gernon Sydney, A. Marvell, Hutcheson, Hubert Languet, (author of the Vindicia contra Tyrannos, &c.;) in all, 13 portraits and plates. The collector should look for a copy with the "starred pages," containing the severe review of Dr. Johnson's Life of Milton, and the portrait of Sir Isaac Newton. These pages (often deficient) occur between 532 and 585,-viz.: 533 to 576, 579,* 580,* 577 to 584.* Such copies would formerly bring from £6 to £8, but can now (1856) be had for about £2. These vols. contain much curious information respecting Milton, &c. not to be found elsewhere, and correspondence with prominent Americans of the time. But note that these Memoirs are not to be confounded with the Memoirs of Thomas Brand Hollis, by John Disney, D.D., 1808, 4to; privately printed. Respecting the Hollises, see Memoirs as above; Gent. Mag., vol. lxxiv.; Colman's and Wigglesworth's Serms.; Greenwood's Discourse, and Rudd's Poem; Holmes; Morse's True Reasons; Allen's Amer. Biog. Dict.; Monthly Anthology for 1808; Nichols's Lit. Anec.; Chalmers's Biog. Dict.; Dibdin's Lib. Comp.; Pierce's Hist. of Harvard Univ. from 1636 to the Amer. Revolution; Josiah Quincy's Hist. of do. 1636 to 1840, 2 vols. 1840, 8vo; Saml. A. Eliot's Sketch of the Hist. of do., and of its present state, 1848, 12mo; Judge Story's Life and Letters, ii. 125-127; Bost. Chris. Exam., (by J. Walker,) vii. 64; Spirit of the Pilgrims, ii. 581; Lon. Gent. Mag., Jan. 1849, p. 37; DISNEY, JOHN, (Museum Disneianum,) in this Dictionary.

"Such a library [“ a working library," such as we wish ours to be] must be well provided with books of direct, positive utility. These are of two classes:-the great standard books which are never antiquated, and the valuable new books which are constantly appearing in every department of science and literature. Our library is amply supplied with many of the books belonging to the first class, thanks to the bounty of the Hollises and other noble benefactors in earlier or later days."-HON. EDWARD EVERETT: Aid to the Colleges, 1848: Orations and Speeches, 1853, ii. 547.

Hollister, G. H. 1. Mount Hope, or Philip, King of the Wampanoags; an Historical Romance, N. York, 1851, 12mo. Highly commended. 2. Hist. of Connecticut, 1855, 2 vols.

Holloran, L., D.D. The Battle of Trafalgar, 1806. Holloway, Rev. B. Pits for Fullers'-Earth in Bedfordshire; Phil. Trans., 1723.

Holloway, Benjamin, Rector of Blayden and Middleton-Stoney, Oxfordshire. 1. Serm., 1 Cor. ii. 23-26, Oxf., 1736, 8vo. 2. Three Serms., Acts ii. 38, 1739, 8vo. 3. Originals, Physical and Theological, &c., 1750, 2 vols. 8vo. 4. Letter and Spirit; or, Annotations upon the Holy Scriptures according to both, 1753, 8vo.

"This work is Hutchinsonianism and Origenism in perfection. The whole volume is occupied with the book of Genesis, every word of which it spiritualizes to absurdity. It is needless to wonder at the Fathers or the Mystics, when such elaborate productions as this and the Divine Originals, by the same author, have appeared in our own time."-Orme's Bibl. Bib.

Holloway, James. Confession and Narrative, fol. Holloway, James Thomas, D.D., Minister of Fitzroy Chapel, London. 1. The Analogy of Faith; in sixteen Serms., 1836, 8vo.

"These are valuable discourses, and accurately trace the life of David and the method of God's dealings with him."-Lon. Chris. Rememb.

2. Funl. Serm., Lon., 1836, 8vo. 3. Baptismal Regeneration, &c.; a Lett. to the Lord-Bishop of London; 2d ed., 1843, 8vo, pp. 104. 4. Eucharista, 1845, 18mo.

Holloway, John. Lett. to Dr. Price on his Serm. entit. The Love of our Country, Lon., 1798, 8vo. Holloway, John George. A Month in Norway, Lon., 1853, 12mo.

Holloway, H. R. 1. Walks round Rye, Isle of Wight, Lon., 1849, 12mo. 2. Manual of Chanting, 1850, 8vo. 3. Topography of the Isle of Wight, by Hillier, 1852,

18mo.

Holloway, Robert, a London lawyer, pub. several treatises against the professional practices of his legal brethren, 1771-1805.

Holloway, Wm. Poems, Tales, Natural Hist., &c., 1798-1812. See BRANCH, JOHN. Holloway, Wm. vincialisms, Lewes, 8vo. "We recommend careful reference to a useful manual lately, published, the General Dictionary of Provincialisms, by Holloway." -Lon. Quar. Rev.

