ginson); A First Book of American History (Eggleston); American Indians (Starr); The Discovery of America (Fiske); Pioneers of France in the New World (Parkman); Pioneer History Stories, in three volumes (McMurry); American History Told by Contemporaries (Hart) Vol. I; The Winning of the West (Roosevelt); Life of Christopher Columbus (Lamartine); Columbus (Adams); and Students' History of U. S. (Channing).
2. The colonial period: Pilgrims and Puritans (Moore); From Colony to Commonwealth (Moore); The Making of Virginia and the Middle Colonies (Drake); Life of George Washington (Scudder); Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The Colonies (Thwaites); American History Told by Contemporaries (Hart), Vols. 1 and 2; The Beginnings of New England (Fiske); Old Virginia and Her Neighbors (Fiske); The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America (Fiske); Montcalm and Wolfe (Parkman); Colonial Era (Fisher); English Colonies (Lodge); and Old South Leaflets.
3. Period from 1760 to 1787 (The Revolution): Life of Samuel Adams (Hosmer); The War of Independence (Fiske); Washington and His Country (Fiske-Irving); Camps and Firesides of the Revolution; Benjamin Franklin (More); Paul Jones (Hapgood); Boys of '76 (Coffin); Side-Lights on American History (Elson); Formation of the Union (Hart); The French War and the Revolution (Sloane); The Growth of the American Nation (Judson); The American Revolution (Fiske) in two volumes; and George Washington (Lodge), 2 Vols.
4. The United States under the constitution: History of the United States (Fiske), grammar-school textbook; Side-Lights on American History (Elson), Vol. 2; Alexander Hamilton (Conant); Source-Book of American History (Hart); American History Told by Contemporaries (Hart), Vols. III and IV; Children's Life of Lincoln (Putnam); Larger History of the United States (Higginson); Boys of '61 (Coffin); Guide to the Study of American History (Channing and Hart); Thomas Jefferson (Morse); and The Middle Period (Burgess).
Books on Methods: Mace: Method in History; Hall: Method of Teaching and Studying History; and McMurry: Special Method in History.
Hoang-Ho (whang′ hō) or Hwang-Ho, Yellow River, or simply Ho, is 2,600 miles long and one of the principal rivers of China. It rises in Kokoncr, and pursues a very winding course, until it issues into the Gulf of Pe-chi-li. It is said to have changed its course nine times in the last 2,500 years, and often overflows its banks and artificial embankments; the last time in 1887, when it destroyed millions of lives. For this reason it is called China's Sorrow.
Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood (1816-1895), a Republican politician and eminent jurist of the United States, was attorney-general of the United States in 1869-70 and a member of Congress during 1873-75. He sat upon the commission which in 1871 framed the treaty of Washington. It was he who raised the attorney-general's department to the rank of the modern department of justice.
Hoar, George Frisbie, an American lawyer
and statesman, was born at Concord,
GEORGE F. HOAR
Mass., Aug. 29,
1826. He was
educated at Harvard
and admitted to
the bar in 1849.
In 1869 he was
elected a representative
in Congress
from Massachusetts,
and to each
subsequent
Congress until 1877,
when he was elected
to the United
States senate, to
which he was
re-elected in 1883,
1889, 1895 and 1901. He was presiding
officer of the national Republican convention
of 1880. His long career was marked
by broad patriotism and conspicuous ability
in the discussion and solution of important
public question. He died on September
30, 1904.
Ho′bart, Garret Augustus, an American lawyer and public man, was born at Long Branch, N. J., in 1844. He graduated from Rutgers College, and studied law, beginning the practice of his profession at Paterson, N. J., where he permanently resided. In addition to his profession, he engaged in enterprises of a commercial nature, as water-companies, manufactures and railways. He was a Republican in politics, and served in the legislature of New Jersey, both as speaker of the house and as president of the senate. In 1896 he was elected vice-president of the United States on the Republican ticket with Mr. McKinley. He died while vice-president, at Paterson, N. J., Nov. 21, 1899.
Hob′bema, Meindert, a Dutch landscape-painter, was born in 1638, probably at Amsterdam, and became one of the foremost landscape-painters. He died in poverty, at Amsterdam, in December, 1709. One hundred and forty-two of his works have been catalogued, and they command high prices, a small landscape selling for $20,000. The Avenue Middelharnis, Holland, in the National Gallery at London, is a fine example of his work.
Hoboken (hō′bō-ken), a city of Hudson County, New Jersey, named after a village near Antwerp, Holland. It joins Jersey City on the north and is opposite New York city. Four lines of steamships start
