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 628 HELVOETSLUIS IIEMIGALE by Prince GaUitzin (1772). The best edition of his complete works is that published under the supervision of Lefebvre de La Roche, by P. Didot (14 vols. 18mo, Paris, 1795). His wife, who contributed much to make his life happy and his home agreeable to friends and visitors, survived him ; she retired to Auteuil, near Paris, and her house was still open to phi- losophers. Dying in August, 1800, at the age of 81, she bequeathed her property to her friend, the celebrated physician Cabanis. HELVOETSLFIS, or Hellevoetsluis, a strongly fortified seaport town of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, on the island of Voorne, and on the Haringvleet and the Voorne canal, 6 m. S. of Briel; pop. in 1867, 3,810. It is a very important naval station, with large docks. Thousands of vessels enter the port annually, including the largest India- men, which pass through the Voorne canal on their way to Rotterdam. Helvoetsluis was in former times the great point of departure for English ports, and generally for Harwich ; and William of Orange embarked here for England Nov. 1, 1688, with 50 war ships and 14,000 men. 11KLYOT, Pierre, a French historian, born in Paris in 1660, died Jan. 5, 1716. He was de- scended from an English Catholic family that took refuge in France, and in 1683 entered the third order of St. Francis in the convent of Picpus at Paris as Pere Hippolyte. He was twice sent to Eome on affairs of his order, and there projected the work by which he is best known, a history of the various religious orders. He was assisted in his researches by Anquetil, Hardouin, Mabillon, Ruinart, and other scholars. Two volumes were published in 1714 (4to, Paris), entitled Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires, et des congregations se- culi&res de Tun et de Tautre sexe. The six re- maining volumes appeared in 1715, 1718, and 1719. It was reprinted in 1721 and 1792. An inferior edition, edited by Philippon de la Ma- deleine, appeared at Paris in 1838; and an edi- tion in five volumes in Migne's Encyclopedic theologique, with a continuation to the time of publication (5 vols., Paris, 1847). The vol- umes that appeared after Helyot's death were edited by Maximilian Bullot. Helyot wrote also Le Chretien mourant (Paris, 1705). HEMANS, Fellda Dorothea, an English poetess, born in Liverpool, Sept. 25, 1794, died near Dublin, May 12, 1835. Her father, a merchant named Browne, was a native of Ireland, but her mother was of Venetian descent. "When she was five years of age commercial disasters compelled the family to remove to an old man- sion at Gwryrch, in Denbighshire, Wales, where her childhood was passed. A collection of her juvenile poems was published in 1808, under the title of " Early Blossoms," and met with harsh treatment from the critics. A second volume, entitled "The Domestic Affections," published in 1812, was more successful. In the same year she married Capt. Hemans, by whom she became the mother of five sons. In- compatibility of tastes and temperaments ren- dered the union unfortunate, and after Capt. Hemans went to Italy in 1818 to recover his health they never again met, although letters frequently passed between them with reference to the education of their children. Mrs. He- mans now rejoined her mother in Wales, and commenced an active literary life. She studied German and the languages of southern Europe, translated from Camoens and Herrera, and con- tributed numerous pieces in prose and verse to the magazines and annuals. About this time she published "Tales and Historic Scenes," " Modern Greece," "Dartmoor," a prize poem, and " The Skeptic." At the suggestion of Regi- nald Heber she wrote her play of " The Ves- pers of Palermo," which failed on the London stage, but was well received in Edinburgh. Her works gained her the friendship of many distinguished men. She visited Scott at Ab- botsford and Wordsworth at Rydal Mount. In 1831, after a temporary residence near Liver- pool for the benefit of her children, she re- moved to Dublin, where one of her brothers was living. Her last poem was " A Sabbath Sonnet," dedicated to her brother. In 1839 appeared the first collective edition of her poems, with a memoir by her sister (7 vols. 12mo), followed in 1848 by one chronologi- cally arranged (1 vol. 8vo), and by another in 6 vols. in 1850. In 1836 were published " Me- morials of Mrs. Hemans, 1 ' by H. F. Chorley (2 vols. 12mo). Her popularity in the United States dates from 1826, when an edition of her poems, accompanied by a notice of the author- ess, was published by Prof. Andrews Norton. Numerous other editions have been published here, one (1850) including an essay on her genius by H. T. Tuckerman. Freiligrath has published an admirable German version (Das WaldJieiligthum) of her " Forest Sanctuary." HEMATINE (Gr. ai/aa, blood), the coloring mat- ter of the red globules of the blood. Hematine belongs to substances of the albuminoid class, consisting of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen, with which is associated a small pro- portion of iron. It forms a little over 1 per cent, of the substance of the blood globules, but even in this small proportion is sufficient to communicate to them, and to the whole mass of the blood in which they are suspended, the strong and rich deep red color by which they are so readily distinguished. It is rapidly al- tered in hue by the action of chemical substan- ces, and has not therefore been made available in the arts for the production of dye-stuffs. It is soluble in water, and a very small quantity of hematine will communicate a distinctly red tinge to a very large quantity of fluid. HEMATITE. See IRON ORES. IIEMIGALE, a mammal of the family vhcrri- da, coming near the ichneumons, so named from its weasel-like body. The grayish brown fur is marked on the back by six or seven wide dark stripes, arranged sad die- wise, broad above and narrowing toward the ribs ; the head is