=Hare, Augustus Julius Charles.= 183 Neph. to J. C. H. and A. W.

H. Author Walks in London, Walks in Rome, Days Near Rome, Memorials of a Quiet Life, etc. _Pub. Por. Ran. Rou._

=Hare, Augustus Wm.= 1793-1834. Author Alton Sermons, etc. _Pub. Ran.

Rou._

=Hare, Francis.= 1688-1740. Bp. Chichester. Controversial writer.

=Hare, Julius Chas.= 1796-1855. Bro. to A. W. H., and with him author of Guesses at Truth. Author Life of Sterling, Victory of Faith, etc.

_Pub. Dut. Mac._

=Harrington, James.= 1611-1677. Political philosopher. Author of The Oceana.

=Harrington, John.= 1534-1582. Poet. _See Hannah's Courtly Poets._

=Harrington, Sir John.= 1561-1612. Poet. Son to preceding. First English translator of Ariosto.

=Harrison, Frederic.= 183 Positivist and philosopher. Author Order and Progress, The Meaning of History, etc., and translator of Comte's Social Statics.

=Hartley, David.= 1705-1757. Philosopher. Observations on Man his chief work.

=Harvey, Gabriel.= 1545-1637. Poet. One of the first to write English hexameter.

=Harvey, Wm.= 1578-1657. Physician. Discoverer of the circulation of the blood. _See Works of, edited by the Sydenham Society, London, 1847._

=Havergal, Frances Ridley.= 1836-1879. Author of much devotional verse. _Pub. Dut. Ran._

=Haweis [hoys], Hugh Reginald.= 183 Religious and miscellaneous writer. Author Thoughts for the Times, Speech in Season, Current Coin, Arrows in the Air, Poets in the Pulpit, Unsectarian Family Prayer, Music and Morals, Pet, or Pastimes and Penalties, Ashes to Ashes, and My Musical Life. _Pub. Har. Ho._

=Haweis, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Joy].= 185 Wife to H. R. H. Author Chaucer for Children, Chaucer for Schools, Chaucer's Beads, The Art of Beauty, The Art of Dress, The Art of Decoration, and Beautiful Houses.

The ill.u.s.trations and cover designs of her own and her husband's works are by Mrs. Haweis. _Pub. Har._

=Hay, Mary Cecil.= 184 Novelist. Author of Old Myddleton's Money, The Arundel Motto, The Squire's Legacy, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Hayley, Wm.= 1745-1820. Poet. Of mediocre ability, but once very popular. Author Life Wm. Cowper, etc. _See Autobiography, 1823._

=Hayward, Mrs. Eliza.= 1693-1756. Author of The New Utopia, The Female Spectator, etc. A voluminous writer of miscellaneous works of slight merit.

=Hazlitt, Wm.= 1778-1830. Critical essayist. Author Table-Talk, Lect.

on Shakespeare, Lect. on the Eng. Poets, etc. His criticisms on art and the drama are of high order. His style is picturesque and his imagination rich, but his works are sometimes deficient in moderation and judgment. _See Life of, by his grandson, 1867._ _Pub. Lip._

=Hazlitt, Wm. Carew.= 184 Grandson to W. H. Litterateur. Author Hist. Venetian Republic, Memoirs Wm. Hazlitt, Handbook to Early Eng.

Lit. etc.

=Head, Sir Francis Bond.= 1793-1875. Miscellaneous writer. Among his numerous works Bubbles from the Brunnen of Na.s.sau is one of the best known. _Pub. Har._

=Heber, Reginald.= 1783-1826. Poet. Bp. Calcutta. A talented writer, best known by his hymns, viz.: The Missionary Hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy, and Epiphany. _See Life, by Mrs. Heber, 1830._ _Last Days of Heber, by Robinson, and Memoirs by Potter and Taylor._

=Hector, Mrs. Annie Alexander. "Mrs. Alexander."= 182 Irish novelist. Author of The Wooing O't, Her Dearest Foe, The Freres, The Admiral's Ward, Which Shall It Be, etc. Style fresh, healthful, and pleasing. _Pub. Ho._

=Helps, Sir Arthur.= 1818-1875. Historian and essayist. Author Hist.

of the Spanish Conquest in America, Realmah, Casimir, Maremma, etc.

