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lections under various titles, the best known 

 of which is L'Arrabbiata, counted among the 

 most perfect short stories ever written. His 

 poetic works include narrative poems, among 

 which is Urica; and epics, the most notable of 

 which are The Bride of Cypern and Thekla. 

 He wrote many dramas as well as novels, but 

 they were less successful. His novels, The Chil- 

 dren of the World, In Paradise and Merlin, 

 although somewhat pessimistic, met with gen- 

 erous recognition. Heyse was awarded the 

 Nobel prize in literature in 1910 (see NOBEL 

 PRIZES) . 



HEZ'EKIAH (752-698 B.C.), the good king of 

 Judah who began his reign at the age of 

 twenty-five by suppressing all idolatrous wor- 

 ship which had existed under the rule of his 

 wicked father Ahaz. After celebrating the 

 feast of the Passover, to which he invited the 

 ten tribes of Israel, he gained a victory over 

 the Philistines and became great and prosper- 

 ous. In the sixth year of Hezekiah's reign the 

 king of Assyria carried most of the people of 

 Israel into captivity, but it was not until eight 

 years later that he made an assault on the 

 kingdom of Judah. At first Hezekiah offered 

 him tribute, but when these demands became 

 too great, they were refused. Then Sennach- 

 erib, the king of Assyria, advanced against 

 Jerusalem, but God interfered by sending a 

 plague into the Assyrian army, which killed 

 about 185,000 in one night (// Kings XIX, 35). 



In his famous poem, The Destruction of 

 Sennacherib, Byron describes how 



The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, 

 And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold, 



and tells in ringing verse of the catastrophe: 



And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the 



sword, 

 Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord ! 



After that Hezekiah's reign was one of great 

 prosperity for his nation, but he was warned 

 by Isaiah of its future capture by the Baby- 

 lonians. 



HIAWATHA, hiawah'tha, sometimes pro- 

 nounced he ' a wah tha, is the hero of Long- 

 fellow's famous Indian epic, The Song of Hia- 

 watha. Several of the North American Indian 

 tribes had their legends of some such warrior, 

 supernatural in his birth and in his strength, 

 who had been sent to open up their rivers, 

 show them the way through the forests, teach 

 them many of the arts of peace, and above all 

 things, plant for them the maize, or Indian 

 corn. These legends Longfellow collected and 



wove into a poem which still appeals not only 

 to children but to all who 



Love the sunshine of the meadow, 

 Love the shadow of the forest, 

 Love the wind among the branches, 

 And the rain-shower and the snowstorm. 



Of Hiawatha's birth and childhood; of his 

 contest with the West-Wind, his father; of his 

 fasting, his fishing, his wedding, his planting 

 of the corn, his grief at the death of his friends 

 and of his wife Minnehaha, and finally of his 

 departure into "the land of the Hereafter" all 

 these and more the epic treats in the unrhymed 

 verse which suits so well the subject. There 

 is about the poem enough of an air of realism 

 to make it interesting, yet the atmosphere of 

 mystery, of something more than human, is 

 felt throughout it. 



An excellent book for children is Holbrook's 

 Hiawatha Primer. 



HIBBEN, hib 'en, JOHN GRIER (1861- ), 

 an American educator, university president and 

 logician, born at Peoria, 111., and educated at 

 Princeton University, Princeton Theological 

 Seminary and the University of Berlin. In 

 1887 he was ordained to the ministry of the 

 Presbyterian Church, and for four years was 

 pastor at Chambersburg, Pa. He became in- 

 structor in logic and psychology at Princeton 

 in 1891, was later promoted to a professorship, 

 and in January, 1912, was chosen president of 

 the institution to succeed Woodrow Wilson, 

 who had resigned to become governor of New 

 Jersey. 



His works, which have given him high rank 

 among writers on philosophical subjects, in- 

 clude Inductive Logic, The Problems of 

 Philosophy, Deductive Logic, The Philosophy 

 of the Enlightenment and a volume of essays 

 entitled A Defense of Prejudice. .He is also 

 the editor of the series known as "Epochs of 

 Philosophy." 



HIBBING, hib' ing, MINN., an important 

 coal-mining town in Saint Louis County, in the 

 northeastern part of the state. It is on the 

 Great Northern and the Duluth, Missabe & 

 Northern railroads, twenty-five miles west of 

 Virginia and eighty miles northwest of Duluth. 

 Hibbing and Virginia are connected by an elec- 

 tric line. The area of the city is nearly two 

 and a half square miles. The population, 

 nearly fifty per cent foreign, including many 

 Austrians, Finns and Italians, was 8,832 in 1910; 

 in 1916, by a Federal estimate, it was 16,412. 



Hibbing lies in the productive iron ore region 

 of the Mesaba Range, more than forty mines 



