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=Gurowski, Adam.= _Po._, 1805-1866. A Polish count who came to the United States in 1849, and was employed as a translator in the state department at Washington. La Civilisation et la Russie; Pensées sur l’Avenir des Polonais; Aus meinem Gedankenbuche; Eine Tour durch Belgien; Impressions et Souvenirs; Die letzen Ereignisse in den drei Theilen des alten Polen; Le Panslavisme; Russia as It Is; The Turkish Question; A Year of the War (1855); America and Europe; Slavery in History; My Diary, 1861-66.

=Gurteen, Stephen Humphreys Villiers.= _E._, 1840-1898. An Episcopal clergyman of Buffalo, Toledo, and elsewhere, prominent as an organizer of charities. Phases of Charity; Provident Schemes; What is Charity Organization; How Paupers are Made; Casuistry; The Arthurian Epic; Epic of the Fall of Man. _Put._

=Gustafson, Axel.= “Carl Johan.” _Sn._, 1849- ----. A Swedish writer who came to the United States in 1868, and has published The Foundation of Death: a Study of The Drink Question; The Drink Problem; Some Thoughts on Moderation. _Fu._

=Gustafson, Mrs. Zadel [Barnes] [Buddington].= _Ct._, 1841- ----. Wife of A. Gustafson, _supra_. Meg: a Pastoral, and Other Poems; Can the Old Love? a novel; Genevieve Ward, a Biography. _Le._

=Gutheim, James Koppel.= _Wa._, 1817-1886. A Jewish clergyman of New Orleans who published The Temple Pulpit, a volume of sermons; and a translation of Gratz’s History of the Jews.

=Guyot= [ḡe-o´], =Arnold Henry.= _Sd._, 1807-1884. A geographer of distinction who came to America in 1849, and from 1854 until his death was professor of geography at Princeton College. He was the founder of the Princeton Museum. Earth and Man; Creation, or the Biblical Cosmogony in the Light of Modern Science; Physical Geography; Social Economy. _See Memoir by J. A. Dana, supra._ _Scr._

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=Habberton, John.= _L. I._, 1842- ----. A journalist of New York city whose first book, Helen’s Babies, enjoyed a popularity out of all proportion to its literary merit. His subsequent writings include Other People’s Children; The Barton Experiment; The Jericho Road; Who was Paul Grayson?; The Scripture Club of Valley Rest; The Bowsham Puzzle; Brueton’s Bayou; Country Luck; Grown-Up Babies; Life of Washington; Some Folks; My Mother-in-Law; Mrs. Mayburn’s Twins; The Worst Boy in Town; The Chautauquans; All He Knew; Honey and Gall; The Lucky Lover. _Fl. Fu. Har. Ho. Lip._

=Habersham, Alexander Wylly.= _N. Y._, 1826-1883. A naval officer who in later life was a tea merchant in Japan, and the author of My Last Cruise, an Account of the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. _Lip._

=Hackett, Horatio Balch.= _Ms._, 1808-1875. A Baptist clergyman, professor at Newton Seminary, Massachusetts, 1839-70, and from 1870 till his death professor in Rochester Seminary, New York. He was one of the American Revisers of the Bible, and editor of Smith’s Bible Dictionary. A Commentary on the Original Text of the Acts of the Apostles is his chief work. Others are, Memorials of Christian Men in the War; Illustrations of Scripture by a Tour in the Holy Land. _See Memorials of, 1876._

=Hackett, James Henry.= _N. Y._, 1800-1871. A popular actor, noted for his impersonation of Falstaff. Notes and Comments on Shakespeare.

=Hackley, Charles William.= 1808-1861. An Episcopal clergyman who was professor of mathematics at Columbia College from 1843 until his death. Treatise on Algebra; Elementary Course in Geometry; Elements of Trigonometry.

=Haddock, Charles Brickett.= _N. H._, 1796-1861. Nephew of D. Webster, _infra_. A professor of rhetoric at Dartmouth College, 1819-50, and chargé d’affaires in Portugal, 1850-54. He originated the railway system of New Hampshire, and also the system of common schools in that State. His Addresses and Miscellaneous Writings appeared in 1840.

=Hadley, Arthur Twining.= _Ct._, 1856- ----. Son of J. Hadley, _infra_. President of Yale University from 1899; previously a professor of political science there. Private Property and Public Welfare; Railroad Transportation, its History and Laws; Report on the System of Weekly Payments. _Put._

=Hadley, James.= _N. Y._, 1821-1872. A philologist who was Greek professor at Yale University, 1848-72. Lectures on Roman Law; A Greek Grammar; Elements of the Greek Language; Essays, Philological and Critical; Brief History of the English Language. _See The New Englander, January, 1873._ _Ap._

=Hageman, Samuel Miller.= _N. J._, 1848- ----. Grandson of S. Miller, _infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman who has published Once, a novel; and several volumes of poems, including Vesper Voices; Greenwood, and Other Poems; Silence; Saint Paul.

=Hagen, Hermann August.= _P._, 1817-1893. An entomologist of prominence who came to Cambridge from Königsberg in 1870, and was professor of comparative zoölogy at Harvard University. Catalogue of Neuropterous Insects in the British Museum; Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America; North American Astacidæ; Some Insect Deformities.

=Hagen, Theodor von.= _G._, 1823-1871. A musician who came to New York city from Germany in 1854. Civilisation und Musik; Musikalische Novellen.

=Hager, Albert David.= _Vt._, 1817-1888. A geologist, from 1877 librarian of the Chicago Historical Society. Geology of Vermont (with C. H. Hitchcock, _infra_); Economic Geology of Vermont.

=Hager, Mrs. Lucie Caroline [Gilson].= _Ms._, 1853- ----. A Massachusetts writer who has published Boxborough, a New England Town and its People.

=Hagert, Henry Schell.= _Pa._, 1826-1885. A noted _nisi prius_ lawyer of Philadelphia. Poems, with Memoir by C. A. Lagen (1886).

=Hague, Arnold.= _Ms._, 1840- ----. Son of W. Hague, _infra_. A geologist in the government service. Volcanoes of California, Oregon, and Washington; Volcanic Rocks of the Great Basin; Nevada, with Notes on the Geology of the District; Volcanic Rocks of Salvador; Crystallization in the Igneous Rocks of Washoe.

=Hague, James Duncan.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. Son of W. Hague, _infra_. An engineer attached to the United States Geological Survey who has published a work on Mining Industry.

=Hague, Mrs. Parthenia Antoinette [Vardaman].= _Ga._, 1838- ----. A Florida writer. A Blockaded Family; Life in Southern Alabama during the Civil War. _Hou._

=Hague, William.= _N. Y._, 1808-1887. A Baptist clergyman of Boston and elsewhere. Christianity and Statesmanship; The Baptist Church Transplanted from the Old World to the New; Guide to Conversion; Home Life; Authority of the Christian Sabbath; Self-Witnessing Character of the New Testament; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Life Notes, or Fifty Years’ Outlook. _Le._

=Haldeman= [hŏl´de-man], =Samuel Stehman.= _Pa._, 1812-1880. A professor of comparative philology in the University of Pennsylvania, 1869-81. Zoölogical Contributions; Analytical Orthography; Word-Building; Tours of a Chess Knight; Elements of Latin Pronunciation; Pennsylvania Dutch; Outlines of Etymology; Affixes in their Origin and Application; Rhymes of the Poets. _Lip._

=Hale, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1797-1863. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president of Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 1836-58. Introduction to the Mechanical Principles of Carpentry; Scriptural Illustrations of the Liturgy; Education in its Relations to a Free Government; Historical Notices of Geneva College (1849). _See Life of, by Malcolm Douglass, 1883._

=Hale, Charles Reuben.= _Pa._, 1837-1900. The Protestant Episcopal coadjutor bishop of Springfield, Illinois, with the title of Bishop of Cairo. The Mozarabic Liturgy; The Universal Episcopate; Speeches and Addresses.

