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HAZELL'S ANNUAL CYCLOPÆDIA, 1887.

deficit 17,000,000 florins. 26th, Statue of Grotius unveiled at Delft. Dec. 22nd, Convention signed with Belgium for the suppression of the traffic in young girls.-1887. Jan. 24th, M. Tromp appointed Minister of Marine. For Ministry, etc., see DIPLOMATIC (NETHERLANDS).

Holl, Frank, R.A., son of the late Francis Holl, the engraver; b. 1845. A most successful student of the Royal Academy, his two pictures entitled "A Convalescent" and "Faces in the Fire," at the exhibition of 1867, being most highly spoken of. The picture which gained him in the following year the two-years' travel

ling studentship for painting was one entitled "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away: blessed be the name of the Lord." In 1871 he painted "Winter" and "No Tidings from the Sea" for Her Majesty the Queen, and has since exhibited many other charming pictures at Burlington House. As a portrait painter he has a great reputation, and has committed to canvas the likenesses of many eminent men. Elected R.A. (1883).

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for signature. Its object was to bind the subscribing powers together in brotherly love and charity as one Christian family, to regulate the government of the three great states representing Christianity and the Greek and Roman Churches by the spirit and genius of Christendom, and to unite them in a common union overstepping the differences of their religions, and recognising their fundamental mainspring.

Holy Thursday (otherwise called Ascension Day). The fortieth day after Christ's resurrection.

the beginning of 1885, having been previously at work in a small way under the title of "The moted by Mrs. Jebb. Its offices and studios Cottage Arts Association," founded and proare at 1, Langham Chambers, W.; and it has already seventy-three "centres" all over the country, from Whitechapel to Braemar. Lord vice-presidents are many eminent artists, such Brownlow is its president, and amongst its as Sir Frederick Leighton and Mr. G. F. Watts, and other philanthropists. Its immediate the eye and train the hand, and at the same objects are to rouse the intelligence, educate time to raise the standard of everyday life and ennoble the idea of home, by means of teaching as must be elevating and may be remunerative, to the poorer classes such arts and handicrafts from joinery and wood-carving to tile-painting,

Home Arts Association, established about

Holloway College, The Royal, founded in 1883 by the practical benevolence of the late Mr. Thomas Holloway, is a handsome building situated at Mount Lee, Egham, Surrey, built in the style of the French Renaissance. Its object is to supply the best and most suitable education for women of the middle and upper middle classes. Residence is ordinarily restricted to three years, but the governors have power to admit, in exceptional cases, non-pottery, and repousse work in Brass and copper. resident students. The fees fixed by the governing body are uniform for all residents. The management and government of the college is vested in twelve governors, the first Board including the names of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Earl Granville. The building, ●pened by the Queen 1886, contains a handsome collection of pictures of the value of £90,000, by Sir John Millais, Sir Edwin Landseer, W. P. Frith, Constable, and other eminent artists.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, M.D., LL.D., b. at Cambridge, Mass., August 29th, 1809, and graduated at Harvard University. Originally intended for the law, he ultimately attached himself to the medical profession, of which he was a distinguished ornament, being successively appointed Professor of Anatomy both at Dartmouth College and the Massachusetts Medical School. From an early age, however, he evinced a taste for poetry and general literature, and it is in his capacity as an author that he is best known in England. His most popular works are "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," "The Professor at the Breakfast Table," and "The Poet at the Breakfast Table," though he is a voluminous writer both in prose and verse, a poet of no mean order, and an able elocutionist, many of his best and happiest efforts having been delivered at public dinners. His recent visit to England created much enthusiasm, he being everywhere received with the greatest cordiality; whilst the University of Cambridge took the opportunity, on the 18th June, 1886, of conferring upon him the honorary degree of LL.D.

Holmgren's Coloured Wools. See COLOUR

BLINDNESS.

Holy Alliance, The, was an international treaty, formed directly and personally between the sovereigns of Russia, Austria and Prussia, whom all the European Powers joined, excepting only Great Britain, the Pope, and Turkey, to whom the treaty was naturally not offered

Home Office. See CIVIL SERVICE.

After the

Home Rule. The term applied to the move ment for the restoration of self-government in Ireland, which was started by Mr. Isaac Butt, in Dublin, in 1870. The new movement, which in most respects had the same objects as the agitation of O'Connell for repeal of the Union, obtained at the general election of 1874, sixty members. The party was afterwards divided on policy, Mr. Parnell (q.v.) and Mr. Biggar advocating a more active course than Mr. Butt approved. Mr. Butt died in 1879, and Mr. Shaw was elected leader of the Home Rule party in his stead. general election of 1880, at which the party was largely augmented, Mr. Parnell was elected in place of Mr. Shaw. The election of 1885 still further strengthened the party, which was yet again increased at the election of 1886, the Home Rule party now numbering eightysix. Home Rule has various meanings different proposals being made at different periods and by different leaders. The plan of Mr. Butt was to allow a parliament in Dublin, and at the same time to have the Irish members summoned to the Imperial Parliament at Westminster whenever questions arose affecting the relations of Ireland with the Empire. Since then the members of Mr. Parnell's party have signified a preference for the model of the Colonies-viz., a parliament in Dublin and no representation in the Imperial Parliament and no share in Imperial taxation. Some members of the Home Rule party now declare in favour of absolute independence. The following is a summary of Mr. Gladstone's famous Home Rule Bill (introduced April 8th, 1886):

(1) A Legislative Body to sit in Dublin and have the control of the executive government of Ireland and its legislative business.

The Parliament to be composed of two orders with power in either to demand separate voting, and thus put an absolute veto on a

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