HEVER CASTLE 



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HEXATEUCH 



Baron Hewart, 

 British lawyer 



Hever Castle. Residence of 

 Viscount Astor (q.v, ), near Eden- 

 bridge, Kent. ' In Edward Ill's 

 time a castle was built here by Sir 

 William de Hevre, and in the 15th 

 century a new one was erected by 

 Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, a former lord 

 mayor of London, who had bought 

 the estate. Here his descendant 

 Anne Boleyn lived, and her ghost 

 is said still to haunt the place. I 1 he 

 castle fell into decay and was later 

 restored. It was purchased about 

 1890 by W. W. Astor, afterwards 

 1st Viscount Astor. He modelled 

 it in accord with its original 

 design, and it is now a perfect 

 model of the late medieval castle. 

 See Anne Boleyn. 



Hewart, GORDON HEWART, BARON 

 (b. 1870). British lawyer. Bom 

 at Bury, Jan. 7, 1870, he was edu- 

 cated ~at Manchester Grammar 

 School and University College, 

 Oxford. After 

 a journalistic 

 career he turn- 



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H and was called 

 m to the bar in 

 I 1902. He be- 



t^\V 3 came a K.C. 



m^ in 1912 ' m 



KV '"iSBBJ which year he 



first appeared 

 as a parlia- 

 mentary candidate for a Man- 

 chester division. In 1913 he was 

 returned as Liberal M.P. for 

 Leicester at a by-election. In 1916 

 he joined the Coalition government 

 as solicitor-general, and in Jan., 

 1919, was promoted attorney-gen- 

 eral. In 1922 he became lord chief 

 justice and Baron Hewart of Bury. 

 Hewlett , MAURICE HENRY ( 1 86 1- 

 1923) British novelist and poet. 

 Born in London, Jan. 22, 1861, he 

 was called to 

 the bar in 1 891, 

 and held a post 

 in the Civil Ser- 

 vice, 1896- 

 1900. He es- 

 tablished his 

 reputation i n 

 1898 with The 

 Forest Lovers, 

 a romance ot 

 the kind of 

 vague medie- 



Valism Which 



William Morris had already initi- 

 ated. His other stories include the 

 beautif ulLittle Novels of Italy ( wit h 

 the dainty Madonna of the" Peach 

 Trees), 1899 ; Richard Yea and Nay 

 (Cceur de Lion), 1900 ; New Can- 

 terbury Tales, 1901 : The Queen's 

 Quair, 1904; The Fool Errant, 1905 ; 

 The Stooping Lady, 1907; Brazen- 

 head the Great, 1911; A Lover's 

 Tale, 1915; and MaiAwaring, 1921. 

 He has also written some beautiful 



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Hever Castle, Kent, once the residence of Anne Boleyn. 

 It was restored by Viscount Astor 



verse, including Pan and the Young 

 Shepherd, 1898 ; The Song of the 

 Plow, 1916 ; and essays, In a Green 

 Shade, 1920. He died June 16,1923. 



Hexachord (Gr. hex, six ; chord?, 

 chord). Scale of six notes. It was 

 established by Guido d'Arezzo for 

 the purposes of his teaching of 

 solmisation, thus superseding the 

 Greek system of tetrachords. The 

 term is sometimes used to denote 

 a six-stringed lyre ; occasion a 11 3% 

 to express the interval of a sixth. 



Hexagon. Plane figure having 

 six sides and six angles. A regular 

 hexagon has six angles, each 120, 

 and six sides each equal to the radius 

 of the circumscribing circle. 



Hexahedron. Solid, having six 

 plane faces or surfaces. The regu- 

 lar hexahedron is the cube, all six 

 faces being squares of equal size. 



Hexameter (Gr. hex, six; 

 metron, measure). Metrical line or 

 verse containing six feet, of which 

 the penultimate one must be a dac- 

 tyl and the final one either a spondee 

 or a trochee. It is the metre of the 

 classical epics, but is not well 

 adapted to the genius of the Eng- 

 lish language. Longfellow's Evan- 

 geline is the best known and most 

 successful hexameter poem in Eng- 

 lish. Instances of accented hexa- 

 meters occurring in English prose 

 without intention are not uncom- 

 mon, e.g. How art thou fallen from 

 heaven, Lucifer, son of the Morn- 

 ing (Isaiah xiv, 12). See Poetry. 



Hexamine OR UROTROPINE. 

 Compound formed by ammonia 

 and formaldehyde. Chemically it 

 is hexamethylenetetramine. Hexa- 

 mine is employed as an internal 

 disinfectant, its properties depend- 

 ing upon the slow liberation, in the 

 urinary tract, of formaldehyde. 



HexapJa, THE. Work compiled 

 by Origen (q.v.). The term means 

 " sixfold " (neut. pi. of Gr. hexa- 

 plous), and was suggested by the 

 plan adopted by Origen to show the 

 divergencies between the Septua- 

 gint, the later Greek versions, and 

 the current Hebrew text of the O.T. 

 The compilation is arranged in six 



parallel columns. 

 The first contains 

 the Hebrew words : 

 the second a trans- 

 literation of the 

 Hebrew words in 

 Greek characters ; 

 the third the Greek 

 equivalents in the 

 version of Aquila 

 (fl. 128-129), a 

 version intended to 

 be much more 

 literal than that of 

 the Septuasint ; the 

 fourth the Greek 

 equivalents in the 

 version of Symma- 

 chus (fl. c. A.D. 1SO-192), a much 

 freer version than that of Aquila ; 

 the fifth the Greek equivalents in 

 the Septuagint (q.v. ) ; the sixth the 

 Greek equivalents in the version 

 of Theodotion ( fl. perhaps under 

 Marcus Aurelius), a free revision of 

 the Septuagint. 



Hexateuch, THE (Gr. hex, six; 

 teuchos, volume). The term Penta- 

 teuch is an old designation of the 

 first five books of the Bible (Gr. 

 pente, five), which were ascribed to 

 Moses by Jewish, Mahomedan, 

 and Christian tradition. These 

 books are known collectively to the 

 Jews as the Torah or the Law and 

 are described by them sectional ly 

 as " the five-fifths of the law." 

 The term Hexateuch has been in- 

 vented by modern scholars in order 

 to include in the same group a 

 sixth book, the Book of Joshua, 

 which is linked closely by its con- 

 tents and style to the preceding 

 five books and is based upon the 

 same documentary sources. 



It is contended that the Penta- 

 teuch, except in certain sections, 

 does not claim to be the work of 

 Moses. It is a book about Moses, 

 just as the Book of Joshua is a 

 book about Joshua. It is, in factj 

 together with the Book of Joshua, 

 according to many modern scholars, 

 a composite work framed and 

 edited out of materials of varying 

 date (c. 850-400 B.C.). 



Doubts as to the Mosaic author- 

 ship of the Pentateuch had been 

 expressed already by such writers 

 as Hobbes (1651), Peyrerius (1654), 

 Spinoza (1671), Le Clerc (1685), 

 and by the French Oratorian, R. 

 Simon (1678), who has been 

 called " the father of Old Testa- 

 ment criticism." But criticism 

 proper began with Jean Astruc, a 

 French physician (d. 1766). Astruc 

 held that there are two distinct 

 accounts of creation in Genesis, 

 (a) Gen. 1, 1-2, 4a, (b) Gen. 2, 46 

 to the end of chapter 3, and that in 

 (a) the author ppeaks of God as 

 Elohim, while in (b) he speaks of 

 him as Jehovah. 



