Harry, The Great. See GREAT HARRY.

Hart, White. See WHITE HART. Hartford, The. The flagship of Admiral Farragut in the attack upon the defences of New Orleans, in April, 1862, and subsequently in the attack upon Mobile.

"On the evening of the 23d,
Farragut was ready for his perilous
forward movement. The mortar-ves-
sels covered the advance by a terrible
shower of shells. Farragut in the
forechains of the Hartford watched
the movements with intense interest
through his night-glass. Just at the
waning moon, when he was a mile from
Fort Jackson, that fortress opened a
heavy fire upon the Hartford with
great precision. Very soon she re-
turned such a tremendous broadside
of
and canister that the garrison
grape
were driven from their barbette guns.
Before the fleet had fairly passed the
forts, the Confederate gunboats and
rams took part in the conflict. The
scene was awful and grand. The noise
of 20 mortars and 260 great guns afloat
and ashore was terrific. And all this
noise and destructive energy - blazing
fire-rafts; floating volcanoes, belching
out fire and smoke with bolts of death;
the fierce rams pushing here and there
with deadly force, and the thundering
forts were all crowded in the dark-
ness, within the space of a narrow
river."
Lossing.

Came the word of our grand old chief,-
"Go on!" 'twas all he said.
Our helm was put to the starboard,
And the Hartford passed ahead.

H. H. Brownell.

Harvard College. The oldest and most richly endowed institution of learning in the United States, situated in Cambridge, Mass. It was founded in 1638, and named after Rev. John Harvard, who bequeathed it a legacy of £780. The university comprises some 28 buildings, three of which are in Boston.

Hassan, Mosque of Sultan. See MOSQUE OF SULTAN HASSAN. Hastings.

A picture by Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851), the celebrated English painter.

Hatfield House. A palace in the county of Hertford, England, I

celebrated as being the place of Elizabeth Tudor's imprisonment previous to her accession to the throne of England. It is one of the noblest old places in the country. The hall of the old palace remains; and an old oak is still standing under which Elizabeth was sitting when the news of Queen Mary's death arrived, and she was saluted as queen. The river Lea runs through the park. The present building was erected at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and partially destroyed by fire in 1835. Charles I. was a prisoner here. Hatfield House is the seat of the Marquis of Salisbury, and is extremely interesting for its historical documents, pictures, and other valuable relics. castle has been restored to its original magnificence. It is within 20 miles of London.

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Haute Vieille Tour. A singular old edifice in Rouen, France, supposed to be a part of the ancient palace in which King John murdered his nephew Prince Arthur. Hawk's Nest. See MARSHALL'S PILLAR.

Hawthornden. An ancient cottage on the banks of the Esk near Dalkeith, where the poet Drummond once lived.

"I know in my childhood I often used to wish that I could live in a ruined castle; and this Hawthornden would be the very beau-ideal of one as a romantic dwelling-place. It is an old castellated house, perched on the airy verge of a precipice, directly over the beautiful river Esk, looking down one of the most romantic glens in Scotland. The house itself, with its quaint high gables and gray antique walls, appears

Haymarket, The. "A very spacious and public street [in London], where is a great market for hay and straw (Hatton, 1708). Here are situated the "Haymarket Theatre," and "Her Majesty's Theatre," or the "Italian Opera House." The market was not finally abolished until 1830. Addison wrote his poem "The Campaign" in the Haymarket where he then lived. Haymarket Theatre. A celebrated playhouse in London devoted to the regular drama. The first building was opened to the public in 1720, and was called the New French Theatre. This was taken down, and the present theatre was opened July 14, 1821.

Calculate how far it is from Sophocles and Eschylus to Knowles and Scribe; how Homer has gradually changed into Sir Harris Nicolas; or what roads the human species must have travelled before a Psalm of David could become an Opera at the Haymarket. Carlyle.

Healing of the Lame Man. See PETER AND JOHN AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE OF THE TEMPLE. Heart of Mid-Lothian.

