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=Holmes, Oliver Wendell.= _Ms._, 1809-1894. Son of A. Holmes, _supra_. A famous physician of Boston, widely known as poet, novelist, and essayist. He was born in Cambridge, and there and in Boston his life was almost entirely passed. From 1847 to 1882 he was professor of anatomy in Harvard University. His popularity dates from the founding of The Atlantic Monthly in 1857, in the earliest number of which he began the publication of the articles entitled The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Much of his verse was composed for especial occasions, and is more or less ephemeral in its nature; but his serious verse and his essays entitle him to a high place among American writers. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; The Professor at the Breakfast Table; The Poet at the Breakfast Table; Mechanism in Thought and Morals; Memoir of Motley; Over the Teacups; Our Hundred Days in Europe; Life of Emerson; Medical Essays; Elsie Venner; The Guardian Angel; A Mortal Antipathy; Currents and Counter Currents; Pages from an Old Volume of Life, comprise his prose works. In verse his publications include, Urania; Astræa; Songs in Many Keys; Songs of Many Seasons; The Iron Gate; The School-Boy; Before the Curfew. _See Lives by W. Kennedy, E. E. Brown, J. T. Morse; Haweis’s American Humourists; Nichol’s American Literature; Richardson’s American Literature; Stedman’s Poets of America; O. W. Holmes, by Walter Jerrold; Ashcroft Noble’s Impressions and Memories; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Harper’s Monthly, December, 1896._ _Hou._

=Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. Son of O. W. Holmes, _supra_. A jurist of Boston who has published The Common Law and edited Kent’s Commentaries. _Lit._

=Holst, Hermann Eduard von.= _Livonia_, 1841-1904. An historian who first came to America in 1866 and engaged in lecturing and writing, but returned to Europe in 1872 and was successively professor of history in the University of Strassburg, 1872-74, and at Freiburg, 1874-92. In 1892 he became professor of history at the University of Chicago. His greatest work is Verfassung und Demokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, the translation of which is entitled The Constitutional and Political History of the United States. His other works are, Life of Calhoun; Life of John Brown; Constitutional Law of the United States. _Hou._

=Holt, John Saunders.= _Al._, 1826-1886. A lawyer of New Orleans. Life of Abraham Page, a Novel; What I Know About Ben Eccles; The Quines. _Lip._

=Homes, Henry Augustus.= _Ms._, 1812-1887. A Congregational clergyman who was a missionary at Constantinople, 1836-50, and subsequently in the diplomatic service there. From 1854 he was employed as librarian in the State library at Albany. The Need of Yezedees of Mesopotamia; Design and Import of Medals; Our Knowledge of California; The Palatine Emigration to England in 1709; The Water Supply of Constantinople, comprise his principal works.

=Homes, Mrs. Mary Sophie [Shaw] [Rogers].= _Md._, 1830- ----. A writer of New Orleans. Carrie Harrington, or Scenes in New Orleans; Progression, or the South Defended, a volume of verse; A Wreath of Rhymes.

=Honeywood, Saint John.= _Ms._, 1763-1798. A lawyer of Salem, New York, whose political Poems were published in 1801.

=Hood, George.= _Ms._, 1807-1882. A clergyman long prominent as an educator in Massachusetts. Southern Church Melodies; Musical Manual; History of Music in New England (1846).

=Hood, John Bell.= _Ky._, 1831-1879. A noted general in the Confederate army. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experience in the United States and Confederate Armies, a careful defence of his military movements.

=Hood, Samuel.= _I._, _c._ 1800-1875. A Philadelphia lawyer, author of A Practical Treatise on the Law of Decedents in Pennsylvania.

=Hooke, William.= _E._, 1601-1678. A Puritan clergyman who was a cousin of Oliver Cromwell. He came to America about 1636; was for some seven years minister at Taunton, and for twelve years following pastor at New Haven. Returning to England in 1656, he became chaplain to Cromwell. New England’s Teares for Old England’s Feares is the best known of his writings. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Hooker, Edward William.= _Ct._, 1794-1875. A Congregational clergyman of Vermont who was a descendant of T. Hooker, _infra_. A Plea for Sacred Music; Life of Thomas Hooker.

=Hooker, Herman.= _Vt._, 1804-1865. An Episcopal clergyman who retired from the ministry and became a bookseller in Philadelphia. Family Book of Devotion; The Uses of Adversity; Thoughts and Maxims; The Portion of the Soul; Popular Infidelity; The Christian Life a Life of Faith.

=Hooker, Horace.= _Ct._, 1793-1864. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford. Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Bible History.

=Hooker, Mrs. Isabella [Beecher].= _Ct._, 1822- ----. The youngest daughter of Lyman Beecher, _supra_. A philanthropist of Hartford, prominent as an advocate of spiritualism and woman-suffrage. Womanhood: its Sanctities and Fidelities.

=Hooker, Thomas.= _E._, 1586-1647. A Puritan clergyman who came to America in 1633, and was for three years minister at Cambridge, then called Newtowne. In 1636 he led a large portion of his flock to the Connecticut valley, where they founded the town of Hartford. A theologian of great influence in his century. Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline (with John Cotton); Application of Redemption; The Poore Doubting Christian drawne to Christ. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Palfrey’s History of New England; Allibone’s Dictionary; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27._

=Hooker, Worthington.= _Ms._, 1806-1867. A physician of Norwich, Connecticut, who was professor of medicine at Yale University, 1852-67. Physician and Patient; An Examination of Homœopathy; Human Physiology for Schools; Rational Therapeutics; Child’s Book of Nature; Child’s Book of Common Things; Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions; Science for the School and Family; The Medical Profession and the Community. _Har._

=Hooper, Edward James.= _E._, 1803-189-. A once prominent agriculturist in the West who published a Dictionary of Agriculture.