=Hale, Edward Everett.= _Ms._, 1822- ----. A prominent Unitarian clergyman of Boston, widely known as a writer, whose literary activity covers a wide field. Since 1856 he has been pastor of the South Congregational Church, and his influence in civic life has been extensive. As a writer of short stories he will, perhaps, be longest remembered, his work in this direction including The Man Without a Country; Ten Times One is Ten; In His Name; Mrs. Merriam’s Scholars; His Level Best; The Ingham Papers; Four and Five; Crusoe in New York; Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; Christmas in Narragansett; Our Christmas in a Palace. Longer essays in fiction are, Margaret Percival in America; Mr. Tangier’s Vacations; Ups and Downs; Philip Nolan’s Friends; The Fortunes of Rachel. Other works of his are, Sketches in Christian History; Kansas and Nebraska; How To Do It; What Career?; Gone to Texas; Seven Spanish Cities; June to May, a collection of sermons; Boys’ Heroes; The Story of Massachusetts; Sybaris and Other Homes; Sunday-School Stories on the Golden Texts of 1889; For Fifty Years, a collection of poems; A New England Boyhood, an autobiographic work; Chautauquan History of the United States; If Jesus Came to Boston. _See Vedder’s American Writers. See, also, Hale, Susan._ _A. U. A. Cas. Fu. Lam. Rob. Scr._

=Hale, Edwin Moses.= _N. H._, 1826-1899. Nephew of Mrs. Sarah Hale, _infra_. A Chicago physician, professor in the Homœopathic College. Pocket Manual of Domestic Practice; Homœopathic Materia Medica; Treatment of Diseases of Women; Treatise on Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.

=Hale, Enoch.= _Ms._, 1790-1848. A physician in Boston, and a nephew of the patriot Nathan Hale. History of the Spotted Fever at Gardiner, Maine, in 1814; Typhoid Fever.

=Hale, Horatio.= _R. I._, 1817-1896. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hale, _infra_. A lawyer and ethnologist of prominence who lived in Clinton, Ontario, from 1856. Ethnology and Philology; Indian Migrations as Evidenced by Language; Report on the Blackfeet Tribes. He has edited the Iroquois Book of Rites.

=Hale, Lucretia Peabody.= _Ms._, 1820-1900. Sister of E. E. Hale, _supra_. A writer who is best known by her humourous juvenile books. The Peterkin Papers; The Last of the Peterkins. Her other works comprise The Lord’s Supper and its Observance; The Service of Sorrow; Sunday-School Stories for Little Children; Fagots for the Fireside, a collection of games; The Struggle for Life, a Story of Home; Art Needle Work; An Uncloseted Skeleton (with E. L. Bynner, _supra_); The New Harry and Lucy (with E. E. Hale). _Hou. Rob._

=Hale, Robert Beverly.= _Ms._, 1869-1895. Son of E. E. Hale, _supra_. Elsie and Other Poems; Six Stories and Some Verses.

=Hale, Salma.= _N. H._, 1787-1866. Brother-in-law of Mrs. Sarah Hale, _infra_. A New Hampshire jurist who represented his State in Congress in 1816. History of the United States; Annals of the Town of Keene. _Har._

=Hale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha [Buell].= _N. H._, 1788-1879. A once well-known writer of Philadelphia who was editor of The Lady’s Book for forty years. It was largely through her influence that Thanksgiving became a national festival. Among her numerous books Woman’s Record, a large biographical and critical work, is the most important. Others are, The Genius of Oblivion, and Other Poems; Northwood, a novel; Sketches of American Character; Traits of American Life; Flora’s Interpreter; The Way to Live Well; Grosvenor, a Tragedy; Manners, or Happy Homes; Love, or Woman’s Destiny, with Other Poems; The White Veil; The Judge, a drama; Three Hours, or the Vigil of Love; Harry Gray, a Sea Story; Alice Ray, a Romance in Rhyme. She also edited cookery books, compilations, annuals, and the letters of Madame de Sévigné and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Har._

=Hale, Susan.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. Sister of E. E. Hale, _supra_, and co-author with him of the Family Flight series of travels for young people. She has also published The Life and Letters of Thomas Gold Appleton, _supra_. _Ap. Lo. Rob._

=Hall, Abraham Oakey.= _N. Y._, 1826-1898. A once prominent Tammany politician of New York city, of which he was at one time mayor. He was subsequently on the staff of The World, but for many years lived in Europe. The Manhattaner in New Orleans; The Congressman’s Christmas Dream; Ballads; Old Whitey’s Christmas Trot, a story for the holidays. _Har._

=Hall, Arethusa.= _Ms._, 1802-1891. An educator in New England, and subsequently in the Packer Institute, Brooklyn. The poet Whittier was one of her early pupils. Manual of Morals; Life of Sylvester Judd; Memorials of S. Judd, Senior; Thoughts of Pascal, a translation. _See Memorial of, edited by F. E. Abbot, 1892._

=Hall, Arthur Crawshay Alliston.= _E._, 1847- ----. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont. He was for many years in charge of the mission of the Cowley Fathers in Boston. Confession and the Lambeth Conference; Meditations on the Creed; Meditations on the Collects; The Example of the Passion.

=Hall, Baynard Rush.= _Pa._, 1798-1863. An educator of New Jersey and New York. A Latin Grammar; The New Purchase of Life in the Far West, long a very popular book; Something for Everybody; Teaching a Science; The Teacher an Artist; Frank Freeman’s Barber’s Shop.

=Hall, Benjamin Franklin.= _N. Y._, 1814-1891. A New York jurist, chief justice of Colorado, 1861-64. The Land Owner’s Manual; The Republican Party; Methodism, its Source and Power.

=Hall, Benjamin Homer.= _N. Y._, 1830-1891. Brother of Fitzedward Hall, _infra_. A lawyer of Troy, New York. College Words and Customs; History of Eastern Vermont; Bibliography of the United States: Vermont.

=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, 1877-97; from 1897 president of Union Theological Seminary. Does God Send Trouble?; Into His Marvellous Light; The Children, the Church, and the Communion; Qualifications for Ministerial Power; The Gospel of the Divine Sacrifice. _Do. Hou._

=Hall, Charles Francis.= _N. H._, 1821-1871. An Arctic explorer. The Arctic Regions; Life Among the Esquimaux; Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition. _Har._

=Hall, Charles Henry.= _Ga._, 1820-1895. An Episcopal clergyman of Brooklyn, rector of Holy Trinity Church, 1869-95. Commentaries on the Gospel; Protestant Ritualism; Spina Christi; The Church of the Household; Valley of the Shadow.

=Hall, Charles Winslow.= _Ms._, 1843- ----. A lawyer of Minnesota. Arctic Rovings; Twice Taken; Adrift in the Ice-Fields; Drifting Around the World. _Le._

=Hall, Christopher Webber.= _Vt._, 1845- ----. Professor of geology and mineralogy in University of Minnesota, at Minneapolis, from 1878, and dean of the College of Engineering, Metallurgy, and Mechanic Arts. He has written many valuable professional papers, and a History of the University of Minnesota.

=Hall, Edward Henry.= _O._, 1831- ----. Stepson of Louisa Hall, _infra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Worcester, and subsequently of Cambridge. Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Christian Church; Lessons on the Life of Saint Paul; Discourses. _A. U. A. El._

=Hall, Edwin.= _N. Y._, 1802-1877. A Congregational clergyman, professor of theology in Auburn Seminary, 1854-77. The Law of Baptism; The Puritans and their Principles; Historical Records of Norwalk; Shorter Catechism with Proofs.