His style is quiet and graceful, and Friends in Council, his best work, is strong and helpful. _Pub. Har. Rob. Rou._

=Hemans [h[)e]m'anz], Mrs. Felicia Dorothea.= 1793-1835. Poet. Without possessing great force some of her poems have yet taken a firm hold upon popular sympathies. Casabianca, Graves of a Household, and The Pilgrim Fathers are examples. Her verse is graceful and sweet, but not strong. _See Memorials of, by H. F. Chorley, 1836._ _Pub. Lip. Por.

Rou._

=Henry VIII.= 1491-1547. Author of controversial, anti-Lutheran treatises. _See Brewer's edition of, 1862._

=Henry, Matthew.= 1662-1714. Theologian. Author of a noted Exposition of the Bible, of which the best edition is that of London, 1869. _See Lives by Tony and Williams._ _Pub. Ca._

=Henry, Robert.= 1718-1790. Scotch historian. His Hist. of Gt. Britain was the first to take account of manners and the state of society from a purely historical basis.

=Henryson, Robert.= fl. c. 1490. Scotch poet. H. wrote the beautiful pastoral of Robin and Makyne, found in Percy's Reliques. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=Herbert, Lord Edward.= 1581-1648. Historian and theologian. His De Veritate is a plea for Deism. Style dignified and able. _See Autobiography, edited by W. D. Howells._ _Pub. Hou._ _See Lord Herbert de Cherbury by Chas. de Remusat, Paris, 1874._

=Herbert, George.= 1593-1632. Religious poet. Bro. to preceding.

Author of The Temple. His verse is elevated in tone, but marred by quaint and fantastic conceits. _See Lives, by Walton, 1670, and Duyckinck, 1858._ _See Grosart's edition, with Memoir, 1875._

=Herbert, Wm.= 1778-1847. Poet. Author of some spirited translations from the Norse and other tongues, and of some excellent original poems.

=Herrick, Robert.= 1591-1674. Poet. Author of Hesperides, etc. A skillful lyrist whose airy gracefulness will always continue to delight. _See Grosart's complete edition of, 1877; also, Abbey's Ill.u.s.trated Selections from, 1882._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2, and Temple Bar, May, 1883._

=Herschel, Caroline Lucretia.= 1750-1840. Astronomer. Author Catalogue of Stars. _See Life and Correspondence of, 1876._ _Pub. Apl._

=Herschel, Sir John Frederick Wm.= 1792-1871. Astronomer. Neph. to C.

L. H. Author Study of Nat. Philosophy, Outlines of Astronomy, Physical Geography, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har. Rou._

=Hervey, Lord John.= 1696-1743. Author Memoirs Reign of George II.

_See edition of, 1848, with Life by J. W. Croker._

=Hervey, James.= 1714-1758. Moralist. Author Meditations, etc. _Pub.

Ca._

=Heylin, Peter.= 1600-1662. Microcosmus is his most noted work.

=Heywood, Jasper.= 1535-1598. Son to J. H. Author of rhymed translations of Seneca.

=Heywood, John.= 1506-1565. Dramatist. Writer of grotesque Interludes.

=Heywood, Thomas.= ---- 1640. Dramatist. Was a frequent colleague of other dramatists, and a writer of much talent, with a tender, graceful style. _See complete edition of, London, 1874, 6 vols._

=Hoadley, Benj.= 1670-1761. Bp. Winchester. Theological writer.

=Hoadley, Benj.= 1706-1757. Dramatist. Son to preceding.

=Hobbes, Thos.= 1588-1679. Philosopher. A profound thinker, whose Leviathan, a treatise on monarchical government, is his best known work. _See Molesworth's complete edition of, 16 vols., London, 1845._