History of Greece (1888), Warwick the Kingmaker (1891), Short History of the Byzantine Empire (1892), A History of Europe, 476-918 (1893), Short History of England (1895), History of the Peninsular War, vols. i., ii., and iii., etc.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips (1866).—Novelist. The Master Mummer, Mysterious Mr. Sabin, A Prince of Sinners, Conspirators, etc.
"Orczy, Baroness" (Mrs. Montagu Barstow).—Novelist. The Emperor's Candlesticks, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905), A Son of the People (1906), I will Repay (1906), etc.
Oxenham, John.—Novelist. God's Prisoner (1898), John of Gerisau (1902), White Fire (1905), Giant Circumstance, The Long Road, Great-Heart Gillian (1909), etc.
Paget, Violet ("Vernon Lee") (1856).—Essayist, etc. Studies of the XVIIIth Cent. in Italy, Ottilie, Euphorion, Baldwin, Renaissance Fancies and Studies, Hortus Vitæ, Ariadne in Mantua, Sister Benvenuta, etc.
Pain, Barry (1868).—Novelist, etc. In a Canadian Canoe (1891), Stories and Interludes (1892), Graeme and Cyril (1893), Lindley Kays (1904), Wilhelmina in London (1906), Shadow of the Unseen (1907), etc.
Pasture, Mrs. Henry de la (Bonham).—Novelist and dramatist. The Little Squire (1894), Deborah of Tod's (1897), Catherine of Calais (1901), Peter's Mother (1905), The Tyrant (1909).
Patrick, David, LL.D. (1849).—Ed. Chambers' Encyclopædia (1888-92), Chambers' Cyclopædia of English Literature (1901-3), and Chambers' Biographical Dictionary (with F. H. Groome) (1897), translated, with Introduction and notes, The Statutes of the Scottish Church, 1225-1559 (Scott. Text Soc.).
Paul, Herbert Woodfield (1853).—Historian and biographer. Men and Letters (1901), History of Modern England, Stray Leaves (1906), Queen Anne (1906), Lives of W. E. Gladstone, Matthew Arnold (English Men of Letters), Lord Acton, and Froude.
Pears, Sir Edwin (1835).—War correspondent, etc. Fall of Constantinople (1885), The Destruction of the Greek Empire (1903), etc.
Pemberton, Max (1863).—Novelist. The Sea Wolves (1894), The Impregnable City (1895), Christine of the Hills (1897), Pro Patria (1901), Dr. Xavier (1903), Red Morn (1904), The Hundred Days (1905), The Fortunate Prisoner (1909), etc.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (Mrs. H. D. Ward) (1844).—American novelist. The Gates Ajar (1869), Hedged In (1870), The Madonna of the Tubs (1887), The Gates Between (1887), Struggle for Immortality (1889), Come Forth (with H. D. Ward, 1890), Avery, Trixy (1904), etc.
