ABRAHAMS (ISRAEL), M. A. (Lond. and Camb.),
D.D. (Heb. Union Coll., Cincin.).

Reader in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature

in the University of Cambridge; formerly

Senior Tutor in the Jews' College, London;

editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review, 1888-

1908.

Rashi, Sabbath (Jewish).

AGATE (LEONARD DENDY), M.A. (Camb. and
Manchester).

Curate of Warton, Carnforth; author of

Luther and the Reformation.

Pilgrimage (Christian).

ALEXANDER (HARTLEY BURR), Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy in the University of

Nebraska; author of vol. X. (North

American) of The Mythology of All Races

(1916).

Prayer (American).

ALLEN (WILLOUGHBY C.), M.A.

Archdeacon of Blackburn; Hon. Lecturer in
the History of Doctrine in the Victoria
University, Manchester.

Righteousness (in Christ's teaching).
ANESAKI (MASAHARU), M.A., D.Litt., LL.D.
Professor of the Science of Religion in the
Imperial University of Tokyo; Professor of
Japanese Literature and Life in the Univer-
sity of Harvard, 1913–15; author of Buddhist
Art in its Relation to Buddhist Ideals;
Nichiren, the Buddhist Prophet.

Pilgrimage (Japanese), Prayer (Buddhist).

ARMITAGE-SMITH (GEORGE), M.A., D.Lit.

Principal of Birkbeck College, London; Dean

of the Faculty of Economics in the Uni-

versity of London, 1904-08; Fellow of the

Royal Statistical Society; Member of

Council of the Royal Economic Society;

Lecturer on Economics and Mental Science

at Birkbeck College; author of The Free

Trade Movement (1898); Principles and

Methods of Taxation (1906).

Retaliation.

ATKINSON (THOMAS DINHAM), F.R.I.B.A.

Surveyor to the Dean and Chapter of Ely.

Points of the Compass.

BALL (JAMES DYER), I.S.O., M.R.A.S., M. Ch.

Br. R.A.S.

Of the Hongkong Civil Service (retired);

author of Things Chinese, The Chinese at

Home, and other works; Director L. M.S.

Prayer (Chinese).

Barns (Thomas), M.A. (Oxon.).

Vicar of Hilderstone, Staffordshire.

Prester John.

BARTON (GEORGE AARON), A.M., Ph.D., LL.D.

Professor of Biblical Literature and Semitic

Languages in Bryn Mawr College, Pennsyl-

vania; author of A Sketch of Semitic Origins,

'Ecclesiastes' in the International Critical

Commentary, The Origin and Development

of Babylonian Writing, Archæology and

the Bible.

Poles and Posts, Possession (Semitic

and Christian).

BENNETT (WILLIAM HENRY), M.A. (Lond.), D.D.
(Aberd.), Litt.D. (Camb.).

Principal of Lancashire College, Manchester;

sometime Fellow of St. John's College, Cam-

bridge; author of The Religion of the Post-

Exilic Prophets, and other works.

Reuchlin.

BILLSON (CHARLES JAMES), M.A.
Corpus Christi College, Oxford; author of
The Popular Poetry of the Finns (1900).
Prayer (Finns and Lapps).

BLACKMAN (AYLWARD MANLEY), D.Litt.

Late Laycock Student of Egyptology at

Worcester College, Oxford; Oxford Uni-

versity Nubian Research Scholar, 1910;

formerly Scholar of Queen's College.

Priest, Priesthood (Egyptian), Purifica-

tion (Egyptian), Righteousness

(Egyptian).

BLACKMAN (WINIFRED SUSAN).

Diplomée in Anthropology, Oxford; Member
of the Folklore Society.

Rosaries.

BROAD (CHARLES DUNBAR), M.A.

Lecturer in Logic, University College, Dundee,

in the University of St. Andrews; formerly

Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Reality.