HABBERTON, JOHN, born 1842. The author of _Helen’s Babies_. He served through the war, and after an unsuccessful attempt to establish himself in business he took up journalism. In 1876, after several refusals, he found a publisher for _Helen’s Babies_, and the result was a sale of close on half a million copies in the United States alone. Since that time he has published a dozen or more books, most of them successes. HALE, LUCRETIA PEABODY, born 1820. Her _Peterkim Papers_, published in America by Osgood & Co., Boston, made her famous with the young folk of America, but the reader must be young to enjoy the skits. HALIBURTON, THOMAS CHANDLER (1797-1865), Canada’s most famous humorist. Was admitted to the bar in Nova Scotia at the age of twenty-three, and nine years later was made Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1840 Judge of the Supreme Court. In 1842 he resigned this office and settled in England, sitting in Parliament as Conservative member for Launceston from 1859 to 1865. It was in the year 1835 he commenced writing his humorous works that made the name of “Sam Slick” famous the world over. His first production was T_he Clockmaker; or, The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick_; and this he followed up with _Bubbles of Canada_, _Letter Bag of the Great Western_, _Yankee Stories_, _Nature and Human Nature_, etc. HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE (1790-1867), a descendant of John Eliot, “The Apostle of the Indians.” In 1819 he and John Rodman Drake published the _Croaker Papers_, humorous and satirical, which attracted much attention at the time. These papers he followed with “Fanny,” his longest poem, hitting off the follies of the day. These are his chief contributions to humorous literature. HALPINE, CHARLES GRAHAM (1829-1868), “Miles O’Reilly,” a verse-writer. Established with “Mrs. Partington” a humorous paper called _The Carpet Bag_, which proved a failure. He enlisted during “the war,” and worked his way up until he finally became a colonel. He issued _Life and Adventures, Songs, Services, and Speeches of Private Miles O’Reilly, 47th Regiment, New York Volunteers_, and _A Collection of Essays, Poems, Speeches, and Banquets by Private Miles O’Reilly. Collected, Revised, and Edited, with the Requisite Corrections of Punctuation, Spelling, and Grammar, by an ex-Colonel of the Adjutant-General’s Department, etc._ HARRIS, CHARLES H., “Carl Pretzel,” born 1833. Author of _Pretzelisms, My Book of Expressions_, etc., humorous compilations in Dutch dialect.