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MAURICE HENRY, an English novelist and poet; born in London, Jan. 22, 1861. Educated at London International College, and admitted to the bar in 1891. From 1896 to 1900 he served as Keeper of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments, a post which his father Henry Gay Hewlett had filled before him. He first gained international reputation with a brilliant dieval romance, "The Forest Lovers" (1898), and followed that with several other tales of olden times notable for creative imagination and rare beauty of style. His books include: "Songs and Meditations," poems (1896); "The For- MAURICE H. HEWLETT est Lovers" (1898); "Pan and the Young Shepherd" (1898); "Little Novels of Italy" (1899); "Richard Yea-and-Nay" (1900); "New Canterbury Tales" (1901); ; "The Queen's Quair" (1904); "The Road in Tuscany" (1904); "Fond Adventures" and "The Fool Errant" (1905); "The Stooping Lady" (1907); "The Spanish Jade" and "Halfway House" (1908); "Open Country" (1909); "Rest Harrow" (1910); "The Agonists' (1911); "Mrs. Lancelot" (1912); "Bendish" (1913); "A Lovers' Tale" (1915); "The Little Iliad" (1915); "The Song of the Plow" (1916); "Peridore and Paravail" (1917); etc.

HEXYL ALCOHOLS six great systems of crystallization. It agrees with the tetragonal system in having only the lateral axes equal, but differs in having three equal lateral axes instead of two. The vertical is at right angles to the lateral one. The symmetry of the crystals is by sixes and twelves.

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