=Hooper, Johnson.= _N. C._, 1815-1863. A lawyer of Alabama. Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; Widow Rugby’s Husband, and Other Alabama Tales.

=Hooper, Lucy.= _Ms._, 1816-1841. A verse-writer of much promise whose home was in Brooklyn. Scenes from Real Life, a collection of prose Sketches, appeared during her lifetime, and her Complete Poems in 1848. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America._

=Hooper, Mrs. Lucy Hamilton [Jones].= _Pa._, 1835-1893. A Philadelphia author who lived in Europe after 1870, and was Paris correspondent for several American papers. Poems, with translations from the German; Under the Tri-Color, a Novel; The Tsar’s Window, a Novel. _Lip. Rob._

=Hope, James Barron.= _Va._, 1827-1887. A lawyer and journalist of Norfolk. Leoni di Monti, and Other Poems; An Elegiac Ode; Under the Empire, or the Story of Madelon; Arms and the Man, and Other Poems.

=Hopkins, Alphonso Alvah.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. A journalist, educator, and lecturer. His Prison Bars, a Temperance Tale; Newspaper Poets; Our Sabbath Evenings; Sinner and Saint, a Novel; Life of General Clinton Fisk; Asleep in the Sanctum, and Other Poems; Waifs and their Authors; Wealth and Waste; Geraldine, a novel in verse on the model of Lucile. _Fu. Hou._

=Hopkins, Caspar Thomas.= _Vt._, 1826-1893. Son of Bishop Hopkins, _infra_. A Californian journalist who established the first insurance company on the Pacific coast. He published a Manual of American Ideas.

=Hopkins, Edward Washburn.= _Ms._, 1857- ----. A professor of Sanskrit in Yale University. Mutual Relations of the Four Castes in Manu; Translation of Laws of Manu; Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India; The Religions of India. _Gi._

=Hopkins, Erastus.= _Ms._, 1810-1872. A Presbyterian clergyman, long a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts, and the author of The Family a Religious Institution.

=Hopkins, John Henry.= _I._, 1792-1868. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont. A writer of vigour and versatility, prominent both as a High Churchman and a controversialist. History of the Confessional; The End of Controversy Controverted; The Primitive Church; Essay on Gothic Architecture; The Church of Rome in her Primitive Purity; Scriptural View of Slavery, a defence of the institution; Law of Ritualism; Lectures on the Reformation; Twelve Canzonets, words and music; History of the Church in verse, include his principal writings. _See Life by his son, J. H. Hopkins, infra._

=Hopkins, John Henry.= _Pa._, 1820-1891. Son of J. H. Hopkins, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman who founded The Church Journal, of which he was long the editor. Among his writings are included Carols, Hymns, and Songs; Poems by the Wayside; Life of Bishop Hopkins; Faith and Order of the Protestant Church in the United States; and a translation of Goethe’s Autobiography. _See C. F. Sweet’s Champion of the Cross, 1894._ _Wh._

=Hopkins, Lemuel.= _Ct._, 1750-1801. A political writer of note in his day, author of satires, poems, and a favourite version of Psalm cxxxii. With Barlow and others he wrote the Anarchiad, a plea for an efficient federal constitution.

=Hopkins, Mrs. Louisa Parsons [Stone].= _Ms._, 1834-1895. An educator of Boston, for some years a member of the Boston School Board. How Shall my Child be Taught?; Practical Pedagogy; Educational Psychology; Observation Lessons in Primary Schools; Cosmic Geography; Handbook of the Earth; Parables of Nature and Life. In verse she wrote, Motherhood; Breath of the Field and Shore; Easter Carols. _Le._

=Hopkins, Mrs. Louisa [Payson].= _Me._, 1812-1862. A writer of religious works for young people, the wife of Professor Albert Hopkins, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The Pastor’s Daughter; Lessons on the Book of Proverbs; Henry Langdon; The Guiding Star; The Silent Comforter; Select Thoughts. _See Sewall’s Memoirs of Albert Hopkins._

=Hopkins, Mark.= _Ms._, 1802-1887. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Williams College, 1836-1872, and a man of wide influence as an educator and a religious writer. Lectures on Moral Science; The Law of Love and Love as a Law; Discourses and Essays; Outline Study of Man; The Scriptural Idea of Man; Teachings and Counsels; Evidences of Christianity. _See Life by F. Carter, supra._ _Rev. Scr._

=Hopkins, Mark.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. Son of M. Hopkins, _supra_. A journalist in London. The World’s Verdict, a novel. _Hou._

=Hopkins, Samuel.= _Ct._, 1721-1803. A Congregational clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, the founder of what has been called Hopkinsian Divinity, which differed from Calvinism in maintaining the free agency of sinners, the moral inability of the unregenerate, and ascribing the essence of sin to the disposition and purpose of the mind. His views had great influence in the modification of contemporary thought. He was a strong opponent of slavery, and his influence procured the passage of a law prohibiting the importation of slaves into Rhode Island. The System of Doctrine contained in Divine Revelation is his principal work. Others are, The True State of the Unregenerate; Nature of True Holiness; The Duty and Interest of American States to Emancipate their Slaves. _See Life by Park; Mrs. Stowe’s Minister’s Wooing; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Hopkins, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1807-1887. Cousin of M. Hopkins, 1st, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman of New England, long a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts. The Puritans and Queen Elizabeth; Lessons at the Cross; Youth of the Old Dominion.

