The name which follows that of Mizraim in Genesis is still enveloped in mystery

Since the days of Joseph us it has been the fashion to identify Phut with the Libyans; but this cannot be correct, since the Lehabim or Libyans are included among the sons of Mizraim. A broken fragment of the annals of Nebuchadnezzar has at last shed a little light on the question. We there read that the Baby Phut lonian king in the 37th year of his reign marched against Egypt, and defeated the army of Amasis, the Egyptian monarch, as well as the soldiers of the city of Phut-Yavan or 'Phut of the Ionians.' We know that Amasis was a Philhellene: he had granted special privileges to the Greeks, had surrounded himself with a Greek body-guard, and had removed the camp of the Greek mercenaries from the neighbourhood of Pelusium to that of Memphis. In "the city of Phut-Yavan," therefore, we must see some city to which the Greek mercenaries were considered in a special manner to belong. It may have been the Greek colony of Kyrênê, from whence Amasis had obtained a wife. Sayce , Races of the O. T., p. 54. Phyllis (fil'is). [Gr.Φυλλίς.] 1. In Greek legend, the betrothed wife of Demophon. Because he failed to keep his promise to come and marry her on a certain day, she hung herself, and was metamorphosed 2. In pastoral poetry, a conventional name for a maiden. Also spelled Phillis . into an almond-tree. Physical Force Party. A name sometimes given to the Young Ireland party, after O'Connell's repudiation of the use of force about 1843. Physick (fiz'ik), Philip Syng. Born at Philadelphia, July 7, 1768: died at Philadelphia, Dec. 15, 1837. An American surgeon and physician: sometimes called "the Father of American Surgery." Physiologus (fiz-i-ol'ō-gus). A bestiary, or collection of allegorical fables on animals. These were widely read in the middle ages. The word was sometimes used as if it were the name of the author. A Physiologus ascribed to Epiphanius was published by Ponce de Leon at Rome in 1587. In the Western Church there is reference to a Latin Physiologus, ascribed to St. Ambrose, which was condemned as apocryphal and heretical by Pope Gelasius II. in a council of the year 496. There are several Latin manuscripts of such works, but none earlier than the eighth century. They are to be found also in Old High German prose of the eleventh century, and in the Old French of Philippe de Thaun at the beginning of the twelfth century. Another is of the thirteenth century, "Le Best i a ire Divin" of Guillaume, Clerc de Norman die. Another is "Le Best i a ire d'Amour" of Richard de Fourni swallow the ashes mixed with water. The Piaroa lan guage, as now known, has not been cla ified. Jilij cla ed it with the Saliva, which, in turn, he made a branch of the Carib. Piast (pyäst). The reputed founder of the first Polish dynasty (about the middle of the 9th century). Piasts (pyästz). The first dynasty of Polish rulers. It ended in Poland with the death of Casimir III. in 1370, but continued some centuries longer in Mazovia and Silesia. Piatigorsk. See Pyatigorsk . Piatra (pē-ä'trä). A town in Moldavia, Rumania, situated on the Bistritza 64 miles west southwest of Ja y. Population (1890), 20,000. Piatt (pi'at), Donn. Born at Cincinnati, June 29, 1819: died at Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 12, 1891. An American journalist. He was in 1851 appointed judge of the Court Common Pleas in Hamilton County, Obio, and later secretary of legation at Paris; he served on General Schenck's staff during part of the Civil War. He founded the Washington "Capital," a strongly Democratic paper, and edited it for two years. He wrote "Memoirs of the Men who Saved the Union" (1887), and "The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah" (1888). Piatt, John James. Born at Milton, Dear born County, Indiana, March 1, 1835. An American poet and journalist. In 1871 he was made librarian of the House of Representatives; was United States consul at Cork (Queens town), Ireland, 1882-94. He wrote, conjointly with W. D. Howells, "Poems of Two Friends" (1860), and with his wife, "The Nests at Washington" (1864). He published also "Poems in Sunshine and Firelight" (1866), "Western Windows, and Other Poems" (1869), "Landmarks, etc." (1871), "Poems of House and Home (1878), "The Children Out of Doors, etc." (with his wife, 1884), "At the Holy Well, etc." (1887), etc. Piatt, Mrs. (Sarah Morgan Bryan). Born at Lexington, Ky., 1836. An American poet, wife of J. J. Piatt. She has published "A Woman's Poems" (1871), "Voyage to the Fortunate Isles, etc." (1874), "Dramatic Persons and Moods" (1879), “An Irish Garland" (1884), "Child's-World Ballads" (1887), "The Witch in the Gla , etc." (1888), etc. Pickens, Francis Wilkinson piccadills, small stiff collars, affected by the gallants of the time of James I.] The great thoroughfare in London between Hyde Park Corner and the Hay market. The street was named from a house of entertainment (Piccadilly House) which stood in the Hay market in the time of Charles I. The western portion of Piccadilly was then called Portugal street. Piccinni, or Piccini (pēt-chēnē), Nicola. Born at Bari, Italy, 1728: died at Paris, May 7, 1800. An Italian composer of opera. In 1776 he went to Paris, and then arose the famous quarrel between his followers and those of Gluck, which absorbed the public. Among his works are "La Cecchina o ia la Buona Figliuola” (1760), which had a great succe ; "Roland" (1778); "Atys" (1780); and, in opposition to Gluck, "Iphigénie en Tauride" (1781). Gluck's opera, however, was the more succe ful. He died in great poverty. Piccolo mini (pik-kō-lom'ē-nē). An Italian noble family, a branch of which settled in Ger many. Both lines became extinct in the 18th century. Piccolo mini, Die. [The Piccolo mini.] A tragedy by Schiller (1799), forming the second play in the trilogy of "Wal lens tein." Piccolo mini, Maria. Born at Siena, 1836: died at Florence, Dec., 1899. An Italian opera singer, a descendant of the famous family of that name. Her first appearance on the stage was at Florence, during the carnival of 1852, as Lucrezia Borgia. Her London début was at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1856 as La Traviata. In 1858 she visited America, where she was much admired. She left the stage in 1860, and soon after married the marchese Gaetano. Piccolo mini, Prince Octavio. Born 1599: died at Vienna, Aug. 10,1656. A general in the Thirty Years' War, in the Imperialist, and later in the Spanish, service. He was instrumental in bringing about the downfall of Wal lens tein in 1634. He was defeated by Tors tenson at Leipsic in 1642. Pic du Midi de Bigorre (pēk dü mē-dē dė bēgor') or de Bagnères. [F., 'southern peak of way also into the "Speculum Naturale" of Vincent of Beauvais. Our Old English Bestiary contains few Norman words in its vocabulary; and Dr. Morris believes that it may have been written by the author of the poems of "Genesis" and "Exodus." Morley, English Writers, III. 334. Piacenza (pē-ä-chen'zä). A province in the compart i men to of Emilia, Italy, nearly corresponding to the former duchy of Piacenza. (See Parma , Duchy of .) Area, 954 square miles. Population (1891), 228,827. Piacenza, F. Plaisance (plā-zons'). The capital of the province of Piacenza, Italy, situated on the Po, near its junction with the Trebbia, in lat. 45° 3′ N., long. 9° 40′ E.: the ancient Placentia. Its noted buildings are the Church of San Sisto, the cathedral (consecrated in 1133), and the Palazzo Communale. It received a Roman colony 219 B. C.; was destroyed the Gauls 200 B. C.; was the meet ing-place of church councils in 1095 and 1132; and came under the Farnese and united with Parma in 1545. The Im per i a lists under Lich ten stein defeated the united French 37,000.