Kent, Oct

20, 1887. An English Conservative politician and writer. He entered Parliament in 1841, and took an active part in its debates until a few years before his death. In partnership with John Douglas Cook he founded the "Saturday Review" in 1855. He devoted himself especially to the promotion of the interests of the Church of England. He wrote "A Popular View of the American Civil War" (1861), "The Results of the American Disruption" (1862), the novel "Strictly Tied Up" (1880), etc. Hope, Anthony. See Hawkins , Anthony Hope . Hope, Thomas. Born at London about 1770: died there, Feb. 3, 1831. An English novelist and antiquarian. His works include the novel "An as tas i us, or Memoirs of a Greek: written at the Close of the Eighteenth Century" (1819), "Costume of the Ancients" (1809), "Modern Costumes" (1812), "Historical E ay on Architecture" (1835), etc. Hopeful (hop'fül). A companion of Christian in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progre ." Hope Theatre, The. A playhouse. opened on the Bankside, South wark, London, about 1581. It was originally a bear-garden. On the same bank of the great river stood the Hope, a playhouse four times a week, and a garden for bear-baiting on the alternate days.. When plays were suppre ed, the zealous and orthodox soldiery broke into the Hope, horsewhipped the actors, and shot the bears. This place, however, in its character of Bear Garden, rallied after the Restoration, and continued prosperous till nearly the close of the 17th century. Doran , Eng. Stage, 1. 29. Hophra. See pries Hopkins (hop'kinz), Edward. Born at Shrews- bury, England, 1600: died at London, March, 1657. An English politician, governor of Connecticut in alternate years from 1640 to 1654. The last election occurred after his return to England (1652). Hopkins, John Henry. Born at Dublin, Ire land, Jan. 30, 1792: died at Rock Point, Vt., Jan. 9, 1868. An American bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He came to America with his parents in 1801: was admitted to the bar in 1818; was br dained in 1824; and became bishop of Vermont in 1832. Hopkins, Lemuel. Born at Water bury, Conn., June 19, 1750: died at Hartford, Conn., April 14, 1801. An American poet. He practised medicine at Litchfield from 1776 until 1784, and at Hartford from 1784 until his death. He was one of the so-called Hartford wits a ociated in the composition of "The Anarchiad." He wrote "The Hypocrite's Hope" and other poems. Hopkins, Mark. Born at Stock bridge, Ma ., Feb. 4, 1802: died at Williams town, Ma ., June The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century Cyclopedia of names Hopkins, Mark 17,1887. An American educator and author. He was president of Williams College 1836-72, and president of the American Board of Commi ioners for Foreign Mi ions from 1857 until his death. His works include "Evidences of Christianity" (1846), "The Law of Love, and Love as a Law" (1869), and "An Outline Study of Man" (1873). Hopkins, Samuel. Born at Water bury, Conn., Sept. 17, 1721: died at Newport, R. I., Dec. 20, 1803. An American theologian, influential in the theological discu ions of New England in his day. He settled at Housatonic (now Great Barring ton), Ma achusetts, in 1743, and at Newport, R. I., in 1770. His chief work is a "System of Theology" (1791). His followers were known as Hopkins i ans (which see). Hopkins, Stephen. Born at Scituate, R. I., March 7, 1707: died at Providence, R. I., July 13, 1785. An American politician. He was governor of Rhode Island from 1755 to 1768, with three short intervals, and signed the Declaration of Independence as a member of Congre in 1776. He wrote a "History of the Planting and Growth of Providence." Hopkins i ans (hop-kin'zi-anz). The adherents of the theological system founded by Samuel Hopkins (1721-1803) and developed by Emmons and others th Hopkins i an ism was Calvin is tic, and a de Tullus Hostilius for their combat with the three Curiatii of Alba Longa. Two of them were slain, but the third by pretending to flee vanquished his wounded opponents one at a time. On returning to Rome he slew his sister Horatia, who expre ed her grief for one of the demned to death, but escaped with a humiliating punish Cur i at i i to whom she was betrothed. For this he was conment. Horatio (hō-ra's hi-ō). 