=Hopkins, Samuel Miles.= _Ct._, 1772-1837. A jurist of New York State. Chancery Reports; Treatise on Temperance.

=Hopkins, Samuel Miles.= _N. Y._, 1813-1901. Son of S. M. Hopkins, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor in Auburn Theological Seminary from 1847. Manual of Church Polity; Liturgy and Book of Common Prayer.

=Hopkins, Stephen.= _R. I._, 1707-1785. One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and ten times governor of Rhode Island. He was the author of Rights of the Colonies Examined; History of the Planting and Growth of Providence. _See Life by W. E. Foster, 1884; Bibliography of Rhode Island._

=Hopkinson, Francis.= _Pa._, 1737-1791. A once famous political writer and lawyer of Philadelphia, among whose political writings are, The Pretty Story; The Prophecy; The Political Catechism; The New Roof. He is best known by his humourous poem, The Battle of the Kegs. Three volumes of his Miscellaneous Writings were published in 1792.

=Hopkinson, Joseph.= _Pa._, 1770-1842. Son of F. Hopkinson, _supra_. A jurist of Philadelphia who is chiefly remembered as the author of the poem, Hail Columbia.

=Hoppin, Augustus.= _R. I._, 1828-1896. An artist and illustrator. On the Nile; Ups and Downs on Land and Water; Jubilee Days; Hay Fever; Recollections of Auton House, a novel; A Fashionable Sufferer; Two Compton Boys; Married for Fun, a romance. _Hou._

=Hoppin, James Mason.= _R. I._, 1820- ----. Cousin of A. Hoppin, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman, professor of homiletics at Yale University, 1861-1879, and subsequently of the history of art. Notes of a Theological Student; Old England; Life of Admiral Foote; Memoirs of Henry Armitt Brown, _supra_; Homiletics; Pastoral Theology; Office and Work of the Christian Minister; Sermons on Faith, Hope, Love, etc.; The Early Renaissance; Greek Art on Greek Soil. _Do. Fu. Har. Hou. Lip._

=Horn, Edward Traill.= _Pa._, 1850- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of Charleston. The Christian Year; Old Matin and Vesper Services of the Lutheran Church; Outlines of Liturgics; The Evangelical Pastor.

=Hornaday, William Temple.= _Ind._, 1854- ----. A naturalist of Washington, for eight years chief taxidermist of the National Museum. Two Years in the Jungle; The Buffalo Hunt; Canoe and Rifle on the Orinoco; Free Rum on the Congo; Taxidermy and Zoölogical Collecting. _Scr._

=Horner, William Edmunds.= _Va._, 1793-1853. A physician of Philadelphia, professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, 1819-53. Special Anatomy and Histology; United States Dissector; Anatomical Atlas; Pathological Anatomy. _See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._

=Horsfield, Thomas.= _Pa._, 1773-1859. A naturalist and traveller who was a native of Philadelphia, but was in the employ of the East India Company, and lived in England after 1820. Lepidopterous Insects; Zoölogical Researches in Java. _See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27._

=Horsford, Eben Norton.= _N. Y._, 1818-1893. A chemist of Cambridge who was Rumford professor at Harvard University, 1847-63. He was the discoverer of acid phosphate, and one of the founders of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. Theory and Art of Breadmaking; The Army Ration; Discovery of America by Northmen. _Hou._

=Horsford, Mrs. Mary L’Hommedieu [Gardiner].= _N. Y._, 1824-1855. Wife of E. N. Horsford, _supra_, and author of Indian Legends and Other Poems.

=Horsmanden, Daniel.= _E._, 1691-1778. A jurist of New York city. The New York Conspiracy, or the History of the Negro Plot; Letters to Governor Clinton.

=Horton, George Forman.= _Pa._, 1808-1888. A lawyer of Terrytown, Pennsylvania. Geology of Bradford County, Pennsylvania; The Horton Genealogy.

=Horton, Samuel Dana.= _O._, 1844-1895. A publicist of Pomeroy, Ohio, eminent as an advocate of bimetallism. Silver and Gold; The Silver Pound and England’s Monetary Position since the Restoration, with a History of the Guinea; Silver in Europe. _Clke. Mac._

=Hosack, David.= _N. Y._, 1769-1835. An eminent physician and scientist of New York city who founded the first botanic garden in America. Contagious Diseases; Vision; Hortus Elginensis; Memoir of Hugh Williamson; Memoirs of De Witt Clinton; Essays on Medical Science; Theory and Practice of Medicine.

=Hoskins, Nathan.= _Vt._, 1795-1869. A lawyer of Vermont and Massachusetts. History of Vermont; Notes in the West; The Bennington Court Controversy.