1. General Dictionary of Pro

This is the only general work on the subject of English Provincialisms, and incorporates those of Grose, Jennings, Forby, Price, Jim Robbin, and others. It contains upwards of 9000 words, and, in addition to the explanations, gives descriptions of many local customs.

2. Hist. and Antiq. of the Town and Port of Rye, 1847, 8vo. 3. Hist. of Romney Marsh, Kent, 1849, 8vo.

Hollyband, Claudius, schoolmaster, pub. a Grammar, Dictionarie, and other educational works for the learners of Latine, Frenche, English, and Italian, Lon., 1573-99. See Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Lowndes's Bibl. Man.; Lon. Retrosp. Rev., iv. 72, 1821. His Dictionarie, French and English, 1593, 4to, is said to be the first French and English Dictionary pub. in England.

Hollybushe, John. 1. The Newe Testament, both in Latine and Englishe; trans. by Johan Hollybushe, Lon., 1538, 4to. Very rare. This trans. was really made by Myles Coverdale. See Cotton's Editions of the Bible, ed. 1852, 13-14; Walter's Lett. to the Bp. of Peterborough, 31. 2. Expos. of Magnificat, &c., South., 1538, fol.; 1538, 8vo. 3. Homish Apothecarye, 1561, fol.

Hollyngus, Edm., a native of England, Medical Professor at Ingolstadt. 1. De Salubri Studiosorum Victu, Ing., 1602, 8vo. 2. Medicamentorum Economia Nova, &c., 1610, 8vo.

Holman, James, Lt. R.N., d. 1857, celebrated as "The Blind Traveller." 1. Journey in France, Italy, Savoy, &c., Lon., 8vo. See Madden's Literary Life and Corresp. of the Countess of Blessington, 1855. 2. Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, Saxony, &c., 1825, 2 vols. 8vo This work gives us an interesting account of the imprisonment of the author by the Russian Government on suspicion of his being a spy. 3. Voyage Round the World, 1840, 4 vols. 8vo.

"For this work we cannot but anticipate a circulation as wide, we were going to say, as the author's travels."-Lon. Literary Gazette.

"We have seldom met with any work so replete with interesting information."-Lon. Observer.

8vo.

Holman, James T. Digest of the Reported Cases in the Cts. of Tennessee, 1796-1835, Nashville, 1835, 8vo. Holman, Joseph George, d. 1817, a native of London, was manager of the theatre in Charleston, S. Carolina. 1. Abroad and at Home; a Comic Opera, 1796, 2. Red-Cross Knight; a Play, 1799, 8vo. 3. Votary 4. What a Blunder! a of Wealth; a Com., 1799, 8vo. Comic Opera, 1800, Svo. 5. Love Gives the Alarm; a Com., 1804. Not printed. 6. The Gazette Extraordinary; a Com., 1811, 8vo. An account of Holman will be found in Biog. Dramat.

Holme, John. Serm., Lon., 1582, 8vo. Holme, Rev. John. 1. Satin Spar; Trans. Linn. Soc., 1812. 2. Arragonite, Ibid., 1813.

Holme, Randle, of the city of Chester, Gentleman Sewer-in-Extraordinary to Charles II., and some time deputy for the King-at-Arms. The Academy of the Armory; or, a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, Chester, 1688, fol. About 1104 pages. Some copies have a titlepage, London, 1701.

The book is a most heterogeneous and extraordinary composition, and may be well denominated a Pantalogia. . . . It is con

sidered to be one of the most scarce of Heraldic books, and that not more than fifty copies are to be found in the kingdom."— Moule's Bibl. Heraldica, 235-242, q. v. for an interesting account of this remarkable olla podrida.

See also George Ormerod's Hist. of Cheshire, and Beloe's Anecdotes. Sykes's copy sold for £10; Brockett's for

£13 68.

"Dr. Johnson confessed, with much candour, that the Address to the Reader at the end of this book suggested the idea of his own inimitable preface to his Dictionary."-Beloe's Anecdotes, vi.

342.

In 1821 some benevolent individual pub. An Index of the Names of Persons contained in this work, Lon., fol. pp. 46.

Holme, Wilfred, of Huntington, Yorkshire. The Fall and euill Successe of Rebellion, &c., Lon., 1572, 4to. Black-letter, pp. 68. Bibl. Anglo-Poet.,339, £25. Sotheby's, in 1821, £9 28. 6d. This poem refers to the commotions in the northern parts of the island in 1537, consequent upon the Reformation.

for its adherence to alliteration, is quoted by Holinshed and "It is a curious production, and, although disliked by Warton mentioned in terms of praise by the learned Bale."-Bibl. AngloPoet., 147.

"Alliteration is here carried to the most ridiculous excess... The poem, probably from its political reference, is mentioned by Hollinshed. Bale, who overlooks the author's poetry in his piety, surdities of popery."- Warton's Hist. of Eng. Poet. thinks that he has learnedly and perspicuously discussed the ab

Holmes, Major. Pendulum Watches; Phil. Trans., 1665.

