Each of these 10 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Henry (1777-1859), an English historian. He was celebrated as a lawyer and was a Whig in politics, but delighted chiefly in writing. Two works, A View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages and A Constitutional History of England, still have a dignified place in a historical library, but are out of date as authorities. See Froude ; Freeman ; Hume ; Lingard
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hal'ek, Fitz-Greene (1790-1867), an American poet. He was born in Guilford, Connecticut. He was a descendant, through his mother, of John Eliot, the "Apostle to the Indians." He attended the village school at Guilford. While still almost a boy he went to New York City and found employment as a clerk in a counting house, where he worked for twenty years. He soon made the acquaintance of Joseph Rodman Drake. The two became warm friends and began writing a series of humorous sketches called The Croakers for the New York Evening Post. Halleck wrote about this time his longest poem, Fanny. It was published anonymously in 1819, and met with instant success. The poem is a satire on the fashion and follies of the time. It contained many local and personal allusions and enjoyed a short lived popularity. In 1820 Drake died. One of Halleck's best known and most perfect lyrics was written on this occasion. In 1832 Halleck entered the office of John Jacob Astor, in whose employ he remained until the latter's death in 1848. Astor left an annuity to Halleck, who now retired to Guilford, making his home with an unmarried sister. Halleck has left a volume of poems, the most noted of which is Marco Bozzaris, called forth by the war for Grecian Independence. School boys are familiar with the opening lines. See Bozzaris ; Marco; Drake ; Joseph Rodman
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JAMES London, June 21, 1820; the scholar and antiquary; born in Chelsea, Thomas Halliwell. He was educated at son of Jesus Col College, Cambridge. His studies embraced the whole field of earlier English literature , plays, ballads, popular rhymes and folklore, chap-books, and English dialects , and its fruits remain in the publications of the old Shakespeare and Percy societies. In 1839 he was elected Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian societies. Gradually he came to concentrate himself on Shakespeare alone and more particularly on the facts of his life, the successive editions of his "Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare" (1848; 8th ed. 1889) recording the growing results of his discoveries. In 1872 he took over the management of the property his wife ( died 1879) inherited from her father, Thomas Phillipps, and assumed his father-in-law's name. Shakespeare, his "Nursery Rhymes and Apart from Nursery Tales of England" (1845) and "Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words " (1847; 6th ed. 1868) will keep his name from being forgotten. His magnificent edition in folio of the "Works was published at a price prohibitive to of Shakespeare" ( 16 vols. 1853-1865) most students. He died in Hollingbury Copse, near Brighton , England, Jan. 3, 1889.
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a French river, noted for the battle on its banks in 1870 between the French and Germans.
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PARHELION, or CORONA, . For various meteorological phenomena corona as a solar phenomenon, see under SUN.
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the electro-negative radical of a haloid salt. This term is also used for the monad elements chlorine, bromine, iodine, and fluorine, as their sodium salts resemble sea salt, which is chloride of sodium, NaCl. Chloride is a gas, bromine a liquid, and iodine a solid at ordinary temperatures. Chlorine has the greatest chemical affinity for hydrogen, and iodine for oxygen, that of bromine being intermediate.
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CHARLES GRAHAM (pseudonym) MILES O'REILLY, an Irish- American author; born in Ireland in November, 1829. He came to the United States at 23 and became a New York journalist. He served through the Civil War, attaining the rank of colonel. His writings include: "Lyrics"; "Poems"; "Miles O'Reilly Papers"; "Life and Adventures of Private Miles O'Reilly"; "Baked Meats of the Funeral"; "Poetical Works"; etc. He died in New York City, Aug. 3, 1868.
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FRANS (häls), the Elder, a Dutch portrait and genre painter; born probably in Antwerp, in 1580 or 1581. He studied under Karel van Mander and, according to some accounts, under Rubens. Hals is usually regarded as the founder of the Dutch school of genrepainting. Of his portrait groups eight hoble examples are preserved in the mu- The "Mandoline of Haarlem. seum Player" (1630), in the gallery of Amsterdam, is a typical example of his treatment of single figures. As a teacher he exercised a marked influence on the development of Dutch art, Jan Verspronck, Van der Helst, Adrian van Ostade, Wouwerman hav- Adrian Brouwer, and ing been his pupils. A replica of his "Hille Bobbe" (Berlin Gallery) is in the Museum of Art. He N. Y. Metropolitian died in Haarlem, Netherlands, in August, 1666. His brother, DIRK HALS (before 1600- 1656), a pupil of Abraham Bloemaert, was also an excellent genre painter; and several of Frans' sons were artists, the most celebrated being Frans Hals, the Younger, who flourished from about 1637 to 1669.
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FRANCIS WHITING, an American editor and author, born in Unadilla, N. Y., 1851 Y., 1851; died in New York City, 1919. Shortly ly after finishing his education at Cornell, he joined the staff of the New York "Tribune," in 1875. Five years later he went over to the New York "Times," becoming editor of the "Times Saturday Review," continuing as such until 1902. Shortly before his death he completed a compiled "History of the World War," in ten volumes. Among his original writings are, "Our Liverary Deluge" (1902); "The Pioneers of Unadilla Village" (1902); a historical and biographical introduction to Mrs. Rowson's "Charlotte Temple" (1905). Among his editorial achievements are; "American Authors and Their Homes" (1901); "The World's Famous Orations" (in association with Wm. J. Bryan (1906); and "Seeing Europe with Famous Authors" (10 vols., 1914).
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MURAT, an American journalist; born in Ross, Butler co., O., Sept. 2, 1829. He spent his minority on a farm. At 18 he began writing for newspapers. In 1851 he finished his schooling at Farmers' College, near Cincinnati, and then decided to study law. He did local newspaper reporting on several Cincinnati papers; in 1853 became manager of a department on the Cincinnati "Commercial," and subsequently part owner. In 1866 it was considered one of the most potent newspapers in the West. In 1890 he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., and edited the "Union" newspaper. He wrote: "The Story of Cuba"; "Life of William McKinley"; "The Story of the Philippines"; "History of American Expansion"; "Life of Admiral Dewey"; "The Boer and British War"; etc. He died July 2, 1908. HAM (Hebrew, burnt, swarthy, blad vealed in his conduct toward his father drew on him, or, rather, according to the Bible statement, on his son Canaan, a prophetic malediction (Gen. ix: 20-27). Ham was the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan, that is, the ancestor of the Canaanites, southern Arabians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, and the Africans in general (Gen. x: 6-20).
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