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 she wrote her first work, "Spring Flowers;" in 1819, she published "Minden and its Vicinity;" in 1820, "Nature, Art, and Life," and "Recollections of Travels;" and afterwards several other novels and tales, and a translation of Byron's "Corsair." In 1833, she lost a promising son, who was then a student at the university of Bonn. A peculiar monomania induced him to commit suicide. This unhappy event induced his parents to write a work entitled "Charles von H," in which much wise counsel is given to parents, guardians, and instructors.

HOHENHEIM, FRANCISCA, COUNTESS VON, in 1748, at Adelmansfelden, daughter of the lord of Bernard in. She married, when quite a child, the old and disagreeable lord of Laubrum. She became afterwards acquainted with Charles Eugene, Duke of Wurtemberg, who fell violently in love with her, and persuaded her to elope with him. She was subsequently divorced from her first husband, and married to the Duke in Morganatic marriage. She became a blessing to the duchy of Wurtemberg, by the happy influence she exercised over her otherwise harsh and cruel husband. She was the foundress of numerous charitable institutions. After the death of her husband, she withdrew to Kirchheim, where she died, in 1811.

HOOPER, LUCY, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1816. When she was about fifteen, the death of her father caused the removal of the family to Brooklyn, Long Island. Soon after her arrival in that city she began to write and publish poems, under the initials of L. H. In 1840, she published an "Essay on Domestic Happiness," and a work entitled "Scenes from Real Life." She was engaged in preparing a work entitled "The Poetry of Flowers," during the time of her last sickness: the book was published after her decease, which occurred in August, 1841. The following year one of her friends collected and arranged the "Literary Remains of Miss Hooper," which were published, with an affectionate tribute to her genius and the excellence of her private life. Another biographer remarks: "There have been in our literary history few more interesting characters than Lucy Hooper. She died at an early age, but not until her acquaintances had seen developed in her a nature that was all truth and gentleness, nor until the world had recognised in her writings the signs of a rare and delicate genius, that wrought in modesty, but in repose, in the garden of the affections and in the light of religion."

HOPKINS, LOUISA PAYSON, of the Rev. Dr. Payson, distinguished for his learning and piety, and wife of the Rev. Mr. Hopkins, professor in Williams College, Massachusetts, has written a number of works for the young, which are greatly valued for their excellent mode of illustrating the Bible and its doctrines. Among her books published previously to her marriage, was "The Pastor's Daughter," which gave its author a high reputation for talents as well as religions zeal. Her latest work is, "The Guiding Star; or the Bible God's Message," a sequel to "Henry Langdon, or, What was I made for?" published in 1846. These two books contain, well arranged and;