Holmes, Abiel, D.D., 1763-1837, a native of Woodstock, Connecticut, graduated at Yale College in 1783, and shortly afterwards became tutor in that institution; pastor of a congregation in Midway, Georgia, 1788-91; pastor of the First Congregational Church, Cambridge, Mass., 1792-1832. In addition to the work by which he is best

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known, The Annals of America,-Dr. Holmes was author of a Life of President Ezra Styles, (father of his first wife) pub., in 1798, a Memoir of the French Protestants, and a Hist. of the Town of Cambridge, in Mass. Hist.Collec.; and about thirty sermons and historical treatises. Dr. Holmes was first married in 1790 to Mary, daughter of Dr. Ezra Styles, President of Yale College. She died in 1795, leaving no children. In 1800 he married Sarah, daughter of the Hon. Oliver Wendell, of Boston, and had issue-1. Mary Jackson, married to Usher Parsons, M.D.; 2. Ann Susan, married to the Hon. Charles Wentworth Upham; 3. Sarah Lathrop, who died in childhood; 4. Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., one of the most popular of American poets and wits, (vide post ;) 5. John Holmes, of Cambridge. For further particulars respecting this excellent man and accurate historian, see Dr. Jenks's Funeral Serm; Duyckincks' Cyc. of Amer. Lit.; American Almanac, 1838, 316-317; Mass. Hist. Collec., vol. vii. Dr. Holmes's American Annals, or a Chronological History of America from its Discovery in 1492 to 1806, was pub. at Cambridge, Mass., in 1805, 2 vols. 8vo. It was reviewed with considerable severity by Robert Southey, in the London Quarterly for Nov. 1809, iv. 319-337. An ed. was pub. in London by Sherwood in 1813, 2 vols. 8vo. A new ed., with a continuation, under the title of The Annals of America, &c. to the year 1826, was put forth at Cambridge, Mass., in 1829, 2 vols. 8vo, "with such improvements as leave nothing to desire."

"The new edition of the American Annals is one of the best works of the kind ever published. Every thing of importance relating to the history of America is related in the order in which it happened, in a clear and concise manner, with copious and interesting notes, in which references are made to the most important authorities, by which the reader who wishes for more extensive information on the subject may gratify his curiosity without the trouble of turning over a great number of volumes."-Rich's Bibl. Amer. Nova, li. 66, 217.

"Dr. Holmes's American Annals is a work of great industry

and research, and is an invaluable treasure to the future writers of American history, but claims no merit but that of faithful com

pilation."-Sketches of the Lit. of the U. States, by Rev. Timothy Flint; Lon. Athenæum, 1835, p. 803.

"This new edition of the American Annals, with such improvements as the author has introduced into it, we consider among the most valuable productions of the American press. . . . In the American Annals it is the author's exclusive object to embody facts, drawn from what he deems the best authorities, and selected according to the mature light of his judgment. In this aim he seems to us eminently successful, especially when it is considered through what a vast field he has ranged, and what difficulties he must have encountered in collecting his materials and fixing his choice.... It is the best repository of historical, chronological, and biographical knowledge respecting America that can be found embodied in one work."-JARED SPARKS: N. Amer. Rev., xxix. 428441; Oct. 1829.

"A valuable work, displaying great industry and research."

Lowndes's Bibl. Man.

Holmes, Edward. 1. A Ramble among the Mountains of Germany. 2. Life and Corresp. of Mozart, Lon., 1845, p. 8vo.

"This is decidedly the best and most complete biography of the great composer we have seen."-Westminster Review. Monthly Mag. "In every respect a most admirable piece of biography."—New

Holmes, George, 1662-1749, Clerk to the Keepers of the Records in the Tower for nearly sixty years, repub. the first 17 vols. of Rymer's Foedera; 2d ed., 1727. His books, prints, coins, medals, &c. were sold by auction in 1749, and his widow received £200 from the government for his papers, which were deposited in the Tower. Holmes, George. Sketches of some of the Southern Counties of Ireland in 1797, Lon., 1801, 8vo.

Holmes, Isaac, of Liverpool, England. An Account of the United States of America; derived from actual Observation during a Residence of Four Years in that Republic, Lon., 1823, 8vo.

"Mr. Holmes is rather a diffuse and inaccurate writer; but he makes no pretensions to literary excellence, and his object is to present a modest but true statement of things as they are in the American republic."-Lon. Month. Rev., ci. 304-312; June, 1823.

Holmes, Rev. James. Moscow, or Triumphant Self-Devotion; a Poem, 1813, '15, 8vo.

Holmes, J. H. H. 1. Coal Mines, &c., Lon., 1816, 8vo. 2. Safety Lamps for do.; Thom. Ann. Philos., 1816. Holmes, Rev. James Ivory. The Revelation of St. John elucidated, Lon., 1815, 2 vols. 8vo.

Holmes, John. Greek Grammar, 1735, 8vo; 1737, 4to. Holmes, John, minister of the United Brethren Congregation in Dublin. Hist. Sketches of the Missions of the United Brethren to the Heathen, Dubl., 1818, 8vo.

