HOOKER. 197 HOOPOE. Jiational Therapeutics (1857). Kh Child's Book of Xiiturc achieved a deserved reputation and is still widely used. HOOK-SQTJID. A squid nf the family Ony- choteutliid:!-. allied to the common squids, but havin;; the eyes destitute of any covering of skin. The two longer arms, or 'tentacles,' and some- times the shorter arms, bear suckers, each in- closing a powerful hook, which is retractile, like ,ri^ ■^<i:::iiwr-<: Si. V,. :'::t.:M ^'::^ HOOKS OF A HOOK-.syUID. 1. Side view of a euclier, sliowiii;^ a lialf-concealed hook. 2. Front view of same. 3. K fossil luioli-squid {Ai'tintho- teuthis sjiorionn): imprpssinn of arms, traceable b.v the preserved lioolis, in the lithographic slates of Eichstadt. Bavaria. the claws of a cat. Hookscpiids are found in llic Sargasso Sea, in the Polynesian seas, etc., and are much dreaded Ijy swimmers and divers, as they are sometimes six feet or more long. HOOLE, John (1727-lSO:!) . An English Iraaslutor and dramatist, born in Moorfields, London. He had little education, was too near- sighted to become a watchmaker like his father, so entered the India House as a clerk ( 1744) . was made auditor of Indian accounts, then principal auditor. He is known to letters because of his acquaintance with .lohn Scott, and his biography of him. and for his acquaintance with Johnson, for whom he organized (1781) a city club, and whom he attended in his last illness, llis poetical style was smooth and artificial. Hoole's works are: the translations, Tosso's ■Jerusalem Delivered (last edition, 1819), Drn»ui,s of Aletastasio (1707), Tanfio's Orlando Furioso (1791), and Tosso's liiiKihlo (1702). which were all severely criticised by Scott, Southey. and Lamb; his own dramas, f'l/rus, from Mctastasio's Ciro Rironns- cinto (1708); Timanthes. an imitation of ile- tastasio's Deinofontc (1770) ; and Cleoiiice. said to have been corrected by .lohnson (177.^) ; the life of Scott, already mentioned, which was pre- fi.xed to Scott's Crilical Ussmis; and a monody on The Death of Mrs. Woffinijfoji (1760). HOO'LOCK. The white-browed gibbon ( fliilo- hntrs lidiilnek) of Xortheastern India, where it leads an active life among the hill forests. It is frequently kept captive, and proves a docile, cleanly, and interesting pet. The name is a na- tive imitation of their whooping call, heard most frequently at sunrise. See Gibbon. HOONOOMAN, hoo'noTT-miin. The sacred monki'y of India. A better spelling of the word is Hanuman (q.v. ). HOOP-ASH. See H.ckbei!ky. HOOP'ER, John ( c. 149.5- 1.5.i5). An English prelate and martyr. He was l)orn in Somerset- shire about 1495, and educated at Oxford. He be- came a Cistercian monk, and wlien the monas- teries were dissolved went to London to live. He was converted to Protestantism, and, advocating his new views, had to flee to the Continent ( 1 540 ) , and spent some time in Switzerland. Some lime after the accession of Edward V'l. he returned to England (1549), and became a preacher in Lon- don. In 1550 he was appointed Bishop of Glou- cester, but his objections to wearing the episcopal vestments caused some delay in 'his consecration. In 1552 he received the bishopric of Worcester in cominendam. On the commencement of Mary's reign in 1553 he was committed to the Fleet, where he remained for 18 months, Ijeing frequently examined before the Council, was condemned as a heretic, and burned at the stake at Gloucester, February 9, 1555. He was the author of numer- ous sermons and controversial treatises, of which a collected edition appeared at Oxford ( 1855). HOOPER, Johnson J. (c.1815-1863). An American humorist. He was born in North Caro- lina, removed early to Alabama, edited a news- paper and practiced law there, and was secretarj* of the Provisional Confederate Congress. In 1845 he publislied the Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, one of the raciest books of its time, descriptive of a gambling sharp of the South- west in the 'flush times.' His Widoio Rugby's Husband and Other Tales of Alabama (1851) is less successful. HOOPER, ViLLi.M (1742-90). An Ameri- can jurist and signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, born in Boston and educated at Har- vard. He studied law with .lames Otis, and prac- ticed vert' successfully in Xortli Carolina, where he ably assisted the Provincial Government in supprcssir.g the disturbances of 1770. and was elected to the Legislature in 1773. There he be- came a leader, and, a year later, was elected to the Continental Congress, from whichhe resigned in 1777. He was one of the Federal judges ap- pointed to adjudicate the territorial dispute be- tween ^Iassa<busetts and Xew York. HOOPESTON", hnr.p'ston. A city in Vermil- ion County, HI., 100 miles south of Chicago; on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois and the Lake Erie and Western railroads (Map: Illinois. E 3). It is the seat of Greer College, estjiblisbed in 1891, and ha.s Mcl^arren and other public parks. The city is in a fertile agricultural region, and manufactures horseshoe nails, cans and cannin.g machinery, and canned goods, among its estab- lishments being two of the largest sweet-corn canning factories in the United States. In 1877 Hoopeston received a city charter, still in opera- tion, which provides for a mayor, elected bien- nially, and a council. The water-works are owned and operated bv the nnniicipalitv. Population, in 1890. 1911 ;■ in 1900. 3823. HOOPING COUGH. See Whooping Coigii. HOOPOE (obsolete hoopoop. reduplication of hoop. Ft. huppe. OF. huppe, hupe, from Lat.