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Heart of the Andes. A picture by Frederick E. Church (b. 1826).

"In the Heart of the Andes, philosophically as well as poetically so called, the characteristics of their fertile belt are, as it were, condensed; it is at once descriptive and dramatic; all the tints of tropical atmosphere and all the traits of tropical vegetation combine to conform the show of things to the desire of the mind,' and to place before it the spectacle of a phase of nature which to northern vision is full of enchantment." Tuckerman.

ship which sailed from England under Sir James Parry in 1824. Hector, The. An armor-plated ship of the British navy, launched Sept. 26, 1862,

Heidelberg. A picture by Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851), the celebrated English paint.

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Heidelberg Castle. An imposing ruin on a height adjacent to the city of Heidelberg, Germany. It was both a palace (of the Elector's Palatine) and a fortress. In the last century it had been restored to something like its former splendor; but, having been struck by lightning in 1764 and burned, it has never been rebuilt. The fortress was built in the thirteenth century.

"Some idea of the strength of the castle may be obtained when I state that the walls of this tower [one of the round towers] are twenty-two feet thick." Bayard Taylor.

"Heidelberg Castle is of vast extent and various architecture; parts of it, a guide-book says, were designed by Michael Angelo. Over one door was a Hebrew inscription. Marshalled in niches in the wall stood statues of electors and knights in armor, silent, lonely. The effect was quite different from the old Gothic ruins I had seen. This spoke of courts, of princes; and the pride and grandeur of the past contrasted with the silence and desertion, reminded me of the fable of the city of enchantment, where king and court were smitten to stone as they stood." C. Beecher. Heidelberg Tun. See TUN OF HEIDELBERG. Heidenmauer.

[Pagan's Wall.] An old Roman relic, on a height near the town of Dürkheim, in Rhenish Bavaria, consisting of a rampart, said to have been built as a defence against the barbarians, and enclosing a space some two miles in circuit. Attila the Hun is said to have wintered here; and James Fenimore Cooper, the novelist, has taken from it the title of one of his stories, the scene of which he lays in the Vosges mountains in the Middle Ages.

HAM.

Helena's Tomb. A remarkable

catacomb at Jerusalem. It is alluded to by Josephus, and by Pausanias, the Greek historian; and by the latter it is coupled with the tomb of Mausolus in Caria as deserving of special admiration. The locality is thought to be identified beyond doubt, and some curious features of the mechanism of the tomb correspond closely with the description of Pausanias. [Called also Tomb of the Kings.]

Helen's, St. See ST. HELEN'S. Heliodorus. See EXPULSION OF HELIODORUS and STANZE OF RA

PHAEL.

Heliopolis, Obelisk of. See OBELISK OF HELIOPOLIS.

Hell. See INFERNO.

Hell Gate. A part of the East River, about a mile from Central Park, New York, which formerly abounded in rocks very dangerous to navigation; but these have for the most part been removed.

"It is certain, however, that to the accounts of Oloffe and his followers may be traced the various traditions handed down of this marvellous strait: as how the devil has been seen there, sitting astride of the Hog's Back and playing on the fiddle; how he broils fish there before a storm; and many other stories in which we must be cautious of putting too much faith. In consequence of all these terrific circumstances, the Pavonian commander gave this pass the name of Helle-gat, or, as it has been interpreted, HellGate; which it continues to bear at the present day." Irving's Knickerbocker.

Hurl-Gate is at least as terrible as this fabled monster [Charybdis]. T. Chase. Hemicycle, The. A picture by Paul Delaroche (1797-1856). 66 It contains 75 life-size figures, and employed him three years. It represents the arts of different countries and times by groups of portraits of the artists of those times and nations." In the theatre of L'École des Beaux Arts at Paris.

'Suffolk County, England, of great age and size. It is still standing, though shorn of much of its beauty.