=Hall, Fitzedward.= _N. Y._, 1825-1901. A philologist of distinction who was inspector of schools in India, 1846-62, and in the latter year became professor of Sanskrit in King’s College, London. Recent Exemplifications of False Philology; Modern English; English Adjectives in -able with Special Reference to Reliable; Lectures on the Nyâya Philosophy; and several works in Sanskrit. _Scr._

=Hall, Mrs. Florence [Howe].= _Ms._, 1845- ----. Daughter of Mrs. J. W. Howe, _infra_. A writer of Plainfield, New Jersey. Social Customs; The Correct Thing in Good Society. _Est._

=Hall, Frederick.= _Vt._, 1780-1843. An educator who was professor of chemistry in Columbian College, Washington, at the time of his death. He published Letters from the East and from the West.

=Hall, Gertrude.= _Ms._, 1863- ----. A Boston writer of short stories and poems. Far from To-Day, a collection of strikingly original stories; Allegretto, a volume of verse; Foam of the Sea, and Other Tales; Verses. _Rob._

=Hall, Granville Stanley.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. An educator of note, president of Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1888. Aspects of German Culture; Hints Toward a Bibliography of Education (with J. M. Mansfield); How to Teach Reading.

=Hall, Harrison.= _Md._, 1785-1866. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, _infra_. A scientist of Philadelphia who in 1815 published a work on Distillation that was much commended in its day.

=Hall, Hiland.= _Vt._, 1795-1885. A jurist of Vermont and governor of that State, 1858-60, who wrote a History of Vermont to 1791.

=Hall, Isaac Hollister.= _Ct._, 1837-1896. Son of E. Hall, _supra_. A lawyer and Oriental scholar, lecturer on New Testament Greek in Johns Hopkins University, 1884-96. He published American Greek Testaments, a critical Bibliography.

=Hall, James.= _Pa._, 1744-1826. A Presbyterian clergyman in the Southern States. Narrative of a Most Extraordinary Work of Religion in North Carolina; Missionary Tour through the Mississippi and Southwest Country.

=Hall, James.= _Pa._, 1793-1868. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, _infra_. Letters from the West; Legends of the West; Tales of the Border; Sketches of the West; Notes on the Western States; Life of General Harrison; History of the Indian Tribes (with McKinney); The Wilderness and the War Path; The Harpe’s Head, a Legend of Kentucky; Romance of Western History. _See Allibone’s Dictionary; Bibliography of Ohio._ _Clke._

=Hall, James.= _Ms._, 1811-1898. A paleontologist of distinction, professor of geology at the Troy Polytechnic School from 1836, and State geologist of New York from 1837. Geology of the Fourth District of New York; Paleontology of New York; Geological Survey of Wisconsin; and many scientific monographs.

=Hall, John.= _Pa._, 1806-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman, pastor of the First Church in Trenton, New Jersey, from 1841, among whose writings are, Translation of Milton’s Latin Letters; History of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton; Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, _supra_; Sabbath-School Theology.

=Hall, John.= _I._, 1829-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman who came from Dublin to America in 1867, and became pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York city. All the Way Across; The Chief End of Man; Familiar Talks to Boys; Questions of the Day; God’s Word through Preaching; A Christian Home; Foundation Stones for Young Builders, include his principal writings. _Bar. Ran._

=Hall, John Elihu.= _Pa._, 1783-1829. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, _infra_. A lawyer and author of Philadelphia who edited The Portfolio, 1817-27. Memoirs of Eminent Persons; Practice and Jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty; Life of Dr. John Shaw; Tracts on Constitutional Law. _See A. H. Smyth’s Philadelphia Magazines, 1892._

=Hall, Mrs. Louisa Jane [Park].= _Ms._, 1802-1892. A writer of Providence. Miriam, a dramatic poem; Joanna of Naples, a tale; Life of Elizabeth Carter. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America._

=Hall, Samuel Read.= _N. H._, 1795-1877. An educator of Vermont who organized the first training-school for teachers in the United States. The Instructor’s Manual; Lectures on Education; Geography for Children.

=Hall, Mrs. Sarah [Ewing].= _Pa._, 1761-1830. A Philadelphia writer well known at one time as the author of Conversations on the Bible. Selections from her work were published in 1833, with Memoir by Harrison Hall, _supra_.

=Hall, Thomas Mifflin.= _Pa._, 1798-1828. A Philadelphia littérateur. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, _supra_.

=Hall, William Whitty.= _Ky._, 1810-1876. A physician of New York city, the founder of Hall’s Journal of Health. Health and Good Living; Health and Disease as Affected by Constipation; Fun Better than Physic; Consumption; Sleep; Guide-Board to Health; Coughs and Colds; Health at Home; How to Live Long; Dyspepsia; Treatise on Cholera; Bronchitis and Kindred Diseases. _Hou._

=Hallam, Robert Alexander.= _Ct._, 1807-1877. An Episcopal clergyman who was rector of St. James’s Church, New London, Connecticut, from 1835 till his death. Lectures on the Morning Prayer; Lectures on Moses; Sovereigns of Judah; Sermons; Annals of St. James’s.

=Halleck, Fitz-Greene.= _Ct._, 1790-1867. A poet who was for many years a clerk in a New York banking-house, and subsequently confidential adviser to John Jacob Astor. His verse has grace and sweetness, but is wanting in positive qualities, and has already largely passed out of remembrance. Marco Bozzaris is his most famous poem. Fanny; Alnwick Castle, and Other Poems. _See Life and Letters, by Grant Wilson; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant and his Friends; Appleton’s American Biography._ _Ap. Cr._

=Halleck, Henry Wager.= _N. Y._, 1816-1872. A major-general who was general-in-chief of the armies of the United States, 1862-64. Bitumen, its Varieties, Properties, and Uses; Mining Laws of Spain and Mexico; Elements of International Law (1866); Treatise on International Law (1861); Elements of Military Art and Science. _See Appleton’s American Biography._ _Lip._

=Halliday, Samuel Byram.= _N. J._, 1812-1897. A Congregational clergyman of Brooklyn, assistant of Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth Church for nearly twenty years. The Little Street Sweeper; The Lost and Found, or Life Among the Poor; Winning Souls; The Church in America and Its Baptisms of Fire (with D. S. Gregory, _supra_). _Fu._

=Hallock, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A journalist of New York city, founder of Forest and Stream. The Fishing Tourist; Camp Life in Florida; The Sportsman’s Gazetteer; Our New Alaska. _Har._

=Hallock, Mrs. Julia Isabel [Sherman].= _Ct._, 1846- ----. A Connecticut writer. Broken Notes from a Gray Nunnery, a study of country life. _Le._

=Hallock, Mrs. Mary Angelina [Ray] [Lathrop].= _Ms._, 1810- ----. Wife of W. A. Hallock, _infra_. A writer of Sunday-school books, including That Sweet Story of Old; Child’s History of the Fall of Jerusalem; Child’s Life of Daniel; The Story of Moses; Bethlehem and her Children; Beasts and Birds; Child’s History of Solomon; Life of the Apostle Paul.

=Hallock, William Allen.= _Ms._, 1794-1880. A Congregational clergyman, secretary of the American Tract Society, 1825-70. Life of Harlan Page; Moses Hallock; Justin Edwards, _supra_, and several very popular tracts.