Holmes, John. Descrip. Cat. of the Books in the Library of John Holmes; with notices of Authors and Printers, Norw., 1818, 8vo. Privately printed.

Holmes, John. The Statesman; or, Principles of Legislation and Law, Augusta, 1840, 8vo.

Holmes, John, 1800-1854, an eminent bibliographer, Assistant Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum, 1830-54, edited, in 1852, a new ed. of Cavendish's Life of Cardinal Wolsey, contributed notes to the last two eds. of Wordsworth's Eccles. Biog., to Pepys's Diary, and Evelyn's Life of Mrs. Godolphin, and compiled several catalogues, &c. The valuable article in the Lon. Quar. Rev. for May, 1843, lxxiii. 1-25, entitled Libraries and Catalogues, was written by Mr. Holmes. See Lon. Gent. Mag., July, 1854.

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Holmes's Annals has now (1856) become a liber rarissimus, and can rarely be purchased. Our copy was a present from our enterprising publisher and valued friend, Mr. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, whose excellent collection of works on American History is well calculated to excite the cupidity of the ravished spectator.

Holmes, Mrs. Dalkeith. A Ride on Horseback to Florence, through France and Switzerland, by a Lady; described in a Series of Letters, Lon., 1842, 2 vols. p. 8vo. "The republic of female travellers, already so well stocked with distinguished members, ought, in gratitude for a book at once so pleasant and so creditable to the bravery of the sex, to appoint Mrs. Dalkeith Holmes as its Mistress of the Horse. She is a pleasant, sensible, unaffected, and well-read gentlewoman."-Lon.

Athenæum.

Some of Mrs. Holmes's poetical compositions will be found in the Dublin Univ. Magazine, xxiii. 343-347. Holmes, David, minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, b. 1809, at Newburgh, New York. 1. Pure Gold; or, Truth in its Native Loveliness, Auburn, 12mo, pp. 280. 2. The Wesley Offering, 1852, 12mo, pp. 300. 3. With Rev. J. M. Austin, a Discussion upon the doctrine of the Atonement, Universal Salvation, and Endless Punishment, 12mo, pp. 800. Editor of The Mirror of the Soul, and also of The Christian Preacher.

Holmes, E. Exploration of Aroostook Territory in 1838, Augusta, Me., 1839.

Holmes, Rev. Edward. Materiality of the Soul, Lon., 1790, 8vo.

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Holmes, Launcelot. Holy Things, Lon., 1716, 8vo. Holmes, Mrs. Mary J. 1. Tempest and Sunshine; or, Life in Kentucky, N.Y., 1854, 12mo. 2. The English Orphans; or, A Home in the New World, 1855, 12mo. Very favourably noticed in the N. Amer. Rev., Oct. 1855, lxxxi. 3. The Homestead on the Hillside, &c., 1856, 12mo. 4. Lena Rivers, 1856, 12mo. 5. Meadow Brook, 1857, 12mo. Holmes, Nathaniel, D.D. See HOMES. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, M.D., a son of Abiel Holmes, D.D., b. at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Aug. 29, sequently devoted about a year to the study of law. In 1833 he visited Europe, and-having resolved to exchange Coke and Blackstone for Galen and Æsculapius-employed between two and three years in attendance on the hospitals of Paris, and other laborious researches connected with the duties of his new profession. In 1835 he returned to Boston, took his medical degree at Cambridge in 1836, was elected Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Dartmouth College in 1838, and succeeded Dr. Warren as Professor of Anatomy in the Medical Department of Harvard University in 1847. In 1849 Dr. Holmes relinquished general practice. He resides during the winter principally in Boston, and spends the remainder of the year on an estate which once belonged to his great-grandfather, the Hon. Jacob Wendell, situated on the banks of the Housatonic, in Pittsfield, Berkshire county, Massachusetts.

Some of the earlier poetical productions of this popular poet originally appeared in The Collegian, a periodical pub. in 1830 by a number of the students of Harvard University; in Illustrations of the Athenæum Gallery of Paintings, 1831; and in The Harbinger, a May Gift, 1833. In 1836 Dr. Holmes delivered, before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society, Poetry, a Metrical Essay,-which established his reputation as a poet.

"It is in the heroic measure, and in its versification is not sur nature and offices of poetry, and is itself a series of brilliant illus passed by any poem written in this country. It relates to the trations of the ideas of which it is an expression.”—Griswold' Poets and Poetry of America.

This Metrical Essay-a very successful essay it proved

-was pub. in the first collective ed. of his Poems issued at Boston, in 1836, 12mo, pp. 163. In 1843 he gave to the world Terpsichore, a poem, read at the annual dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in that year; and in 1846 he pub. Urania, a Rhymed Lesson, pronounced before the Mercantile Library Association. A review of Urania, by Francis Bowen, will be found in the N. Amer. Rev. for January, 1847, lxiv. 208-216:

"His fancy teems with bright and appropriate images, and these are woven into his plan usually with exquisite finish and grace. His artistic merits are very great; his versification is never slovenly, nor his diction meagre or coarse; and many of his shorter pieces are inwrought with so much fire and imagination as to rank among our best lyrics."-Ubi supra.

