| J. T. S.* | James Thomson Shotwell, Ph.D.- Professor of History in Columbia University, New York City.
|  | Louis VI., VII., IX., X. and XI. of France. |
| J. V.* | Jules Viard.- Archivist at the National Archives, Paris. Officer of Public Instruction, France. Author of La France sous Philippe VI de Valois; &c.
|  | Lore, Ambroise de; Louvet, Jean; Marcel, Étienne. |
| J. V. B. | James Vernon Bartlet, M.A., D.D. (St Andrews).- Professor of Church History, Mansfield College, Oxford. Author of The Apostolic Age; &c.
|  | Mark, St (in part); Matthew, St; Luke, St. |
| K. G. J. | Kingsley Garland Jayne.- Sometime Scholar of Wadham College, Oxford. Matthew Arnold Prizeman, 1903. Author of Vasco da Gama and his Successors.
|  | Malay Archipelago. |
| K. K. | Konrad Kessler, Ph.D.- Formerly Professor of Semitic Languages at the University of Greifswald.
|  | Mandaeans (in part). |
| K. L. | Rev. Kirsopp Lake, M.A.- Lincoln College, Oxford. Professor of Early Christian Literature and New Testament Exegesis in the University of Leiden. Author of The Text of the New Testament; The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ; &c.
|  | Mary, Mother of Jesus (in part). |
| K. S. | Kathleen Schlesinger.- Editor of Portfolio of Musical Archaeology. Author of The Instruments of the Orchestra.
|  | Lute (in part); Lyre (in part); Mandoline. |
| L. J. S. | Leonard James Spencer, M.A., F.G.S.- Assistant, Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, South Kensington. Formerly Scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Harkness Scholar. Editor of the Mineralogical Magazine.
|  | Manganite; Marcasite. |
| L. V.* | Luigi Villari.- Italian Foreign Office (Emigration Dept.). Formerly Newspaper Correspondent in East of Europe. Author of Italian Life in Town and Country; &c.
|  | Mazzini: Bibliography. |
| L. W. V.-H. | L. W. Vernon-Harcourt (d. 1909).- Barrister-at-Law. Author of His Grace the Steward and the Trial of Peers.
|  | Lord High Steward. |
| M. A. W. | Mary A. Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward).- See the biographical article: Ward, Mary Augusta.
|  | Lyly. |
| M. Br. | Margaret Bryant.-
|  | Louis VIII. and XVII. of France. |
| M. Ja. | Morris Jastrow, Jr., Ph.D.- Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Pennsylvania. Author of Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians; &c.
|  | Marduk. |
| M. N. T. | Marcus Niebuhr Tod, M.A.- Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College, Oxford. University Lecturer in Epigraphy. Joint-author of Catalogue of the Sparta Museum.
|  | Lycurgus: Spartan Lawgiver; Lysander. |
| M. O. B. C. | Maximilian Otto Bismarck Caspari, M.A. (Oxon.).- Reader in Ancient History at London University. Lecturer in Greek at Birmingham University, 1905–1908.
|  | Mantineia (in part); Manuel I., Comnenus; Marathon (in part). |
| M. P. | Mark Pattison, LL.D.- See the biographical article: Pattison, Mark.
|  | Macaulay. |
| N. D. M. | Newton Dennison Mereness, A.M., Ph.D.- Author of Maryland as a Proprietary Province.
|  | Maryland. |
| N. V. | Joseph Marie Noel Valois.- Member of Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris. Honorary Archivist at the Archives Nationales. Formerly President of the Société de l’Histoire de France, and of the Société de l’École des Chartes.
|  | Marsilius of Padua; Martin I.-V.: Popes. |
| N. W. T. | Northcote Whitridge Thomas, M.A.- Government Anthropologist to Southern Nigeria. Corresponding Member of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. Author of Thought Transference; Kinship and Marriage in Australia; &c.
|  | Lycanthropy; Magic. |
| O. R. | Osborne Reynolds, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. M.Inst.C.E.- Formerly Professor of Engineering, Victoria University, Manchester. Honorary Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge.
|  | Lubrication. |
| P. A. A. | Philip A. Ashworth, M.A., Doc. Juris.- New College, Oxford. Barrister-at-Law.
|  | Lübeck (in part). |
| P. A. K. | Prince Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin.- See the biographical article: Kropotkin, Prince, P. A.
|  | Maritime Province (in part). |
| P. G. | Percy Gardner, M.A., Litt.D., LL.D.- See the biographical article: Gardner, Percy.
|  | Lysippus. |
| P. Gi. | Peter Giles, M.A., LL.D., Litt.D.- Fellow and Classical Lecturer of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and University Reader in Comparative Philology. Formerly Secretary of the Cambridge Philological Society.
|  | M. |