=Hallowell, Richard Price.= _Pa._, 1835-1904. A wool merchant of Boston who wrote The Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts; The Pioneer Quakers. _Hou._

=Halpine, Charles Graham.= “Miles O’Reilly.” _I._, 1829-1868. A journalist of New York city who came to America in 1852 and served during the Civil War as a colonel in the Federal army. Lyrics; Poems; Miles O’Reilly Papers; Life and Adventures of Private Miles O’Reilly; Baked Meats of the Funeral. His Poetical Works, edited by R. B. Roosevelt, _infra_, appeared in 1869. _See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 24; Appleton’s American Biography._ _Har._

=Halsey, Leroy Jones.= _Va._, 1812-1896. A Presbyterian clergyman, from 1859 professor in Chicago Theological Seminary. The Literary Attractions of the Bible; The Life and Pictures of the Bible; The Beauty of Emmanuel; Living Christianity; Scotland’s Influence on Civilization.

=Halstead, Murat.= _O._, 1829- ----. A journalist of note, editor and proprietor of The Commercial of Cincinnati, and since 1890 of The Standard Union, Brooklyn. Caucuses of 1860; Life of William McKinley.

=Halsted, Byron David.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. An agricultural writer, since 1884 professor of botany in Iowa Agricultural College. A Century of American Weeds; The Vegetable Garden; Farm Conveniences; Household Conveniences.

=Halsted, George Bruce.= _N. J._, 1853- ----. Grandson of O. S. Halsted, _infra_. A professor of mathematics in the University of Texas from 1887, and a mathematician of prominence. Metrical Geometry, a Treatise on Mensuration; Elements of Geometry; Synthetic Geometry; Number, Discrete and Continuous. _See Bibliography of Texas._ _Gi. Wil._

=Halsted, Oliver Spencer.= _N. J._, 1792-1877. A jurist of Newark, New Jersey. The Theology of the Bible; The Book called Job.

=Ham, Charles Henry.= _N. H._, 1831-1902. A lawyer and journalist of Chicago. Manual Training: the Solution of Social and Industrial Problems. _Har._

=Ham, Marion Franklin.= _O._, 1867- ----. A verse-writer of Chattanooga. The Golden Shuttle, and Other Poems.

=Hamersley, Lewis Randolph.= _D. C._, 1847- ----. A lieutenant in the United States marine corps. Records of Living Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps (1890); Naval Encyclopædia.

=Hamilton, Alexander.= _W. I._, 1757-1804. A statesman who ranks as the ablest political writer of his day in America. In 1789 he became the first secretary of the United States Treasury, and his first Report on the Public Credit was one of the most notable of national state papers. He was the principal contributor to The Federalist, 51 of its 85 articles being by him alone, and he assisted Washington in preparing the latter’s Farewell Address. _See Complete Works, including The Federalist, edited by H. C. Lodge, infra, 1885; Lives, by Williams, 1804; J. C. Hamilton, infra, 1840; Renwick, 1841; Smucker, 1856; J. T. Morse, Jr., 1876; Shea, 1879; Lodge, 1882; Hamilton and his Contemporaries, Richtmueller; Shea’s Historical Study of Hamilton; Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana, Ford, 1886._ _Ap. Put._

=Hamilton, Alice King.= 18-- - ----. A novelist. Mildred’s Cadet; One of the Duanes. _Lip._

=Hamilton, Allen McLane.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A physician of New York city. Clinical Electro-Therapeutics; Nervous Diseases; Medical Jurisprudence; Types of Insanity; The Modern Treatment of Headaches. _Ap._

=Hamilton, Edward John.= _I._, 1834- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of philosophy in the State University of Washington. The general system of philosophy advocated by him is best defined by the term Perceptional. The Human Mind; Mental Science; The Modalist, or the Laws of Rational Thought; A New Analysis in Fundamental Modes, a short treatise in ethics. _Gi._

=Hamilton, Frank Hastings.= _Vt._, 1813-1886. A distinguished surgeon of New York city, for many years professor in Bellevue Hospital. Strabismus; Fractures and Dislocations; Military Surgery; Principles and Practice of Surgery; Surgical Memories of the War of the Rebellion.

=Hamilton, Gail.= _See Dodge, Abigail._

=Hamilton, James Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1788-1878. Third son of A. Hamilton, _supra_. A lawyer of New York city. Reminiscences during Three Quarters of a Century; Martin Van Buren’s Calumnies Repudiated.

=Hamilton, John Church.= _Pa._, 1792-1882. The fourth son of A. Hamilton, _supra_. A lawyer in New York city. Memoirs of Alexander Hamilton; History of the Republic; The Prairie Province. He edited his father’s works.

=Hamilton, John William.= _W. Va._, 1845- ----. A Methodist clergyman who founded the People’s Church in Boston. Memorials of Jesse Lee; Lives of the Methodist Bishops; People’s Church Pulpit.

=Hamilton, Kate Waterman.= “Fleeta.” _N. Y._, 1841- ----. An Illinois writer of Sunday-school and other fictions. Among them are, The Old Brown House; Frederick Gordon; Wood, Hay, and Stubble; Rachel’s Share of the Road, a Novel; The Parson’s Proxy. _Hou._

=Hamilton, Robert S----.= 18-- - ----. Present Status of Social Science; Present Status of the Philosophy of Society.

=Hamilton, Schuyler.= _N. Y._, 1822-1903. Son of J. C. Hamilton, _supra_. A major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. History of the American Flag; Our National Flag.

=Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster.= _Ty._, 1855- ----. Son of Cyrus Hamlin, _infra_. An architect, professor of architecture in Columbia College from 1889. Handbook of the History of Ornament.

=Hamlin, Augustus Choate.= _Me._, 1829- ----. A surgeon of Bangor. Martyria, or Andersonville Prison; The Tourmaline; Leisure Hours Among the Gems. _Hou._

=Hamlin, Charles.= _Me._, 1837- ----. Cousin of A. C. Hamlin, and son of Hannibal Hamlin, who was vice-president of the United States, 1861-65. He was an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War, and has published The Insolvent Laws of Maine.

=Hamlin, Cyrus.= _Me._, 1811-1900. A Congregationalist missionary in Turkey, 1837-60, president of Robert College, Constantinople, 1860-76, and of Middlebury College, Vermont, 1880-85. Papists and Protestants; Arithmetic for Americans; Cholera and Its Treatment; Among the Turks; My Life and Times (1893). _C. P. S._

=Hamlin, Teunis Slingerland.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Washington. Denominationalism versus Christian Union. _Rev._

=Hamline, Leonidas Lent.= _Ct._, 1797-1865. A Methodist bishop prominent in Ohio. Sermons; Works, edited by F. G. Hibbard.

=Hammett, Samuel A----.= “Philip Paxton.” _Ct._, 1816-1865. A journalist of New York city. A Stray Yankee in Texas; The Wonderful Adventures of Captain Priest, are among his works.

=Hammond, Anthony.= 18-- - ----. Law of Nisi Prius; Parties to Actions; Principles of Pleading; Reports in Equity; Criminal Code: Forgery; Practice and Proceedings in Parliament; Index to Tennessee Reports; Criminal Code: Simple Larceny.

=Hammond, Edward Payson.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A noted evangelist who has been a prolific author of religious books and tracts. Among his hundred or more publications are, Good Will to Men; Sketches of Palestine; The Conversion of Children; Gathered Lambs. _See Reaper and Harvest, by P. C. Headley, infra._ _Fu. Rev._

=Hammond, Mrs. Henrietta [Hardy].= “Henri Dangé.” _Va._, 1854-1883. A Southern writer of fiction. The Georgians; A Fair Philosopher; Her Waiting Heart; Woman’s Secrets, or How to be Beautiful. _Hou._

=Hammond, Jabez D.= _Ms._, 1778-1855. A jurist of New York State. The Political History of New York; Life of Julius Melbourn; Life of Silas Wright; Evidence of the Immortality of the Soul.

