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 HAGGAI HAGGAI, the tenth ot the minor prophets, and first of those who prophesied after the captivity, supposed to have been born at Baby- lon, and to have come back from there with Zerubbabel, although one expression (ii. 3) has been thought to imply that he had seen the first temple. Nothing is known as to his death, though Epiphanius tells us he was buried at Jerusalem among the priests ; if so, he must have been of the family of Aaron. He is men- tioned in the Apocrypha as Aggeus. The prophecy of Haggai was delivered about 520 B. C., after the return of the Jews to their own land. It is chiefly occupied with keen reproofs and affecting exhortations respecting the build- ing of the second temple. HAGIOGRAPHA (Gr. ayw?, sacred, and ypfyeiv, to write), or Holy Writings (in Hebrew, Ketu- Mm, writings), the name given by the Jews to their third division of the Old Testament Scrip- tures. There are various suppositions con- cerning the earliest ar- rangement of this di- vision by the Jews, founded on contradic- tory statements in Jose- phus, Philo, Jerome, the Talmud, &c., including a passage of Luke (xxiv. 44): "the things writ- ten in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, md in the psalms." According to the ar- rangement now general among the Jews, the Hagiographa includes three divisions : 1, the Psalms, Proverbs, and Job; 2, the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamen- tations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther ; 3, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and the Chronicles. These books probably received the name of " Hagio- grapha," or " Holy Writings," because, though not written by Moses, or any of the prophets, strictly so called, they were nevertheless re- garded as inspired. HAGUE, The (Dutch, ' Gravenhage ; Fr. La Haye ; Ger. Der Haag), a city of the Nether- lands, capital of the province of South Hol- land, about 2 m. from the sea, 31 m. S. W. of Amsterdam and 12 m. N. N. W. of Rotterdam ; pop. in 1872, 92,785, of whom one third are Roman Catholics. It is the seat of the court, the government, the states general or parlia- ment, and of the foreign ministers, and has be- come since 1850 one of the finest cities in Eu- rope, owing to the erection of stately houses and the laying out of fine parks. The streets are regular and spacious, and many of them are traversed by canals and lined with trees. The most conspicuous buildings are the royal palace and the palace of the prince of Orange ; HAGUE 377 and in the outskirts of the city is the Huis ten Bosch (the house in the wood), a private palace of the queen of Holland. The Binnenhof, so called because it formed the inner court of the count's palace, contains the chambers of the states general and other public offices, and its Gothic hall is celebrated. Barneveldt was executed in this building. Among other nota- ble edifices are: the state prison in which Cornelius de Witt was confined, and from which he and his brother John were dragged and torn to pieces by the populace ; the town hall; three Calvinistic, a French Reformed, English Presbyterian, Evangelical Lutheran, Remonstrant, and five Roman Catholic church- es, two synagogues, and a fine theatre. The royal library contains about 100,000 volumes. The principal artistic attraction of the Hague is the picture gallery and museum, situated in the building called the Maurite Huis after Maurice of Nassau, by whom it was built ; it The Maurits Huis. contains some of the best works of the Dutch masters. The museum abounds with rarities from China and Japan, and contains a large collection of Japan ware and Japanese wea- pons, and many historical relics. The Hague possesses many educational, charitable, artistic, scientific, and religious institutions. There is a brass foundery, but little trade and industry. Within a few miles of the city is the fashion- able watering place Scheveningen, and the en- virons are dotted with elegant villas. The Hague owes its origin to a hunting seat built by the count of Holland in the 13th century, and the name is traced to the enclosure (Jiage or hedge) which surrounded the counts 1 (gra- ven) park. In the 16th century it became the residence of the states general, the stadtholder, and the foreign ambassadors ; and it acquired, especially in the 17th century, great historical interest as the most important focus of Euro- pean diplomacy. A convention was held here