A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 14

=Hogg, James.= 1770-1835. Scotch poet. Called "The Ettrick Shepherd."

Author of The Queen's Wake, etc. Style diffuse, but graceful and imaginative. _See Collected Works, 1869._

=Holcroft, Thomas.= 1745-1809. Dramatist. Best known by his novel The Marriage of Figaro, and his famous comedy The Road to Ruin. _See Memoirs, edited by Hazlitt, 1816._

=Holinshed, Raphael.= ---- c. 1580. Chronicler. From him Shakespeare drew in part the stories of Cymbeline, Henry VI., Richard II., Richard III., Henry IV., Henry V., Macbeth, Lear, and Henry VIII.

=Holyoake, George Jacob.= 181 Writer on social science. Author of The Logic of Facts, Hist. of Cooperation in England, etc. _Pub.

Lip._

=Home, Henry, Lord Kames.= 1696-1782. Scotch philosopher. Author Elements of Criticism, etc. _See Life, by A. F. Tytler._ _Pub. Por.

Sh._

=Home, John.= 1724-1808. Dramatist. H. wrote the once popular play Douglas, which contains the famous lines, "My name is Norval," etc.

_See complete works of, with Life, by Mackenzie, 3 vols., 8vo, Edinburgh, 1822._

=Hone, Wm.= 1779-1842. Satirist. Chiefly known by his compilations; as, The Every-Day Book, The Table-Book, etc.

=Hood, Edwin Paxton.= 182 Biographer. Author Lives of Wordsworth and Swedenborg, The Uses of Biography, etc. _Pub. Arm. Do. Lip._

=Hood, Thomas.= 1798-1845. Poet and humorist. A writer whose fame as a wit has overshadowed his merits as a poet. His style, when not professedly humorous, is tender and graceful. For moral earnestness The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the s.h.i.+rt cannot be surpa.s.sed.

_See E. P. Sargent's edition, Pub. Apl.; also, F. J. Child's edition._ _Pub. Dut. Hon. Por. Put. Rou._

=Hood, Thomas.= 1835-1875. Miscellaneous writer. Son to preceding.

Author of The Rhymster, etc.

=Hook, Theodore Edward.= 1788-1842. A writer of novels of fas.h.i.+on, inartistic in form, but full of humor. His power of extempore verse-making was remarkable. _See Life, by Barham, 1848._ _Pub. Rou._

=Hook, Walter Farquhar.= 1798-1875. Neph. to T. E. H. Author Lives Abps. Cant., Ecclesiastical Biog., Ch. Dict., etc. _See Life and Letters._ _Pub. Dut._

=Hooker, Joseph Dalton.= 181 Botanist. Son to W. J. H. Author Student's Flora British Islands, etc. _Pub. Mac._

=Hooker, Richard.= 1553-1600. Theologian. Author The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The greatest prose writer of the Elizabethan age. _See Keble's edition, 3 vols._ _Pub. Mac._

=Hooker, Sir Wm. Jackson.= 1785-1865. Botanist. Author British Ferns, Garden Ferns, British Flora, etc. _Pub. Put._

=Hope, Alex. James Beresford.= 182 Son to T. H. Author of the Eng. Cathedral in the 19th Cent., Wors.h.i.+p in the Church of England, etc.

=Hope, Thomas.= 1770-1831. Miscellaneous writer. Author Costumes of the Ancients, Household Furniture, etc., and the famous Oriental tale Anastasius. _Pub. Har._

=Horne, George.= 1730-1792. Bp. Norwich. Theologian. Author of a noted Commentary on the Psalms. _Pub. Ca._

=Horne, Richard Hengist.= 180 Dramatic poet. Author Gregory VII., Cosmo de Medici, Ballads and Romances, Orion, etc. A writer of much power, whose circle of readers is undeservedly small. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Rob. Rou._

=Horne, Thos. Hartwell.= 1780-1862. Theologian. Best known by his Introduction to the Scriptures. _Pub. Ca._

=Horne-Tooke, John.= 1736-1812. Philologist. Author The Diversions of Purley, etc. _See Memoirs, by Hamilton, 1812, Stephens, 1813, Graham, 1828, N. Y._

=Horner Francis.= 1778-1817. Writer on political economy and one of the founders of the Edinburgh Rev. _See Memoir and Correspondence, 1843._

=Horsley, Samuel.= 1733-1806. Bp. St. Asaph. Theological and controversial writer of note. _See Works of, 6 vols., London, 1845._

=Houghton, Lord.= See Milnes, R. M.