In 1838 Dr. Holmes pub. Boylston Prize Dissertations for 1836-37: On Indigenous Intermittent Fever in New England; Nature and Treatment of Neuralgia; and Utility and Importance of Direct Exploration in Medical Practice, Bost., 8vo. A review of these Essays, by E. Hale, will be found in the N. Amer. Rev. for July, 1838, xlvii.

161-177:

"It affords a proof of his [Dr. Holmes's] industry, as well as of his talents, that the author should be successful in obtaining three prizes in two successive years, gaining in the latter year both that were offered."-Ubi supra.

His Lectures on Homoeopathy and its Kindred Delusions appeared in 1842, and a Report of his on Medical Literature to the National Medical Association was pub. in the Trans. of Nat. Med. Society for 1848. To these professional labours are to be added a pamphlet entitled Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence, (noticed in Boston Living Age, xlv. 18;) a number of papers in the New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, and in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; and (in conjunction with Jacob Bigelow, M.D.) an ed. of Dr. Marshall Hall's Principles of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, 1839, 8vo. He has also been a contributor of miscellaneous articles to the N. Amer. Rev., the New England Mag., the Knickerbocker, &c. We have already stated that the first collective ed. of Holmes's poems was pub. at Boston, (by Otis, Broaders & Co.,) 1836, 12mo, pp. 163. A second Amer. ed. was pub. by Ticknor & Fields (so the firm now runs) in 1848; and this enterprising house has pub. one or more edits. every year since. Three times in the present year (1856) has the press been put in motion to supply the public demand. The first English ed. was pub. in 1845; a new ed. by Routledge in 1852, 32mo; and a third by the same publisher in 1853, 18mo. Astraea, the Balance of Illusions, a Poem delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August, 1850, was pub. in the same year, 16mo, and again in 1855, 16mo. A notice of this production, with copious extracts, will be found in the thirty-first chapter of Miss Mitford's Literary Recollections; and see also the Knickerbocker Mag., xxxvii. 142. Miss Mitford seems to have been indebted for her copy of Astraea (and also for a copy of the author's collected poems) to her friend,-Holmes's friend, our friend, everybody's friend,-James T. Fields, Esq., the poet-publisher of Boston. (See page 595 of this Dictionary.) For other notices of Holmes's poems, see N. Amer. Rev., notice of collective edit. of 1836, by J. G. Palfrey, xliv. 275-277; ibid., notice of collective ed. of 1849, by Francis Bowen, lxviii. 201-203; articles by J. G. Whittier, in Knickerbocker, xxvi. 570; Bost. Liv. Age, (from the National Era,) xx. 516; notices of the second English ed., in Lon. Athenæum, 1852, 815; and in the Irish Quar. Rev. for June, 1855. See also E. P. Whipple's Essays and Reviews, 1851, i. 66-67, and in N. Amer. Rev., January, 1844; Griswold's Poets and Poetry of America; Duyckincks' Cyc. of Amer. Lit.; (in the two last-named works will be found specimens of our author's peculiar powers;) Hillard's First Class Reader; Chambers's Hand-Book of American Literature; Tuckerman's Sketch of American Literature. We quote a few lines from the many pages of enthusiastic laudation now before us:

"The most concise, apt, and effective poet of the school of Pope this country has produced is Oliver Wendell Holmes. . . . His best lines are a series of rhymed pictures, witticisms, or sentiments, let off with the precision and brilliancy of the scintillations that sometimes illuminate the northern horizon. The significant terms, the perfect construction, and acute choice of syllables and emphasis, render some passages of Holmes absolute models of versification, especially in the heroic measure. Besides these artistic merits, his poetry abounds with fine satire, beautiful delineations of nature, and amusing caricatures of manners. The long poems are metrical essays more pointed, musical, and judicious, as well as witty, than any that have appeared, of the same species, since the Essay on Man and the Dunciad."-HENRY T. TUCKERMAN: ubi supra.

"Dr. Holmes is a poet of wit and humour and genial sentiment, with a style remarkable for its purity, terseness, and point, and

for an exquisite finish and grace. His lyrics ring and sparkle like cataracts of silver; and his serious pieces-as successful in their way as those mirthful frolics of his muse for which he is best known-arrest the attention by touches of the most genuine pathos and tenderness. All his poems illustrate a manly feeling, and have in some of them a current of good sense, the more charming because somewhat out of fashion now in works of ima gination and fancy."-R. W. GRISWOLD: ubi supra.

