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Rh Seine ; and the steeple of St Martin’s, 289 feet high, forms an excellent landmark for the pilots of the river. Its old ramparts are now replaced by bleach-works, chemical fac- tories, and other industrial establishments, and the fosses are transformed into vegetable gardens. St Martin’s is the most remarkable building in the town, and ranks as an ‘historical monument.” It dates from the and, but the great portal is the work of the , and the whole has undergone the process of modern restoration. Of the old castle there are but insignificant ruins, and the present castle, situated in a fine park to the northward, is a building of the 18th century. The hdtel de ville belongs to the. In 1872 the population was only 1966, and though for its size Harfleur is still a busy place with its fishers and traders, it has greatly fallen from its ancient importance.

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1em  HARGREAVES,. See,.  HARIÁNÁ, or, a tract of country in the Punjab, India, consisting of a level upland plain, inter- spersed with patches of sandy soil, and largely overgrown with brushwood. The Western Jumna Canal now fertilizes the grounds of a large number of its villages. Since the Hissar has been the local capital. During the troublous period which followed on the decline of the Mug- hal empire, Hariind formed the battlefield where the Mar- hattds, Bhattis, and Sikhs met to settle their territorial quarrels, The whole surrounding country was devastated by the famine of 1783. Since the conquest of the Punjab, Hariin4 has been broken up ito the districts of Hissdr, Rohtak, and Sirsa.  HÄRING, (1797–1871), German novelist, known as Wilibald Alexis, was born at Breslau, June 23, 1797. He attended the Werder gymnasium in Berlin, and served as a volunteer in the campaign of 1815. On his return he studied law for some time at the universities of Berlin and Breslau, but he soon gave up the legal pro- fession and devoted himself to literature. He made some attempt to add to his income by practical undertakings, but they were rarely successful. He was fond of travel, and happened to be in Italy with his wife during the Revolution of 1848, the progress of which he had an oppor- tunity of watching in Rome, Florence, and Naples. In 1852 he transferred his residence from Berlin to Arnstadt in Thuringia. Here he was laid low by paralysis of the brain, and after many years of suffering died on the 16th September 1871. Hiring began his literary career in 1823 with a historical romance, Walladmor, which was given out as the work of Sir Walter Scott. It rapidly became popular, and was translated into several languages, includ- ing English. He next published Schloss Avalon, which he attributed tothe same author. Soon afterwards he issued a number of very successful short stories and several books of travel, and for a time he indicated a preference for the polemical tendencies of the school of Young Germany. In Cabanis, however, which appeared in 1832, he entered the special field of historical romance in which he was destined to achieve his highest fame. From 1840 onwards he pub- lished at short intervals a series of romances, each of which deals with some particular epoch in the history of Bran- denburg. Among them may be named Der Roland von Berlin (1840), Der falsche Waldemar (1842), Der Wer- wolf (1848), Juhe ist die erste Biirgerpflickt (1852), Tsegrimm (1854), and Dorothe (1856). These tales are not only full of patriotic feeling, but in all of them the interest is well-sustained and the characters are drawn with a bold and firm hand. His Gesammelte Werke have keen issued in Berlin in 20 volumes.  HARINGTON, (–1612), was the son of Mr John Harington, of Kelston, near Bath, who had been imprisoned in the Tower by Queen Mary for forwarding a letter to Elizabeth. Harington, born in, was Elizabeth’s godson. He studied at Eton and at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of M.A., his tuter being Bishop Still, the famous author of Gammer Gurton’s Needle. He came up to London about and studied law, but Queen Elizabeth seems to have removed him to a place at court. Tradition relates that it was at her command that he undertook the translation of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, a work that saw the light in and was reprinted in  and 1634. Soon after this first date Harington retired to the family mansion at Kelston. In he published in succession The Metamorphosis of Ajax, An Apology, and Ulysses upon Ajax, the three forming collectively a very absurd and indecorous work of-a Pan- tagruelistic kind. In he served in Ireland under Essex, and was knighted on the field, to the annoyance, tt is said, of Elizabeth. He married a lady of title, who bore him eight children, and who survived until 1634. In he wrote a personal satire against the bishops, which he read to James J., but which was first published, by a Presbyterian printer, as late as 1653, under the title of A Brief View of the State of the Church. This is a somewhat scandalous production. In the spring of 1612, Harington was suffering heavily from the dropsy, and in December of that year he died. In 1613 his £)zyrams, which had circulated widely in MS., were printed in a collection of the verse of various writers entitled A/calzc, and separately in 1615. They became very popular, and were often reprinted. The misccllaneous writings of Harington existing in MS. in his family were first collected by the Rev. Henry Harington in 1779, in 2 volumes, under the title of Vuge Antique. The Vuge include some very elegant pieces of the poet’s father. The translation of the Orlando Furioso was a very im- portant labour, and it was carried out with skill and per- severance. Harington, however, was neither a very exact scholar nor a very poetical translator, and he cannot be nained in the same breath with Fairfax. The Orlando Furioso was a sumptuous book, illustrated in the best taste of the day, and to it were appended a prose critique of the poem, and a life of Ariosto compiled by Harington from various Italian sources. Harington’s Tabelaisian pamphlets show that he was almost equally endowed with wit and indelicacy, while of his epigrams little can be said but that they are sometimes smart and always easy.  HARÍRÍ. Abu Mohammed al Kasim ibn ‘Alí Ibn Mohammed ibn ‘Othman, surnamed, was born at Bussorah – and died in or , being therefore contemporary with the first crusade. His native city was renowned for its school of grammar, a most im-