=Holy Maid of Kent=, Elizabeth Barton, who incited the Roman Catholics to resist the progress of the Reformation, and pretended to act under divine inspiration. She was executed in 1534 for “predicting” that the king (Henry VIII.) would die a sudden death if he divorced Queen Katharine and married Anne Boleyn. At one time she was thought to be inspired with a prophetic gift, and even the lord chancellor, Sir Thomas More, was inclined to think so. =Home, Sweet Home=. The words of this popular song are by John Howard Payne, an American. It is introduced in his melodrama called _Clari_, or _The Maid of Milan_. The music is by Sir Henry Bishop, and was originally sung in 1823 by Miss M. Tree. =Homer= (_The British_). Milton is so called on Gray’s monument in Westminster Abbey. No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns; To Britain let the nations homage pay: She felt a Homer’s fire in Milton’s strains, A Pindar’s rapture in the lyre of Gray. _Homer_ (_The Casket_), an edition of _Homer_ corrected by Aristotle, which Alexander the Great carried about with him, and placed in the golden casket richly studded with gems, found in the tent of Darīus. Alexander said there was but one thing in the world worthy to be kept in so precious a casket, and that was Aristotle’s _Homer_. _Homer_ (_The Celtic_), Ossian, son of Fingal, king of Morven. _Homer_ (_The Oriental_), Ferdusi, the Persian poet, who wrote the _Shâh Nâmeh_, or history of the Persian kings. It contains 120,000 verses, and was the work of thirty years (940-1020). _Homer_ (_The Prose_). Henry Fielding, the novelist, is called by Byron “The Prose Homer of Human Nature” (1707-1764). _Homer_ (_The Scottish_), William Wilkie, author of _The Epigon´iad_ (1721-1772). =Homer of our Dramatic Poets= (_The_). So Shakespeare is called by Dryden (1564-1616). Shakespeare was the Homer or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil. I admire rare Ben, but I love Shakespeare.—Dryden. =Homer of Ferra´ra= (_The_). Ariosto was called by Tasso, _Omero Ferraresê_ (1474-1533). =Homer of the Franks= (_The_), Angilbert was so called by Charlemagne (died 814). =Homer of the French Drama= (_The_). Pierre Corneille was so called by Sir Walter Scott (1606-1684). =Homer of Philosophers= (_The_), Plato (B. C. 429-347). =Homer the Younger=, Philiscos, one of the seven Pleiad poets of Alexandria, in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphos. =Homeric Characters.= AGAMEMNON, haughty and imperious; ACHILLES, brave, impatient of command, and relentless; DIOMED, brave as Achilles, but obedient to authority; AJAX _the Greater_, a giant in stature, fool-hardy, arrogant, and conceited; NESTOR, a sage old man, garrulous on the glories of his youthful days; ULYSSES, wise, crafty, and arrogant; PATROCLOS, a gentle friend; THERSITES, a scurrilous demagogue.