1. The friend of Hamlet in Shakspere's "Hamlet." He is the antithesis of the wavering Hamlet. He takes with equal thanks the buffets and rewards of fortune. 2. In Rowe's tragedy "The Fair Penitent," the friend of Altamont. Horten years after he had perished. His journal was published in English, German, and French. Horner (hôrner), Francis. Born at Edinburgh, Aug. 12, 1778: died at Pisa, Italy, Feb. 8, 1817. A British politician and political economist. Hornet (hor'net). An American ship of war. She was of 18 guns rating and 480 tons burden. Her first commander was Captain James Lawrence. (See Ches apeake .) On Dec. 13, 1812, she blockaded the Bonne Citoyenne (18 guns rating) at San Salvador. On Feb. 24, 1813, near the mouth of the Demerara River, she fell in with the British war brigs Espingle (18 guns rating) and Peacock, and captured the Peacock. Horne Tooke, John. See Tooke . Hornisgrinde (hor'nis-grin-de). A summit of the Black Forest, Germany, about 10 miles south Horatius Cocles (hō-ra's hi-us koʻklēz). [L., One-eyed Horatius.] A Roman legendary hero, celebrated with his two companions for of Baden-Baden. Height, 3,825 feet. the defense of the bridge over the Tiber against Horodenka (hō-rō-den kä). A town in Galicia, Macaulay. Horb (horb). A town in Würtemberg, situated on the Neckar 33 miles southwest of Stuttgart. Horbury (hôr'bur-i). A town in the West Rid- ing of Yorkshire, England. Population (1891), Hörde (her'de). A manufacturing town in the province of Westphalia, Pru ia, 3 miles south- east of Dortmund. Population (1890), 16,346. Horeb (hō'reb). See Sinai. morous and political works. Hopkinsville (hop'kinz-vil). A city and the capital of Christian County, southwestern Kentucky, situated 70 miles northwest of Nashville. Population (1890), 5,833. Hop o' my Thumb. [F. Le petit poucet , the little thumb.] The hero of a fairy tale of the same name, taken from the French of Perrault. He should not be confounded with Tom Thumb. The story is an old one, taken partly from the adventures of Uly es in the cave of Polyp hem us, and partly from the fable of These us and Ariadne. Dunlop . Hoppin (hop'in), August us. Born at Providence, R.I., July 13, 1828: died at Flushing, N.Y., April 1, 1896. An American book-illustrator. He illustrated works by many well-known authors. Hoppner (hop'ner), John. Born at London, April 4, 1758: died Jan. 23, 1810. An English portrait-painter. Hor. See Horus. Hor (hôr). A mountain in Arabia Petræa, by some authorities identified with the modern Jebel-Nebi-Harûn (4,360 feet). It was the scene of the death of Aaron. Flaccus). Horace (hor'ās) (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). Born at Venusia, Apulia, Dec. 8, 65 в. с.: died at Rome, Nov. 27,8 B. c. A famous Roman lyric and satirical poet. He was the son of a freedman; was educated at Rome and Athens; served in the republican army at Philippi in 42 B. C.; and enjoyed the patronage of Mæcenas, by whom he was presented with a farm or villa in the Sabine Hills about 34. His works are "Satires" (first book 35 B. c., second book about 30), "Epodes" (about 30), "Odes" (first 3 books 24 or 23, fourth book about 13), "Epistles" (first book about 20, second book and the "Ars Poe tic a" about 13-8), and "Carmen Seculare" (17). Collective editions have been published by Bentley (1711), Meineke, Haupt, L. Müller, Örelli, etc. biect Horace (o-räs'). A tragedy by Pierre Corneille, produced in 1640: its subject is the combat of the Horatii and Curiatii. Lope de Vega wrote a tragedy with the same subject and title. Horace de Saint-Aubin. One of Balzac's early pseudonyms. Horæ Hore (ho're). (ho'rē). [Gr. [Gr. "Ωραι, Ὥραι, L. Hora , hours.] In cla ical mythology, godde es who preside over the changes of the seasons and the accompanying course of natural growth and decay. According to Homer, they are handmaidens of Zeus, who guard the gates of heaven and control the weather; according to Hesiod, they are daughters of Zeus and Them is, named Eunomia ('Good Order'), Dice ('Justice'), and Eirene ('Peace'), guardians of agriculture and also of social and political order. Their number varied from two, as at Athens (Thallo, godde of spring flowers, and Carpo, godde of bolized representation course seasons. of the dance of the symHoratia gens (hō-rā'shiä jenz). A Roman patrician gens whose surnames were Barbatus, Cocles, and Pulvillus. Horatii (hộ-ra's hi-i), The Three. In Roman legend, three brothers celebrated in the reign of