PAIGNTON  , a seaside resort in the

Torquay parliamentary division of Devonshire, England, on Tar Bay, 24 m . S.W. of Torquay, on the Great Western railway . Pop. of urban district (1901), 8385 . The church of St John is mainly Perpendicular, 6 What the Fihrist (p . 13 seq.) has about various forms of Persian writing certainly refers in part at least to the species of Pahlavi . But the statements are hardly all reliable, and in the lack of trust• worthy specimens little can be made of them . This was finally proved by Olshausen, following earlier scholars; see J . Olshausen, Parthava and Pahlav, Mada and Mah (Berlin, 1877, and in the Monatsb. of the Academy) . ' Translations ed. by F . Spiegel (186o), the Bundahish by N . L . Westergaard (Copenhagen, 1851) and F. justi (Leipzig, 1868) ; other Pahlavi books by Spiegel and Haug, by Hoshangji, and other Indian Parsecs .

3 One other

book, the stories of Kalilag and Dainnag, in a Syriac version from the Pahlavi, the latter taken from the Sanskrit . but has a late Norman doorway, and contains a carved and painted pulpit, and in the Kirkham chapel several interesting monuments of the Kirkham family, and a beautiful though damaged stone screen . Among other buildings and institutions are a novitiate of Marist Fathers, a science and art school, a pier with pavilion and concert rooms, and a yacht club . Little remains of an old palace of the bishops of Exeter apart from the 14th-century Bible Tower . Its last tenant was Bishop Miles Coverdale, who in 1535 published the first English translation of the whole Bible . The town owes its popularity to a firm expanse of sand, good bathing facilities, and a temperate climate .