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=Hart, John Seely.= _Ms._, 1810-1877. An educator of New Jersey who was
professor of rhetoric at Princeton College, 1872-77. Manuals of English
and American Literature; Composition and Rhetoric; In the Schoolroom.
=Hart, Samuel.= _Ct._, 1845- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in
Trinity College from 1868, who has published editions of Juvenal and
Persius. Historical Sermons of Bishop Seabury.
=Harte, [Francis] Bret.= _N. Y._, 1839-1902. A Californian writer who
first drew public attention in 1868 by a short story called The Luck
of Roaring Camp, published in The Overland Monthly, which he edited.
This tale, and the now famous poem, Plain Language from Truthful James,
established his reputation. From 1871 to 1878 he resided in New York,
and afterward he made his home abroad, but mainly in London from 1885.
His writings include, Condensed Novels; The Luck of Roaring Camp, and
Other Sketches; Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands; Tales of the Argonauts; Gabriel
Conroy; Two Men of Sandy Bar, a play; The Story of a Mine; Drift from
Two Shores; Thankful Blossom; The Twins of Table Mountain; By Shore and
Sedge; Flip, and Found at Blazing Star; In the Carquinez Woods; On the
Frontier; Maruja; Snow-Bound at Eagle’s; The Queen of the Pirate Isle,
a Child’s Story; A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready; The Crusade of the
Excelsior; A Phyllis of the Sierras; The Argonauts of North Liberty;
Cressy; The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh; A Waif of the Plains; A Ward
of the Golden Gate; A Sappho of Green Springs; Colonel Starbottle’s
Client; A First Family of Tasajara; Susy; A Protégé of Jack Hamlin’s;
Sally Dows; The Bell-Ringer of Angel’s; Clarence; In a Hollow of the
Hills; Barker’s Luck. In verse he has published East and West Poems;
Echoes of the Foot Hills. _See Haweis’s American Humorists; Nichol’s
American Literature; Vedder’s American Writers; Atlantic Monthly,
November, 1896._ _Hou._
=Harte, Walter Blackburn.= _Ont._, 1866- ----. A littérateur who has
published Meditations in Motley. _Ar._
=Hartley, Cecil B----.= 18-- -18--. Louis Wetzel, the Virginia Ranger;
lives of Empress Josephine, Francis Marion, Daniel Boone; Hunting Spots
in the West; Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons; Pictorial Teaching and
Bible Illustration. _Co._
=Hartley, Isaac Smithson.= _N. Y._, 1830-1899. Son of R. M. Hartley,
_infra_. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Utica since 1871. Prayer and its
Relation to Modern Criticism; Old Fort Schuyler in History, are his
principal works.
=Hartley, Robert Milham.= _E._, 1796-1881. A philanthropist who founded
in 1842 the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the
Poor. History, Science, and Practical Essay on Milk; Temperance in
Large Cities and Towns.
=Hartshorne, Edward.= _Pa._, 1818-1885. A Philadelphia physician.
Separate System for Criminals; Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery; an
edition of Taylor’s Medical Jurisprudence, with Notes.
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