"To write good comic verse is a different thing from writing good comic poetry. A jest or a sharp saying may be easily made to rhyme; but to blend ludicrous ideas with fancy and imagination, and display in their conception and expression the same poetic qualities usually exercised in serious composition, is a rare distinction. Among American poets, we know of no one who excels Holmes in this difficult branch of the art. Many of his pleasant lyrics seem not so much the offspring of wit, as of fancy and sentiment turned in a humorous direction. His manner of satirizing the foibles, follies, vanities, and affectations of convena poet of sentiment and passion.... Those who know him only tional life is altogether peculiar and original. ... Holmes is also as a comic lyrist, as the libellous laureate of chirping folly and presumptuous egotism, would be surprised at the clear sweetness and skylark thrill of his serious and sentimental compositions.”— EDWIN P. WHIPPLE: ubi supra.

"His longest productions are occasional poems which have been recited before literary societies and received with very great favour. His style is brilliant, sparkling, and terse; and many of his heroic stanzas remind us of the point and condensation of Pope. In his shorter poems, he is sometimes grave and sometimes gay. When in the former mood, he charms us by his truth and manliness of feeling, and his sweetness of sentiment; when in the latter, he delights us with the glance and play of the wildest wit and the richest humour. Every thing that he writes is carefully finished, and rests on a basis of sound sense and shrewd observation."GEORGE S. HILLARD: ubi supra.

"If any of your readers (and at times we fear it is the case with all) need amusement, and the wholesome alterative of a hearty laugh, we commend them not to Dr. Holmes the physician, but to Dr. Holmes the scholar, the wit, and the humourist; not to the scientific medical professor's barbarous Latin, but to his practical prescriptions given in choice old Saxon. We have tried them, and are ready to give the doctor certificates of their efficacy. Long may he live, to make broader the face of our care-ridden genera tion, and to realize for himself the truth of the wise man's declaration, that a merry heart is a continual feast.'"-Joux G, WHITTIER: National Era.

"You went crazy last year over Bulwer's New Timon: Why, if B., to the day of his dying, should rhyme on, Heaping verses on verses, and tomes upon tomes, He could ne'er reach the best point and vigour of Holmes. His are just the fine hands, too, to weave you a lyric Full of fancy, fun, feeling, or spiced with satiric, In so kindly a measure, that nobody knows What to do but e'en join in the laugh, friends and foes." J. RUSSELL LOWELL: A Fable for Critics. "As he is everybody's favourite, there is no occasion for critics to meddle with him, either to censure or to praise. He can afford to laugh at the whole reviewing fraternity. His wit is all his own, so sly and tingling, but without a drop of ill-nature in it, and never leaving a sting behind. His humour is so grotesque and mingles with it so naturally, that, when the reader's eyes are queer, that it reminds one of the frolics of Puck; and deep pathos brimming with tears, he knows not whether they have their source in sorrow or in laughter. The great merits of his English style we noticed on a former occasion, [N. Amer. Rev., Ixiv. 208-216;] for point, idiomatic propriety, and terseness, it is absolutely without a rival."-FRANCIS BOWEN: N. Amer. Rev., lxviii. 201–203.

ception which our author's poetry has encountered on the It is now time to inquire into the character of the re other side of the Atlantic, where critics may be supposed rican authorship. Miss Mitford, in her chapter on AMEto scan with a less indulgent eye the pretensions of AmeRICAN POETS, already referred to, remarks,

"Of all this flight of genuine poets, I hardly know any one so original as Dr. Holmes. For him we can find no living prototype: to track his footsteps, we must travel back as far as Pope or Dryden; and to my mind it would be well if some of our bards would take the same journey,-provided always it produced the same result. Lofty, poignant, graceful, grand, high of thought and clear of word, we could fancy ourselves reading some pungent page of Absalom and Achitophel, or of the Moral Epistles, if it were not for the pervading nationality, which, excepting Whittier, American poets have generally wanted, and for that true reflection of the manners and follies of the age, without which satire would fail alike of its purpose and its name. . . . He excels in singing his own charming songs, and speaks as well as he writes."

"In the lighter poems of Holmes, humour is generally blended with good taste. His versification is easy and fluent, and rises to dignity and chastened elegance in his serious and didactic poems; which suggest that the writer, devoting his life to literature, might have achieved greater works."-Chambers's Hand-Book of American Literature, London and Edinburgh, 1856.

"There are many things in Holmes's humorous pieces which bear strong resemblance to the similar productions of our English satirists, Swift, Pope, and Thomas Hood. He possesses Swift's quaintness and motley merriment, Pope's polish and graceful point, and the solemn pathos and allied excruciating mirth of Hood. In addition to these, he has a certain originality of his own, which would be difficult to define, but which would seem to consist in freedom and facility ingrafted on the broad, hearty nature of Brother Jonathan."-Irish Quarterly Review, v. 215220: Review of the second English ed. (1852) of Holmes's Poems.

We find the same vol. thus noticed by a famous London

country, and as just an observer of them in his own person."Tatler, No. 14.

