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periodicals, waa published in Lon- don under the title of " Some Private Views." His works in the British Museum extend to upwards of a hundred volumes. In 1882 Mr. Payn succeeded Mr. Leslie Stephen as editor of the ComhUl Magazine. Subjoined is a list of Mr. Payn's novels : — " Lost Sir Massingberd/' "A Perfect Trea- sure," " Bentinck's Tutor," " A County Family," " At Her Mercy," " A Woman's Vengeance," "Cecil's Tryst," "The Clytards of Clyffe," "The Family Scapegrace," "The Foster Brothers," " Found Dead," " The Best of Husbands," "Walter's Word," " Halves," " Carlyon's Year," " One of the Family," " Fallen Fortunes," " What He Cost Her," "Gwendoline's Har- vest," " Humorous Stories," " Like Father, Like Son," "A Marine Residence," " Married Beneath Him," "Mirk Abbey," "Not Wooed, but Won," " Two Hundred Pounds Reward," " Less Black than We're Painted," "Murphy's Master," "By Proxy," "Under One Eoof," " High Spirits," " A Grape from a Thorn," " For Cash Only," 1882 ; " Kit : A Memory," 1883 ; and "Thicker than Water," 1883.

PAYNE, John, was born in London, Aug. 23, 1842, and edu- cated in London privately. He was admitted a solicitor in 1867, and still practises his profession. Mr. Payne is the author of "The Masque of Shadow, and other Poems," 1870 ; "Intaglios: Sonnets," 1871; "Songs of Life and Death," 1872 ; "Lautrec, a Poem," 1878 j "The Poems of Master Francis Villon of Paris," 1878 (Villon Society) ; " New Poems," 1880; "Francis Villon: A Biographical Study," 1881 ; "The Book of the Thousand and One Nights, now first completely done into English prose and verse from the original Arabic, in 9 vols. Vol. I., 1882; Vol. n., 1883 (Villon So- ciety).

PEACOCK, The Right Hon. Snt Barnes, born in 1810, w^s c^^ to

the bar at the Inner Temple, and practised on the Home Circuit. He was created a Queen's Counsel in 1850, and was appointed legal mem- ber of the Supreme Councu at Cal- cutta in 1852, taking his seat on the 2nd of June of Uiat year. In 1859, on the retirement of Sir James W. Colville, Mr. Peacock was ap- pointed to succeed him as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Calcutta, and at the same time was nominated Vice-President of the Legislative Council of India, and received the honour of knighthood ; he received a fresh appointment in 1862, under the Act passed in that year, as Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature of Beng^. He finally resigned his seat on the Calcutta Bench in 1870, and was sworn a Privy Councillor on his return to Eneland in that year. In June, 1872, ne was appointed a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

PEACOCK, Edward, F.S.A., of Bottesford Manor, near Brigg, Lincolnshire, born at Hemsworth, Yorkshire, Dec. 22, 1831, was edu- cated by private tutors. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1857, and appointed a Justice of Peace for the Parts of Lindsey, in the county of Lincoln, in 1869. Mr. Peacock is the author of " Ralph Skirlaugh," 3 vols., 1870 ; "Mabel Heron," 3 vols., 1872; "John Markenfield," 3 vols., 1874; editor of "Army Lists of Bound- heads and CavaHers," 1863, second edition, enlarged, 1874; "English Church Furniture at the Period of the Reformation ; a list of goods de- stroyed in Lincolnshire Churches," 1866 ; " Instmctions for Parish Priests, by P John Myrc" (Early Eng. Text Soo.), 1868; "A List of the Roman Catholics in the Cotinty of York, in 1604," 1872 ; "A Glossary of Words used in the Wapentakes of Manlev and Corringham, Lin- colnshire' ' (English Dialect Soc.), 1877 ; ** Index to English-speaking students whQ have Graduated at