Hall (Town of W rttemberg)
a town of Württemberg, in the deep valley of the Kocher, 33 miles E. by S. of Heilbronn. Like other places in whose names the word Hall or Salz occurs, Hall has considerable saltworks, the brine being obtained from Wilhelmsglück, 5 miles distant. There are also cotton-spinning and weaving, silk and machine manufactures and tanneries. The Gothic church of St. Michael (1427- 1525) has excellent wood-carvings. In 1276 Hall was made a free imperial town; it had enjoyed since 1228 the right of minting money; here were coined the first silver heller (häller) or farthings. In 1802 it was added to Württemberg. Pop. about 10,000.
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Hallam
HENRY, an English his torian; born in Windsor, England, July 9, 1777. His father was dean of 'Bristol, After studying at Eton he was sent to the University of Oxford, where he distinguished himself by his classical attainments. He afterward settled in London, and entered on his career of literary labor as one of the first contributors to the "Edinburgh Review." His "View of the State of E Europe during the Middle Ages" (1818) was the first great result of his studies and researches. His masterly work on the "Constitutional History of England" was given to the world in 1827. Hallam belonged to the Whig party in politics, but he wrote with an impartiality which is rarely rivaled. In 1833 a very heavy blow fell on him in the death of his eldest son, a young man of high promise, and the chosen friend of Alfred Tennyson, whose love and sorrow are recorded in "In Memoriam." The next great work of Hallam, published in 1837-1839, was his "Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries." After losing his daughter, his wife, and his second son (the last in 1850), the aged and mourning father himself died in Penhurst, Kent, England, Jan. 21, 1859.
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Hallam, Henry
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the Middle Ages and A Constitutional History of England, still have a dignified place in a historical library, but are out of date as authorities.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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Halleck (FITZ-GREENE an American poet)
FITZ-GREENE, an American poet; born in Guilford, Conn., July 8, 1790. By his mother he was descended from John Eliot, "the apostle of the Indians." He became a clerk in a bank in New York in 1811, and in 1832 the private secretary of John Jacob Astor; in 1849 he retired, on an annuity of $200 left him by Astor, to his native town, where he spent the remainder of his days. From his boyhood Halleck wrote verses, and in 1819 he contributed, with Joseph Rodman Drake, a series of humorous satirical papers in verse to the New York "Evening Post." In the same year he pubhis longest poem, "Fanny" (2d lished edition, enlarged, 1821), a satire on the literature, fashions, and politics of the time. He visited Europe in 1822, and in 1827 published anonymously an edition of his poems (3d edition, enlarged, 1845). In 1865 he published "Young America," a poem of 300 lines. His His complete "Poetical Writings" was published in 1869. He died in Guilford, Conn., Nov. 19, 1867.
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Halleck, Fitz-Greene
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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Halliwell-Phillipps
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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Hallue
a French river, noted for the battle on its banks in 1870 between the French and Germans.
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