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HAVET-^HAWEIS.

4 vols., 186S-70; and "Sainte- Beuve," 1875. He has also written a number of political pamphlets and articles in the Bevue dea Deum Mondes, The Comte d'Haussonville married the g^rand-daughter of Madame de Stael and sister of the Duke de Broglie. (She died in A.pril, 1882.)

HAVET, Ebnsst Auouste Eugene, born at Paris, April 11, 1813, was, after brilliant studies, admitted, at the same time, into both the literary and the scientific sections of the Normal School. He chose the section of literature, and became a graduate in the higher classes. At first he was professor of rhetoric in the college of Dijon, but being shortly afterwards called to Paris, he was entrusted, in 1840, with the lecture on Greece litera- ture in the Normal School, and, in the following year, with the lecture on French literature. After having occupied, as deputy of Victor le Clerc, the chair of Latin Eloquence at the Sorbonne, he became, in 1855, the regular professor of the same subject in the College de France. He was also appointed Professor of Literature at the Poly- technic School. Professor Hayet was decorated with the Legion of Honour and promoted to the rank of Officer, Aug. 4, 1875, and he was nominated a member of the council of the Order in May, 1879. On Feb. 1, 1880, he was, by 24 votes against 6 given for M. de Pressens^, elected the successor of M. Bey baud in the Academy of Moral and Poli- tical Sciences. His works include two "theses" composed on the occasion of his taking the degree of doctor — *' De la Bh^tonque d'Aristote " and " De Homericorum poematum origine et imitate,'' 1843; "Pascal a-t-il imit^ Bos- suet P " 1848-57 ; a pamphlet which caused a great sensation, entitled " J^us dans ITiistoire," published in 1863, soon after the appearance of M. Benan's "Vie de J6sus;" " Le Christianisme et ses origines,"

vols, i.— iii., 1872-9 ; and " M^ moires sur la date des '^critB qui portent les noms de B^rose et de Man^thon."

HAWEIS, The Bev. Hugh Beqinald, M»A., was born at Egham, Surrey, April 3, 1838, being the son of the Bev. J. O. W. Haweis, M.A., rector of Slaughan^ Sussex, and Mary Davis Haweis. He re- ceived his education at Trinity College, Cambridge. (B.A. 1859; M. A. 1864). He was first appointed curate to the Bev. John Packer, incumbent of St. Peter's, Bethnal Green, and next in 1863, appointed curate to the Bev. G. Diclraon, in- cumbent of St. James-the-Less, Westminster. In 1867 he married Miss Joy, daughter of Mr. Joy, the well-known artist. In 1866 Mr. Haweis was appointed incumbent of St. James's, Marylebone, a living in the gift of the First Commis- sioner of Works — ^then the Bighl Hon. W. F. Cowper-Temple, M.P. He has for twelve years occupied the pulpit of St. James's, West- moreland Street. On several occa- sions he has opened St. James's Hall, Begent Street, for special services on Simday mornings, and he has been appointed a specaal preacher by the Dean of Westmin- ster at a course of Services for the People at Westminster Abbey. Mr. Haweis took great interest in the Italian revolution under Garibaldi, and was present at the siege of Capua, where he had several nar- row escapes. He afterwards pub- lished in the Argosy an account of these events and a memoir <^ Gari- baldi, who subsequently wrote, at his request, other memoirs of his life for CasselVs M<igaMine. On Garibaldi's death he opened a loan collection of interesting Garibaldi and Mazzini relics, which was visited by 6000 persons in the Vestry of St. James, Marvlebone, and lUFterwards transferred to the Alexandra Palace. Mr. Haweis* annual Sunday Evenings for the People have become a London