=Hammond, James Henry.= _S. C._, 1807-1864. A South Carolina politician, governor of his State, 1842-47, and United States Senator, 1857-60. Owing to a speech of his in Congress in which the term “mudsills” was used, he was afterwards known as “Mudsill Hammond.” He published The Pro-Slavery Argument.

=Hammond, Marcus Claudius Marcellus.= _S. C._, 1814-1876. Brother of J. H. Hammond, _supra_. A United States army officer whose home was in South Carolina, and who published A Critical History of the Mexican War.

=Hammond, William Alexander.= _Md._, 1828-1900. An eminent physician of New York city, surgeon-general of the United States army, 1862-64; later on the retired list as brigadier-general and surgeon-general. His medical writings include Military Hygiene; Physiological Essays; Sleep and its Derangements; Nervous Derangements; Physiological Memoirs; Lectures on Venereal Diseases; Wakefulness; Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations; Physics and Physiology of Spiritualism; Diseases of the Nervous System; Insanity and its Medical Relations; Sexual Impotence in the Male; Cerebral Hyperæmia; Neurological Contributions. His novels include Robert Severne; Lal; Dr. Grattan; Mr. Oldmixon; A Strong-Minded Woman; On the Susquehanna. _Ap. Lip._

=Hanaford, Mrs. Phebe Ann [Coffin].= _Ms._, 1829- ----. A Universalist minister, the first woman to enter the ministry in the Universalist denomination. Since 1887 she has been in charge of a church at New Haven. Life of Abraham Lincoln; Life of George Peabody; Lucretia the Quakeress; Leonette, or Truth Sought and Found; The Best of Books and its History; Frank Nelson the Runaway Boy; The Soldier’s Daughter; Field, Gunboat, and Hospital; Women of the Century; The Captive Boy of Tierra del Fuego; Life of Dickens; From Shore to Shore, and Other Poems. _Mer._

=Hancock, Anson Uriel.= 18-- - ----. The Genius of Galilee, an historical novel; John Auburntop, Novelist; Old Abraham Jackson, a Nebraska Story. _Ke._

=Hanson, Edgar Filmore.= _Me._, 1853- ----. Demonology or Spiritualism, Ancient and Modern.

=Hanson, John Wesley.= _Ms._, 1823- ----. A Universalist clergyman, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, Chicago, 1869-84. Histories of Danvers, Norridgewock, and Gardiner, in Maine; Bible Threatenings Explained; Cloud of Witnesses, a compilation; Aion Aionos; Bible Proofs of Universal Salvation; Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer; The Leaven at Work; The New Covenant, a translation of the New Testament.

=Hapgood, Isabel Florence.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. A writer and translator of New York city. The Epic Songs of Russia; Russian Rambles; translations of Gogol and Victor Hugo. _Hou. Scr._

=Harbaugh= [har´baw], =Henry.= _Pa._, 1817-1867. A German Reformed clergyman of Pennsylvania, professor in Mercersburg Seminary, whose principal writings include Fathers of the German Reformed Church in Europe and America; The Heavenly Home; Christological Theology; The True Glory of Woman; Heaven, or the Sainted Dead; Birds of the Bible; The Golden Censer; Union with the Church.

=Harbaugh, Thomas Chalmers.= _Md._, 1849- ----. A popular verse-writer of Casstown, Ohio, whose only published collection of poems is entitled Maple Leaves.

=Harby, Isaac.= _S. C._, 1788-1828. A dramatist of Charleston whose plays include Alexander Severus; The Gordian Knot; Alberti. _See Life by H. L. Pinckney, 1829._

=Harby, Mrs. Lee [Cohen].= _S. C._, 1849- ----. A New York writer, formerly of Texas, who has published Christmas Before the War. _See Bibliography of Texas._

=Hardee, William Joseph.= _Ga._, 1815-1873. A Confederate general who was the author of a well-known work on Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics. _See Southern Generals, by W. P. Snow._

=Hardie, James.= _S._, _c._ 1750-1832. An educator of New York city. Corderii Colloquia; Epistolary Guide; Freeman’s Monitor; Wonders of Art and Nature, especially in America; Biographical Dictionary; Malignant Fevers in New York; Viris Illustribus Urbis Romæ; Description of New York City.

=Hardy, Arthur Sherburne.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. A professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College 1878-93, well known both as novelist and mathematician. Elements of Quaternions; New Methods in Surveying; Elements of Analytic Geometry; Elements of Calculus; But Yet A Woman; The Wind of Destiny; Passe Rose; Joseph Hardy Neesima, a biography. _See London Academy, June 30, 1883._ _Gi. Hou._

=Hare, George Emlen.= _Pa._, 1808-1892. Son of R. Hare, _infra_. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of biblical learning in the Philadelphia Divinity School from 1852. Christ to Return; Visions and Narratives of the Old Testament, a volume of sermons. _Dut._

=Hare, John Innes Clark.= _Pa._, 1816- ----. Son of R. Hare, _infra_. A noted Philadelphia jurist. Treatise on Contracts; New England Exchequer Reports; American Constitutional Law. _Lit._

=Hare, Robert.= _Pa._, 1781-1858. A once prominent Philadelphia scientist who made a number of important discoveries, and contributed frequently to scientific journals. Brief View of Policy and Resources of the United States; Spiritualism Scientifically Demonstrated; Chemical Apparatus and Scientific Manipulations.

=Hargrove, Robert Kenyon.= _Al._, 1829- ----. A bishop of the Methodist Church South from 1882. Laws of the Methodist Episcopal Church South as Interpreted by the College of Bishops.

=Hark, J[oseph] Max[imilian].= _Pa._, 1849- ----. A Moravian clergyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Unity of Truth in Christianity and Evolution. He has translated and edited from the German The Chronicon Ephratense.

=Harkey, Sidney Levi.= _N. C._, 1827- ----. A Lutheran clergyman whose writings include The Signs of the Times; The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints; Thorough Education; Agnosticism; National Blessings and Dangers.

=Harkey, Simon Walcher.= _N. C._, 1811-1889. A Lutheran clergyman of Illinois. True Wisdom Triumphant; Justification by Faith; The Church’s Best State, are among his writings.

=Harkness, Albert.= _Ms._, 1822- ----. An educator of Providence, professor of Greek in Brown University from 1855. He has published Complete Latin Course for the First Year, and many Greek and Latin text-books.

=Harkness, James.= _S._, 1803-1878. A Presbyterian clergyman who emigrated from Scotland in 1839, and was a pastor in Jersey City, 1862-78. Messiah’s Throne and Kingdom was his only published work.

=Harkness, William.= _S._, 1837- ----. Son of J. Harkness, _supra_. A mathematician of distinction who has published Magnetic Observations on the Monadnock.

=Harlan, George Cuvier.= _Pa._, 1835- ----. Son of R. Harlan, _infra_. A Philadelphia physician who has made a specialty of diseases of the eye, and is the author of Eyesight and How to Take Care of It.

=Harlan, Richard.= _Pa._, 1796-1843. A physician and naturalist of Philadelphia. Observations on the Genus Salamandra; Fauna Americana; American Herpetology; Medical and Physical Researches.

=Harland, Henry.= “Sidney Luska.” _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A novelist of New York city who removed to London, and has there edited The Yellow Book. Grandison Mather; Mea Culpa; As It Was Written; Mrs. Peixada; The Land of Love; The Yoke of the Thorah; My Uncle Florimond; Grey Roses. _Cas. Rob._

=Harland, Marion.= _See Terhune, Mrs._

=Harman, Henry Martyn.= _Md._, 1822-1897. A Methodist clergyman, professor in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1870. Journey to Egypt and the Holy Land; Introduction to Study of the Scriptures. _Meth._

=Harney, John Milton.= _Del._, 1789-1825. A Savannah journalist who became a Dominican monk. He published Crystallina, a fairy tale in verse, and his other poems appeared posthumously in periodicals.