Horgen (hor'gen). A town in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, situated on the Lake of Zurich 9 miles south by east of Zurich. Population (1888), 5,518. Horgos (hor'gosh). A town in the county of Csongrád, Hungary, 15 miles east of Theresienstadt. Population (1890), 5,503. Horicon (hor'i-kon). See George , Lake . Hormakhu (hör-mäʻkhö). In Egyptian mythology, the rising sun, one of the principal forms of the sun-god Ra, worshiped at Helio polis, and represented by the great sphinx on the southeast corner of the great pyramid at Gizeh. Also Harmachis , Harnais , Har . Hormayr (hor'mir), Baron Joseph von. Born at Innsbruck, Tyrol, Jan. 20, 1782: died at Munich, Nov. 5, 1848. A noted German historian. He wrote "Kritisch-diplomat is che Beiträge zur Geschichte Tirols im Mit tel alter(1802-03), "Geschichte dergefürsteten Grafschaft Tirol" (1806-08), "Lebensbilder aus dem Befreiungskriege" (1841-44), etc. Hormisdas (hôr-mis'das). Pope 514-523. He effected the reunion of the churches of Rome and Constantinople in 519. Hormizdas (hôr-miz'das), or Hormuz (hor' muz), IV. Killed about 591. King of Persia, son of Khosru I. whom he succeeded in 579. Horn (hôrn), Cape. The southern end of a rocky island in the Fuegian Archipelago, and the southernmost point of America, lat. 55° 59′ S., long. 67° 16′ W. It was first rounded by Le Maire and Schouten in 1616, and named by them from Hoorn in North Holland. Horn (horn), Count Gustaf. Born at Örbyhus, Upland, Sweden, Oct. 23, 1592: died at Skara, Sweden, May 10, 1657. A Swedish general, distinguished in the Thirty Years' War. Horn, Otto. A pseudonym of Adolf Bäuerle. Hornberg (horn berg). The old castle of Götz von Berlichingen. It is situated on the Neckar, below Ha mersheim, on an elevation 200 feet above the river. Hornberg. A town in Baden, in the Black Forest 23 miles northeast of Freiburg. Horn castle (horn'kås-1). A town in Lincoln shire, England, situated on the Bain 18 miles east of Lincoln. Population (1891), 4,374. Horne (horn), George. Born at Otham, Kent, England, Nov. 1, 1730: died at Bath, England, Jan. 17, 1792. An English bishop, author of “Commentary on the Psalms" (1776), etc. Horne, Richard Hengist. Born at London, Jan. 1, 1803: died at Margate, England, March 13, 1884. An English poet and miscellaneous writer, author of the epic "Orion" (1843), the dramas "Cosmo de' Medici" (1837), "Death of Marlowe" (1838), "Gregory the Seventh" (1840), etc. Horne, Thomas Hart well. Born at London, Oct. 20, 1780: died at London, Jan. 27, 1862. An English biblical scholar. His chief work is an "Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures" (1818). Hornellsville (hôr'nelz-vil). A city in Steuben County, New York, situated on the Canisteo River 55 miles south of Rochester. It has car manufactures. Population (1890), 10,996. Hornemann (hor'ne-män), Fried rich Konrad. Born at Hildesheim, Germany, in 1772: died in Nupe about 1801. A noted African explorer. Under the auspices of the African A ociation of London, he cro ed the African continent from Cairo over Murzuk to the lower Niger 1798-1801. The place and the approximate date of his death were not ascertained until a few Dniester. Population (1890), 11,162. Horologium (hor-o-lō'ji-um). [L., 'a clock.'] A southern constellation of 12 stars, inserted by Lacaille east of Eridanus. Its brightest star is of the fourth magnitude. Horrocks, or Horrox (hor'oks), Jeremiah. Born at Toxteth Park, near Liverpool, about 1617: died at Toxteth, Jan. 3, 1641. A celebrated Eng lish astronomer. He studied at Cambridge, but did not take a degree, and was curate of Hoole, near Preston, 16391640. He made the first observation of a transit of Venus (1639), an account of which is given in his "Venus in sole visa" (1662). Other posthumous works were published in 1672. He was the first to a ign to the moon an elliptical orbit with the earth at one of the foci, and in a measure anticipated the Newton i an theory of gravitation. Horsa (hor'sä). Killed at the battle of Aylesford, 455 (?). "A Jutish chief, brother of Hengist (whom see). Horschelt(hor's helt), The odor. Born at Munich, March 16, 1829: died at Munich, April 3, 1871. A German painter of genre scenes and battles. Horse-Fair, The. A large painting by Rosa Bonheur, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It represents a number of horses, some ridden, some led, trotting toward