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made him lord chancellor in 1587, 

 to the disgust of the legal pro- 

 fession. His natural shrewdness 

 enabled him to acquit himself with 

 moderate success, and he retained 

 the office until his death, which 

 occurred on Nov. 20, 1591. 



Hatton, JOSEPH (1841-1307). 

 British author and journalist. 

 Born Feb. 3. 1841, the son of 

 Francis Augus- 

 tus Hatton, 

 who founded 

 The Derbyshire 

 Times, he came 

 to London in 

 1868 to con- 

 duct The Gen- 

 tleman's Maga- 

 zine. He held 



_ At .. several ap- 



Irt-tLkSl'*'*?' pointments 

 V X^ as editor 



S and special 



Eiuoii&Fn, correspon- 



dent, but as a journalist is chiefly 

 remembered as the writer of 

 Cigarette Papers, a weekly mis- 

 cellany in The People, of which 

 paper he was editor in his last years, 

 and for the way in which, as 

 correspondent for The Standard in 

 America, he enabled his paper to 

 publish the news of the shooting of 

 President Garfield a day in advance 

 of its contemporaries. Among his 

 numerous works the best known 

 are Clytie, subsequently dramatised 

 by himself, and By Order of the 

 Czar. He died July 31, 1907. 



Hatton Garden. London 

 thoroughfare. Named after Sir 

 Christopher Hatton, lord chan- 

 cellor to Queen Elizabeth, who 

 lived at Hatton House, it connects 

 Holborn Circus with Clerkenwell 

 Road, and is known as a centre 

 of the London diamond trade. 

 Wycherley the dramatist visited 

 the countess of Drogheda here 

 before his marriage to her. Mazzini 

 lived at No. 5. Mirabeau was also 

 a resident. No. 53 was formerly a 

 police-court presided over by a 

 Mr. Laing, the original of Mr. 

 Fang in Die kens' s Oliver Twist. 

 Joseph Strutt, the antiquary, died 

 in Charles Street. See Ely Place. 

 Hatvan. Town of Hungary, in 

 the co. of Heves. It stands on the 

 Zagyva river, 30 m. N.E. of Buda- 

 pest. It is an important rly. junc- 

 tion and is noted for its ancient 

 castle. The chief industry is the 

 manufacture of cloth. Pop. 9,750. 

 Hatzfeld. Former name of the 

 town of Yugo-Slavia now known 

 as Zsombolya (q.v.). There is also 

 a village of Germany called Hatz- 

 feld. It stands on the Eder, 40 m. 

 W.S.W. of Kassel. Pop. 885. 



Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg, PAUL 

 MELCHIOR, COUNT VON (1831-1901 ). 

 German diplomatist. Born of an 



old and aristocratic family, he en- 

 tered the diplomatic service of 

 Prussia. In 1 882 he was appointed 

 foreign secre- 

 tary of the 

 German em- 

 pire. Three 

 years later he 

 was sent as 

 ambassador to 

 London, where 

 he remained 

 until his death, 

 Nov. 22, 1901. 

 His Corre- 

 spondence, 

 1905, is interesting on account of 

 his intima,cy with Bismarck. 



Hauberk (O.H.G. Hals, neck; 

 bergftn, to protect). Coat of chain 

 rnai! or closelv linked iron or steel 



Count von Hatz- 

 feldt-Wildenburg, 

 German diplomatist 



Hauberk. Coat of chain mail as 

 worn by John of Gaunt 



rings. At first probably little 

 more than a gorget (q.v.), it devel- 

 oped until it sometimes reached 

 to the wearer's knees and had 

 sleeves reaching nearly to the 

 wrists. The Norman hauberk was 

 put on over the head like a modern 

 sweater ; other forms were fas- 

 tened up the front. The hauberk 

 fell out of use among western 

 peoples in the 15th century. See 

 Armour. 



Hauch, HANS CARSTEN (1790- 

 1872). Danish poet. Born at 

 Fredrikshald, Norway, May 12, 



Wilt elm Hauft, 

 German poet 



1790, in 1846 he was appointed 

 professor of northern literature at 

 Kiel. He left the country during 

 the Holstein revolution in 1848, 

 and in 1850 became professor of 

 aesthetics at Copenhagen. He re- 

 mained there until his death, 

 March 4, 1872. Hauch wrote 

 several historical tragedies, many 

 lyrics and romances. An edition of 

 his works was published at Copen- 

 hagen, 1873-75. 



Hauff, WII.HELM (1802-27). 

 German poet and novelist. He was 

 born at Stuttgart, Nov. 29, 1802, 

 and having 

 studied at Tu- 

 bingen, acted 

 as tutor for a 

 couple of years. 

 He became edi- 

 tor of Das Mor- 

 genblatt in his 

 native town 

 in Jan., 1827, 

 but died Nov. 

 18 the same 

 year. In his short life he wrote 

 much of lasting excellence, notably 

 his three series of Marchen (Fairy 

 Tales), 1826-28; Lichtenstein, a 

 Wurttemberg romance in the man- 

 ner of Scott, 1826 ; Memoiren des 

 Satan (Memoirs of Satan), 1826- 

 27, rich in humour ; and Novellen 

 (Novelettes), 1828. 



Haugesund. Seaport of Nor- 

 way, in the amt of Stavanger. 

 It stands on the W. coast, near the 

 N. extremity of the island of 

 Karmo, 60 m. due S. of Bergen. 

 The port carries on a thriving 

 trade, mainly in timber and fish. 

 Pop. 18,000. 



Haulage. Transport of ma- 

 terial. In all mining operations 

 this constitutes one of the most im- 

 portantbranches upon the efficiency 

 of which the success of an enterprise 

 may depend. The most primitive 

 method of removing material from 

 a mine to the place where it is to 

 be deposited for treatment con- 

 sists in loading it on to the backs 

 or shoulders of men or women, in 

 some kind of container, and having 

 it carried out. From this we pass 

 by methods gradually increasing 



Haulage. Plant for carrying logs by chain up an incline of 220 ft. for a 

 distance of 492 yds. 



