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was expected at the first opportune moment. 

 When it came it was complete. W.E.L. 



Consult Stokes' Hungary; Bovill's Hungary 

 and the Hungarians. 



For the history of the dual monarchy itself, 

 since 1867, see AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, subhead His- 

 tory; see, also, AUSTRIA. The outline questions 

 and index of related topics are also given under 

 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



HUNS, hum, a wandering and warlike tribe 

 of the Mongolian race, who made hostile in- 

 vasions into the Roman Empire. Under Attila, 

 their greatest leader, they almost destroyed the 

 empires of the East and West. They crossed 

 the Volga about A. D. 350, totally defeated and 

 afterwards united with the Alani, another bar- 

 barous tribe, and then attacked and conquered 

 the Goths. With various subject tribes the 

 Huns then invaded Gaul under the leadership 

 of Attila, and were finally defeated in about 

 451. Their fate is uncertain, but it is supposed 

 that they Were merged in later invading bar- 

 barian tribes. See GOTHS; GAUL; ATTILA. 



HUNT, HELEN FISKE. See JACKSON, HELEN 

 FISKE HUNT. 



HUNT, [JAMES HENRY] LEIGH (1784-1859), 

 an English journalist and poet, some of whose 

 best work was produced under circumstances 

 that would have defeated the average man. 

 After spending eight years at Christ's Hospital, 

 Hunt went to London, where he remained for 

 two years, writing verses and wandering about 

 the city under the tutelage of a minister, who 

 had a collection of the boy's poems published in 

 1801. In 1808 Hunt and his brother began to 

 publish the Examiner, a newspaper, and in 

 1812, when the paper attacked the Prince Re- 

 gent through its editorial columns in an article 

 entitled The Prince on St. P.atrick's Day, the 

 editors were tried and condemned to two 

 years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of 1,000 

 ($5,000). The poet was sent to Horsemonger 

 Lane jail, and he directed the Examiner from 

 there with unabated energy. Some of his best 

 sonnets were published during his imprison- 

 ment, from 1813 to 1815. 



His collection of poems, Foliage, was pub- 

 lished three years after he was released, and in 

 1819 he began a weekly newspaper called the 

 Indicator, in w r hich some of his best essays 

 appeared. In 1822 he went to Italy and con- 

 ducted a newspaper called the Liberal, which 

 was not successful. Hunt's Autobiography is a 

 complete and individual expression of the man. 

 His works as poet and critic are a notable 

 contribution to nineteenth century literature. 



Among his books are Men, Women and Books; 

 Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla; Imagination 

 and Fancy, Wit and Humor; The Town; The 

 Story of Rimini; Palfrey, a Love Story of Old 

 Times; Legend of Florence, a play; and Book 

 of the Sonnet, which was published after his 

 death. 



HUNT, MARY HANCHETT (1831-1906), an 

 American temperance educator and teacher, to 

 whose efforts is mainly due the teaching in the 

 schools of the effects of alcoholic drink upon 

 the human system. She was born at South 

 Canaan, Conn., was educated at the Palapsco 

 Institute in Maryland, and for a number of 

 years was an instructor in chemistry in that 

 institution. While there she became interested 

 in investigating the nature and effects of liq- 

 uors. She identified herself with the Women's 

 Christian Temperance Union and became the 

 leader of the movement that made temper- 

 ance physiology, or scientific temperance, a 

 compulsory part of school instruction, planning 

 from her office in Boston a remarkable cam- 

 paign that lasted over thirty years. Temper- 

 ance laws were adopted, largely through her 

 efforts in the United States ; Canada, Chile and 

 other countries also adopted similar laws. She 

 was the author of thirty textbooks on tem- 

 perance physiology, and also the founder and 

 editor of School Physiology, a monthly journal 

 for teachers in public schools. 



HUNT, RICHARD MORRIS (1828-1895), an 

 American architect who exercised an artistic 

 influence on his profession. He was born at 

 Brattleboro, Vt., and was a brother of William 

 Morris Hunt, the painter. When only fifteen 

 years of age he went to Geneva, Switzerland, 

 to study architecture, afterward studying in 

 Paris. He traveled through Europe, Egypt 

 and Asia, and then was employed for a time 

 on the new Louvre in Paris, under his old 

 master, Lefeul. In 1855 he returned to America 

 and worked w r ith Thomas Ustic Walter on the 

 Capitol extension in Washington. He estab- 

 lished a studio for architects in New York, 

 and this was the pioneer of all architectural 

 training schools in America. 

 Among the noted buildings he designed are 

 the Lenox Library and the Tribune Building 

 in New York, the Divinity Building at Yale, 

 the Fogg Museum at Harvard and the World's 

 Fair Administration Building in Chicago. He 

 also planned the Yorktown Monument and the 

 pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York 

 harbor. Some of the most palatial private 

 houses in the United States were built by him, 



