HOVEY, Richard, American poet: b. Nor mal, Ill., 4 May 1864; d. New York, 24 Feb. 1900. He was graduated at Dartmouth 1885, studied theology for a year, but soon went abroad and led a bohemian life, being in turn actor, journalist, dramatist and poet, and finally lecturer on English literature in Barnard Col lege, New York. His verse was of the ideal istic school and marked with the influence of Ibsen and Maeterlinck. His works are 'Launcelot and Guenevere' ; 'Taliesin: a Masque' (1900); 'Seaward: an Elgy' (1893); 'The Laurel' (1897); 'Along the (1898). A collected edition of these were published in 1907 (New York). His poems were collected in two volumes: 'Along the Trail' (New York 1898), and 'To the End of the Trail' (edited by Mrs. R. Hovey, New York 1908). Together with Bliss Carman (q.v.) he wrote 'Songs from Vagabondia' (New York 1893); 'More Songs from Vaga bondia' (New York 1896), and Songs from Vagabondia' (New York 1900). •He also translated 'The Plays of Maurice Maeterlinck' (2 vols., Chicago 1902). Consult Aide, H., 'Richard Hovey' (in Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXXV, p. 240, London 1894); Hale, E. E., Jr., 'Launcelot and Guenevere' (in Dial, Vol. XXVI, p. 17, Chicago 1899); Knorr, H., 'Rich
ard Hovey's Promise and Work> (in Poet Lore, Vol. XII, p. 436, Boston 1900); Page, C. H., 'Plays and Poems of Richard Hovey' (in Bookman, Vol. VIII, pp. 360 and 449, New York 1898-99); Rittenhouse, J. B., 'Younger American Poets' (New York 1900); Ward, L., 'Richard Hovey' (in Harvard Monthly, Vol. XXXI, p. 111, Cambridge 1901).
HOW. William Walsham, English prel ate: b. Shrewsbury, 13 Dec. 1823; d. 10 Aug. 1897. He received his education at Oxford and became rector of Whittington in Shrop shire, where he worked for 30 years. In 1879 he was appointed suffragan bishop of Bedford, and in the following year bishop of Wakefield. He was exceedingly active in church revival work in the East End, founding a philanthropic fund and extending his efforts along social lines. In 1888 he became bishop of Wakefield. Bishop How wrote a number of popular hymns, religious poems and sermons, and also a 'Com mentary on the Four Gospels,' 'Manual for the Holy 'Private Life and Min istration of a Parish Priest' (1873) ; 'Com mentary upon St. John' (1879), and 'The Papal Claims in the Light of Scriptural His tory' (1881).