=Harney, William Wallace.= _Ia._, 1831- ----. A journalist and verse-writer of Florida whose poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies, but have not been gathered into book form.

=Harper, Robert Goodloe.= _Va._, 1765-1825. A once noted South Carolina and Maryland statesman. Letters on the Proceedings of Congress; Letters to Constituents. His Select Works appeared in 1814.

=Harper, William Rainey.= _O._, 1856- ----. A Baptist clergyman, president of the University of Chicago. Elements of Hebrew; Elements of Hebrew Syntax; Hebrew Vocabularies; An Introductory New Testament, Greek Method (with R. F. Weidner). _Scr._

=Harrigan, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. An actor and playwright of New York city among whose many plays of low life in the metropolis are, Squatter Sovereignty; Cordelia’s Aspirations.

=Harriman, Walter.= _N. H._, 1817-1884. A New Hampshire politician, governor of his state, 1867-68, and during the Civil War a Federal officer. History of Warner, New Hampshire; Travels and Observations in the Orient. _See Life by Amos Hadley._ _Le._

=Harrington, Mark Walrod.= _Il._, 1848- ----. A scientist, professor of astronomy in the University of Michigan. The Analysis of Plants; Identification of Crude Drugs.

=Harris, Amanda Bartlett.= _N. H._, 1824- ----. A writer whose life has been mainly spent at her birthplace, Warner, New Hampshire. Christ our Friend; Thy Will be Done; The Duty of Uniting with the Church; Summer’s Autographs; How we went Birds’-Nesting, republished as Field, Wood, and Meadow Rambles; Wild Flowers and Where They Grow; Door-yard Folks; Pleasant Authors for Young Folks; American Authors for Young Folks; The Luck of Edenhall. She has contributed much to periodical literature, and has written reviews for The (Boston) Literary World from 1877. _Lo._

=Harris, Chapin A----.= _N. Y._, 1806-1866. A dentist of Baltimore, founder of the Baltimore Dental College. Principles of Dental Surgery; Characteristics of the Human Teeth; Diseases of the Maxillary Sinus; Dictionary of Dental Science.

=Harris, George.= _Me._, 1844- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts, professor of Christian theology in Andover Theological Seminary since 1883, and one of the editors of “The Andover Review,” 1884-93. Editor (with W. J. Tucker and E. K. Glezen) of Hymns of the Faith. Author of Moral Evolution. _Hou._

=Harris, George Washington.= _Pa._, 1814-1869. A Tennessee River steamboat captain who contributed humourous and political articles to newspapers. Sut Lovengood’s Yarns were published in 1867.

=Harris, Joel Chandler.= _Ga._, 1848- ----. An Atlanta journalist, editor of The Constitution, celebrated as the author of Uncle Remus, a unique character study of the Southern negro as well as a notable contribution to the literature of folk-lore. His writings include Uncle Remus: his Songs and his Sayings; Nights with Uncle Remus; Uncle Remus and his Friends; Mingo, and Other Sketches in Black and White; Balaam and his Master, and Other Sketches; Little Mr. Thimblefinger, a juvenile; Mr. Rabbit at Home, a juvenile; The Story of Aaron, a juvenile; Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches; Evening Tales, from the French of Fréderic Ortoli; Stories of Georgia; Sister Jane, her Friends and Acquaintances; Georgia, from the Invasion of De Soto to Recent Times. _See Chautauquan, October, 1896._ _Ap. Hou. Scr._

=Harris, Mrs. Miriam [Coles].= _L. I._, 1834- ----. A novelist of New York city whose first story, Rutledge, was very popular. Later works are, Richard Vandermarck; The Sutherlands; St. Philip’s; Happy-Go-Lucky; Missy; Frank Warrington; A Perfect Adonis; Phœbe; An Utter Failure; Louie’s Last Term at St. Mary’s; The Rosary for Lent, a compilation. _Ap. Hou._

=Harris, Samuel.= _Me._, 1814-1899. A Congregational clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Yale University from 1871. Zaccheus, or the Scriptural Plan of Benevolence; The Kingdom of Christ on Earth; The Philosophic Basis of Theism; The Self-Revelation of God; Christ’s Prayer for the Death of His Redeemed; God: Creator and Lord of All. _See Andover Review, February, 1884. Scr._

=Harris, Samuel Smith.= _Al._, 1841-1888. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Michigan. The Dignity of Man; Christianity and Civil Society; Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality; Shelton, a novel. _Mg. Wh._

=Harris, Thaddeus Mason.= _Ms._, 1768-1842. A Unitarian clergyman of Dorchester from 1793 until his death. Discourses in Favor of Freemasonry; Journal of a Tour in the Northwest Territory (1805); Memorials of the First Church at Dorchester; Biographical Memoirs of James Oglethorpe; Natural History of the Bible.

=Harris, Thaddeus William.= _Ms._, 1795-1856. Son of T. M. Harris, _supra_. An entomologist and physician who was librarian of Harvard University from 1831. He published Systematic Catalogue of the Insects of Massachusetts, and a valuable work on Insects Injurious to Vegetation.

=Harris, Thomas Lake.= _E._, 1823- ----. A mystical philosopher who founded the Brotherhood of the New Life, which had its home at Salem-on-Erie, near Brocton, New York. He has since lived in California. Among his writings are included Epics of the Starry Heavens; Modern Spiritualism; Lyric of the Morning Land; Truth and Life in Jesus; The Millennium Age; Arcana of Christianity; The Wisdom of the Adepts; God’s Breath in Man. _See Life of Laurence Oliphant, by Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant._

=Harris, William Logan.= _O._, 1817-1887. A Methodist bishop of prominence as educator and missionary. The Powers of the General Conference; Ecclesiastical Law (with W. J. Henry); Relation of Episcopacy to the General Conference. _Meth._

=Harris, William Torrey.= _Ct._, 1835- ----. A speculative philosopher and educator of Washington city, a translator of Hegel, and editor of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy; since 1889 United States commissioner of education. The Spiritual Sense of Dante’s Divina Commedia; Method of Study of Social Science; How to Teach Social Science; Hegel’s Logic, a critical exposition; Introduction to the Study of Philosophy. _Ap. Hou. Sc._

=Harrison, Mrs. Burton.= _See Harrison, Mrs. Constance._

=Harrison, Mrs. Constance [Cary].= _Va._, 1846- ----. A novelist and miscellaneous writer of New York city. Story of Helen Troy; Woman’s Handiwork in Modern Homes; An Edelweiss of the Sierras, and Other Tales; Bar Harbor Days; The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book; Folk and Fairy Tales; Anglomania; An Errant Wooing; A Virginia Cousin; Bric-a-Brac Stories; A Bachelor Maid; Sweet Bells Out of Tune; Crow’s Nest and Belhaven Tales; Externals of Modern New York. _Bar. Cent. Har. Scr._

=Harrison, Gabriel.= _Pa._, 1818-1902. A Brooklyn dramatist and instructor in elocution. Life of John Howard Payne; The Stratford Bust, a Critical Inquiry as to its Authenticity; Melanthia; Dartmore, are among his writings.

=Harrison, George Leib.= _Pa._, 1811-1885. A philanthropist of Philadelphia. Chapters on Social Science; Legislation on Insanity, a compilation of lunacy laws.