"A man of unsullied honour, of profound learning, and of the most enlightened understanding."-LORD CAMPBELL: ubi supra. "On the intimate connection of these two codes, [those of Rome and England,] let us hear the words of Lord Holt, whose name never can be pronounced without veneration, as long as wisdom and integrity are revered among men."-SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH: On the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations; Miscell. Works, 1856, ii. 386.

Holt, John, 1742-1801, a native of Mottram, Cheshire, a schoolmaster. 1. Characters of the Kings and Queens of England, Lon., 1786-88, 3 vols. 12mo; 1794, 8vo. A work of merit. 2. General View of the Agricult. of the County of Lancaster, 1795, 8vo.

"It is a very respectable performance."-Donaldson's Agricult. Biog.

3. Essay on the Curle of Potatoes. See Lon. Gent. Mag., vol. lxxi. At the time of his death he was employed in collecting materials for a history of Liverpool.

Holt, John. See HOLTE.

Holt, Joseph, General of the Irish Rebels in 1798. His Memoirs, Lon., 1838, 2 vols. 8vo. See CROKER, THOMAS CROFTON; Dubl. Univ. Mag., xii. 72-74.

Holt, Ludlow, LL.D. Serms., 1780-81, both 4to. Holt, Richard. Artificial Stone, Lon., 1730, 8vo. Holt, Thomas. Fearful News from Coventry; or, a Relation of T. Holt's having sold himself to the Devil, Lon., 1642, 4to.

Holte, John, author of the first Latin Grammar of any note in England, a native of Sussex, educated at, and Fellow of, Magdalen College, Oxford, became an eminent schoolmaster. He pub. his Grammar, (Lac Pueoru; Mylke for Chyldren,) according to Wood, about 1497, 4to; Lon., by W. de Worde, 4to. But see Dibdin's Typ. Antiq., ii. 380, and his Lib. Comp., 571. A copy of this rare book, which consists of 48 leaves, sine anno, was in Richard Heber's library. See Tanner; Bale; Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon.

Holthouse, C., Assistant Surgeon and Lecturer to the Westminster Hospital. Six Lects. on Strabismus, Lon., 1854, 8vo.

"We can strongly recommend a perusal of these lectures to all who are interested in the subject of Strabismus."-Lon. Med. Times and Gazette. Also commended by Edin. Month. Jour.

Holthouse, Henry James, of the Inner Temple, Special Pleader. New Law Dictionary, Lon., 1839, fp. 8vo; 2d ed., 1846, p. 8vo. 1st Amer. ed., from the 2d Lon. ed., with numerous addits., by Henry Penington, of the Phila. Bar, Phila., 1847, 12mo. 2d Amer. ed., Bost., 1850, p. 8vo.

"Its object principally is to impress accurately and distinctly upon the mind the meaning of the technical terms of the law; and as such it can hardly fail to be generally useful. There is much curious information to be found in it in regard to the peculiarities

of the ancient Saxon law. The additions of the American edition [Mr. Penington's give increased value to the work, and evince much accuracy and taste."-Penna, Law Jour.

See also 5 M. L. M., 199; 36 L. M., 174. Holwell, John, an Englishman, surveyor to the crown, an adherent of the Duke of Monmouth, d. in New York about 1685, and is supposed to have been poisoned from political animosity. 1. Catastrophe Mundi, 1682, 4to. This is an attack on the Popish party. Appendix, 1683, 4to. 2. Prac. Surveyor, Lon., 1687, 8vo. 3. Trigonometry made Easy, 1685, 8vo. See Asiatic Annual Register, vol. i.; Chalmers's Biog. Dict.

Holwell, John Zephaniah, 1711-1798, a native of Dublin, grandson of the preceding, and a member of the Council at Calcutta, was one of the sufferers in the "Black Hole," of which melancholy affair he gives an account in the India Tracts, Lon., 1758, 8vo; 1764, 77, 4to. He pub. several other works on East India affairs:Interesting Hist. Events relative to Bengal and Industan, with the Mythology of the Gentoos, &c., in three parts, 8vo, 1765-66-71; Small-Pox in the East Indies, 1767, 8vo, &c.; A New Experiment for the Prevention of Crimes, 1786, 8vo; and a Dissert. on the Origin, Nature, and Pursuits of Intelligent Beings, 1788, 8vo. This is a curious production. An account of Holwell and his publications will be found in the Asiatic Annual Register, vol. i.; see also Chalmers's Biog. Dict.

Holwell, Thomas. Newe Sonets and Pratie Pamphlets, Lon., sine anno, 4to.

Holwell, Wm., Preb. of Exeter, d. 1798. 1. Beauties of Homer, Lon., 1775, 8vo. 2. Extracts from Pope's Trans. of the Iliad, 1776, 8vo. 3. A Mytholog., Etymolog., and Hist. Dict., extracted from the Analysis of Ancient Mythology, 1793, 8vo. This is from Jacob Bryant's elaborate

work.

Holybush, John. See HOLLYBUSHE.

Holybush, John. See HoLYWOOD.