"The oak was a noted resort for select Jacobite meetings of a con. vivial nature, when Sir Robert Rous and two or three stanch adherents of the exiled house of Stuart were accustomed to drink deep healths to the king, over the water,' on bended knees." Agnes Strickland. Henrietta, The. A noted yacht which crossed the Atlantic in 14 days, 4 hours, reaching Cowes, England, Dec. 25, 1866, and winning a prize of $90,000 for superior speed. Henry-Grace-à-Dieu. A noted man-of-war belonging to the British navy, built by Henry VIII. in 1515.

Henry VII.'s Chapel. A chapel in Westminster Abbey, London, richly ornamened with panelling, its entrance-gates overlaid with brass, gilt, wrought into various devices, and containing many monuments and tombs of royal and distinguished persons.

"The Chapel of Henry VII. is indeed well called by his name, for it breathes of himself through every part. It is the most signal example of the contrast between his closeness in life and his magnificence in the structures he hath left to posterity, King's College Chapel, the Savoy, Westminster."

Dean Stanley.

"The Chapel of Henry VII. is one of the most elaborate specimens of Gothic workmanship in the world. If the first idea of the Gothic arch sprung from observing the forms of trees, this chapel must resemble the first conceptions of that order; for the fluted columns rise up like tall trees, branching out at the top into spreading capitals covered with leaves and supporting arches of the ceiling resembling a leafy roof." Bayard Taylor.

"The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and niches scooped into crowded with statues of saints and martyrs." Washington Irving.

I may mention the frieze of angels in Henry the Seventh's Chapel, merely as an example at hand, and which can be referred to at any moment Mrs Jameson.

In the Chapel of Henry the Seventh,
Where the sculptured ceilings rare
Show the conquered stone-work, hanging
Like cobweb-films in air,

There are held two shrines in keeping,
Whose memories closely press,-
The tomb of the Rose of Scotland,
And that of stout Queen Bess.

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Henry Morford. The gentle queen [Mary II.] sleeps among her illustrious kindred in the southern isle of the Chapel of Henry the SevMacaulay Heptastadium. The grand causeway which connected the island of Pharos with Alexandria, in Egypt. It was so called from its length, which was seven stadia, or about three-fourths of a mile. It now forms the base of a portion of the modern city; but, owing to the ruins of ancient, and the encroachments of modern, buildings, its precise position can hardly be discerned.

Heraclean Tables. Two bronze plates of an oblong shape discovered in 1832 on the site of the ancient city of Heracleia, in Calabria, Italy, and now preserved in the Museum at Naples. These plates contain interesting inscriptions in Greek.

Heralds' College. An edifice in Doctors' Commons, now removed to Queen Victoria Street, London, erected by Sir Christopher Wren in 1683, belonging to the institution of the same name which was incorporated by letters-patent of Richard III. The college consists of three kings-atarms, namely, "Garter," "Clarencieux," and "Norroy," and also includes six heralds and four pursuivants.

Few things illustrate more strikingly the peculiar character of the English Government and people than the circumstance that the House of Commons, a popular assembly, should, even in a moment of joyous enthusiasm, have adhered to ancient forms with the punctilious accuracy of a College of lleralds. Macaulay

Bob has done more to set the public right on this important point of blazonry than the whole College of Heralds.

Charles Lamb. Hercules. An ancient statue in the British Museum, London. It is supposed by some to be the work of Lysippus, the Greek sculptor.

Hercules. A colossal statue, made of copper, in the grounds of the famous palace of Wilhelmshöhe, Germany. Eight persons can stand at a time in the hollow of the club, and out of a little window formed in it enjoy a prospect extending nearly as far as the Brocken." See WILHELMSHÖHE. Hercules killing Cacus. A wellknown marble group by Baccio Bandinelli (1487-1559). Near the entrance of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.

Hercules. See FARNESE HERCU LES and TORSO.

Hercules and Nessus. A group of statuary by Giovanni da Bologna, called II Fiammingo (1530?— 1608). In the Loggia de' Lanzi, Florence, Italy.

