viii. (with portrait). In memory of Professor Harkness his sister
established two Harkness scholarships. One scholarship (of the
value of about £35 a year, tenable for three years) for women,
tenable at either Girton or Newnham College, Cambridge, is awarded
triennially to the best candidate in an examination in geology and
palaeontology, provided that proficiency be shown; the other,
for men, is vested in the hands of the university of Cambridge, and
is awarded annually, any member of the university being eligible
who has graduated as a B.A., “provided that not more than three years have elapsed since the 19th day of December next following his final examination for the degree of bachelor of arts.”
HARLAN, JAMES (1820–1899), American politician, was born
in Clark county, Illinois, on the 26th of August 1820. He
graduated from Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University
in 1845, was president (1846–1847) of the newly founded and
short-lived Iowa City College, studied law, was first superintendent
of public instruction in Iowa in 1847–1848, and was
president of Iowa Wesleyan University in 1853–1855. He took
a prominent part in organizing the Republican party in Iowa,
and was a member of the United States Senate from 1855 to
1865, when he became secretary of the interior. He had been
a delegate to the peace convention in 1861, and from 1861 to
1865 was chairman of the Senate committee on public lands.
He disapproved of President Johnson’s conservative reconstruction
policy, retired from the cabinet in August 1866, and from
1867 to 1873 was again a member of the United States Senate.
In 1866 he was a delegate to the loyalists’ convention at Philadelphia.
One of his principal speeches in the Senate was that
which he made in March 1871 in reply to Sumner’s and Schurz’s
attack on President Grant’s Santo Domingan policy. He was
presiding judge of the court of commissioners of Alabama
claims (1882–1885). He died in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, on the
5th of October 1899.
HARLAN, JOHN MARSHALL (1833–), American jurist, was born in Boyle county, Kentucky, on the 1st of June 1833.
He graduated at Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1850, and at
the law department of Transylvania University, Lexington, in
1853. He was county judge of Franklin county in 1858–1859,
was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress on the Whig ticket
in 1859, and was elector on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860. On the outbreak of the Civil War he recruited and
organized the Tenth Kentucky United States Volunteer Infantry,
and in 1861–1863 served as colonel. Retiring from the army
in 1863, he was elected by the Union party attorney-general
of the state, and was re-elected in 1865, serving from 1863 to
1867, when he removed to Louisville to practise law. He was
the Republican candidate for governor in 1871 and in 1875,
and was a member of the commission which was appointed
by President Hayes early in 1877 to accomplish the recognition
of one or other of the existing state governments
of Louisiana (q.v.); and he was a member of the Bering Sea
tribunal which met in Paris in 1893. On the 29th of November
1877 he became an associate justice of the United States Supreme
Court. In this position he showed himself a liberal constructionist.
In opinions on the Civil Rights cases and in the interpretation
of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the
Constitution, he dissented from the majority of the court and
advocated increasing the power of the Federal government.
He supported the constitutionality of the income tax clause
in the Wilson Tariff Bill of 1894, and he drafted the decision of
the court in the Northern Securities Company Case, which
applied to railways the provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust
Law. In 1889 he became a professor in the Law School of
the Columbian University (afterwards George Washington
University) in Washington, D.C.
HARLAND, HENRY (1861–1905), American novelist, was
born in St Petersburg, Russia, in March 1861, and was educated
in New York and at Harvard. He went to Europe as a journalist,
and, after publishing several novels, mainly of American-Jewish
life (under the name of Sidney Luska), first made his literary
reputation in London as editor of the Yellow Book in 1894.
His association with this clever publication, and his own contributions
to it, brought his name into prominence, but it was
not till he published The Cardinal’s Snuff-box (1900), followed
by The Lady Paramount (1902), that his lightly humorous touch
and picturesque style as a novelist brought him any real success.
His health was always delicate, and he died at San Remo on
the 20th of December 1905.