Holyday, Barten, D.D., 1593-1661, a native of Oxford, educated at Christ Church, Chaplain to Charles I., and Archdeacon of Oxford. His best-known works are a Trans. of Juvenal and Persius; 4th ed., Oxf., 1673, fol.: Survey of the World; a Poem, 1661, sm. 8vo: and twenty serms. See Athen. Oxon.; Wood's Life; Lloyd's Memoirs; Malone's Dryden.

Holyoake, Francis, 1567?-1653, Rector of Southam, Warwickshire, pub. an Etymological Dict. of Latin Words, 1606, 4to; 4th ed., 1633, '40. New ed., enlarged, by his son, Thomas Holyoake, Lon., 1677, fol. This may be called a new work, founded on the old one of his father's. Francis Holyoake also pub. a Sermon, Heb. xiii. 17, Oxf., 1610, 4to. See Athen. Oxon.

Holyoake, Thomas, 1616-1675, Preb. of the Collegiate Church of Wolverhampton, son of the preceding, q. v. See Athen. Oxon.; Gen. Dict.; Gent. Mag., vol. i. Holywood,Holybush, Halifax, or Sacrobosco, John, Prof. of Mathematics in the Univ. of Paris, was the author of De Sphoera Mundi, often reprinted with annotations; De Anni Ratione, seu de Computo Ecclesiastico; De Algorismo, printed with Comm. Petri Cirvilli Hisp., Paris, 1498. Where or when this writer was born and died is involved in doubt. It is not certainly known whether he lived in the 13th or 14th century. See Mackenzie's Scotch Writers, vol. i.; Harris's Ware's Ireland; Leland; Pits; Bale; Dempster; Hutton's Dict.; Chambers and Thomson's Biog. Diet. of Eminent Scotsmen, 1855, vol. iii.

Holyoke, Edward, d. 1769, aged 79, graduated at Harvard College in 1705, was ordained in 1716, and officiated as President of that noble institution from 1737 until his death. He pub. a serm., 1737, another, 1741, an answer to Mr. Whitefield, 1744, and contributed the first poem in the Pietas et Gratulatio of Harvard College, 1761, Bost., 4to, pp. 106.

Holyoke, Edward Augustus, M.D., 1728-1829, son of the preceding, an eminent physician, graduated at Harvard College in 1746, and practised for nearly eighty years at Salem, Mass. He pub. a number of Astronomical papers in Silliman's Journal, and medical articles in the Trans. Mass. Med. Society, and N. York Med. Repository. He left a number of Diaries in MS. See Knapp's Amer. Biog.; Mass. Med. Society, vol. iv.; (Memoir by Dr. A. L. Peirson of Salem,) Williams's Amer. Med. Biog.; Amer. Quar. Reg., xiii. 79.

Holyoke, Samuel Adams, a teacher of music, d. 1820, at Concord, Mass. 1. Columbian Repository of Sacred Harmony. 2. Occasional Music, Exeter, 1802.

Naval Magazine of the U. States, Washington, D.C., 6 Homans, Benjamin, editor of the Military and

vols. 8vo.

Homans, J. Smith, editor of (1.) J. W. Gilbart's Treat. on Banking, N. York, 1851, 8vo; Phila., 1854, 8vo; 2. W. J. Lawson's Hist. of Banking; with addits., Bost., 1852, 8vo; 3. The Banker's Magazine and Statistical Register, New York; vol. x. pub. in 1856. 4. In conjunction with J. Smith Homans, Jr., A Cyclopedia of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, N.Y., 1858, r. 8vo, pp. 2000, double columns. By far the best work on the subject.

Homans, J. Smith, Jr. A Historical and Statistical Account of the Foreign Commerce of the United States. See HOMANS, J. SMITH.

Home. Select Views in Mysore; with Hist. Descriptions, Lon., 1794, r. 4to.

Home, Alexander. Decis. of the Ct. of Session from Nov., 1735, Edin., 1757, fol.

Home, Charles. A new Chronological Abridgt. of the Hist. of Eng., Lon., 1791, 8vo. A work of merit, but with many erroneous dates.

Home, or Hume, David. See HUME.

Home, Sir Everard, Bart., President Royal Coll. of Surgeons, 1756-1832, a native of Greenlaw Castle, county of Berwick, Scotland, studied medicine with his brother-in-law, the celebrated John Hunter, and practised in London with great success for more than five years. Among his contributions to medical literature are Observations on the Treatment of Ulcers on the Legs, 1797; On Cancer, 1805; On Strictures of the Urethra, &c., 3 vols. 8vo; on the Prostate Gland, 2 vols. 8vo; many papers in Phil. Trans., Nic. Jour., and other periodicals; and the following great work: Lects. on Comparative Anatomy, &c., 1814-28, 6 vols. r. 4to, 361 plates, £18 188.; large paper, r. 4to, £27 68.

"The six volumes taken together are filled with researches that were begun at seventeen, and have been uninterruptedly con