=Hosmer, Frederick Lucian.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Chicago. The Way of Life; The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems (with W. C. Gannett, _supra_). _Rob._

=Hosmer, George Washington.= 1846- ----. A physician. The People and Politics; As We Went Marching On, a Story of the War. _Har. Hou._

=Hosmer, James Kendall.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. A professor in Washington University of St. Louis, 1874-92, and since the latter date public librarian of Minneapolis. Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom; The Story of the Jews; Life of Sir Henry Vane; Life of Samuel Adams; Thomas Hutchinson, Royal Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay; The Color Guard, a narrative of personal experience; The Thinking Bayonet, a novel; A Short History of German Literature; How Thankful was Bewitched. _Hou. Put. Scr._

=Hosmer, Mrs. Margaret [Kerr].= _Pa._, 1830-1897. A Philadelphia writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are, A Chinaman in California; The Chinese Boy; The Little Captives; Lonny the Orphan. She wrote, also, three novels, Blanche Gilroy; The Morrisons; Ten Years of a Life Time. _Co. Lip._

=Hosmer, William Henry Cuyler.= _N. Y._, 1814-1877. A lawyer of western New York who wrote much in verse, the greater part of which is concerned with Indian legends. Fall of Tecumseh; Legends of the Senecas; The Themes of Song; The Months; Yonnondio; Bird Notes; Indian Traditions and Songs; The Pioneers of Western New York. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._

=Hotchkiss, James Harvey.= _Ct._, 1781-1851. A Presbyterian minister of Prattsburg, New York, the author of History of the Churches of Western New York.

=Hough= [hŭff], =Franklin Benjamin.= _N. Y._, 1820-1885. A physician whose later years were passed in Lowville, New York, in scientific and historical study. Among his works are, Catalogue of Plants in Lewis and Franklin Counties; History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties; The Siege of Charleston in 1780; Duty of Government in the Preservation of Forests; Report on Forestry; Elements of Forestry; American Constitutions. _Clke._

=Hough, George Washington.= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. An astronomer of Chicago, director of the Dearborn Observatory. Annals of Dudley Observatory; Report of Dearborn Observatory; The Galvanic Battery, are among his writings.

=Houghton= [ho´ton], =George Washington Wright.= _Ms._, 1850-1891. A journalist and verse-writer of New York city. His published volumes of verse include, Songs from Over the Sea; Album Leaves; Drift from York Harbor, Maine; The Legend of St. Olaf’s Kirk; Niagara, and Other Poems. _Hou._

=Houghton, Henry Clark.= _Ms._, 1837-1901. A physician of New York city, dean of the ophthalmic hospital. Lectures on Clinical Otology.

=House, Edward Howard.= _Ms._, 1836-1901. A journalist and critic of Boston and New York, long resident in Japan. The Simonoseki Affair; The Kagosima Affair; The Japanese Expedition to Formosa; Japanese Episodes; Yone Santo, a Child of Japan; The Midnight Warning, and Other Stories. _Har._

=Houston, Daniel Franklin.= _N. C._, 1866- ----. A professor of political economy in the University of Texas. A Critical History of Nullification in South Carolina. _Lgs._

=Hovey= [hŭv´ĭ], =Alvah.= _N. Y._, 1820-1903. A Baptist clergyman, professor in Newton Theological Seminary from 1849, and from 1868 its president. The Miracles of Christ; The Scriptural Law of Divorce; Life of Isaac Backus; State of the Impenitent Dead; Christian Teaching and Life; God With Us; Systematic Theology; Biblical Eschatology; Studies in Ethics and Religion, include his principal works. _Bap._

=Hovey, Charles Mason.= _Ms._, 1810-1887. A noted horticulturist of Cambridge, editor of Hovey’s Magazine of Horticulture, which reached its thirty-fourth volume, and author of Fruits of America.

=Hovey, Horace Carter.= _Ind._, 1833- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Celebrated American Caverns.

=Hovey, Richard.= _Il._, 1864-1900. A verse-writer of Washington. The Laurel, an Ode; Launcelot and Guenevere, a Poem in Dramas, republished as The Marriage of Guenevere; Seaward, an Elegy on the Death of Thomas William Parsons, _infra_; Gandelfo, a tragedy; Songs from Vagabondia, and More Songs from Vagabondia (with W. B. Carman, _supra_). _Cop. Lo. St._

=Howard, Blanche Willis.= _See Teuffel, von._

=Howard, Bronson.= _Mch._, 1842- ----. A prominent dramatist of New York city. Saratoga, produced in London as Brighton, and in Berlin as Eine Erste und Einzige Liebe; Diamonds; The Banker’s Daughter; Old Love Letters; Young Mrs. Winthrop; One of Our Girls; The Henrietta; Shenandoah; Aristocracy; Moorcroft; Hurricanes; Wives; Met by Chance; Greenroom Fun.

=Howard, Oliver Otis.= _Me._, 1830- ----. A major-general in the United States army who served during the Civil War and in several Indian campaigns; in command of the Division of the Atlantic from 1888. Donald’s School Days; a translation of Agenor’s Life of Count de Gasparin; Chief Joseph, or the Nez Percés in Peace and War; Isabella of Castile. _Fu. Le._

=Howarth, Mrs. Ellen Clementine [Doran].= _N. Y._, 1827-1899. A verse-writer of Trenton, New Jersey. Poems; Poems edited by R. W. Gilder, (1868). ’Tis but a Little Faded Flower, and Thou Wilt Never Grow Old, are well-known poems of hers.

=Howe, Edgar Watson.= _Ind._, 1854- ----. A journalist of Atchison, Kansas, editor of The Daily Globe. His first novel, The Story of a Country Town, attracted much attention. Later stories include, The Mystery of The Locks; A Moonlight Boy; A Man Story.

=Howe, Fisher.= _Vt._, 1798-1871. A philanthropist of Brooklyn. Oriental and Sacred Scenes; The True Site of Calvary. _Ran._

=Howe, Frederic Clemson.= _Pa._, 1867- ----. Taxation and Taxes in the United States under the Internal Revenue System, 1791-1895. _Cr._

=Howe, George.= _Ms._, 1802-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of biblical literature in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina, from 1831. Theological Education; History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina.

