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Rh he paused to issue a new edition of Ovid), and Rome. Next year, 1647, found him in Naples, from which he fled during the reign of Masaniello ; he pursued his labours in Leghorn, Bologna, Venice, and Padua, at which latter city he published in 1648 his volume of original Latin verse entitled Ztalica. He proceeded to Milan, and worked for a considerable time in the Ambrosian library ; he was pre- paring to explore Switzerland in the same patient manner, when the news of his father’s illness recalled him hurriedly to Leyden. He was soon called away to Stockholm at the invitation of Queen Christina, at whose court he waged war with Salmasius, who accused him of having supplied Milton with facts from the life of that great but irritable scholar. Heinsius paid a flying visit to Leyden in 1650, but immediately returned to Stockholin. In 1651 he once more visitel Italy ; the remainder of his life was divided between Upsala and Holland. He collected his Latin p.ems into a volume in 1653. His latest labours were the eliting of Velleius Paterculus in 1678, and of Valerius Flaccus in 1680. He died at the Hague, October 7, 1681. Nikolaes Heinsius was one of the purest and most elegant of modern Latinists, and if his scholarship was not quite so perfect as that of bis father, he displayed higher gifts as an original writer.  HEINSIUS,, an illegitimate son of the subject of last article, was born in 1655 at the Hague. At the aze of twenty he wrote Zhe Delightful Adventures and Wonderful Life of Mirander, a work of extraordinary humour and genius, the sole original romance produced in Hollind during the 17th century. Dr Ten Brink has pointed out that Mirander preceded Gil Blas, which it curi- ously resembles, by at least forty years. The author, how- ever, added nothing else to literature. He was disowned by his father, driven from the house, and in 1677 had to flee the country on account of a murder which he committed at night in the streets of the Hague. He lived a precarious life as an outlaw in Paris, Rome, and elsewhere, and died in ubscurity.  HEIR. See.  HELDER, or, a township of the Netherlands at the northern extremity of the province of North Holland, directly opposite the island of Texel. Since 1819 it has been the terminus of the North Holland Canal, and it is now connested (since 1865) by railway with Alkmaar and Hairlen. Its fortifications and its dykes are both con- structed on an extensive scale, the former comprising four batteries and five forts, and the latter being the most strik- ing on the whole coast. A garrison of 7000 to 9000 men is necessary for the defence of the place, and 30,000 men could be accommodated within the lines. The harbour, called the Nieuwe Diep, is one of the best in Europe. Its area is 6560 feet long by 330 to 490 broad, and it has depth enough for the largest vessels, which are admitted to the North Holland Canal by the Koopvaarders sluice. The Government arsenal comprises an extensive wet dock, a dry dock, an auxiliary establishments. Besides eight churches and a synagogue Helder possesses a palace for the board of marine, a royal institute for the education of naval cadets, a marine hospital, an orphan asylum, a town-house erected in 1835, and a meteorological observatory. The industries of the place are those usual in a flourishing seaport. Previous to 1819 the population was not much more than 2000, bat since then it has rapidly increased. In 1870 the suburbs of Willemsoord, Nieuwe Diep, Nieuwstad, and the Canal Road being included, the total amounted to 15,205. As a commune it numbered 18,366 in 1870 and 20,104 in 1874.

1em  HELENA, daughter of Zeus and of Leda the wife cf Tyndareus king of Sparta, was sister of Castor, Pollux, and Clytemnestra, and was married to Menelaus. According to Homer she was obliged by Aphrodite to flee with Paris to Troy; and after the Trojan War she returned with Menelaus and lived with him as queen in Sparta. She had only one child, a daughter named Hermione, who was married to Neoptolemus. In the Homeric poems her character is drawn with marvellous skill; forced by the gods to do what she regrets, she seems to be separated from the wrong that she does, and remains always an cbject of interest and respect. Goethe (/aust, part ii.) introduces Helena apparently to symbolize the Greek spirit acting on the modern mind. Among later poets the tales of Helen are much more complicated. She was carricd off by Theseus to Attica in her childhood, but was recovered hy her brothers. Her character often suffers much in the tales followed by lyric and tragic poets. Stesichorus and Euri- pides (//elena), however, relate that Paris on his homeward voyage was driven by stress of wind to Egypt. Proteus, king of Egypt, learning the facts, detained the real Helen in Egypt, while a shadowy Helen was taken to Troy and fought for. Menelaus on his way home from Troy was also driven to Egypt, and there found his true wife. After the death of Paris she is also said to have been married tu his brother Deiphobus.

