HART, JOHN S. 



HOBART PASHA. 



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marble statue of Henry Clay, which now stands 

 in the Capitol Square at Richmond. He went to 

 Florence in 1849 to execute this order, but the 

 work was delayed in consequence of the loss 

 of his model by shipwreck, and by other cir- 

 cumstances, and it was not till 1859 that the 

 statue was shipped to the United States. Mr. 

 Hart afterward made the colossal bronze statue 

 of Henry Clay, which now stands at the inter- 

 section of St. Charles and Canal Streets in New 

 Orleans. He resided in Florence for many 

 years, where he executed a number of busts of 

 eminent men, and several ideal works. Among 

 the latter are " Angelina," " II Penseroso," and 

 " Woman Triumphant." The model of a statue 

 of "Venus," upon which he spent between 

 15 and 20 years, is probably left unfinished. 

 A machine for " pointing " a bust in marble 

 directly from the head of the living model, 

 which Mr. Hart invented, was too mechanical 

 to be regarded with favor by other sculp- 

 tors. 



HART, JOHN SEELY, an American author, 

 was born at Stockbridge, Mass., January 28, 

 1810, and died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 26, 

 1877. His family removed to Pennsylvania, 

 finally settling near Wilkesbarre. He graduated 

 at Princeton, N. J., in 1830, and, after teaching 

 for a year at Natchez, Miss., he became, in 1832, 

 tutor, and in 1834 Adjunct Professor of Ancient 

 Languages, at Princeton, where, from 1836 to 

 1841, he had charge of the Edgehill School. 

 From 1842 to 1859 he was Principal of the 

 Philadelphia High School, and from 1863 to 

 1871 of the New Jersey State Normal School 

 at Trenton. In 1872 he became Professor of 

 Rhetoric and of the English Language at Prince- 

 ton^ He was the founder, and long the chief 

 editor, of the Sunday-School Times, and in 1859 

 was editor of the periodicals published by the 

 American Sunday-School Union. He also con- 

 tributed largely to periodicals, and edited sev- 

 eral journals and illustrated annuals. Besides 

 some text-books and religious works, he pub- 

 lished "Class-Book of Poetry " (1844) ; "Fe- 

 male Prose-Writers of America" (1851); "In 

 the School-Room " (1868) ; " Manual of Com- 

 position and Rhetoric" (1870); "Manual of 

 English Literature " (1872) ; " Manual of Amer- 

 ican Literature" (1873); "Short Course in 

 Literature, English and American" (1874); 

 " Mistakes of Educated Men," " Spenser and 

 the Faerie Queen," "Exposition of the Consti- 

 tution for Schools," and " Greek and Roman 

 Mythology." 



HAYTI. (See SANTO DOMINGO.) 

 HEIMANN, BASILI ALEXANDROVITCII, the 

 victor of Ardahan, was born in 1823. He en- 

 tered the army in 1842, and began to partici- 

 pate in active operations in 1845, since which 

 time he has, almost without an interruption, 

 been engaged against the native tribes of the 

 Caucasus. In 1859 he was a lieutenant-colonel, 

 took part as colonel in 1862 in the Caucasian 

 expedition of Prince Albert of Prussia, and 

 was advanced in 1872 to the rank of lieuten- 



ant-general, and received the command of the 

 20th Infantry Division. 



HILLIARD, HENEY, who was nominated by 

 President Hayes as minister to Brazil, was 

 born in North Carolina in 1808. In 1829 he 

 was admitted to the bar at Athens, Ga., where 

 he practised about two years. He was a pro- 

 fessor in the University of Alabama from 1831 

 to. 1834, was elected to the Alabama Legisla- 

 ture in 1838, and in 1840, as a delegate to the 

 National Whig Convention, earnestly advocated 

 the nomination of Henry Clay. In the follow- 

 ing year he was an unsuccessful candidate for 

 Congress. From 1842 to 1844, he was Charge 1 

 d' Affaires in Belgium, and in 1845 he was elect- 

 ed to Congress, where he served for three suc- 

 cessive terms. He supported the compromise 

 measures in 1850. His name was on the Fill- 

 more electoral ticket in 1856, and the Bell and 

 Everett ticket in!860. He at first opposed seces- 

 sion, but afterward went with his State (Ala- 

 bama), and was appointed a Commissioner to 

 Tennessee. He was commissioned a brigadier- 

 general in the provisional army of the Confed- 

 erate States. About 1862 he began the practice 

 of the law in Augusta, Ga. In 1868 he was an 

 unsuccessful candidate for Congress. He took 

 an active part in the presidential canvass of 

 1872, when he advocated the election of Gree- 

 ley and Brown. In 1876 he ran for Congress 

 as an Independent Democrat, but was defeated. 

 Since the war, he has acted with the Demo- 

 cratic party. 



HOBART PASHA, the Admiral of the 

 Turkish fleet, was born April 1, 1822. He is 

 the third son of the Earl of Buckingham, his 

 real name being Augustus Charles Hobart. In 

 1836 he entered the British Navy, and, having 

 distinguished himself in the Crimean War, rose 

 to the rank of captain. The British Navy dur- 

 ing peace did not satisfy his adventurous 

 spirit, and when the Civil War broke out in the 

 United States, betook command of a blockade- 

 runner, being eminently successful in this posi- 

 tion. At the close of the Civil War he returned 

 to Europe, and in 1867, upon the outbreak of 

 the insurrection in Crete, he offered his ser- 

 vices to the Sultan, who immediately gave him 

 the command of the fleet operating against 

 Crete. He had, however, failed to obtain the 

 permission of the British Admiralty for this 

 step, and, in consequence of the remonstrances 

 of the Greek Government, the Foreign Office 

 requested the Admiralty to strike his name off 

 the British Navy list. In 1874 he addressed 

 a letter to Lord Derby, admitting that he had 

 committed a breach of naval discipline by ac- 

 cepting service under the Turkish Government 

 without leave, but adding: "During seven 

 years that have elapsed since that time, I have 

 endeavored to maintain the character of an 

 Englishman for zeal, activity, and sagacity, and 

 I have been fortunate enough to obtain a cer- 

 tain European reputation, of which I hope I 

 may be justly proud. I prevented, by my 

 conduct during a very critical period, at the 



