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 POOLE ermen and sportsmen as an excellent water dog ; the sense of smell is exquisite, which gives it a remarkable power of tracing out the lost property of its master ; it is strong, POONAH 705 Poodle. intelligent, and affectionate. There is a dimi- nutive breed, with longer and more silky and curly hair, generally white. POOLE, a town and seaport of Dorsetshire, England, on a peninsula, 20 m. E. of Dorches- ter ; pop. in 1871, 10,097. The principal street is a mile long, but the older part of the town is irregularly built. The parish church was rebuilt in 1812, and there are places of worship for many denominations, a custom house, a town hall, a guildhall, and the ancient king's "mil or wool house. The harbor is a fine estu- ary about 6 m. long, connecting with the sea by a very narrow entrance. The quays and warehouses are extensive. About 500 coast- ing vessels annually enter the port, and nearly 200 ships are engaged in the foreign trade. The fisheries of plaice and herring are con- siderable, and there are large ship-building yards and manufactories of sail cloth, cordage, &c. The port is of great antiquity. POOLE, John, an English dramatist, born about 1786, died near London, Feb. 5, 1872. He wrote "Hamlet Travestie" (1810); "Romeo and Juliet Travestie" (1812); "The Hole in the Wall," a farce (1813); "Who is Who" (1815); "A Short Reign and a Merry One," from the French (1819); " 'Twould Puzzle a Conjurer" (1824); "Paul Pry," his most fa- mous farce (1825 ; translated into German, Leipsic, 1863) ; " Turning the Tables" (1830) ; "A Nabob for an Hour" (1832); "Comic Sketch Book "(2 "vols., 1835); "Patrician and Parvenu," a comedy (1835) ; " Atonement, or the Goddaughter," a play (1836); "Crotchets in the Air " (8vo, 1838) ; "Oddities of London Life" (2 vols., 1838) ; "Little Peddlington and the Peddlingtonians " (2 vols., 1839); "Phin- eas Quiddy, or Sheer Industry " (3 vols., 1842) ; "Comic Miscellany" (1844); and "Christmas Festivities," a collection of sketches, charac- ters, and tales (1845). Several of his books have been republished in the United States. His farces were produced in the London the- atres with Munden, Listen, Keeley, Cooper, and other celebrated comedians in the leading parts, and many of his pieces are still popular. During his last years, mainly through the ex- ertions of Charles Dickens, Poole received a small pension from the civil list ; but he out- lived all his contemporaries, and died neglect- ed and almost forgotten. POOLE, Matthew, an English clergyman, born in York in 1624, died in Amsterdam in 1679. He was educated at Emmanuel college, Cam- bridge, took orders, and in 1648 was rector of St. Michael le Quern, London, but resigned upon the passage of the uniformity act in 1662. He engaged in the nonconformity controver- sies of his time, and wrote much in opposition to the Roman Catholic church. His last years were spent in Holland. His principal work is the Synopsis Criticorum Biblicorum (5 vols. fol., 1669-'76), a digest of the Critici Sacri (1660), presenting in a condensed form the views of 150 commentators. POOLE, Panl Falconer, an English painter, born in Bristol in 1810. His first exhibition in the academy was " The Well, a Scene at Naples " (1830), and ho was elected an associate in 1846, and an academician in 1861. Among his works are " Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of London " (1843); "The Beleaguered City "(1844); "Sup- pression of Sion Monastery " (1846) ; " Edward III.'s Generosity to the People of Calais " (1847), which gained a prize of 300 in the Westminster hall exhibition ; " Arlete first dis- covered by Robert le Diable" (1848); three scenes from "The Tempest" (1849); "Job and his Friends receiving the Tidings of his Calamities" (1850); "The Goths in Italy" (1852); "Lighting the Beacon on the Coast of Cornwall at the appearance of the Spanish Armada " (1864) ; and " Imogen before the Cave of Belarius" (1866). Among his lesser works are "Margaret at her Spinning Wheel," from "Faust;" "The Song of the Troubadour" and " Philomena's Song by the Beautiful Lake," from the "Decameron;" "The Escape of Glaucus and lone;" "The Last Scene in Lear;" "A Suburb of Pompeii;" "A Mid- summer Night;" "The Market Girl;" "The Alehouse Door;" "The Mountaineers;" and "The Blackberry Gatherers." POONAH, a town of British India, on the Moota, above its confluence with the Moola, in the province and 80 m. S. E. of the city of Bombay; pop. about 75,000. It is divided into seven quarters named after the days of the week, and the principal thoroughfares are macadamized. It contains the palace of the former Mahratta rulers, a government school with Sanskrit, English, and normal depart- ments, united with the old Sanskrit college, a seminary for Hindoo girls, extensive water works, an English church with the tomb of Sir Robert Grant, governor of Bombay, who