=Hoveden de [h[=o]v'den], Roger.= fl. c. 1200. Chronicler. _See Bohn's Antiquarian Library._

=Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey.= 1515-1547. His verse is mainly lyrical, his love songs being his best; nevertheless he first introduced blank verse into Eng. poetry. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol.

1._

=Howe, John. 1630-1705.= Theological writer. _See Life, by Rogers, 1836._ _Pub. Dra._

=Howell, James.= 1594-1666. Miscellaneous writer. _See Arber's reprints of Instructions for Foreign Travel, etc._

=Howitt, Anna Mary.= Dau. to W. H. and M. H. See Watts, Mrs. A. M.

=Howitt, Mrs. Mary Botham.= 179 Wife to W. H. An industrious author of numerous popular poems, mainly juvenile, of several excellent prose tales, and of numerous translations from the Swedish, German, and Danish, the most noted of these being the works of Fredrika Bremer and Hans Andersen. Her work is characterized by earnestness and sincerity of purpose. _See the Biograph, Aug. 1880._ _Pub. Alp. Har. Rob. Rou._

=Howitt, Wm.= 1796-1879. Poet and Miscellaneous Writer. A versatile author whose Rural Life in England, Book of the Seasons, etc., have been deservedly popular. His wife was co-author with him of many books. _Pub. Har. Rou._

=Howson, John Saul.= 181 Dean of Chester. Theologian. Author Life and Epistles of St. Paul [with W. J. Conybeare], Companions of St. Paul, Metaphors of St. Paul, Miracles of Christ, etc. _Pub. Mac.

Rou._

=Hoyle [hoil], Edward.= 1672-1769. A noted writer upon Games. _Pub.

Lip. Rou._

=Hugesson.= See Knatchbull-Hugesson.

=Hughes, John.= 1677-1720. Poet and essayist. A contributor to The Spectator.

=Hughes, Thomas.= 182 A popular writer whose School Days at Rugby, Tom Brown at Oxford, Life of King Alfred, Manliness of Christ, Scouring of the White Horse, etc., have been widely read. _Pub. Hou.

Mac. Por._

=Hume, David.= 1711-1766. Scottish historian and philosopher. Author Philosophical Essays, Hist. of England, etc. His style possesses originality and spirit, but as a historian he is inaccurate. _See Life and Correspondence of, by T. Hill Burton, Edinburgh, 1847; also Hume, by T. H. Huxley in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Har. Lip. Por._

=Hunt, James Henry Leigh.= 1784-1859. Poet and essayist. Francesca da Rimini and Legend of Florence are his finest poems, but Abou-Ben-Adhem is the best known. A writer whose happy, genial spirit expresses itself in his prose and verse. _See Autobiography edited by his son, 1850._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, and Century Mag. March, 1882._ _Pub. Har. Rob. Rou._

=Hunter, Mrs. Anne.= 1742-1821. Poet. Her lyrics possess much beauty, and some of them were set to music by Haydn. "My mother bids me bind my hair" is well known.

=Hurd, Richard.= 1720-1808. Bp. Worcester. Theologian. Author Dialogues, Sermons, etc. _See edition 1811, 8 vols._

=Hutcheson, Francis.= 1694-1747. Irish metaphysician. Author of a System of Moral Philosophy, etc. Founder of the Scotch Metaphysical School.

=Hutchinson, Mrs. Lucy.= 1620-1659. Known to literature by her admirable Memoirs of her husband first published in 1808.

=Hutton, Richard Holt.= 182 His main work in the London Spectator. Author Essays, Theological and Literary. _Pub. Har. Mac.

Por._

=Huxley, Thomas Henry.= 182 Naturalist. Author Man's Place in Nature, Comparative Anatomy, Protoplasm, Lay Sermons, etc. A leader in modern thought and investigation. _Pub. Apl. Mac._

=Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon.= 1608-1673. Historian. Author Hist.