=Hugo von Kronfels=. At the age of twenty-two or three, a handsome man with the world before him, has a fall that cripples him hopelessly. He becomes a bitter-thoughted recluse, more feared than beloved by the few who see him, until the sunshine of a young girl’s society and the wholesome talk of a man of the people change the tenor of thought and feeling, teaching him that to live is nobler than to cast away the existence GOD has given.—Blanche Willis Howard, _The Open Door_ (1889). =Hugon= (_King_), the great nursery ogre of France. =Huguenot Pope= (_The_). Philippe de Mornay, the great supporter of the French Huguenots, is called _Le Pape des Huguenots_ (1549-1623). ⁂ Of course, Philippe de Mornay was not one of the “popes of Rome.” =Huguenots= (_Les_), an opera by Meyerbeer (1836). The subject of this opera is the massacre of the French Huguenots or Protestants, planned by Catharine de Medicis on St. Bartholomew’s Day (August 24, 1572), during the wedding festivities of her daughter Margherita (_Marguerite_) and Henri le Bearnais (afterwards Henri IV. of France). =Hul´sean Lectures=, certain sermons preached at Great St. Mary’s Church, Cambridge, and paid for by a fund, the gift of the Rev. John Hulse, of Cheshire, in 1777. ⁂ Till the year 1860, the Hulsean Lecturer was called “The Christian Advocate.” =Hull=, (_Dr._). Person of imposing deportment and plausible speech, business-manager of Mrs. Legrand, a spiritualistic medium and imposter.—Edward Bellamy, _Miss Luddington’s Sister_ (1884). =Humber= or =Humbert=, mythical king of the Huns, who invaded England during the reign of Locrin, some 1000 years B.C. In his flight, he was drowned in the river Abus, which has ever since been called the Humber.—Geoffrey, _British History_, ii. 2; Milton, _History of England_. =Humgud´geon= (_Grace-be-here_), a corporal in Cromwell’s troop.—Sir W. Scott, _Woodstock_ (time, Commonwealth). =Humm= (_Anthony_), chairman of the “Brick Lane Branch of the United Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association.”—C. Dickens, _The Pickwick Papers_ (1836). =Humma=, a fabulous bird, of which it was said that “the head over which the shadow of its wings passes will assuredly wear a crown.”—Wilkes, _South of India_, v. 423. Belike he thinks The humma’s happy wings have shadowed him, And, therefore, Fate with royalty must crown His chosen head. Southey, _Roderick, etc._, xxiii. (1814). =Humming-bird=. John James Audubon’s story of the Loves of the Hummingbirds reads like romantic fiction rather than fact. The male, when wooing his bride, feeds her with honey, and fans her with his wings while she sips it. After marriage and during incubation, his tender assiduities are redoubled instead of abated. By John James Audubon, _Ornithological Biography_ (1831). =Humorous Lieutenant= (_The_), the chief character and title of a comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher (1647). The lieutenant has no name.