HELLO, ERNEST (1828-1885), French critic, was born in Treguier. His best-known book, Physionomie de saints (1875), which has been translated into English (1903) as Studies in Saint ship, does not display his qualities best. The real Hello is to be found in a series of philosophical and critical essays, from Renan, l'Allemagne et l'atheisme (1861), through L'Homme (1871) and Les Plateaux de la balance (188o), perhaps his best work, to the posthumously published Le Siecle. His studies of Shakespeare, Hugo and others are of abiding importance.