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* HAWKE BAY. 649 HAWKINS. tween Auckland and Wellington (Map: New Zealand, F 3). The bay was named after Sir Edward Hawke, First Lord of the British Ad- jniralty, wlien Captain Cook on October 8, 17G9, entered it for the lirst time. Napier, the chief city and port of the district, is on the bay. European settlement dates from 1848. HAWKEK. See Peddleb. HAWKER, Robert Stephen (1803-75). A Cornish poet and antiquary, born at Stoke Damerel, Devonshire. He was educated at Pem- broke College, Oxford (w'here he won the Newdi- gate prize in 1827 by a poem on Pompeii), was ordained in 1831, and went as vicar to Morwen- stow, Cornwall, in 1834. Afterwards the neigh- boring parish of Wellcombe was added to the living. Hawker did much for the people in his poor parish during his forty years as priest among them, especially for the sea-faring men. I'oward the end of his life he became a Koman Catholic, and in his last hours was received into that Church. His works include: Records of the Western Shore (1832; second series, 1836); Ecclesia (1840-41) ; Reeds Shaken by the Wind (1843); Second Cluster (1844); Echoes from Old Corniiall (1846-47) ; The Quest of the San- (jraal (1864) ; Cornish Ballads and Other Poems "(1869 and 1884). His collected poetical works appeared in 1879, with a notice by J. G. Godwin. He also wrote Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall (1870). His most celebrated poem, Trelawny, first published anonymously, was be- lieved, even by such men as Scott and Dickens, to be an old ballad. Consult: Lee, Memorials of the Late Rev. R. S. Hawker (London, 1876) ; and Gould, The Vicar of Morwenstow (London, 1876). Mortimer Collins pictures Hawker as Canon Tremaine in Iiis novel Sweet and Tioenty. HAWKES'BURY. A river of New South Wales, Australia. It rises in the Blue Moun- tains, and flows northeast parallel with the coast until it passes Windsor, where it turns to the southeast and enters the Pacific at Broken Bay, 20 miles north of Sydney (Map: New South Wales, F 3 ) . Its length is about 330 miles, and it is navigable for ships of 100 tons to Windsor, about 50 miles from its mouth. It is crossed by a steel railway bridge, 2900 feet long. The Hawkeslniry is remarkable for its inundations, and in 1844 the waters rose 20 feet in a few liours. HAWKESBXTE.Y. A lumber town and ter- minus of a branch line of the Canada Atlantic Railway, in Prescott County, Ontario, Canada ( Map : Ontario, .12). It is on the river Ottawa, 55 miles northwest of Montreal, and has ferry communication with Grenville on the opposite bank. Population, in 1891, 2042; in 1901, 4150. HAWKES'WORTH, John (c.1715-73). An Englisli writer. Apprenticed to an attorney, his first steps in literature were in the footprints of Samuel .Johnson, compiling Parliamentary de- bates for the flentlemnn's Maga::i)ie (1744), in which some of his poems were afterwards pub- lished. Most of his essays appeared in the Adventurer, successor of the Ramhler. which was very popular during the two years of its exist- ence (1752-54), and of which Hawkesworth was editor and joint founder. Besides adapting old and writing such new plays as Edqar and Emme- line (1761), he wrote the words for an oratorio. Ziniri (1760); an Oriental tale, Almoran and Hornet (2 vols,, 1762) ; translated Fenelon's Tch'ina<iue (17(i8); prepared an edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (6 vols., 1755), and an unsatisfactory account for the Government of the voyages of Captain Cook and others in the south- ern seas. He was for some time intimate with Dr. Johnson, whose style he could imitate to perfection: and his portrait was painted four times by Sir .Joshua Reynolds. HAWKE YE. One of the names by which Natty Bumppo is called in Cooper's Leather- stocking novels. Iowa. See States, HAWKEYE STATE. Poi'iL.VR Names of. HAWKING. See under Falconry. HAWKINS, Anthony Hope (1863—). An English novelist, bom in London. He was edu- cated at Marlborough and at O.xford, where he took honors in classics. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1887, but gave up practice in 1894. In 1897 he visited the United States. His first book was A Man of Mark (1890), followed in quick succession bv Father Stafford (1891); Mr. Witt's Widow" {Sd2) ; Sport Royal, a collection of short stories (1893) ; and The Prisoner of Zenda (1894). This last book, the scene of which is laid in an imaginary principality of South Germany, is a happy com- bination of romanticism and modernity. To the same year belong the delightful Dolly Dialogues. Among the successful novels are The Chronicles of Count Antonio ( 1895) ; Comedies of Courtship, and The Heart of Princess Osra (both 1896) ; Phroso (1897) ; Simon Dale and Rupert of Hent- zau (both 1898); The King's Mirror (1899); Quisante (1900) ; and The Intrttsio>is of Peggy (1902). Mr. Hawkins writes with an animation and precision of touch that are admirable, and he is also notable for a keen if su))erficial psy- chology. The Dolly Dialogues (reprint with four additional dialogues, 1902) contain a shower of neat epigrams and extremely clever I'epartees. HAWKINS, Benjamin Waterhouse (1807- 89). An English artist and author, born in Lon- don. He lived at Knowsley, the seat of the Earl of Derby, for five years, where he studied animal painting. He was assistant superintendent of the International Exhibition of 1851, and in 1852 the Crystal Palace Company employed him to make restorations of extinct animals, in which he was an expert. In 1868 he lectured in New York City and other cities of the United States, and afterwards lived in this country. He was employed by the Central Park commissioners of New York City in restoring the forms of extinct creatures, but later administrations rejected his work, much of which was destroyed. Ho wrote: Elements of Form (1842) ; Comparative Vieu^ of the Human and Animal Frame (1800) ; Atlas of Comparative Osteology (with Huxlev, 1865) ; Artistic Anatomy of "tattle and Sheep (1867); and Artistic Anatomy of the Dog and Deer (1870). HAWKINS, Dexter Arnold (1825-86), An American lawyer, horn in Camden, Maine. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1848, after which he divided his time between teaching, trav- eling, and studying law until 1S54. when he be- gan to practice in New York City. He lectured