HIEROPHANT. 65 ponded as in the case of personal names. His luotunie was that usually worn by kings in tragedy. Consult I'ljucart. /.'/.v ijniiidH mijstirea d'lileufiis (Paris. I'JOOj. See ilvSTEBIES. HIEBOSOLYMA, hi'er-d-sol'i-nia. Sec Jerl- S.VLEM. HICKDEN. R.NiLF (?-13(i4). An English chronicler and monk of the Benedictine Order. . native of the west of England, he entered Saint
erburgh's monastery at Chester, in 1299, and is
remembered chiefly for his I'oltichroiiicoii, a sy- nopsis of which was printed by Caxton in 1480, and in an English translation two years later. It is a universal history in seven books, extend- ing down to Higden's own day and giving an ex- cellent general idea of the learning of his time. The events after 1342 are recorded liy other pens, and the whole has been edited and translated for the --RolN Series" (It vols., 18li.5-8tj). HIGKGINS, A.NTHONY (1840—). A United States Senator, born at Red Lion Hundred. Del. He graduated at Yale in 18CI; studied at Har- vard Law School, and in 18t)4 was admitted to the bar. From 1860 to 1870 he was United States Attorney-General for Delaware, and in 1881 received the Republican vote of the Delaware Legislature for United States Senator. In 1889 he was elected to the Senate, his term of office expiring in 1895. HIGGINS, M.TTHEW .LMES (1810-68). An English essayist and pamphleteer: often called by his pen-name .Jacob Omnium. He was Ixirn at Benown Castle, and was educated at a school near Bath, at Eton, and at University College, Oxford, where, because of a preference for hunt- ing, he never graduated. In 1847 he became an ardent Pcelite. and wrote for the Morninr/ Chronicle. In IS.iO he married Mrs. Benett, nee Tichborn, and moved to London, where he became a popular club man. He was most famed for his letters to the Times, over such signatures as 'Paterfamilias.' "Motlier of Six.' and "A Thirsty Soul.' in which he exposed many abuses; for his dispute with the Tinien in con- nection with Major Crawley and his court-mar- tial, and for his contributions to the Sew Month- 111 ilaqazine, where he first a|)peared as Macob Omnium' in a satire on mercantile dishonesty: for his essays to the Edinhiirtih Iterieir. the Conihill. under the editorship of his friend Thackeray, and to the Pall Mull Cazetle. Several of his essays were reprinted under the title, IJamiy.t on Social >v'i/?)- jeefs (1875). with a memoir by Sir William Stirling Maxwell. HIG'GINSON, Fr.xcis (1588-10.30). An English Puritan clergyman, and one of the first ministers of Salem. Mass. He graduated M..-. at Cambridge I'niversity. England, in 1013: re- ceived his first charge in the Anglican Church in Claybrooke, Leicestershire, two years aftcrwanl-. and later was appointed preacher at Saint Nicho- las. Leicester. He, however, became a Noncon- formist, and was suspended about 1627: hut con- tinued working among his parishioners as a lecturer, and as a tutor to young men preparing for a university course, until, proceedings being instituted against him in the high commission court, he applied for a position as minister to one of the settlements of the Massachusetts Bay ( onipany. He arrived at Salem in -Tune. 1029, and was appointed assistant minister to Samuel Skeltnn. but died fourteen months later. August HIGHBINDERS. 0, 1630. He was author of "A True Relation of the Last Voyage to England, etc., written from New England. .luly 21, 1020," printed in ch. xi. of Young's Chronich-H of the First I'lutitern, etc. (1846) ; and of Sew England's Plantation, or a Short and True Description of the Commodities and Discommodities of that Country (3d ed. Lon- don, 1030). Consult: Felt, "Life of F. Higginson," in Annals of .Salem (Boston, 1845) ; and Higgin- son. Life of Francis Higginson (New York. 1891). HIGGINSON, TnoM.s Wextwobth (1823 — I. All American essayi-st, born in Cambridge, Mass., of a distinguished New England family. He graduated at Harvard in 1841. and after some teaching at the Divinity School there in 1847, he took pastoral charge of the Congrega- tional Church in Newburyport; but he left this because of anti-slavery convictions in 18.50. when he was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress. After a six years' pastorate in Worcester, Mass. (1852-58). he left the ministry, was active in the anti-slavery agitation, especially in Kansas, sened with distinction in the Civil 'ar as ( olonel of the first regiment of freed slaves, was wounded in 1803, and. after peace, devoted him- self to literature, education, and the political rights of women. He resided till 1878 in New- port, but afterwards he made his permanent home at Cambridge. His works have lately been published in a uniform edition. -Among the more noteworthy of many volumes are: Outdoor Papers (1863); Malbone, an Oldport Romance (1809); Army Life in a Black Regi- ment (1870); Atlantic Essays (1871); Oldport Days (1873): Young Folks' History of the United States ( 1875) , translated (French. 1875; German, 1876) ; Short Studies of American Authors (1879); Comtnon Sense About Wom- <in (1881): hife of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1884); Larger History of the United States (1885): The .ifternoon Landscape; Poems and Trniislatimis (1889); Concerning All of Us ( 1892) . His later volumes, beginning with Cheer- ful Yesterdaus (1898). continued by Old Cam- bridge (1899) and Contemporaries (1899), have mainly dealt with the interesting generation of which he is almost the sole survivor. His latest volume (1902) is a memoir of Longfellow. As an essayist he is noted for his consistent defcn.se of things American, and for his epigrammatic power of expressing thoughts that are often as subtle as they are convincing. Higginson's collected works were published in 7 vols, in 1900. Consult Bent- zon. "Un Americain representatif — Thomas Went- worth Higginson." in Rerue des Deux Mondfs (Paris, 1901). and translated in book form. 1903. HIG'GINSVrLLE. A city in Lafayette County. Mo.. 55 miles east of Kansas City: on the Missouri Pacific and the Chicago and Alton railroads (Map: Missouri. C 2). .A State Con- federate Home is situated here. The city is of importance as a grain, poultrv*. and coal market, several coal-mines Ijeing operated in the vicinity, and has flour-mills, machine-shops, brick-works, a large beehive-factory, etc The water-work -^ and electric-light plant are owned bv the munici- pality. Population, in 1890. 2342: in 1900. 2791. HIGHBINDERS (probably high, in slang sense -f biiuhr. variant of bender, spree). . name used in California to designate the disorder- ly and dangerous Chinamen domiciled there. Thfy are not connected with the Six Companies