=Howe, Henry.= _Ct._, 1816-1893. An historical writer and compiler of Cincinnati. Historical Collections of New Jersey (with J. W. Barber, _infra_); Our Whole Country; The Great West; Historical Collections of Virginia and Ohio; Over the World; Adventures and Achievements of Americans; Times of the Rebellion in the West, are among his works.

=Howe, Henry Marion.= _Ms._, 1848- ----. Son of S. G. and J. W. Howe, _infra_. A metallurgist who has published The Metallurgy of Steel; Copper Smelting.

=Howe, Herbert Alonzo.= _N. Y._, 1858- ----. An astronomer of Colorado, director of Chamberlin Observatory, University of Denver. A Study of the Sky; Elements of Descriptive Astronomy. _Fl. Sil._

=Howe, John Badlam.= _Ms._, 1813-1882. A publicist of Indiana whose works upon finance have had much influence. Monetary and Industrial Fallacies; Mono-Metalism and Bi-Metalism; The Political Economy of Great Britain, the United States, and France in the Use of Money; The Common Sense of Money; Replies to Criticisms. _Hou._

=Howe, Mrs. Julia [Ward].= _N. Y._, 1819- ----. Wife of S. G. Howe, _infra_. A writer of Boston long prominent in philanthropic movements, and as a lecturer upon the enfranchisement of women. The Battle Hymn of the Republic is her finest effort. Her writings include, Passion Flowers; Words for the Hour; The World’s Own; A Trip to Cuba; From the Oak to the Olive; Later Lyrics; Sex and Education; Memoir of S. G. Howe, _infra_; Modern Society; Life of Margaret Fuller; Is Polite Society Polite?; From Sunset Ridge, poems. _Lam. Le._

=Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe.= _R. I._, 1809-1895. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central Pennsylvania. Domestic Slavery, a Reply to Bishop Hopkins; Life of Alonzo Potter, _infra_.

=Howe, Maud.= _See Elliott, Mrs._

=Howe, Samuel Gridley.= _Ms._, 1801-1876. A physician of Boston, the first superintendent of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, and a man of prominence in the anti-slavery movement. Reader for the Blind; Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution. _See J. F. Clarke’s Memorial and Biographical Sketches; Memoir by Mrs. Howe._

=Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford.= _N. C._, 1801-1868. A once noted Baptist clergyman of Nashville. Terms of Sacramental Communion; The Way of Salvation; Evils of Infant Baptism; The Cross; The Covenant; Early Baptists of Virginia.

=Howells, William Cooper.= _W._, 1807-1894. Life in Ohio from 1813 to 1840. _Clke._

=Howells, William Dean.= _O._, 1837- ----. Son of W. C. Howells, _supra_. A novelist of much prominence who at nineteen was a printer on a Cincinnati journal, and in 1860 published with J. J. Piatt, _infra_, Poems of Two Friends. In the same year he wrote a Life of Abraham Lincoln, and from 1861-65 was consul at Venice. Venetian Life, and Italian Journeys, date from this portion of his career. From 1872-81 he was editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and since then has devoted his time wholly to literature in Boston and New York. His writings since 1869 include: The Day of Their Wedding; At the Sign of the Lion’s Head; No Love Lost; Suburban Sketches; Their Wedding Journey; A Chance Acquaintance; A Foregone Conclusion; The Lady of the Aroostook; The Undiscovered Country; A Modern Instance; A Woman’s Reason; The Minister’s Charge; Indian Summer; A Fearful Responsibility, and Other Stories; Doctor Breen’s Practice; The Rise of Silas Lapham; April Hopes; Annie Kilburn; A Hazard of New Fortunes; The Shadow of a Dream; An Imperative Duty; The Quality of Mercy; The World of Chance; The Coast of Bohemia; A Traveller from Altruria; Christmas Every Day, and Other Stories for Children; A Parting and a Meeting; The Sleeping-Car, and Other Farces; The Mouse-trap, and Other Farces; Out of the Question, a comedy; A Counterfeit Presentment, a comedy; A Sea Change, or Love’s Stowaway; Poems; Stops from Various Quills, a book of verse. Among miscellaneous writings of his are, Three Villages (Shirley, Lexington, Gnadenhütten); Modern Italian Poets; A Boy’s Town; Tuscan Cities; My Year in a Log Cabin; Criticism and Fiction; My Literary Passions. _Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors; Century Magazine, March, 1882; Vedder’s American Writers; New England Magazine, October, 1893; The Bookman, February, 1897._ _Har. Hou._

=Howison, George Holmes.= _Md._, 1834- ----. A mathematician who has published a Treatise on Analytic Geometry.

=Howison, Robert Reid.= _Va._, 1820- ----. A lawyer of Richmond. History of Virginia; History of the American Civil War; Fredericksburg; Lives of Generals Morgan, Marion, Gates; God and Creation.

=Howland, George.= _Ms._, 1824-1892. An educator of Illinois, president of the State board of education, 1882. Grammar of the English Language; Little Voices, a book of verse; an hexameter translation of the Æneid; Practical Hints for the Teachers of Public Schools. _Ap._

=Hows, John William Stanhope.= _E._, 1797-1871. A journalist and educator of New York city who published The Practical Elocutionist, and edited a number of school books.

=Hoyt, Epaphras.= _Ms._, 1765-1850. A major-general of the Massachusetts militia, who lived in Deerfield. Treatise on the Military Art; Military Instructions; Cavalry Discipline; Antiquarian Researches.

