HALL, SAMUEL CARTER. 



UALLAM, HKNRY. 



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away by tb hope* and promise* of the French Revolution, and be 

 ppMn to have reuioed hi* Ant faith without much attention for 

 tome year*. In 1799 be published another liberal pamphlet, entitled 

 An Apology for th* Fn-edojj of the Preai, and for general Liberty, 

 with Remark* on Biahop Honley'* Sermon preached Slat January, 

 1793.' Thu wai largely diffused, and brought him much reputation. 

 The impreeaioo that had been made upon him however by the irre- 

 Ugioa* chancier of the French revolutionary movement wa indicated 

 in hie next publication, 'Modem Infidelity considered with roapect to 

 it* Influence on Society, a Sermon,' 8ro, 1800, It wai the publication 

 of this able and eloquent eermon which first brought Hall into general 

 notice. From this time whatever he produced attracted immediate 

 attention. The Sermon on Modern Infidelity waa followed in 1802 by 

 another on the Peace, which alo brought him great reputation. 



In November ISO! Hall wa* visited by on attack of insanity, the 

 violence of which did not laat long, but from which he did not entirely 

 recover for tome yean. His state of health made it necessary for 

 him to reeign his charge at Cambridge ; but, about 1807, he became 

 minister of the Baptut chapel in Harvey-lane, Leicester, and this 

 position he held for nearly twenty years. He married in March, 1803. 

 At last, in 1826, he removed to the pastoral care of his old congrega- 

 tion at Broadmead, Bristol ; and here he remained till his death, which 

 took place at Bristol, on the 21st of February 1831. 



Beside* occasional contributions to various dissenting periodical 

 publication^ Hall published various tracts and sermons in the last 

 twenty yean of his life, which, along with those already mentioned, 

 have since his death been collected and reprinted under the title of 

 4 The Works of Robert Hall, A M., with a brief Memoir of hia Life by 

 Dr. Gregory, and Observations on his Character as a Preacher by 

 John Foster; published under tho superintendence of Olinthus 

 Gregory, LL.D., profesnor of mathematics in the Royal Military 

 Academy,' 6 Tola. Svo, London, 1831-32. It was intended that tho 

 Life should have been written by Sir James Mackintosh, but he died 

 (in May, 1832) before beginning it. Dr. Gregory's Memoir, from which 

 we have abstracted the materials of this article, somewhat amplified 

 was afterwards published in a separate form. [GREGORY, OUNTHCS.] 

 The first volume of Hall's Works contains sermons, charges, and 

 circular letters (or addresses in the name of the governing body of the 

 Baptist church); the second, a tract entitled 'On Terms of Com- 

 munion,' in two parts, 1815; and another entitled 'The Essential 

 Difference between Christian Baptism and the Baptism of John ' (a 

 defence of what is called the practice of free communion, which pro- 

 duced a powerful effect in liberalising the practice of the Baptist 

 community), in two parts, 1816 and 1818 ; the third, political and 

 miscellaneous tracts, extending from 1791 to 1826, and also the Bristol 

 newspaper contributions of 1780-87 ; the fourth, reviews and miscel- 

 laneous pieces ; the fifth, notes of sermons, and letters. The sixth, 

 beside* Dr. Gregory's memoir, contains Mr. Foster's observations, 

 and lotea taken down by friends of twenty-one sermon*. 



Hall was a man of many virtues, and of intellectual powers which 

 placed him in the first cla-s of men of talent. Hit acquirements were 

 very considerable, and he appears to have kept up the habits of a 

 studious man to the end of his life. But the great temporary impres- 

 sion which he made as a preacher and as a writer is to be attributed 

 more to general force and fervour of mind, than to any higher or 

 rarer faculty. He was more of an orator or of a rhetorician than of a 

 thinker. His greatness lay in expression and exposition, not in inven- 

 tion ; and even bis eloquence was rather flowing and decorative than 

 imaginative or impassioned. His mind was scarcely in any sense an 

 original or creative, nor even a subtle or a far-seeing one. 



HALL, SAMUEL CARTElt, editor of 'The Art-Journal,' is the 

 third son of the late Lieut -CoL Hall of Topsham, Devonshire, and 

 was born in the year 1801. He entered the Inner Temple when very 

 young, and was called to the tar immediately after his marriage with 

 the lady who is the subject of the next notice. Mr. Hall however 

 has preferred literature to the profession of the law, and has published 

 many elaborately illustrated works, to which the chief artists and 

 engraven of the day have given their aid. In early life Mr. Hall was 

 with the public press as a parliamentary reporter. He 

 the poet Campbell an editor of the 'New Monthly 

 >,' and during the period of hia connection with that work, 

 wrote "leaden" for several town and country journals. He then 

 issued The Book of Gems,' and subsequently ' The Baronial Halls of 

 England,' and 'The Book of British Ballads,' works which have 

 deservedly obtained extensive circulation in England and America. 

 Another work the ' Ireland ' in three volumes, with numerous illus- 

 trations, wai written by Mr. and Mr*. Hall, and contains a Urge amount 

 of fact* and legendary and antiquarian lore, the result of many visits 

 to the country. Among hi* other literary and editorial labours, it 

 may l>j mentioned, that Mr. Hall edited 'The Amulet' for eight 

 yean; but tho work in connection with which his name will be beat 

 known is "The Art-Journal,' a monthly publication, originally com- 

 menced in 1839 under the title of ' The Art-Union Monthly Journal,' 

 and which ha* been several time* enlarged, with the addition of elabo- 

 rate steel engravings from work* of the bet painters and sculptors. 

