Permissive Bill in Sweden, 199. in New Jersey and other States, 217. Sir W. Lawson’s, considered, 252. probable modifications of, 255. commended, 256. legislation, Governor Price (Massachusetts), on, 223. successful in the United States, 224. probable future of, in England, 252. Persia, drinks and drinking customs of ancient, 50-52. of modern, 54-56. Petersen, J. W., on ancient German drinking habits, 103. on the introduction of non-alcoholic drinks into Germany, 116. his story of Henry VIII. making an envoy drunk, 149. Petronius quoted in account of Roman feast (verses), 93, 94. Philadelphia, proposal to allow drawback on spirits exported from, 210, 211. inebriate asylum at, 227. Picnic, origin of, 138, 139. Plate, States of the, drinking habits of civilised people of, 202. of half-castes of, 202. of Indians of, 203. Pliny the elder on Egyptian drinking habits, 73. on Roman drinking habits, 83. anecdotes of drinking in ancient Rome, 84. on scarcity of wine in ancient Rome, 85. on vine-culture in ancient Rome, 85. on wine manufacture in ancient Rome, 87. on varieties of wine in ancient Rome, 89. on effects of wine, 90, 98, 99. on medicinal use of wine, 91. on drunkenness in ancient Rome, 99. on delirium tremens in ancient Rome, 99. on ancient German drinking habits, 102. Plunkett, Archbishop, on intemperance of Irish priests last century, 166-167. Police, increased activity of, in large towns, 177, 179. arrests not uniform, 180. Police statistics, misleading character of, 177. of drunkenness in London, 177, 247. in Liverpool, 178, 247. in Birmingham, 179. Politics and drink, 173. Politics and publicans, 192. Polyphemus made drunk by Ulysses, 80. Pomegranates used for making an ancient Hebrew drink, 64. Portland (Maine), ease with which liquor can be procured in, 219. Priests, abstinence of Buddhist, 27, 28. sanction of drinking by Brahmin, 37. drinking by Brahmin, 39, 40. punishment (later) of Brahmin, for intoxication, 41, 42. Hebrew, forbidden to drink during sacrifice, 62. tithes paid to, in wine, 63. sayings of, concerning wine, 64. Roman, used wine in the sacrifices, 85. German, forbidden to offer wine to penitents, 105. intemperance of, 113, 114. punishment of, for intemperance, 114. mediæval English, said to have been the corrupters of domestic virtue, 119. mediæval English, intemperance of, 120, 123, 124, 141, 142, 143. Irish, intemperance of, 130. mediæval, irregularities of, 131, 144. modern Catholic, exertions of, in favour of temperance, 242. Prioress of Rumsey, a notorious drunkard, 145. Pritchard, on changed habits of ropemakers, 185.