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Rh he tells us that Montaigne is the first French author whom an English gentleman is ashamed not to have read. In fact, allusions to the necessary studies of a gentleman meet us constantly, reminding us of the unlikely erudition of the schoolboy in Macaulay. Hallam s prejudices, so far as he had any, belong to the same character. His criticism is apt to assume a tone of moral censure when he has to deal with certain extremes of human thought, scepticism in philosophy, atheism in religion, and democracy in politics. Hallam s style is singularly uniform throughout all his writings. It is sincere and straightforward, and obviously innocent of any motive beyond that of clearly expressing the writer s meaning. In the Literature of Europe there are many passages of great imaginative beauty.  HALLE (formerly called, to distinguish it from other towns of the same name, Halle in Sachsen, but now generally known as Halle an der Saale), a city of Prussian Saxony, government district of Merseburg, is situated on the right bank of the Saale and at the junction of six rail ways, 20 miles N.W. of Leipsic. It consists of the old town, or Halle proper, with five suburbs, and the two small towns of Glauchau and Neumarkt, which were added to it in 1817. Halle is under the immediate jurisdiction of the crown, and is the seat of the imperial chief office of mines for the provinces of Saxony, Brandenburg, and Pomerania, of a head tax-office, of a circle court, and of a provincial office. The greater part of the town is irregularly built, and pre sents a somewhat unattractive appearance to the eye of a stranger ; but of late years it has been much improved by the construction of new promenades on the site of the old fortifications, and by the repaving of many of the streets and the addition of new buildings. Its well-known uni versity was_ founded by King Frederick I. in 1694 in behalf of the jurist Thomasius, whom many students followed to Halle when he was expelled from Leipsic through the enmity of his fellow professors. It was closed by Napoleon in 1806, and again in 1813; and in 1815 it was united with that of Wittenberg. It has faculties of theology, law, medicine, and philosophy. From the beginning it has been recognized as one of the principal schools of Protestant theology, and has numbered among its professors some of the most eminent names of Germany. Its maximum number of students occurred in 1829 when they exceeded 1300. Subsequently the number declined below 600, but at pre sent the average attendance is between 900 and 1000. The present buildings were erected in 1834. In connexion with the university there are a botanical garden, a theological and normal seminary, a medical and surgical clinical institute, a maternity hospital, an observatory, and a library of over 100,000 volumes, which also contains collections of coins and engravings. The Francke sche Stiftungen founded in 1691 by August Hermann Francke, a bronze statue of whom by Eauch was erected in 1829 in the inner court of the building embrace an orphanage, a laboratory where medicines are prepared and distributed, a Bible press from which Bibles are issued at a cheap rate, and a number of schools of various grades, viz., a Latin school, a higher real- school, a citizen school, a higher female school, and a free school, attended in all by over 3000 pupils. The principal other institutions are the city gymnasium, the provincial trade school, the provincial lunatic asylum, the penitentiary, the town hospital and infirmary, and the deaf and dumb institute. Among the other public buildings may be men tioned the church of St Mary, containing some fine paint ings, an interesting Gothic structure of the, with four towers, two of which are connected by a bridge ; the church of St Maurice, dating from the , with interesting wood-carvings and sculptures ; the church of St Ulrich, dating from the ; the cathedral, founded in the, and containing an altar-piece representing Duke Augustus of Saxony and his family; the red clock tower in the market-place, 276 feet in height; the old town-house ; the ruins of the castle of Moritzburg, erected in, formerly the residence of the archbishops of Magdeburg, but destroyed by fire during the Thirty Years War, with the exception of the left wing, which is now used for military purposes ; the lodge of the free masons ; and the theatre. In 1859 a bronze statue was erected in the market-place to Handel, who was born at Halle in 1685 ; and in the outskirts of the town there is a monument to the Germans who fell at the battle of Leipsic in 1813. The salt-springs of Halle have been known from a very early period. Some rise within the town and others on an island in the Saale ; and together their annual yield of salt is about 12,000 tons. The workman employed in connexion with the manufacture are a peculiar and distinct race known by the name of Halloren, probably descended from an old Frankish colony. They observe several ancient customs, and enjoy certain special exemptions and privileges. The principal other industries of Halle are the manufacture of starch, beetroot-sugar, chemicals, lignite, candles, pottery- wares, sausages, oil, machines and waggons, sugar-refining, brewing, printing, and bookbinding. Considerable trade, especially in corn, is now carried on by means of the railways, but the shipping trade is unimportant. The population has increased with great rapidity during the last quarter of a century, for while the numbers in 1831 were 25,594, they had risen in 1849 to 33,848 and in 1875 to 60,503.

EB9 - Plan of Halle.png 1. Penitentiary. 2. Observatory. 3. Moritzburg. 4. Library. 5. University. Plan of Halle. 6. Theatre. 7. Gymnasium. 8. Post-Office. 9. District Court. 10. Town-Hall. 11. Red Clock Tower. 12. Cathedral. 13. Church of St Mary. 14. Church of St Maurice.

