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 cancer may have been sometimes out of spirits." D. Aug. 25, 1776.

HUNEKER, James Gibbons, American critic. B. Jan. 31, 1860. Ed. Roth's Military Academy and Law Academy, Philadelphia, and Paris. He settled in New York in 1885, and taught music for ten years at the National Conservatory. He was musical editor of the Sun, then musical critic of the Recorder, and later of the Advertiser. Huneker has written, besides works on music, two volumes on modern advanced thinkers (Iconoclasts, 1905; Visionaries, 1905), in which his sympathies are not concealed.

HUNT, James, anthropologist. B. 1833. He studied medicine, and took his father's place as a specialist in the cure of stammering. He was secretary of the Ethnological Society from 1859 to 1862, and, as it would not discuss man's origin and antiquity, he founded the Anthropological Society, of which he was president from 1863 to 1868. He also edited the Anthropological Review, issued a translation of Vogt's Lectures on Man (1865), and rendered great service to his science. D. Aug. 29, 1869.

HUNT, James Henry Leigh, poet and essayist. B. Oct. 19, 1784. Ed. Christ's Hospital School. He became a clerk, but a volume of poems he had written in boyhood (Juvenilia, 1801) was so successful that he turned to journalism and literature. From 1808 to 1821 he edited the Examiner, which raised the tone of London journalism. He was three times prosecuted for attacking abuses, and in 1812 he got two years in prison for criticizing the Prince Regent. Shelley, a great friend, and Byron invited him to edit a new liberal magazine; but it soon failed owing to the death of Shelley. Hunt, who was a Deist, was very drastic in his conversations on religion with Keats and others. In The Religion of the Heart he severely criticizes Christianity (pp. viii-ix) and scouts opinions "dictated by theologians." He was a man of exceptionally simple and sober life; and Dickens, who considered him " the very soul of honour and truth" (), warmly regretted that the more unpleasant features of his "Skimpole" in Bleak House were attributed to Hunt. D. Aug. 28, 1859.

HUNT, Thornton Leigh, journalist, son of preceding. B. Sep. 10, 1810. Ed. privately. His father wished to make an artist of him, but he turned to art criticism, then to general journalism. He was, in succession, political editor of the Constitutional and editor of the Cheshire Reformer and the Argus. He contributed to the Spectator for twenty years, and was on the staff of the Daily Telegraph from 1855 to 1873. Hunt was associated with Lewes and Holyoake in founding the Leader in 1849, and he shared their views (see Holyoake's Sixty Years, ch. xlii, for a sketch of him, and McCabe's Holyoake, i, 161-69). D. June 25, 1873.

Hunt, W. F., merchant. Mr. Hunt made a courageous protest against the oath as early as 1875 in a London Chancery Court, and Sir George Jessel permitted him to "swear by his word." He had some years previously deserted Spurgeon's chapel for Secularism, and he has been for years a zealous and generous member of the R. P. A. It was largely through his assistance that Mr. McCabe was able to make a Rationalist lecturing tour in Australasia in 1910.

HUNTER, Professor William Alexander, M.A., LL.D., lawyer. B. May 8, 1844. Ed. Aberdeen Grammar School and University. He was first prizeman in logic, moral philosophy, Christian evidences, botany, and chemistry, and he gained the Ferguson, Murray, and Shaw scholarships. He was called to the English Bar in 1867, but he preferred teaching. Ho was professor of Roman Law at London University College 1869-78, and professor of jurisprudence 1878-82. From 1885 to