=Hoyt, Henry Martyn.= _Pa._, 1830-1892. A Pennsylvania lawyer, governor of his State, 1878-83. Controversy between Connecticut and Pennsylvania; Protection versus Free Trade. _Ap._

=Hoyt, John Wesley.= _O._, 1831-1892. An educator of distinction, governor of Wyoming, 1878-82, and president of Wyoming University from 1887. Resources and Progress of Wisconsin; Resources and Progress of Wyoming.

=Hoyt, Ralph.= _N. Y._, 1806-1878. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. The Chant of Life, and Other Poems; Echoes of Memory and Emotion; Sketches of Life and Landscape. _See Duyckinck’s American Literature._

=Hoyt, Wayland.= _O._, 1838- ----. A popular Baptist minister of Brooklyn. Hints and Helps for the Christian Life; Present Lessons from Distant Days; Gleams from Paul’s Prison; The Brook in the Way; Saturday Afternoon; Light on Life’s Highway. _Ran._

=Hubbard, Bela.= _N. Y._, 1814-1896. A prominent lawyer and geologist of Detroit, author of Memorials of a Half Century; Ancient Garden Beds of Michigan.

=Hubbard, Elbert.= _Il._, 1856- ----. A littérateur of East Aurora, New York, editor of The Philistine. No Enemy but Himself; Little Journeys; The Legacy, a novel; Forbes of Harvard; One Day, a Tale of the Prairies. _Put._

=Hubbard, Lucius Lee.= _O._, 1849- ----. The State geologist of Michigan from 1893. Summer Vacations at Moosehead Lake; Woods and Lakes of Maine. _Hou._

=Hubbard, William.= _E._, 1621-1704. A colonial historian who was a Congregational clergyman of Ipswich, and a member of the first graduating class at Harvard College, 1642. Narrative of Troubles with the Indians; Sermons; Present State of New England. He also wrote a History of New England, for which the colony paid him £50, and which was printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1815. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Hubbell, Mrs. Martha [Stone].= _Ct._, 1814-1856. A writer of religious juveniles, and of The Shady Side, or Life in a Country Parsonage, which for a time enjoyed an extraordinary popularity.

=Hubner, Charles William.= _Md._, 1835- ----. A journalist of Atlanta. Souvenirs of Luther; Poems and Essays; Modern Communism; Wild Flowers, a book of verse; Cinderella, and Prince and Fairy, two lyrical dramas. _Meth._

=Hudson, Charles.= _Ms._, 1795-1881. A Universalist clergyman in charge of a parish at Westminster, Massachusetts, 1819-41, and subsequently a resident of Lexington in the same State. Letters to Reverend Hosea Ballou; History of Westminster; History of Lexington; Doubts Concerning the Battle of Bunker Hill; History of Marlborough.

=Hudson, Erasmus Darwin.= _Ct._, 1805-1880. A surgeon of New York city. Resections; Essay on Temperance; Immobile Apparatus for Ununited Fractures.

=Hudson, Erasmus Darwin.= _Ms._, 1843-1887. Son of E. D. Hudson, _supra_. A physician of New York city. Doctors’ Hygiene and Therapeutics; Home Treatment of Consumptives; Physical Diagnosis of Thoracic Diseases; Methods of Examining Weak Chests; Diagnosis of the Relations of Weak Digestions.

=Hudson, Frederick.= _Ms._, 1819-1875. A journalist connected with The New York Herald in various capacities for nearly thirty years, who after 1866 lived at Concord, Massachusetts. History of Journalism in the United States, 1690-1872. _Har._

=Hudson, Henry Norman.= _Vt._, 1814-1886. An Episcopal clergyman who was a Shakespearean scholar of eminence. He served as chaplain in the Federal army during the Civil War, and in his later years was professor of Shakespeare study in Boston University. Lectures on Shakespeare; Sermons; Studies in Wordsworth; A Chaplain’s Campaign with General Butler; Shakespeare: his Life and Characters; Essays on Education. He edited the Harvard and the University editions of Shakespeare. His criticisms are helpful, but are somewhat dogmatic in tone. _Est. Gi. Lit._

=Hudson, James Fairchild.= _O._, 1846- ----. A journalist of Pittsburg for many years. The Railways and the Republic. _Har._

=Hudson, Mrs. Mary [Clemmer] [Ames].= _N. Y._, 1839-1884. A journalist of Washington, well known at one period by her Woman’s Letters from Washington in The Independent. Eirene; His Two Wives; Victoria (three novels); Ten Years in Washington; Men, Women, and Things; Poems of Life and Nature; Memorials of Alice and Phœbe Cary. _See Memorial Biography, by E. Hudson._

=Hudson, Thomson Jay.= _O._, 1834-1903. The Law of Psychic Phenomena; A Scientific Demonstration of the Future Life. _Mg._

=Hudson, William Henry.= _E._, 1863- ----. A professor of English literature at Leland Stanford Junior University from 1892. The Church and the Stage; Introduction to Study of Herbert Spencer.

=Hughes, John.= _I._, 1797-1864. A noted Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, 1850-64. He was prominent as a controversialist, and a controversy which he held with Erastus Brooks on the church property question attracted much attention. He collected the letters on both sides in a volume entitled Brooksiana. His writings were published in 1865. He founded St. John’s College, Fordham, New York, in 1839. _See Life by Hassard; Appleton’s American Biography._

=Hughes, Robert William.= _Va._, 1821- ----. A jurist of Richmond, Virginia. Reports of Cases; The Currency Question from a Southern Point of View; Transcript of United States Supreme Court Decisions; The American Dollar; Lives of Generals Floyd and Johnston. _Ap._

=Huidekoper, Frederic.= _Pa._, 1817- ----. A Unitarian theologian and philanthropist of Meadville, Pennsylvania. Belief of the First Three Centuries concerning Christ’s Mission to the Underworld; Judaism at Rome; Indirect Testimony of History to the Genuineness of the Gospels.

