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=Headley, Joel Tyler.= _N. Y._, 1813-1897. An historical writer
of Newburg, New York, whose work is usually strongly partisan
in character, though nearly always as entertaining as it is
undiscriminating. Napoleon and his Marshals; The Old Guard of Napoleon;
Life of Oliver Cromwell; The Great Rebellion; Sacred Scenes and
Characters; Washington and his Generals; Life of Washington; Grant
and Sherman; Life of General Grant; Life of Havelock; Achievements of
Stanley and Other Explorers; The Adirondacks, or Life in the Woods;
Farragut and Our Naval Commanders; Chaplains of the Revolution; Sacred
Heroes and Martyrs; Letters from Italy and the Alps; The Second War
with England. _Scr._
=Headley, Phineas Camp.= _N. Y._, 1819-1903. Cousin of J. T. Headley,
_supra_. A Congregational clergyman. Women of the Bible; The Island
of Fire; Young Folks’ Heroes of the Rebellion; Lives of Josephine,
Lafayette, Napoleon, Mary Queen of Scots; Half-Hours in Bible Lands;
Evangelists in the Church. _Le._
=Heap, David Porter.= _Ty._, 1843- ----. A major of engineers in
government service. History of Application of Electric Light to the
Courts of France; Ancient and Modern Lights; Electrical Appliances of
the Present Day (1884).
=Heap, Gwynn Harris.= _Pa._, 1817-1887. A diplomatist who was
consul-general at Constantinople from 1878. He published Central Route
to the Pacific.
=Heard, Franklin Fiske.= _Ms._, 1825-1889. A Boston lawyer who was a
high authority on pleading. Criminal Law; Criminal Pleading; Civil
Pleading; Shakespeare as a Lawyer; Libel and Slander; Leading Cases
in Criminal Law (with E. H. Bennett, _supra_); Curiosities of the
Law Reporters; Oddities of the Law; Precedents of Equity Pleadings;
Precedents of Pleadings in Special Actions. _Lit._
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= _Ion._, 1850-1904. A writer of Irish and Greek
parentage long a resident of New Orleans, later of New York city, and
more recently of Japan. Stray Leaves from Strange Literature; Some
Chinese Ghosts; Chita; Two Years in the French West Indies; Youma, the
Story of a West Indian Slave; Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan; Out of the
East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan; Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of
Japanese Inner Life. _Har. Hou._
=Hebbard, Stephen Southwick.= 1841- ----. A Universalist clergyman.
The Secret of Christianity; History of Wisconsin under the Dominion of
France. _See Bibliography of Wisconsin._
=Hecker, Isaac Thomas.= _N. Y._, 1819-1888. A Roman Catholic clergyman
who in early life was one of the noted Brook Farm community. Becoming
a Roman Catholic he founded the Order of the Paulists in 1858. In 1865
he established The Catholic World, of which he remained the editor till
his death. Questions of the Soul; Aspirations of Nature; Catholicity
in the United States; Catholics and Protestants agreeing on the School
Question; The Church and the Age.
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