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ship in December, 1898. Harcourt was noted as an able and ready debater, and had an intimate knowledge of all public offices, being especially at home in economics and the national finance. He was a writer of great clearness upon his especial topics, and contributed to the Saturday Review, and gave a series of articles upon international law to the London Times under the name of Historicus. He died on October i, 1904.

Har'dee, William J., a Confederate general, was born in Georgia about 1815. In the Mexican War he was promoted for gallant service and became a major and lieutenant-colonel. Holding the position of commandant at West Point from 1856, he resigned it in 1861, and was made a brigadier-general and afterward major-general in the Confederate army and given command of a division in Bragg's army. He served at Shiloh, Murfreesboro and Chattanooga, and surrendered Savannah and Charleston. He was the author of Hardee's Tactics, which was used in the United States army. He died at Wytheville, Va., Nov. 6, 1873.

Har'dy, Hon. Arthur S., was born in the County of Brant, Ontario, 1837. Called to the Bar in 1865, he was elected to the Legislature in 1873. Appointed Provincial Secretary in 1877, he was re-elected at five general elections. Commissioner of Crown Lands from 1889 to 1896, he became premier and attorney-general of Ontario in 1896. An able lawyer who gave long and valuable service to the province, he died in 1901. Hardy, Thomas, British novelist, was born in Dorsetshire, England, June 2, 1840,

and educated at King's College, London. He commenced his career as an architect, but after winning a prize and medal for an essav dealing with Colored Brick and Terracotta Architecture, he devoted himself to fie-tion-writing and dramatic authorship. In 1874 the first of his notable novels appeared in the Cornhill Magazine —Far from the Madding Crowd — which was later on dramatized, and, with The Three Wayfarers, achieved striking success. His other stories include Under the Greenwood Tree; A Pair of Blue Eyes; The Return of the Native; Western Tales; Life's Little Ironies; Jude the Obscure; The Well-Beloved; and, the best of all his novels, Tess of the D' Urbervilles. See Mr. Lionel Johnson's The Art of Thomas Hardy, There

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is much imaginative power about Mr. Hardy's work, though somewhat marred by a pessimistic vein; while no writer of the time knows English Wessex, especially that section of the old Saxon kingdom in England known as Dorset and Wilts, better than he, or writes of it more delightfully. Hare, a very common animal with long ears, a cleft upper lip, short tail and long hind legs. The hares and rabbits belong to the same group and are commonly confused ; the smaller kinds that make burrows are more properly called rabbits, and the other varieties that lie in small depressions in the fields are hares. As the name (Lepus timidus) of the common hare of Europe implies, hares are very timid, but their long hind legs enable them to leap far and they are very swift. The cleft lip is so constant that the name hare-lip is given to a deformity of the lip and roof of the mouth in human beings. In the northern regions the common hare turns white in winter, and is then known as a polar hare. Hares and rabbits inhabit most parts of the world, but originally were absent from Australia and New Zealand; they were imported there but bred so rapidly that, in the absence of natural enemies, they became a great pest to the farmers. The family is best developed in North America, where there are about twenty species and varieties. Their food is entirely vegetable, consisting of herbage, succulent vegetables, roots and bark. They are very prolific; if not held in check they increase at such a rate as to do much damage to agriculture. Rabbit-drives and rabbit-fences have arisen as protests against their depredations, especially in California and Colorado, where they have proven great pests. Their natural enemies are birds of prey, serpents and carnivorous animals — fox, dog, mink, marten, lynx, skunk etc. They are protected by their coloring, remarkable sense of hearing, keen sense of sight and smell, ability to get over the ground in great leaps and agility in turning and doubling when pursued. The common gray rabbit or cotton-tail of the United States is well-known. The species (Lepus cuniculus) which is the original of the breeds of pet rabbits in its wild state is grayish-brown above, with reddish color on the neck, black on the lower surface of the tall and whitish on the under part of the body The pet rabbits range in color from white to black and many spotted varieties. The jack-rabbits of the western states are of large size and usually have long ears. Some varieties turn white in winter, and others do not. They are very swift, progressing by long jumps. Like most hares, they make a "form" in the field in which they lie during the day. Although they make no burrows, they take to holes when pursued by