=Huidekoper, Henry Shippen.= _Pa._, 1839- ----. A soldier in the Federal army during the Civil War who afterwards attained the rank of major-general in the Pennsylvania militia. He was postmaster of Philadelphia, 1880-1885, and author of a Manual of Military Service.

=Hull, William.= _Ct._, 1753-1825. A famous general court-martialed in 1812 for his surrender of Detroit to the English. His defence of his action appears in his book, The Campaign of the Northwest Army (1824). _See Life by Maria Campbell and James Freeman Clarke_ (1848).

=Humes, Thomas William.= _Tn._, 1815-1892. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Tennessee who published The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee.

=Humphrey, Edward Porter.= _Ct._, 1809-1887. Son of H. Humphrey, _infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of Louisville. Our Theology in its Development; Sacred History from the Creation to the Giving of the Law.

=Humphrey, Heman.= _Ct._, 1779-1861. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Amherst College, 1823-1845. Tour in France, etc.; Domestic Education; Sketches and History of Revivals; Essays on the Sabbath; Life of Nathan Fiske; Letters to a Son in the Ministry.

=Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson.= _Pa._, 1810-1883. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War, subsequently Chief of Engineers of the United States Army. The Virginia Campaigns of 1864 and 1865; From Gettysburg to the Rapidan. _Scr._

=Humphreys, David.= _Ct._, 1752-1818. A colonel who was aide-de-camp to Washington. His miscellaneous works, of which two collections appeared in his lifetime, include articles in both prose and verse, and he was also the author of a Life of General Putnam.

=Humphreys, Edward Rupert.= _I._, 1820-1893. An educator of Boston who came thither from England in 1859. Lessons on the Liturgy of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Education of Military Officers; The Higher Education of Europe and America; Manual of Political Science, include his principal works.

=Humphreys, Milton Wylie.= _W. Va._, 1844- ----. A professor of Greek at the University of Virginia from 1887. He has published scholarly translations, with notes, of the Antigone of Sophocles and The Clouds of Aristophanes.

=Hunnewell, James Frothingham.= _Ms._, 1832- ----. A resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Bibliography of the Hawaiian Islands; The Lands of Scott; The Historical Monuments of France; The Imperial Island: England’s Chronicle in Stone; Bibliography of Charlestown and Bunker Hill; A Century of Town Life, a History of Charlestown. _Hou. Lit._

=Hunt, Ezra Mundy.= _N. J._, 1830-1894. A physician of Trenton, New Jersey. Patients’ and Physicians’ Assistant; Physicians’ Counsels; Alcohol as Food and Medicine; Principles of Hygiene, are among his writings.

=Hunt, Freeman.= _Ms._, 1804-1858. A publisher of New York city who was the founder of Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine. Lives of American Merchants; Sketches of Female Character; Letters About the Hudson River.

=Hunt, Harriot Kezia.= _Ms._, 1805-1875. A physician of Boston who lectured upon woman-suffrage and sanitary reforms. She published Glances and Glimpses, or Fifty Years’ Social and Twenty Years’ Professional Life.

=Hunt, Helen.= _See Jackson, Mrs. Helen._

=Hunt, Henry Jackson.= _Mch._, 1819-1889. A brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War, brevetted major-general at its close. He was the author of Instructions for Field Artillery.

=Hunt, Jedediah.= _N. Y._, 1815- ----. A verse-writer of Chilo, Ohio. The Cottage Maid, a Tale in Rhyme.

=Hunt, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1810-1878. A Congregational clergyman of Franklin, Massachusetts. He assisted Henry Wilson, _infra_, in writing The Rise of the Slave Power, and completed the work after Mr. Wilson’s death. He was author of Political Duties of Christians; Letter to the Avowed Friends of Missions.

=Hunt, Theodore Whitefield.= _N. Y._, 1844- ----. An educator, professor of English literature in Princeton College. Principles of Written Discourse; English Prose and Prose Writers; Ethical Teachings in Old English Literature. _Fu._

=Hunt, Thomas Poage.= _Va._, 1794-1876. A clergyman and temperance lecturer of Pennsylvania. History of Jesse Johnson and his Times; Death by Measure; Liquor Selling, a History of Fraud, include the most of his works.

=Hunt, Thomas Sterry.= _Ct._, 1826-1892. A geologist who was professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1872-78. Chemical and Geological Essays; Azoic Rocks; Mineral Physiology; New Basis for Chemistry.

=Hunter, John Dunn.= _Circa_ 1798-1827. An adventurer whose Manners and Customs of the Indian Tribes West of the Mississippi once attracted much attention.

=Huntington, Faye.= _See Foster, Mrs. Theodosia._

=Huntington, Frederic Dan.= _Ms._, 1819-1904. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central New York. He was in earlier life a Unitarian clergyman, and in 1842 was professor of Christian morals in Harvard University. He entered the Episcopal ministry in 1860, and was consecrated bishop in 1864. Christian Believing and Living; Sermons for the People; Christ in the Christian Year; Steps to a Living Faith; Lessons on the Parables; Helps to a Holy Lent; Christ in the World; Forty Days with the Master, The Fitness of Christianity to Man; Human Society, include the larger part of his works. _Dut. Wh._

=Huntington, Jedediah Vincent.= _N. Y._, 1815-1862. A writer who was once an Episcopal clergyman, but became a Roman Catholic layman. He was a journalist in St. Louis for some years, and died in France. America Discovered: a Poem; Alban, or the History of a Young Puritan; Poems; Lady Alice, or the New Una; Blonde and Brunette; Rosemary, or Life and Death.

