=Holmes, Oliver Wendell.= _Ms._, 1809-1894. Son of A. Holmes, _supra_. A famous physician of Boston, widely known as poet, novelist, and essayist. He was born in Cambridge, and there and in Boston his life was almost entirely passed. From 1847 to 1882 he was professor of anatomy in Harvard University. His popularity dates from the founding of The Atlantic Monthly in 1857, in the earliest number of which he began the publication of the articles entitled The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Much of his verse was composed for especial occasions, and is more or less ephemeral in its nature; but his serious verse and his essays entitle him to a high place among American writers. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; The Professor at the Breakfast Table; The Poet at the Breakfast Table; Mechanism in Thought and Morals; Memoir of Motley; Over the Teacups; Our Hundred Days in Europe; Life of Emerson; Medical Essays; Elsie Venner; The Guardian Angel; A Mortal Antipathy; Currents and Counter Currents; Pages from an Old Volume of Life, comprise his prose works. In verse his publications include, Urania; Astræa; Songs in Many Keys; Songs of Many Seasons; The Iron Gate; The School-Boy; Before the Curfew. _See Lives by W. Kennedy, E. E. Brown, J. T. Morse; Haweis’s American Humourists; Nichol’s American Literature; Richardson’s American Literature; Stedman’s Poets of America; O. W. Holmes, by Walter Jerrold; Ashcroft Noble’s Impressions and Memories; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Harper’s Monthly, December, 1896._ _Hou._ =Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. Son of O. W. Holmes, _supra_. A jurist of Boston who has published The Common Law and edited Kent’s Commentaries. _Lit._ =Holst, Hermann Eduard von.= _Livonia_, 1841-1904. An historian who first came to America in 1866 and engaged in lecturing and writing, but returned to Europe in 1872 and was successively professor of history in the University of Strassburg, 1872-74, and at Freiburg, 1874-92. In 1892 he became professor of history at the University of Chicago. His greatest work is Verfassung und Demokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, the translation of which is entitled The Constitutional and Political History of the United States. His other works are, Life of Calhoun; Life of John Brown; Constitutional Law of the United States. _Hou._ =Holt, John Saunders.= _Al._, 1826-1886. A lawyer of New Orleans. Life of Abraham Page, a Novel; What I Know About Ben Eccles; The Quines. _Lip._ =Homes, Henry Augustus.= _Ms._, 1812-1887. A Congregational clergyman who was a missionary at Constantinople, 1836-50, and subsequently in the diplomatic service there. From 1854 he was employed as librarian in the State library at Albany. The Need of Yezedees of Mesopotamia; Design and Import of Medals; Our Knowledge of California; The Palatine Emigration to England in 1709; The Water Supply of Constantinople, comprise his principal works.