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LEFT HOWLING MONKEY 72 equipped with sufficiently heavy arma- ment to retaliate. The French employed later the 11-inch Schneider howitzer but not on such a large scale as the Ger- mans, who were also the first to trans- port guns on wheels and fire from that position. The United States army uses the 3-inch mountain gun, or howitzer, and a 6-inch forms part of heavy field artillery. HOWLING MONKEY, in zoology, Mycetes, a genus of Cedibx, and spe- cially Mycetes ursiniis. The name "howling" is given from the loud and resonant voice. The animals are clumsy in make, heavy in their movement, and hang on trees by their long prehensile tails. They inhabit the warmer parts of the New World. They are the largest monkeys in South and Central America. Called also howlers. HO WKAH, a tov/n of India, in the presidency of Bengal. It is on the right bank of the Hugli river, opposite Cal- cutta, of which it forms a suburb. There are manufactures of iron, rope, cottonseed oil, and machinery. It is the seat of the Sibpur Civil Engineering College. Pop. about 180,000. HOWTH, a town of Ireland, on the peninsula which forms the N. boundary of the bay of Dublin, 8 miles E. N. E. of the city. It is a watering-place much resorted to by the residents of Dublin. HOWZE, BOBEBT LEE, an American army officer; born in Rusk co., Tex., in 1864. He graduated at Hubbard College in 1883 and from the United States Military Academy in 1888. He was made second lieutenant in the same year and served in the cavalry regiment ^ until 1896. He was captain and assistant adjutant-general of volunteers during the Spanish-American War in 1898. After serving in various regiments, he was appointed brigadier-general of vol- unteers in 1901. He was honorably dis- charged in the same year. From 1901 to 1904 he was major of the Porto Rico regiment of infantry. From 1905 to 1909 he was commandant of cadets of the United States Military Academy, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After further service in Porto Rico and other places he was appointed lieutenant- colonel of cavalry in 1916, and was de- tailed to the general staff of the 10th Provisional Division and of the cavalry division, and in 1917 was assigned chief of staff of the Northeastern Department. He was brigadier-general in the National army in 1918. He was awarded the Con- gressional _ Medal of Honor in 1891 for gallantry in Indian campaigns. HOZUMI HOXIE, VINNIE REAM, an Ameri- can sculptor; born in Madison, Wis., Sept. 23, 1847; received an academic education; obtained a government clerk- ship and turned her attention to sculp- ture; executed busts of Grant, Sherman, and others and a statue of Lincoln for the National Capitol. Her other works include ideal statues of "Sappho"; "The Spirit of the Carnival"; the heroic statue of Farragut, Washington, and in 1911 she was commissioned to execute a statue of Sequoyah, to represent Okla- homa, for the Hall of Statues at the Capitol. She died in 1914. HOY, an island of the Orkneys, Scot- land, separated from the mainland of Scotland by the Pentland Firth, and from the largest island of the Orkneys, known as Mainland, by the Sound of Hoy. It is about 13 miles long and 6 broad; mountainous and heathy, but with fertile tracts. It has an excellent harbor, Long-Hope. At the S. W. of the island there is a detached pillar of rock 450 feet high, known as the Old Man of Hoy. HOYLE, EDMOND, an English writer on games; born in 1672. He is said to have been educated for the bar. He lived for some time in London, writing on games and giving lessons in whist, which he invented. In 1742 he pub- lished his "Short Treatise on Whist." He died in London, England, Aug. 29, 1769, HOYT, CHARLES HALE, an Ameri- can playwright; born at Concord, N. H,, in 1860. He was educated in the public schools of Boston and following a period passed in the cattle business in the West, entered newspaper work. For several years he was musical and dramatic critic of the "Boston Post." He turned to the writing of plays and produced a series of farcical comedies which in their pre- sentation of certain phases of American life have never been surpassed. The best known of these are "A Trip to Chinatown" (1890), and "A Milk-White Flag" (1893). He was twice elected a member of the New Hampshire Legisla- ture. He died in 1900. HOZUMI, BARON NOBUSHIGE, a Japanese statesman and author. He was born in 1855, and was educated at Tokyo University, at Middle Temple, London, and at Berlin University. He became a member of the House of Peers in 1890-92, and with two colleagues drafted the present Japanese Civil Code. He is Privy Counsellor, chairman of the Association of Doctors of Law, chairman of the 1st Section in the Imperial