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schools and under tutors, he graduated from Williams College with the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts, and Doctor of Civil Law. In 1872 he became connected with the New York " Evening Post", which his father owned in partnership with William CuUen Bryant and John Bigelow, became assistant publisher in 1875, and from 1877 was publisher, stockholder, and member of the Board of Trustees. He was a member of the Union League, University, and Men- delssohn Glee Clubs, all of New York. Selling his interest in the New York " Evening Post" in 1881, he went to Europe and lived in London and Rome. In 1886 Mr. Henderson published his first novel, "The Prelate", while still a Protestant, and followed it two years later with "Agatha Page". The latter, soon (1802) dramatized as "The Silent Battle", was produced by Sir Charles Wyndham at the Criterion Theatre, London, another dramatic version, entitled "Agatha", being produced the same year at the Boston Museum. His second drama, "The Mummy and the Humming Bird", was presented at Wyndham's Theatre, 1901, the principal male part being again taken l)y Wyndham. In 1902 it was played at the Empire Theatre, New York. In 1896 he became a Catholic, adopting the name of Aus- tin at his Confirmation. In 1903 he was appointed private chamberlain to Pope Pius X. In early life he had been a prime promoter of "The New York Evening Post's Fresh Air Fund for Children"; as an ardent Catholic, his chief work was among the poor lads of the Trastevere quarter in Rome, to whom he gave a playground and a well-equipped rainy-day playroom, having kept up always his keen interest in manly sports. Mr. Henderson was a man of varied literary al^ility, and of versatile talents; he was a keen theologian, had an exquisite sense of humour, was a musician, and gifted with a fine tenor voice.

Julia G. Robins.

Hendrick, Thomas Augustine, first American and the twenty-second Bishop of Cebvi, Philippine Islands, b. at Penn Yan, New York, U. S. A., 29 Oct., 1849; d. at C'ebu, 29 Nov., 1909. He was ordained priest at St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy, New York, 7 June, 1873, and spent the twenty-nine subsequent years in parish work in the Diocese of Rochester. When the reor- ganization of the Church in the Philippines was undertaken after the Spanish American War, he was appointed Bishop of Cebu, and consecrated in Rome 23 August, 1903. Taking possession of the See 6 March, 1904, he was most successful up to the time of his death, which was due to cholera, in restor- ing order and discipline and providing for the spirit- ual needs of his large diocese. During his pastorate in Rochester he was prominent and active in public and charitable work, and served for several years as a member of the Board of Regents of the State Uni- versity. (See Cebu, Diocese of.)

AmcTica iNew York, 4 Dec^ 1909); Calhclic Union and Times (Buffalo, 4 Dec, 1909); Catholic Directory, (1904, 1910).

Thomas F. Meehan.

Hengler, Lawrence, Catholic priest and the in- ventor of the horizontal pendulum, b. at Reichenhofen, Wurtemberg, 3 Feb., 1806; d. at Tigerfeld, 18.58. At the age of fourteen he entered the Latin School of Leutkirch and attended successively those of Ehingen and Tubingen. In 1828 he studied mathematics and astronomy at Munich. It was at this place, and while a pupil of Gruithuisen, that he invented the horizontal pendulum, which at present is the basis of more than half the seismographs in use the world over. In 1832 he published this mvention in the " Analecta " of Gruithuisen, together with some experiments he had made. In 183.5 he was ordained in Rottenburg and was pastor of Tigerfeld at the time of his death. He left a very perfect and elaborate telescope unfin- ished.

In modern publications the horizontal pendulum is mostly accredited to Zollner (1869), sometimes to Perrot (1862), but illustrated articles with observa- tions in the " Analecta" of Gruithuisen, vol. I, and in Dingler's "Polytechnic Journal", 1832, secure for Hengler the indisputable right of priority. A full description of the pendulum and its history may be found in Zollner's " Abhandlungen ", vol. IV, and also in Poggendorf's "Annals", vol. CL.

F. L. Odenbach.

Hennepin, Louis, one of the most famous ex- plorers in the wilds of North America during the seventeenth century, b. at Ath, jjrovince of Hainaut, Belgium, about thirty miles south-west of Brussels, in or about the year 1640; d. probably at Rome, soon after 1701. In his writings he always refers to himself as a Fleming. Very little is known of his childhood and early manhood, but, after a proper course of education, he entered upon a novitiate in the Recollet branch of the Franciscan Order, whose mem- bers adopted the most austere regimen and undertook most arduous labours (see Friars Minor, Order of). He passed his novitiate in the R^'CoUet monas- tery at Bcthune, province of Artois (now the depart- ment of Pas-de-Calais), France. During his youth he had been sent to Ghent in Belgium for the purpose of learning the Dutch language, and, at that time, had mentioned to one of his sisters residing there the strong inclination which he had always felt to travel aliout the world. His sister attempted to dissuade him from such a design, but Hennepin continued under the sway of two impulses, of which the one is described in his own language thus: "I always found in myself a strong inclination to retire from the world and to regulate my life according to the rules of pure and severe virtue, and, in compliance with this humour, I entered the Franciscan Order, designing to confine myself to an au.stere way of living."

Naturally enthusiastic for travel and deeply im- pressed by the examples of the missionaries of his own order, Hennepin soon had opportunities for realizing his amliition. Shortly after his ordination to the priest- hood, Hennepin made a journey to Italy, and, in obedience to the orders of his superior, visited all the great churches and most important convents of the Franciscan Order both in that country and in Ger- many. In narrating the next ensuing events of his life, Hennepin states: "Having returned to the Netherlands, the Reverend Father William Herinx, late Bishop of Ypres, manifested his averseness to the resolution I had taken of continuing to travel by detaining me in the convent of Halles in Hainaut, where I was obliged to perform the office of preacher for a year." After this experience, Hennepin, with the consent of his superior, went into Artois, France, and was thence sent to Calais, as he himself states, " to act the part of a mendicant there in time of herring-salting."

While at Calais he took every possible opportunity of hearing the stories of the various voyages and ex- periences in other lands related by shipmasters and sailors. To use his own language, he used ofttimes to frequent " victualling-houses to hear the seamen give an account of their adventures. The smoke of tobacco was offensive to me and created pain in my stomach, while I was thus intent upon giving ear to their relations, but for all that I was very attentive to the accounts they gave of their encounters by sea, the perils they had gone through, and all the accidents which befell them in their long voyages. This occu- pation was so agreeable that I have spent whole days and nights without eating; for thereby I always came to understand some new thing concerning the c*ustoms and ways of living in remote places and concerning the pleasantness, fertility, and sights of the country where these men had been." Hennepin's desire to wander