HIS HOUSE IN ORDER 



HISTORIOGRAPHER 



an eighth book on the Gallic War 

 and of a history of Caesar's Alex- 

 andrian war is generally attributed 

 to him. In 43, he and Pansa, his 

 colleague in the consulship, were 

 sent to relieve Mutina (Modena), 

 then besieged by Antony. The 

 latter was defeated, but both 

 consuls lost their lives. 



His House in Order. Comedy 

 written by A. W. Fmero and pro- 

 duced Feb. 1, 1906, at The St. 

 James's, where it ran for 430 per- 

 formances. Irene Vanbrugh and 

 George Alexander played the lead 

 ing parts. 



His Majesty's Theatre. Lon- 

 don theatre,in the Hay market (.*>.). 

 In the first building erected on the 

 site, opened as the Queen's Opera 

 House in 1705, the first perform- 

 ance of Handel's Rinaldo took 

 place in 1711. The building having 

 been burnt down, a new one was 

 erected in 1791, and named the 

 King's Theatre. Here Don Gio- 

 vanni was produced for the first 

 time in England in 1817. On the 

 accession of Queen Victoria the 

 name of Her Majesty's Theatre 

 was given to the building, which 

 regained popularity in 1847 with 

 the debut of Jenny Lind. 



The days of Titiens, Trebelli, 

 and Nilsson followed from 18G2 to 

 1867, when the theatre was burnt 

 to the ground. Rebuilt, it stood 

 empty till Moody and Sankey 

 filled it with their Revivalist ser- 

 vices. The present theatre, built 

 of Portland stone and red granite, 

 was designed by C. J. Phipps for 

 Beerbohm Tree in 1897. On the ac- 

 cession of Edward VII its title was 

 changed to His Majesty's Theatre. 

 Hispar. Pass and glacier in the 

 Karakoram Mts., Central Asia, N. 

 of Baltistan, Little Tibet, It 

 reaches an alt. of 17,650 ft., and 

 was first explored in 1892 by Sir 

 W. Martin Conway. 



Hissar. District, subdivision, 

 and town of India. In the Delhi 

 Division, Punjab, its area is 5,217 

 sq. m., about four-fifths of which 

 is under cultivation, the chief crops 

 being millet, barley, and wheat. 

 The rainfall is about 15 ins. Irriga- 

 tion from the Sirhind and Western 

 Jumna canals enables some crops 

 to be grown, but the harvest is 

 uncertain. The district contains 

 a number of cotton ginning and 

 pressing factories. Hissar town is 

 of little commercial importance. 

 Pop. district, 804,900 ; subdivision, 

 126,800; town, 17,160. 



Hissar. Province and town of 

 Turkistan, in E. Bokhara. The 

 country is well watered and fertile, 

 but very unhealthy in the low- 

 lying districts. The chief products 

 are grain, cotton, flax, and rice. 

 The town is famous for its knives, 



sword -blades, and silken wares. 

 Hissar was formerly an indepen- 

 dent principality. Pop. of town 

 about 10,000. 



Histology (Gr. hiato*, web; 

 logos, account). Branch of science 

 dealing with the microscopical 

 structure of living organisms. 

 Although histology is contempor- 

 aneous with the invention and im- 

 provement of the microscope, the 

 study of the minute structure of 



1869 to examine and report upon 

 the historical records, manuscripts, 

 etc., in existence in the country. 

 It is a permanent body, the chair- 

 man being the master of the rolls, 

 and has published a number of 

 reports on various valuable col- 

 lections of historical material, e.g. 

 those at Hatfield and Dropmore 

 See State Papers. 



Historical Method. Term used 

 mainly in economics for a method 

 of inquiry that 

 its results 



His Majesty's Theatre, London, built in 1897 



animals and vegetables began with 

 the discovery of blood corpuscles 

 by Malpighi (1628-94), that of 

 plant cells by Robert Hooke in 

 1667, etc. Francois Bichat (q.v.), 

 the French physiologist, first laid 

 the foundations of histology in his 

 great work, Anatomie Generate 

 Appliquee a la Physiologie et a 

 la Medecine, 1801-12, where he 

 showed the intimate connexion 

 between heart, brain, and lungs, 

 and classified tissues according to 

 their structures. 



Hugo von Mohl, Schleiden, and 

 Schwann marked another great 

 step in the science of histology by 

 the discovery of the cellular 

 structure of plants, the latter 

 showing that animal and vegetable 

 all develop from cells. 



upon the facts of 

 historical research 

 rather than upon 

 theories. It is the 

 inductive as op- 

 posed to the de- 

 ductive method. 

 More narrowly it 

 is applied to those 

 German scholars 

 who follow the 

 system founded 

 by W. Roscher. 

 See Logic ; Ros- 

 cher. 



Historical So- 

 ciety, ROYAL. 

 British learned 

 society founded in 1868. Its objects 

 are the promotion of historical 

 study and research. Papers are read 

 at its monthly meetings, and its 

 Transactions are published from 

 time to time. Its members are 

 styled F.R.Hist.S. The offices are 

 at South Square, Gray's Inn, Lon- 

 don, W.C. . 



Historic Houses. Houses in 

 which historic events have taken 

 place or historic personages have 

 lived. Examples are Burghley 

 House, Devonshire House, Gros- 

 venor House, Hatfield House, Hol- 

 land House, Marlborough House, 

 and Lansdowne House. These, and 

 others, are described in this work 

 under their respective headings. 



Historiographer (Gr. historia, 

 history ; graphein, to write) 



tissues ,. lilol 



The study of cellular structure by ^ 



Johannes Muller, Virchow, and yiv{ _ 



others since has given an immense pri nces be gan to appoint 



impetus to the investigation of dis- Q ^^ the histories of th 



eased growths. See Biology ; Cell ; 



Physiology; Tissue. 



Bibliography. A Text-book of 

 the Principles of Animal Histology, 

 U. Dahlgren and W. A. Kepner, 

 1908; The Essentials of Histology, 



Offi- 



Soon after the re- 

 vival of learning certain rulers and 

 'at scholars 

 themselves 



and their lands. The emperor 

 Charles V, Louis XIV, and other 

 kings of France, for instance, had 

 their historiographers royal, who in- 

 cluded Racine and Voltaire, while 



Descriptive and Practical, E. A. Charles , II ^of England appointed 

 Schafer, 1910; Practical Histology, 

 J. N. Langley, 1920. 



Histon. Parish and village of 



one on his Restoration. Obviously 

 the work of these men, who had to 

 write something laudatory, had 



Cambridgeshire, England. It is little value. The most interesting 

 4 m. N.N.W. of Cambridge on the of these survivals is the k 

 fruit 



G.E.R. The cultivation of 



and jam manufacture are the chief 



industries. Pop. 1,385. 



Historical Manuscripts Com- 

 mission. In the United Kingdom, 

 a royal commission appointed in 



toriographer in Scotland. The office 

 existed there before 1603, but fell 

 into abeyance. In 1763 it was re- 

 vived and William Robertson was 

 appointed. His successors included 

 J. H. Burton and W. F. Skene. 