 Some of these illustrations have appeared contemporaneously in sepa- 

 rate forma, a* in tho case of the ' Vcrnon Gallery' and 'The Royal 

 Gallery of Art,' tho latter work giving engraviiija from the pictures of 



the royal collections. Mr. Hall ii a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 

 and is the author of several minor poems, one of which, ' Lines on 

 Jerpoint Abbey,' is referred to by Moore in his ' History of Ireland.' 



HALL, MKS. S. C., authoress of the ' Sketches of Irish Character,' 

 and many popular novels, was born in Dublin, and was christened 

 Anna Maria Fielding. Losing her father at a very early age, she was 

 left to the care of her mother, a lady of great beauty and accomplish- 

 mente descended from a Huguenot family, who had taken refuge in 

 England from the persecutions following the revocation of the edict 

 of Nantes and by whom she was sedulously educated. Even whilst 

 a child, Anna Maria Fielding wrote poems and plays. Her early day* 

 were spent at the residence of her maternal grandmother, whose 

 second husband waa a large landowner at Bannow. When little 

 more than fourteen. Mis* Fielding accompanied her mother to 

 England. About this time her more active studies were pursued, 

 music being especially cultivated. Her public appearance as an 

 authoress is attributed by herself to her union with Mr. S. ('. Hall, 

 which event took place when both were young, and through which 

 she has been spared many of the trials usually incidental to a literary 

 life. Her first work was produced at Mr. Hall's instance, who having 

 urged her to write what he thought she told so well a story of 

 Bannow ; the result was the ' Sketches of Irish Character,' a work 

 which was at once favourably received, and gave the authoress a perma- 

 nent position. The ' Tales of the Irish Peasantry ' appeared afterwards. 

 Both works have gone through several editions in England, and like 

 her later works, have been widely circulated in America, Mrs. Hall's 

 first three-volume novel was ' The Buccaneer,' wherein she defended 

 the great chief of the English Commonwealth, before Carlyle had 

 published the eulogium in his ' Hero- Worship.' She afterwards wrote 

 ' Mariau ;' ' Uncle Horace ;' ' The Outlaw ;' and ' Lights and Shadows 

 of Irish Life,' each in three volumes, all being now well known from 

 their appearance in a popular form. She has also contributed from 

 time to time to ' The Art-Journal,' and amongst the number of her 

 works which there or elsewhere have been published with illustrations, 

 may be named the ' Pilgrimages to English Shrines,' and ' Midsummer 

 Eve a fairy tale of Love.' She also wrote the ' Tales of Woman'* 

 Trials.' The three last-named works have been translated into the 

 German. Mrs. Hall has also published a number of books for children, 

 one of which, ' Uncle Sam's Money Box,' is said to be greatly popular 

 with the young, and whilst her husband was editing ' The Amulet,' 

 she produced eight volumes of the 'Juvenile Forget-me-Not.' Mrs. Hall 

 also has devoted her pen largely to the advancement of several social 

 and charitable objects, amongst which may be referred to, the Temper- 

 ance cause, the Governesses' Benevolent Institution, and the Hospital 

 for the cure of Consumption. Amongst Mrs. Hall's matured efforts in 

 dramatic literature may bo named ' Tho French Refugee,' acted for 

 about fifty nights at the St. James's Theatre, and ' The Groves of 

 Blarney,' wherein Power played in three characters, in which he after- 

 wards had himself represented in a picture. The work on ' Ireland,' 

 by Mr. and Mrs. Hall, has been named in her husband's biography. 



* HALLAM, HENRY, English historian and critic, was born in or 

 about the year 1778, and was educated at Eton, and at Christchurch 

 College, Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. In the early port 

 of the present century he became a resident in London, where, since 

 that time, he has passed the greater portion of his life in literary 

 research and composition. He was one of the contributors to the 

 ' Edinburgh Review ' in the first years of its publication ; and in the 

 pages of that review, as well as of some other contemporary perio- 

 dicals, he first gave conspicuous proofs of his erudition, his taste, mid 

 his calm philosophic judgment. One of his most celebrated articles 

 in the ' Edinburgh Review ' was that on Sir Walter Scott's biography 

 of Dryden, and edition of Drydeu's works, published in 1808. lu the 

 allusions made to Mr. llollam at this period in the correspondence of 

 such men as Wilberforco, Komilly, Homer, Jeffrey, there is ample 

 proof of the high re-pect in which he was held by the literary 



of London and Edinburgh, on account of his scholarship. Byron's 

 allusion also to " the classic Hallam," in his ' English Bards and Scotch 

 Reviewers,' testifies satirically to the same fact. From the very first 

 Mr. Hallam had attached himself to the Whig party in politics, but 

 the candid and philosophic temper of his mind prevented him from 

 mingling with ordinary political strife. He took a warm interest 

 however in questions of general philanthropy, social improvement, 

 and constitutional progress. He co-operated heartily in the movement 

 for the abolition of the slave-trade. lu the meantime, while thus 

 moving hia name favourably known to all who were interested in 

 literature, and the gradual progress of political and administrative 

 reform in Britain, Mr. Hallam waa qualifying himself by laborious 

 historical investigations and by studies, at once various and profound, 

 in the literatures of almost all the modern languages of Europe, for a 

 course of authorship in which he had had, properly speaking, no pre- 

 decessor in this country, and in which he is without a rival. 



Tho first fruit of tlu.-e investigations and studies was his ' View of 

 the State of Europe during the Middle Ages,' published originally in 

 two volumes 4to, in 1818. As a work of extensive and profound 

 learning, written in a clear and classical style, and exhibiting a spirit 

 of historical generalisation tempered by strict conscientiousness, the 

 work at once took a high place not only in British literature, but in 

 the litiraturo of Europe. Mr, Hallaui's next work was ' Tho Cuusti- 



