HENLEY-ON-THAMES 



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HENRIETTA MARIA 



to other papers and magazines. 

 (See Views and Reviews, 1890, and 

 Essays, 1921.) 



Meantime he obtained recogni- 

 tion as poet with A Book of Verses, 

 1888, which included those he had 

 written on his Edinburgh sick-bed 

 under the title of Hospital Verses ; 

 The Song of the Sword, 1892 ; For 

 England's Sake, 1900, a product of 

 the wave of patriotic feeling which 

 swept over the country during the 

 S. African War. He edited, with 

 T. F. Henderson, the Centenary 

 Burns, 1896-97, to which he con- 

 tributed a noteworthy critical 

 appreciation of the poet, after- 

 wards published separately ; also 

 Lyra Heroica, 1891, a book of verse 

 for boys. With R. L. Stevenson 

 he collaborated in four plays. His 

 activities also included editions of 

 the Works of Standard Authors. 



tion beneath the Chil terns. Brew- 

 ing and malting are carried on, but 

 it is chiefly known as a boating 

 centre. A fine bridge crosses the 

 river here ; built in 1786, this re- 

 placed one of great age. The church 

 of S. Mary, with a lofty tower, is 

 an old building ; there is a school 

 dating from the early 17th century, 

 and a town hall. Henley was made 

 a corporate town in 1570. Market 

 day, Thurs. Pop. 6,500. 



Henley Regatta. Sporting fix- 

 ture, embracing rowing and sculling 

 races among amateurs. Connected 

 with the rowing clubs of Oxford 

 and Cambridge, Eton, etc., and 

 admitting competitors belonging to 

 similar institutions in foreign coun- 

 tries, it was inaugurated in 1839. It 

 takes place annually in July on the 

 Thames at Henley, Oxfordshire. 

 The following are the different 



Henley Regatta. General view of the Thames course, looking down river. 

 Races are rowed upstream from Temple Island, in the distance 



He died at Woking, July 11, 1903. 

 See Life, L. C. Cornford, 1913. 



Henley- on-Thames. Munici- 

 pal bor. and market town of Ox- 

 fordshire. It stands on the N. side 

 of the Thames, 36 m. from London, 

 and is served by the G.W. Rly. 

 Its beautv is enhanced bv its situa- 



Henley-on-Thames. The Berkshire bank of the river 

 and Temple Island 



Frith 



races and the year of their founda- 

 tion. Grand Challenge Cup, for 

 eight oars, 1839; Stewards' Chal- 

 lenge Cup, for four oars, 1840 ; 

 Diamond Sculls, for single scullers, 

 1844 ; Silver Goblets, for pair oars, 

 1845 ; Ladies' Challenge Plate, for 

 eight oars, 1845; Visitors' Chal- 

 lenge Cup, for four 

 oars, 1847 ; Wyfokl 

 Challenge Cup, for 

 four oars, 1855 . 

 and the Thames 

 Challenge Cup, 

 for eight oars. 

 1868. The regatta 

 is held under the 

 rules of the Ama- 

 teur Rowing As- 

 sociation. In 1915- 

 19 there was no 

 regatta, owing to 

 the Great War, 

 though in 1919 a 

 substitute regatta 

 took place. See 

 Rowing at Henley, 

 T. A. Cook, 1919. 



Henna. Powdered leaves of 

 Lawsonia alba or inermis, a shrub 

 that grows in tropical Asia. It is 

 used for dyeing the hair a reddish - 

 brown colour, for which purpose the 

 powder is made into a paste with 

 water, applied to the hair and 

 allowed to remain on all night. 



Henner, JEAN JACQUES (1829- 

 1905). French painter. Born at 

 Bernwiller, Alsace, March 5, 1829, 

 he studied under Drolling and 

 Picot. He won the Prix de Rome in 

 1858, and, after visiting Italy, 

 developed as a painter of religious 

 and classical figure subjects, four 

 of which are in the Luxembourg. 

 His reputation rests chiefly on his 

 pictures of the nude. 



Henri, ROBERT (b. 1865). 

 American painter. Born at Cin- 

 cinnati, he studied at the Pennsyl- 

 vania Academy, at the Beaux Arts 

 and Julian's in Paris, and travelled 

 in France, Spain, and Italy. Many 

 American permanent collections 

 possess examples of his art, and in 

 1899 his picture, La Neige, was 

 purchased from the Salon by the 

 French Government for the 

 Luxembourg. 



Henrietta Maria (1609-69). 

 Queen of Charles I. The youngest 

 daughter of Henry IV of France, 

 she was born in Paris, Nov. 25, 

 1609. Betrothed to Charles in 1624, 

 after he had failed to secure a 

 Spanish bride, she was married to 

 him by proxy in May, 1625, just 

 after Charles's accession. The 

 queen was fond of gaiety and ex- 

 travagant, but her partiality for 

 the Roman Catholics governed al- 

 most all she did in English politics. 

 To the indignation of the people, 

 she gave countenance and more to 

 her co-religionists, and just before 

 the Civil War her activities did 



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