Hawthorne, on men who surrender themselves to an overruling power, 97; on special reformers, 98; distinction between a philanthropic man and a philanthropist, 113; Byron and Burns, 153; of the Scarlet Letter, 188; statement relating to the Mayflower, 241; of artists who have painted their own portraits, 377. Haydn, a story told of, 175. Hayward, passages from, 164, 165, 174. Hazlitt, his violence at times, 36; legend of a Brahman turned into a monkey, 48; of two pictures by Northcote, 190; of Coleridge and John Chester, 211; the poet Gray, 238; every man an exception, 240; strange facts about, 263; opinion of Mary Lamb, 267; of Garrick, 297; wanting one thing, he wanted everything, 325; on aiming at too much, 337; on keeping in our own walk in life, 347; life, at the beginning and the end, 352. Heart, insensibility of the, 242. Heine, pleads for the negro king, 27; of Luther, 47; when he would forgive his enemies, 53; tribute to Goethe, 153; ignorance of doctors, 208; of the leper-poet, 318; a paralytic, 320; fame nauseous to, 331. Helps, Arthur, the nature of man, 33; you never know enough about a man to condemn him, 39; the art of life, 341; dialogue on toleration and charity, 383. Helvetius, of the passions, 46; advice to Montesquieu, 148. Henderson, faculty of getting words by heart, 125. Henry VI. of France, a story of, 171. Henry, Patrick, his last speech, 264. Hercules, a diminutive figure of, 178. Herder, advice to Goethe, 148. Herrick, a painstaking elaborator, 129. Hiero, questions Simonides, 31, 348. Hildebrand, Pope, fate of, 223. Hill, Dr., and Hannah Glass, 268. Hillard, on Hadrian's villa, 217. History and fiction, 164. Hogarth, relating to the sale of certain pictures, 192; his estimate of Reynolds, 198; impressions as to his true vocation, 258. Hogg, his neighbors thought him no poet, 145. Holbein, German engraving in the manner of, 326. Hood, origin of the Song of the Shirt, 149; what delighted him, 155; a victim of distress and melancholy, 321; anecdotes of, 321; lines on his dead child, 322; passages from letters to little children, 322, 323. Hook, attempt of Southey to hoax, 200. Hooker, circumstances of his marriage, 224; character of, by Izaak Walton, 225. Home, Sweet Home, 205. Homer, called a plagiarist, 144; effect of his character and genius, 162. Horace, a laborious writer, 125; passage from, 302. Howard, John, humanity of, 229; and solitary confinement, 260. Howe, John, his method of conducting public fasts, 37. Huber, Francois, blindness of, 259. Human things compared to icebergs, 109. Humboldt, credits the Chinese with magnetic carriages, 181. Hume, his care in composition, 126; his history slow of sale at first, 133; advice to Robertson, 148. Humility illustrated by the rain-drop, 344. Hunt, Leigh, tribute to Haendel, 228; on pseudo-Christianity, 364; remark on Lamb, 383.