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Bird” (1851); “Marcus Warland, or the Long Moss Spring” (1852); “Wild Jack, or the Stolen Child” (1853); “Helen and Arthur, or Miss Thusa's Spinning-Wheel” (1853); “The Planter's Northern Bride” (1854); “Love after Marriage, and other Stories” (1854); “The Lost Daughter”; “Robert Graham, a Sequel to ‘Linda’ ” (1856); and “Ernest Linwood” (1856). Mrs. Hentz was the author of a novel called “Lovell's Folly,” the purpose of which was to show the incorrectness of the prejudices entertained against each other by northern and southern people. A sketch of her life, by the Rev. William C. Langdon, was prefixed to “Linda.” — Their daughter, Julia L., b. at Chapel Hill, N. C., in 1829; d. in 1879, was educated by her parents, and in 1846 married, at Tuskegee, Dr. J. W. Keyes, with whom she removed to his home in Florida. Before and after her marriage she wrote short poems, most of which were never published. In 1857 she removed with her husband to Montgomery, Ala. Dr. Keyes became an officer in the Confederate army, and after the war took his family to Brazil, but returned in 1870 to Montgomery. In 1859 Mrs. Keyes wrote a prize poem entitled “A Dream of Locust Dell.” A selection of her poems was published by her husband. — Another daughter, Caroline Therese, b. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 22 Nov., 1833, was educated by her parents, and married Rev. James O. Branch. She sent a series of letters from California to the “Southern Christian Advocate” in 1875, and has published many tales and sketches in magazines.


HEPBURN, James Curtis, missionary, b. in Milton. Northumberland co., Pa., in 1815. He was graduated at Princeton in 1833. and at the medical department of the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1836. After practising in Norristown, Pa., he married and went as a medical missionary to China. The ports not being opened, he spent a year at Singapore, prior to five years of labor at Amoy. He returned to the United States in 1845, and settled in New York city, but in 1859 aban- doned a large practice to go as missionary to Japan. Settling at Kanagawa, he has been engaged, with few interruptions, in daily dispensary work, as well as in translation of the Holy Scriptures, in philan- thropic and literary labors, and especially in lexi- cography. In the autumn of 1872 the mikado accepted from his hands a copy of the Bible — an event of profound significance, and so felt by the Japanese. He has published a " Japanese-English and English - Japanese Dictionary " in Roman, kata-kana Japanese, and Chinese characters (1867 : 2d ed., with grammar, 1872; 3d ed., 1886). The finished work includes the archaic words of the most ancient texts, besides the expanded vocabulary which the amazing progress of new Japan has necessitated. All other dictionaries of Japanese vocables, in other languages, are based on this American scholar's monument of industry, which he created from materials that were gathered by himself, or bv natives trained under his own eye.


HEPWORTH, George Husrhes, clergvman, b. in Boston, Mass., 4 Feb., 1833. He studied theology at Cambridge, Mass., where he was graduated in 1855. His first pastorate was in the Unitarian congregation at Nantucket, Mass., from 1855 till 1857. In 1858 he became pastor of the Church of the Unity, Boston, with which he remained con- nected until 1870. In 1862 he took temporary leave of his church, serving at first as chaplain with the 47th Massachusetts regiment in Louisiana. In 1863 he was transferred to the staff of Gen. Banks, and at the end of that vear returned to his congregation in Boston. In 1*870 Mr. Hepworth left the Church of the Unity and spent part of the year in Cambridge as a resident graduate, at the same time preaching on Sunday evenings in the Boston theatres. In 1870 he was invited to fill the pulpit of the Church of the Messiah, New York city. Here he remained nearly two years, but in the autumn of 1872 delivered a farewell sermon, in which he declared himself a believer in the divinity of Christ, He then formed a new Independent congregation, the Church of the Dis- ciples, and continued for several years with his followers. Subsequently Mr. Hepworth minis- tered to different congregations in New Jersey. He has recently left the pulpit, and is now (1887) a journalist connected with the " New York Her- ald." His published works include " Whip, Sword, and Hoe " (Boston, 1864) ; " The Little Gentleman in Green" (1865); "Rocks and Shoals" (1870); " Lectures to Young Men " (1870) ; " Christ and his Church " (New York, 1872) ; " Starboard and Port " (1876) ; and a story that has for its title three ex- clamation-marks, " ! ! ! " (New York, 1885).


HERAULD, André, French scientist, b. in Dijon in 1662; d. in Versailles in 1724. The Paris academy of sciences having invited Louis XIV. to send a mission to Mexico in 1706, Huet proposed Herauld, who sailed from Brest on the frigate “La Vaillante” in May, 1706, landing in Mexico in July. He immediately began his explorations, and in two years collected 900 botanical and over 1,200 mineralogical specimens. Returning to France in 1709, his vessel was captured by the English, who confiscated his collections and took him to Plymouth as a prisoner. The Academy of Paris complained to the Royal institute of London, and Herauld obtained the restitution of his collections in 1719. He devoted the remainder of his life to arranging them, and left them by his will to the Academy of sciences, which afterward gave them in part to the Jardin des plantes and the Museum of natural history. Herauld published “Flote de la Nouvelle Espagne” (6 vols., with illustrations and charts, Paris, 1722); “Les plantes médicinales de la Nouvelle Espagne” (with illustrations, 1721); and “Plan de mineralogie du royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne” (1723).


HERBERMANN, Charles George, educator, b. near Munster, Westphalia, 8 Dec, 1840. He came to the United States with his parents at the age of ten. and was graduated at St. Francis Xa- vier's college, New York city, in 1858. After teach- ing there for several years, he was appointed in 1869 professor of Latin in the College of the city of New York, and was made librarian there in 1873. He received the degree of LL. D. from St. Francis Xavier in 1884. He has published " Busi- ness Life in Ancient Rome" (New York, 1880), and an edition of Sallust's " Jugurtha " (1886), and is a frequent contributor to the "Catholic Quar- terly Review " and other periodicals.


HERBERT, Henry William, author, b. in London, England, 7 April, 1807; d. in New York city, 17 May, 1858. His father. Rev. William Herbert, was a cousin of the Earl of Carnarvon. The son was graduated at Oxford in 1829, with honors. In the winter of the following year, having lost his property through the dishonesty of a trustee, he came to the United States, and after teaching the classics in Newark, N. J., in 1831 became Greek and Latin preceptor in a classical institute in New York city, where he taught for about eight years, devoting his leisure hours to writing. His first literary efforts were essays, which were sent anonymously to the leading weeklies, but rejected when payment was de-