Herkomer
SIR HUBERT, an English painter; born in Waal, Bavaria, May 26, 1849. At an early age he settled with his parents in the United States and subsequently in England. He joined the Institute of Painters in Water Colors in 1871. His oil picture, "After the Toil of Day," in the Academy exhibition of 1873, was followed by his "Last Muster," which gained him the "grand medal of honor" at the Paris Exhibition of 1878. He was in 1879 elected an A. R. A. After 1880 he devoted much time to portraiture, and his portrait of Miss Grant is one of his many successes in that branch of art. He founded the Herkomer School of Art, at Bushey, in HERNIA in 1890; was Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford in 1885-1895; and was elected an Associate of the French Academy of Fine Arts in 1895. He died in 1914. town of Rumania, formerly capital of HERMANNSTADT (her'män-stät), a It consists of an upper and a lower Transylvania, 370 miles S. E. of Pest. formerly surrounding which have only town, the walls, towers, and bastions Herstadt is the seat of a Greek archbishop recently been demolished. Hermannand of a "Saxon" university. The fine Bruckenthal palace contains a picturegallery, numismatic, antiquarian, and mineral collections, and a library of 30,- 000 volumes. Tanning, wax-bleaching, and the making of cloth, paper, candles, sugar, and hats are carried on. mannstadt was originally the seat of a German colony, founded in the reign of Gesa II. (1141-1161), and was at first called Villa Hermanni. It endured several sieges from the Turks (1438 and 1442), as well as one from the followers of John Zapolya (1526). It also suffered at the hands of Gabriel Bathori in 1610, and again from both combatants during the Russo-Hungarian War of 1849.
Pop. about 25,000.
HERMES (hur'mēz), in Greek mythology, Mercury, the god of speech, eloquence, the sciences, traffic, theft, and herds, the herald and messenger of the gods. The Hermes of archæology is a rough quadrangular stone or pillar having a head, usually of Hermes Mercury, sculptured on the top, without arms or body, placed by the Greeks in the front of buildings, and used by Romans as landmarks. or HERMOSILLO (her-mō-sēľ'yō), a capital of the Mexican State of Sonora, in a fertile plain on the Rio Sonora, 50 miles N. of Guaymas. It has a mint and other government buildings, a bank of issue, sawmills, distilleries, and shoe and furniture factories, and a large export trade in wheat and wine. Pop. about 15,000.