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Poetaster, A. George Hughes. Rhymes by... L. 1846.

Polesworth, Sir Humpliry. Jona- than Swift, D.D. Law is a bottomless it; or, the history of John Bull. . . 712-13.

Poliarchus. Sir Charles Cotterel. See"Orinda."

Policeman X. 54. William Make- peace Thackeray. A Bow Street ballad. . . "Punch," Nov. 25, 1848.

Political Apothecary, A. W. P. Russell. An anodyne to soothe Catholic intemperance ... L. 1812.

Poliutou Frank B. Wtlkie. Petrolia; or, the oil regions of the United States. Chic. 1865.

Polko, EHse. Ehse Vogel Musical sketches. Translated. P. 1864.

Pollock, Guy. Robert Douglas Ham- ilton, M.D., who, under this signature, contributed several series of letters on literary, political, and other subjects, to the "Canadian Literary Magazine/' York, 1833; and the "Courier of Upper Canada," the "Herald," the "Palla- dium," and the "British Colonist/' all of Toronto.

Polyanthus. John Wilson. The Pa- risian mirror; or, letters from Paris, in "Blackwood's Magazine/' Vol. XI., p. 217 et seq.

Polypus. Eaton Stannard Barrett. All the talents. A satirical poem. . . L. 1807.

Polyxena. Philip Thicknesse, Esq. in the "Gent. Mag."

Pomeroy, "Brick." Mark M. Pom- eroy. Sense; or, Saturday night mus- ings. . . N.Y. 1868. Nonsense; or, hits and criticisms on the follies of the day ... N.Y. 1868.

Pomeroy, Eugene. Thomas J?. Don- nelly.

Pomfret, Peter. Rev. Richard Graves. Lucubrations ... in prose and terse. L. 18-.

Pomona. One of the pseudonyms attributed to Junius (q.v. ).

The letter thus signed, is dated July 1, 1768; it Is directed * to Master Harry, in Black Boy Alley," and relates to his " duplicity in promis- ing a place to Lord Buckingham and to another person.'*

Pomponlo, IJeto. Marchese Frances- co Vitelteschi. Yatican council. L. 1876.

Ponder, Rev. Peter. Rev. WiQiam Sell. Kirkcumdoon. . . Edinb. 1875.

Ponny. Horace Mayhew.

" * Penny * was a nickname. Most of the men [writers for * Punch *] were known to each other by some familiar psendonym. They call Mr. JPercival Leigh Professor * to this day, Mark

Lemon was * Uncle Mark,' and old Evans don," pp. 19, 20.
 * Pater.'" See HATTOX'S "Journalistic Lou-

Pontiac. Oliver Knight, in " Harper's Weekly."

Pontoosuc. Ensign H. Kellogg. The Johnson protocol ana international good neighborhood. . . Pittsfield, Mass., 1869.

Poor-Rich. Man, A. John Berrien Lindsley, M.D. Our ruin : its causes and cure. By ... Nashville, Tenn, 1868.

Poor Ricnard. Benjamin Franklin. See "Saunders, Richard."

Poor Robert the Scribe. Charles Miner. Essays from the desk of ... P. 184-.

Popinack. Mrs. Virginia Durant Covington. See " Fabian.

Poplar, Anthony. Rev. Charles Stu- art Stanford, editor of the "Dublin Uni- versity "Magazine."

Poplicola. The earliest signature adopted by Junius (g.v.). The attack on Lord Chatham, which was signed as above, was published in the "Public Advertiser," April 28, 1767. The signa- ture was only once more employed, viz. in the letter dated May 28, 1767, which was the celebrated reply to Sir William Draper's defence of Lord Chatham.

Pophcola, In April, 1767, depicts Lord Chat- ham as aspiring to a political dictatorship, and that the Tarpeian rock or a gibbet would be enough for the " carcase of such a traitor." But observe the contrast : Junius, in a letter addressed to the Earl of Chatham in the following January, marked " private and secret, to be opened by Lord Chatham only," sets himself forth as a warm admirer of that statesman, and anxiously cautions "him against the underhand practices of his colleagues, especially of Lord Sbrthington and Mr. Conway, concluding as follows :

"My Lord, the man who presumes to give your Lordship these hints admires your charac- ter without servility, and is convinced that, if this country can be saved, it must be saved by Lord Chatham's spirit, by Lord Chatham's abili- ties.** " Correspondence of the Earl of Chat- ham > vol.iuVp.305.

Upon this Wade remarks t

saviour of Junius, both one writer. Impossible ! Who then, it may he asked, was Pophcola? a question probably not very material to answer if he were not Junius. But I will mention one conjecture by an American editor, namely, that Poplicola was Home Tooke, which seems not unlikely. Ahout this period Mr. Home Tooke returned from a tour in Italy as travelling tutor; on his way he spent some weeks with Mr. WUkes in Paris, and imbibed his rancour against G-rafton and Chatham; the latter, in the full bloom of place, peerage, and pension, having haughtily rejected Wilkes's application for com- pensation or public employment, and disowned his quondam friend 'as the blasphemer of his God and libeller of his king.* Jh retaliation, Wilkes addressed a bitter, inculpatory letter to the Duke of Orafton, and Mr. Tooke is surmised to have lent his auxiliary aid by the two letters signed* Poplicola.*"
 * o that the 'dictator* of Poplicola is the