=Harrison, Gessner.= _Va._, 1807-1862. A once noted educator of Virginia. Exposition of some Laws of Greek Grammar; On Greek Prepositions.

=Harrison, Hall.= _Md._, 1837-1900. An Episcopal clergyman and educator. From 1865 to 1879 he was a master in St. Paul’s School at Concord, and after the latter date rector of St. John’s church at Ellicott City, Maryland. Life of Hugh Davy Evans, _supra_; Life of Bishop Kerfoot.

=Harrison, James Albert.= _Mi._, 1848- ----. An educator in Virginia, since 1876 a professor of languages at Washington and Lee University. Greek Vignettes; Spain in Profile; The Rhine; French Syntax; The History of Spain; The Story of Greece; Autrefois, tales of Old New Orleans and Elsewhere; A Group of Poets and Their Haunts; Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (with W. M. Baskerville); Exodus and Daniel (with T. W. Hunt). _Hou. Lip. Lo. Mer. Put._

=Harrison, Jonathan Baxter.= _O._, 1835- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of New Hampshire. Certain Dangerous Tendencies in American Life; The Latest Studies on Indian Reservations. _Hou._

=Harrison, Joseph.= _Pa._, 1810-1874. A Philadelphia engineer and inventor, from 1843-52 employed in locomotive construction by the Russian government. Essay on the Steam Boiler; The Locomotive Engine and Philadelphia’s Share in its Early Improvements; The Iron Worker and King Solomon, a poem.

=Harrison, William Pope.= _Ga._, 1830- ----. A prominent clergyman of the Methodist Church South. Theophilus Walton, a controversial work; Lights and Shadows of Forty Years; The Living Christ; The High Churchman Disarmed; Methodist Union; The Gospel among the Slaves.

=Harrisse= [har-ēs´], =Henri.= _F._, 1830- ----. A bibliographer of New York city, of French birth, but long a citizen of the United States. Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima; Christophe Colombe; Jean et Sebastian Cabot; The Discovery of North America. _Do._

=Harsha, David Addison.= _N. Y._, 1827-1895. A writer in Argyle, New York. The Heavenly Token; The Star of Bethlehem; Manual of Sacred Literature; Lives of Charles Sumner, Doddridge, Baxter, Bunyan, Addison, James Hervey, Watts, Whitefield, Abraham Booth; Eminent Orators and Statesmen. _Co._

=Hart, Albert Bushnell.= _Pa._, 1854- ----. A professor of history in Harvard University. Coercive Powers of the United States Government; Introduction to the Study of Federal Government; Formation of the Union, 1750-1829; Studies in Education; Life of Salmon P. Chase; Practical Essays on American Government. _Fl. Hou. Lgs._

=Hart, Charles Henry.= _Pa._, 1847- ----. A lawyer and antiquarian of Philadelphia. Memoir of W. H. Prescott, _infra_; Biographical Sketch of Abraham Lincoln; Turner, the Dream Painter; Remarks on Tabasco, Mexico; Bibliographia Websteriana.

=Hart, James Morgan.= _N. J._, 1839- ----. Son of J. S. Hart, _infra_. A professor of Germanic languages at Cornell University from 1868. Handbook of English Composition; Syllabus of Anglo-Saxon Literature; German Universities. _Put._

=Hart, John Seely.= _Ms._, 1810-1877. An educator of New Jersey who was professor of rhetoric at Princeton College, 1872-77. Manuals of English and American Literature; Composition and Rhetoric; In the Schoolroom.

=Hart, Samuel.= _Ct._, 1845- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in Trinity College from 1868, who has published editions of Juvenal and Persius. Historical Sermons of Bishop Seabury.

=Harte, [Francis] Bret.= _N. Y._, 1839-1902. A Californian writer who first drew public attention in 1868 by a short story called The Luck of Roaring Camp, published in The Overland Monthly, which he edited. This tale, and the now famous poem, Plain Language from Truthful James, established his reputation. From 1871 to 1878 he resided in New York, and afterward he made his home abroad, but mainly in London from 1885. His writings include, Condensed Novels; The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches; Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands; Tales of the Argonauts; Gabriel Conroy; Two Men of Sandy Bar, a play; The Story of a Mine; Drift from Two Shores; Thankful Blossom; The Twins of Table Mountain; By Shore and Sedge; Flip, and Found at Blazing Star; In the Carquinez Woods; On the Frontier; Maruja; Snow-Bound at Eagle’s; The Queen of the Pirate Isle, a Child’s Story; A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready; The Crusade of the Excelsior; A Phyllis of the Sierras; The Argonauts of North Liberty; Cressy; The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh; A Waif of the Plains; A Ward of the Golden Gate; A Sappho of Green Springs; Colonel Starbottle’s Client; A First Family of Tasajara; Susy; A Protégé of Jack Hamlin’s; Sally Dows; The Bell-Ringer of Angel’s; Clarence; In a Hollow of the Hills; Barker’s Luck. In verse he has published East and West Poems; Echoes of the Foot Hills. _See Haweis’s American Humorists; Nichol’s American Literature; Vedder’s American Writers; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1896._ _Hou._

=Harte, Walter Blackburn.= _Ont._, 1866- ----. A littérateur who has published Meditations in Motley. _Ar._

=Hartley, Cecil B----.= 18-- -18--. Louis Wetzel, the Virginia Ranger; lives of Empress Josephine, Francis Marion, Daniel Boone; Hunting Spots in the West; Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons; Pictorial Teaching and Bible Illustration. _Co._

=Hartley, Isaac Smithson.= _N. Y._, 1830-1899. Son of R. M. Hartley, _infra_. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Utica since 1871. Prayer and its Relation to Modern Criticism; Old Fort Schuyler in History, are his principal works.

=Hartley, Robert Milham.= _E._, 1796-1881. A philanthropist who founded in 1842 the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. History, Science, and Practical Essay on Milk; Temperance in Large Cities and Towns.

=Hartshorne, Edward.= _Pa._, 1818-1885. A Philadelphia physician. Separate System for Criminals; Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery; an edition of Taylor’s Medical Jurisprudence, with Notes.

=Hartshorne, Henry.= _Pa._, 1823-1897. Brother of E. Hartshorne, _supra_. A Philadelphia physician, professor of organic science at Haverford College, 1867-97. Memoranda Medica; Essentials of Principles and Practice of Medicines; Family Adviser; Our Homes; Cholera; Household Manual; Handbook of Human Anatomy; Conspectus of the Medical Sciences; Glycerin and its Uses; Woman’s Witchcraft, a dramatic romance; Summer Songs. _Lip._

=Hartt, Charles Frederick.= _N. B._, 1840-1878. A professor of geology at Cornell University, 1868, and chief of the geological surveys in Brazil at the time of his death. Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil; Contributions to the Geology of the Lower Amazons; Amazonian Tortoise Myths.

=Hartzell, J[onas] Hazard.= _Pa._, 1830-1890. An Episcopal clergyman of Waverly, New York, but prior to 1881 a noted clergyman in the Universalist faith, for fourteen years a pastor in Buffalo. Wanderings on Parnassus, a collection of verse; Application and Achievement.

=Harvey, William Hope.= _W. Va._, 1851- ----. A writer on financial topics whose theories regarding unlimited coinage of silver have been popular with superficial thinkers. Coin’s Financial School; A Tale of Two Nations, a financial novel.

=Harwood, Andrew Allen.= _Pa._, 1802-1884. Son of J. E. Harwood, _infra_. A rear-admiral in the United States navy. Summary Courts Martial; Law and Practice of the United States Navy Courts Martial.

=Harwood, John Edmund.= _E._, 1771-1809. An English actor who came to the United States in 1793, and published a collection of Poems the year of his death.