=Huntington, William Reed.= _Ms._, 1838- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of prominence as a Broad Churchman. He was rector of All Saints church at Worcester, 1862-83, and since 1883 has been rector of Grace church, New York city. The Church Idea; Conditional Immortality; The Peace of the Church; The Church Porch; Questions on the Fourth Gospel; The Causes of the Soul; Short History of the Book of Common Prayer; Quinquaginta, a book of fifty poems. _Dut. Scr. Wh._

=Hurd, John Codman.= _Ms._, 1816-1892. A writer of Boston. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States; The Theory of Our National Existence. _Lit._

=Hurlburt, William Henry.= _S. C._, 1827-1895. A journalist of New York city of much prominence at one time as one of the editors of The World. His latest years were spent in Europe. Gan Eden, or Pictures of Cuba; General McClellan and the Conduct of the War. _See Hart’s American Literature._

=Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. A Methodist clergyman of prominence in New York and New Jersey. Manual of Biblical Theology; Studies in the Four Gospels; Outlines in Old Testament History. _Meth._

=Hurst, John Fletcher.= 1834-1903. A Methodist bishop of much prominence as a writer. Literature of Theology; History of Rationalism; Martyrs to the Tract Cause; Life and Literature in the Fatherland; Outline of Church History; Our Theological Century; Bibliotheca Theologica; Short Histories of the Church; Short History of the Christian Church; Indika, the Country and People of India and Ceylon, include the greater part of his original works. He is also the translator of Hagenbach’s History of the Church in the 18th and 19th Centuries; of Van Oosterzee’s Lectures on John’s Gospel; and of Lange’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, with additions. _Har. Meth. Ran. Scr._

=Hutchins, Thomas.= _N. J._, 1730-1789. A noted geographer of the colonial period. Topographical Description of Virginia, etc.; History, Narrative, and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West Florida.

=Hutchinson, Ellen Mackay.= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. A literary journalist of New York city, on The Tribune staff, and editor with E. C. Stedman of The Library of American Literature, in eleven volumes. She has published Songs and Lyrics. _Hou._

=Hutchinson, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1711-1780. The last royal governor of Massachusetts. An historian of great ability but whose merits as such were not recognized by his contemporaries. His History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, the third and last volume of which was not published till nearly fifty years after his death, begins with the year 1628, and closes with the year 1774. He published also a Collection of Original Papers relating to the same subject. _See Diary and Letters of, edited by P. O. Hutchinson, 1884-86; Life by J. K. Hosmer, supra; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 28; Appleton’s American Biography._

=Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman.= _Ms._, 1822-1867. A noted physician of Brooklyn. History of Asiatic Cholera in Brooklyn; Physiology and Hygiene; Contributions to Orthopædic Surgery; Acupressure.

=Hutson, Charles Woodward.= _S. C._, 1840- ----. Out of a Beleaguered City, a Tale of the Revolution; Beginnings of Civilization; History of French Literature; The Story of Beryl, a novel.

=Hutton, Laurence.= _N. Y._, 1843-1904. A littérateur of prominence in New York city. Other Times and Other Seasons; Plays and Players; Artists of the 19th Century (with Mrs. Waters, _infra_); Literary Landmarks of London; Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh; Curiosities of the American Stage; From the Books of Laurence Hutton; Portraits in Plaster; Edwin Booth; Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem; Literary Landmarks of Venice; Literary Landmarks of Florence; Literary Landmarks of Rome. _Har._

=Hyatt, Alpheus.= _D. C._, 1838-1902. A professor of zoölogy in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and curator of the Boston Society of Natural History. Observations on Fresh Water Polyzoa; About Pebbles; Commercial and Other Sponges; Common Hydroids; Worms and Crustacea; Guides to Science Teaching; The Oyster, Clam, and other Common Mollusks.

=Hyde, Edward Wyllys.= _Mch._, 1843- ----. A professor of mathematics and civil engineering in the University of Cincinnati from 1875, and author of Skew Arches; Directional Calculus. _Gi. Vn._

=Hyde, James Nevins.= _Ct._, 1840- ----. A surgeon of Chicago. Early Medical Chicago; Diseases of the Skin.

=Hyde, Thomas Worcester.= _Iy._, 1841-1899. A brigadier-general in the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War, and afterwards a builder of steel ships at Bath, Maine. Following the Greek Cross, or Memories of the Sixth Army Corps. _Hou._

=Hyde, William De Witt.= _Ms._, 1858- ----. A Congregational clergyman, president of Bowdoin College from 1885. Practical Ethics; Outlines of Social Theology. _Ho. Mac._

=Hylton, John Dunbar.= _W. I._, 1837- ----. A physician of Palmyra, New Jersey, whose writings are wholly in verse of a very ambitious but unpoetical character. They include The Bride of Gettysburg; Betrayed, a Northern Tale; The Heir of Liolyn; Above the Grave of John Odenswurge; Artaloisi, a Romance of King Arthur.

=Hyneman, Leon.= _Pa._, 1805-1879. An editor of New York city. The Fundamental Principles of Science; Freemasonry in England from 1567 to 1813.

=Hyslop, James Hervey.= _O._, 1854- ----. An instructor in Columbia College. The Elements of Ethics; The Elements of Logic; The Ethics of Hume. _Gi. Scr._