the right. It appeared in the Salon of 1853, was bought by Gambart and Co., London, for 40,000 francs, and from them by W. P. Wright, Weehawken, New Jersey, in 1857: it then pa ed to the Stewart collection. It was bought and presented to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, by Cornel i us Vanderbilt. Landseer engraved it while it was in Gambart's po e ion. Rosa Bonheur painted for his use a reduced copy: this was bequeathed in 1859 to the National Gallery. She painted other replicas: the third is in London; the fourth, a small water-color, is owned in England. Hörselberg (her's el-berg). See Venus , Mountain of , and Tannhäuser. Horse-Shoe Fall. See Niagara . Horse-Shoe Robinson. A historical novel by J. P. Kennedy. The scene is laid in the South during the Revolutionary War. Horsens (hor's ens). A seaport on the eastern coast of Jutland, Denmark, situated on the Horsens Fjord in lat. 55° 52′ N., long. 9° 51′ E. Population (1890), 17,290. Horsford (hors' ford), Eben Norton. Born at Moscow, Livings ton County, N.Y., July 27, 1818: died Jan. 1, 1893. An American chemist. He was Rumford profe or of science applied to the arts at Harvard 1847-63, when he became president of the Rum ford Chemical Works, Providence, Rhode Island. He discovered the method of preparing baking-powder, condensed milk, and the medicinal acid known as "Horsford's acid." Among his works are "The Theory and Art of Bread Making" (1861), "The Discovery of America by the North men" (1888), etc. Horsham (hor's ham). A town in Su ex, England, 34 miles south-southwest of London. Population (1891), 8,637. Horsley (hors'li), Charles Edward. Born at London, 1822: died at New York, Feb. 28, 1876. An English n English composer, son of William Horsley. Horsley, John. Born at Inveresk, Mid loth i an, 1685: died at Morpeth, England, Jan. 12, 1732. A British antiquary, author of "Britannia Romana, or the Antiquities of Britain" (1732), etc. Horsley, John Call cott. Born at London, Jan. 29,1817. An English historical and genre painter. Horsley, Samuel. Born at London, Sept. 15, 1733: died at Brighton, England, Oct. 4, 1806. An English bishop (of St. Asaph) and scholar. He is notable for a controversy with Priest ley, in which he opposed Soc in i an ism. Among his works are "Biblical Criticism on the first fourteen Historical Books of the Old Testament" (1820). Horsley, William. Born at London, Nov. 15, 1774: died June 12, 1858. An English composer, especially noted for his glees (" By Celia's Arbour," "O Nightingale," etc.). Horta (hor'tä; Pg. pron. ōr'tä). A seaport, the capital of Fayal, Azores Islands. Horten (hor'ten). A town in southern Norway, on the western bank of the Christiania Fjord, 36 miles south by west of Christiania: a station of the Norwegian fleet. Population (1891),6,555. Hortense Hortense (or-tons') (Eugénie Hortense de Beau harn a is). Born at Paris, April 10, 1783: died at Aronenberg, Switzerland, Oct. 5, 1837. The daughter of the empre Josephine, wife of Louis Bonaparte, and mother of Napoleon III. She was the reputed author of the song "Partant pour la Syrie." Hortensia gens (hôr-ten's hi-ä jenz). A Roman plebeian gens. Hortensian Law (hôr-ten's hi an lâ), The. [L. lex Hortensia.] In the history of ancient Rome, a law, adopted probably in 286 B. C., which decided that the decrees of the Comitia Tributa should be binding on all citizens, patricians as well as plebeians. It was pa ed in consequence of a dangerous uprising of the plebeians, and received its name from the dictator Hortensius. Hortensio (hôr-ten's hi-ō). In Shakspere's "Taming of the Shrew," a suitor of Hortensius (hôr-ten's hi-us), Quintus. Born 114 в.с.: died 50 в. с. An eminent Roman orator, a leader of the aristocratic party. Hortibonus (hôr-ti-bonus), or Hortusbonus (hôr-tus-bō'nus), Is. The pseudonym of Isaac Casaubon. Caseau in the Dauphin ois patois being jardin , the pseudonym is literally "bon jardin" ('good garden'). Horus (ho'rus), or Hor (hôr). In Egyptian mythology, a solar deity, the son of Osiris and Isis, and the avenger of his father upon Set: called by the Greeks Harpocrates. As Osiris was the sun of night, Horus was the sun of day. As the opponent of Set, he figured as the Elder Horus; as Horus the Child, he was the rising sun. He was generally represented as hawk headed, and is hardly distinguishable from Ra, like whom he was the lord of Upper Egypt.