HARLAY DE CHAMPVALLON, FRANÇOIS DE (1625–1695),
5th archbishop of Paris, was born in that city on the 14th of
August 1625. Nephew of François de Harlay, archbishop of
Rouen, he was presented to the abbey of Jumièges immediately
on leaving the Collège de Navarre, and he was only twenty-six
when he succeeded his uncle in the archiepiscopal see. He was
transferred to the see of Paris in 1671, he was nominated by the
king for the cardinalate in 1690, and the domain of St Cloud was
erected into a duchy in his favour. He was commander of the
order of the Saint Esprit and a member of the French Academy.
During the early part of his political career he was a firm adherent
of Mazarin, and is said to have helped to procure his return from
exile. His private life gave rise to much scandal, but he had
a great capacity for business, considerable learning, and was an
eloquent and persuasive speaker. He definitely secured the
favour of Louis XIV. by his support of the claims of the Gallican
Church formulated by the declaration made by the clergy in
assembly on the 19th of March 1682, when Bossuet accused him
of truckling to the court like a valet. One of the three witnesses
of the king’s marriage with Madame de Maintenon, he was hated
by her for using his influence with the king to keep the matter
secret. He had a weekly audience of Louis XIV. in company
with Père la Chaise on the affairs of the Church in Paris, but his
influence gradually declined, and Saint-Simon, who bore him no
good will for his harsh attitude to the Jansenists, says that his
friends deserted him as the royal favour waned, until at last
most of his time was spent at Conflans in company with the
duchess of Lesdiguières, who alone was faithful to him. He
urged the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and showed great
severity to the Huguenots at Dieppe, of which he was temporal
and spiritual lord. He died suddenly, without having received
the sacraments, on the 6th of August 1695. His funeral discourse
was delivered by the Père Gaillard, and Mme de Sévigné made
on the occasion the severe comment that there were only two
trifles to make this a difficult matter—his life and his death.
See Abbé Legendre, Vita Francisci de Harlay (Paris, 1720) and Éloge de Harlay (1695); Saint-Simon, Mémoires (vol. ii., ed. A. de Boislisle, 1879), and numerous references in the Lettres of Mme de Sévigné.
HARLECH (perhaps for Hardd lech, fair slate, or Harleigh, an
Anglicized variant), a town of Merionethshire, Wales, 38 m.
from Aberystwyth, and 29 from Carnarvon on the Cambrian
railway. Pop. 900. Ruins of a fortress crown the rock of
Harlech, about half a mile from the sea. Discovery of Roman
coins makes it probable that it was once occupied by the Romans.
In the 3rd century Bronwen (white bosom), daughter of Bran
Fendigaid (the blessed), is said to have stayed here, perhaps
by force; and there was here a tower, called Twr Bronwen,
and replaced about A.D. 550 by the building of Maelgwyn
Gwynedd, prince of North Wales. In the early 10th century,
Harlech castle was, apparently, repaired by Colwyn, lord of
Ardudwy, founder of one of the fifteen North Wales tribes, and
thence called Caer Colwyn. The present structure dates, like
many others in the principality, from Edward I., perhaps even
from the plans of the architect of Carnarvon and Conway castles,
but with the retention of old portions. It is thought to have
been square, each side measuring some 210 ft., with towers and
turrets. Glendower held it for four years. Here, in 1460,
Margaret, wife of Henry VI., defeated at Northampton, took
refuge. Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Einion held it for the Lancastrians,
until famine, rather than Edward IV., made him surrender.
From this time is said to date the air “March of the men of
Harlech” (Rhyfelgerdd gwyr Harlech). The castle was alternately
Roundhead and Cavalier in the civil war. Edward I. made
Harlech a free borough, and it was formerly the county town.
It is in the parish of Llandanwg (pop. in 1901, 931). Though
interesting from an antiquarian point of view, the district around,
especially Dyffryn Ardudwy (the valley), is dreary and desolate,
