=Howells, William Dean.= _O._, 1837- ----. Son of W. C. Howells, _supra_. A novelist of much prominence who at nineteen was a printer on a Cincinnati journal, and in 1860 published with J. J. Piatt, _infra_, Poems of Two Friends. In the same year he wrote a Life of Abraham Lincoln, and from 1861-65 was consul at Venice. Venetian Life, and Italian Journeys, date from this portion of his career. From 1872-81 he was editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and since then has devoted his time wholly to literature in Boston and New York. His writings since 1869 include: The Day of Their Wedding; At the Sign of the Lion’s Head; No Love Lost; Suburban Sketches; Their Wedding Journey; A Chance Acquaintance; A Foregone Conclusion; The Lady of the Aroostook; The Undiscovered Country; A Modern Instance; A Woman’s Reason; The Minister’s Charge; Indian Summer; A Fearful Responsibility, and Other Stories; Doctor Breen’s Practice; The Rise of Silas Lapham; April Hopes; Annie Kilburn; A Hazard of New Fortunes; The Shadow of a Dream; An Imperative Duty; The Quality of Mercy; The World of Chance; The Coast of Bohemia; A Traveller from Altruria; Christmas Every Day, and Other Stories for Children; A Parting and a Meeting; The Sleeping-Car, and Other Farces; The Mouse-trap, and Other Farces; Out of the Question, a comedy; A Counterfeit Presentment, a comedy; A Sea Change, or Love’s Stowaway; Poems; Stops from Various Quills, a book of verse. Among miscellaneous writings of his are, Three Villages (Shirley, Lexington, Gnadenhütten); Modern Italian Poets; A Boy’s Town; Tuscan Cities; My Year in a Log Cabin; Criticism and Fiction; My Literary Passions. _Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors; Century Magazine, March, 1882; Vedder’s American Writers; New England Magazine, October, 1893; The Bookman, February, 1897._ _Har. Hou._ =Howison, George Holmes.= _Md._, 1834- ----. A mathematician who has published a Treatise on Analytic Geometry. =Howison, Robert Reid.= _Va._, 1820- ----. A lawyer of Richmond. History of Virginia; History of the American Civil War; Fredericksburg; Lives of Generals Morgan, Marion, Gates; God and Creation. =Howland, George.= _Ms._, 1824-1892. An educator of Illinois, president of the State board of education, 1882. Grammar of the English Language; Little Voices, a book of verse; an hexameter translation of the Æneid; Practical Hints for the Teachers of Public Schools. _Ap._ =Hows, John William Stanhope.= _E._, 1797-1871. A journalist and educator of New York city who published The Practical Elocutionist, and edited a number of school books. =Hoyt, Epaphras.= _Ms._, 1765-1850. A major-general of the Massachusetts militia, who lived in Deerfield. Treatise on the Military Art; Military Instructions; Cavalry Discipline; Antiquarian Researches. =Hoyt, Henry Martyn.= _Pa._, 1830-1892. A Pennsylvania lawyer, governor of his State, 1878-83. Controversy between Connecticut and Pennsylvania; Protection versus Free Trade. _Ap._