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 HABBEETON— HACKEL.

Boyal Family ascending Loch-na- Gar J " " Evening at Balmoral — the Stags brought Home ; " " The Queen and Prince Consort fording Pool Tarff /' and others, which were exhi- bited, and have since been engraved. He then travelled in Greece, Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, painting im- portant views of Athens, Ba'Sbek, Palmyra, and many of the Holy Places in Jerusalem, among them "The Ancient Vestibule beneath the Temple Area,'* " The Golden Gateway,'' and " The Holy Rock in the so-called Mosque of Omar," most of which were finished on the spot. His chief aim, however, was to study the life of the Bedaween tribes, and the scenes of different deserts, for which purpose he made long stays among these nomadic hordes, learning their mode of life, their manners and customs, and has since painted a series of pictures illustrative of Arab life, the best known of which are, " Aghile Agha receiving the Visit of H.B.H. the Prince of Wales and suite in his Encampment near Mount Tabor," "The Tribe of the Anazeh Beda- ween departing from Palmyra," " A Bivouac in the Desert," " The Arrival at a Well in the Desert," "Preparing the Evening Meal," " Desert Hospitality," " Happiness in the Desert," " A Bedawee's De- votion," "Danger in the Desert," "On the Alert," "Ready for De- fence," and "A Caravan of Beda- ween Encamping near the Sphinx of Geezeh against an approaching Sandstorm." Mr. Haag is an hono- rary member of the Sod^t^ Boyale des Aquarellistes of Brussels. He received the Boyal Bavarian Cross of Merit in 1872. In 1874 he be- came an Officer of the Order of the Medjidi^, and in 1878 a Knight of the Legion of Honour of France.

HABBEETON, John, born in Brooklyn, New York, in iai2. At the age of eight years he was taken to the West, where was educated chiefly in the common schools of Southern Illinois. From 1859 until

he entered the Ari was connected with house of Harper & York. He was lite the Christian Union 1876, and since the editorial writer on Herald. His first lit a series of sketches o This was followed 1 "Selections from t 1876, and in the sam< "Helen's Babies," ol a quarter of a milli< been sold in the Uni sides large editions France, and Germ] since written " The ] ment,"1876; "The 1877; "Other Peop 1877; "The Scripture Rest," 1877; "Some " Selections from th( dian, and Freeholdei Crew of the Sam "Little Guzz," 1878 Boy in Town," 18^ Day," 1880; and ""^ Grayson ?" 1880. He in 1877 an additions lections from the comprising "The Roj Papers;" and, in co Charles L. Norton, Kanuckia," 1878.

HACKEL, EensTj thor and natural ph at Potsdam, Feb. 16 medicine and the ni in the Universities Berlin, and Vienna, years 1859-60 in Na sina, occupied with dies, and in 1861 private tutor for zc where he was appoin traordinary, and in Professor. He paid bon, Madeira, Teneri to Syria and Egypt, Sardinia in the yea 1873, and 1875. 1 visited India and he made niuuerous servations. Hackel