=Hascall, Daniel.= _Vt._, 1782-1852. A Baptist clergyman of Hamilton, New York. Baptism; Elements of Theology; Analysis of Divine Revelation.

=Haskell, Daniel.= _Ct._, 1784-1848. A Congregational clergyman of Burlington, Vermont, who was subsequently a writer in Brooklyn. Gazetteer of the United States (with J. C. Smith); Chronological View of the World.

=Haskins, David Greene.= _Ms._, 1818-1896. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Cambridge. Selections from the Old and New Testament for Use in Families and Schools; French and English First Book; Maternal Ancestors of Ralph Waldo Emerson (his cousin).

=Hassard, John Rose Greene.= _N. Y._, 1836-1888. A New York journalist who was a literary critic on the staff of The Tribune. The King of the Nibelung; School History of the United States; Life of Archbishop Hughes, _infra_; Life of Pope Pius Ninth; A Pickwickian Pilgrimage. _Hou._

=Hassaurek, Friedrich.= _A._, 1832-1885. A journalist and lawyer of Cincinnati. Four Years Among the Spanish-Americans; The Secret of the Andes. _Clke._

=Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph.= _Sd._, 1770-1843. A noted surveyor in the government service who published System of the Universe and a series of works on astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry.

=Hastings, Horace Lorenzo.= _Ms._, 1831-1899. A Boston writer. Signs of the Times; Reasons for My Hope; Thessalonica; Atheism and Arithmetic, are his principal writings.

=Haswell, Charles Haynes.= _N. Y._, 1809- ----. A civil engineer of much prominence. Mechanics’ and Engineers’ Pocket Book; Mechanics’ Tables; Mensuration and Practical Geometry; Bookkeeping; History of the Steam Boiler; Reminiscences of New York from 1816 to 1855. _Ap. Har._

=Hatfield, Edwin Francis.= _N. J._, 1807-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman of St. Louis, and subsequently of New York city. Universalism As It Is; History of Elizabeth, New Jersey; St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope; The Poets of the Church. _Rev._

=Hathaway, Benjamin.= _N. Y._, 1822- ----. A verse-writer who was for many years a nurseryman and farmer. Art Life, and Other Poems; The League of the Iroquois; The Finished Creation, and Other Poems. _Ar._

=Haupt= [howpt], =Herman.= _Pa._, 1817- ----. An engineer of distinction who has held many important posts, and is the inventor of a drilling engine. Since 1875 the chief engineer of the Tide Water Pipe Line Company. Hints on Bridge Building; General Theory of Bridge Construction; Plan for Improvement of the Ohio River; Military Bridges; Street Railway Motors. _Ap. Bai._

=Haupt, Lewis Muhlenberg.= _Pa._, 1844- ----. Son of H. Haupt, _supra_. An engineer of Philadelphia, since 1872 professor of civil engineering in the University of Pennsylvania. Engineering Specifications and Contracts; Working Drawings and How to Make Them; The Topographer: his Methods and Instruments; Essays on Road Making. _Bai._

=Haven, Mrs. Alice [Bradley] [Neal].= “Cousin Alice.” _N. Y._, 1828-1863. A writer of juvenile tales which were very popular. Her later years were spent in New York city, but she formerly lived in Philadelphia, her first husband being J. C. Neal, _infra_. Among her writings are, No Such Word as Fail; Contentment Better than Wealth; Patient Waiting No Loss. _See Memoir; Harper’s Magazine, October, 1863._ _Ap._

=Haven, Erastus Otis.= _Ms._, 1820-1881. A Methodist bishop, chancellor of Syracuse University from 1874, and from 1863-69 president of the University of Michigan. Pillars of Truth; Young Man Advised; Rhetoric; American Progress. _Har. Meth._

=Haven, Gilbert.= _Ms._, 1821-1880. A Methodist bishop whose official residence was in Atlanta. National Sermons; The Pilgrim’s Wallet; Our Next-Door Neighbor, or Mexico of To-Day; Life of Father Taylor, the Sailor Preacher; Christus Consolator. _Meth._

=Haven, Joseph.= _Ms._, 1816-1874. A Congregational clergyman, a professor in the Chicago Theological Seminary, 1858-70. Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; History of Ancient and Modern Philosophy; Studies in Philosophy and Theology; Systematic Theology.

=Haven, Samuel Foster.= _Ms._, 1806-1881. An archæologist who was librarian of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester. Archæology of the United States; History of the Grants Under the Great Council for New England.

=Hawes, Joel.= _Ms._, 1789-1867. A prominent Congregational clergyman of Hartford, 1818-67. Lectures to Young Men; The Religion of the East; Looking-Glass for Ladies; Washington and Jay; Experimental and Practical Sermons; Tribute to the Pilgrims; Character Everything to the Young.

=Hawes, William Post.= _N. Y._, 1803-1842. A lawyer of New York city, author of Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches, published, with Memoir, by H. W. Herbert, _infra_.

=Hawkins, Benjamin Waterhouse.= _E._, 1807-1889. An English anatomist who removed to the United States in 1868. Popular Comparative Anatomy; Elements of Form; Comparative View of the Human and Animal Frame; Artistic Anatomy of the Horse; Artistic Anatomy of Cattle and Sheep; Artistic Anatomy of the Dog and Deer; Atlas of Comparative Osteology (with Huxley).

=Hawkins, Dexter Arnold.= _Me._, 1825-1886. A lawyer of New York city, an advocate of protection and similar political measures. Among his writings are, Traditions of Overlook Mountain; Free Trade and Protection; The Roman Catholic Church in New York City.

=Hawkins, Rush Christopher.= _Ct._, 1831- ----. Cousin of D. A. Hawkins, supra. A New York city lawyer who served as a colonel in the Federal army during the Civil War, and has since been a prominent advocate of political reforms. He has published The First Books and Printers of the 15th Century.

=Hawkins, William George.= _Md._, 1823- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Nebraska, prominent in the field of domestic missions. Life of J. H. Hawkins, his father, a noted temperance reformer; Lunsford Lane; History of the New York Freedmen’s Association.

=Hawks, Francis Lister.= _N. C._, 1798-1866. A once noted Episcopal clergyman, rector of churches in New York, New Orleans, and Baltimore. History of North Carolina; Reports of Cases in North Carolina Supreme Court; History of the Episcopal Church in Virginia and Maryland; The Romance of Biography; Cyclopædia of Biography; Egypt and its Monuments; Documentary History of the Episcopal Church.

=Hawley, Bostwick.= _N. Y._, 1814- ----. A Methodist clergyman of New York State. Close Communion; Manual of Methodism; The Shield of Faith; Dancing as an Amusement; The Lenten Season; Methodist Episcopacy Valid, include his chief works. _Meth._

=Hawley, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1819-1885. A Presbyterian clergyman of Auburn, New York. Early Chapters of Cayuga History; Sanitary Reforms; Memorial Discourses; Early Chapters of Seneca History.

=Hawthorne, Julian.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. Son of N. Hawthorne, _infra_. A novelist who has inherited much of his father’s originality, but whose work is often careless and hasty in construction and of ephemeral interest only. Bressant; Garth; Dust; Idolatry; Fortune’s Fool; Beatrix Randolph; Saxon Studies; Archibald Malmaison; Sebastian Strome; Noble Blood; Love, or a Name; Mrs. Gainsborough’s Diamonds; David Poindexter’s Disappearance, and Other Tales; A Dream and a Forgetting; Confessions and Criticisms; Constance; Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife; American Literature; The Trial of Gideon; Prince Saroni’s Wife; Love is a Spirit. _Ap. Fu. He. Hou._

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