Hercules and the Centaurs. See BATTLE OF HERCULES WITH THE CENTAURS.

Hercules, Apotheosis of. See APOTHEOSIS OF HERCULES.

Hercules attacking the Harpies. A painting in distemper by Albert Dürer (1471-1528). In the collection of the Landauer Brüderhaus, at Nuremberg, Bavaria.

Hercules' Pillars. An ancient tavern which was situated in Fleet Street, London.

After the play was done. . we all supped at Hercules Pillars; and there I did give the best supper I could, and pretty merry; and so home between eleven and twelve at night. Pepys

Another house of the same name was at Hyde-park Corner, London. Hercules strangling the Serpents. See INFANT HERCULES.

Hermæ. The name given in ancient Athens, as a technical term, to any four-corriered posts terminating in a head or bust, such as were very common in the public places of that city. The name is derived from the Greek 'Epμns, Mercury. Hermannsdenkmal. [Monument to Hermann, for Arminius.] A statue of colossal size, erected in the

present century by general subscription throughout Germany, on the Grotenberg, the highest peak in the Teutoburger Forest, Germany, to the memory of the old German hero, Hermann, who defeated the Roman army under Varus, as it is supposed, upon this spot, A.D. 9.

Hermes. See MERCURY.

Hermin Street. An old Roman road extending from Pevensey, England, to the south-east of Scotland. It derives its name from one of the Saxon divinities. Hermitage, The. An imperial palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, connected with the Winter Palace by covered galleries, and forming a sort of continuation of that vast building. It was built by the Empress Catherine in 1804, as a sort of Sans Souci, and a place of escape from the fatigue of court-life. The principal façade of the palace faces the Neva. It contains a renowned gallery of paintings, embracing some of the choicest productions of the various schools.

"The name seems to have been Jestingly or ironically given. Who would not be a hermit in this immense pile, whose walls are of marble, blaz ing with gold, whose floors are of the choicest inlaid woods, and whose fur. niture is of the rarest and most costly workmanship in porphyry, jasper, lapis lazuli, and malachite. Such splendor is now out of place since the palace has been given up to the arts. The vast collection of pictures accumulated by the Russian emperors is here dis played, together with a gallery of sculpture, one of the finest assortments of antique gems in the world, a collection of Grecian and Etruscan antiquities, and a library of rare books and manuscripts. The picture-gallery__is particularly rich in the works of Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, Murillo, and the Dutch school."

Bayard Taylor. Hermitage, The. A picturesque garden and fashionable resort in Moscow, Russia.

4"It lies upon the side of a hill, at the foot of which is a little lake embowered in trees. Beyond the water rise massive zigzag walls, the fortifica

Hermitage, The. A palace in the neighborhood of Baireuth, Bavaria, once occupied by Frederick the Great.

Hermitage, The. A venerable retreat at Warkworth, Northumberland, England, the most perfect work of its kind in the kingdom. It is a romantic solitude excavated out of the solid rock.

The lonely cavern, like a chapel carved,
Is situate amid the lonely hills.
The scutcheon, cross, and altar hewn in
rock,

And by the altar is a cenotaph....
Such must have been his history, who
first

Cut this sad hermitage within the rock.
Some spirit-broken and world-weary man.
Anonymous

Hermitage, The. The residence of a hermit of the seventh century on St. Herbert's Island, in Derwent-Water, near Keswick, England. The ruins are still visible.

Stranger! not unmoved
Wilt thou behold this shapeless heap of
stones,
The desolate ruins of St. Herbert's cell.
Wordsworth.

Hermitage, The. An interesting Border mansion in Scotland, near the town of Castelton, a stronghold of the Douglas family, supposed to have been built 1244, and regarded as the oldest baronial edifice in Scotland.

Hermitage, The. A mansion near Nashville, Tenn., the home for many years of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States.

Hermitage. See SACRO EREMO and SAN FRANCESCO.

Herne's Oak. A famous tree in Windsor Park, near London, immortalized by Shakespeare.