HERBERT, GEORGE.  Born at Montgomery Castle, Wales, Apr. 3, 1593; died at
  Bemerton, near Salisbury, Eng., Feb., 1633.  Graduated from Cambridge
  1613; took M.A. degree 1616.  He was in high favor at court; appointed
  by the King as rector to Bemerton Church in 1630, and there wrote the
  religious poems for which he is remembered. The Gifts of God, 211.

HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT.  Born at Belchertown, Mass., July 24, 1819; died
  at New York City, Oct. 21, 1881.  Editor of the Springfield
  Republican 1849-66; editor-in-chief of Scribner’s Monthly (which
  later became the Century Magazine).  Among his poems are “Kathrina”
  and “Bitter-Sweet.” Gradatim, 200.

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.  Born at Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1809; died
  there Oct. 7, 1894.  Physician; professor of anatomy and physiology in
  the medical school of Harvard University 1847-82.  Some of his
  best-known poems are “Bill and Joe,” “The Deacon’s Masterpiece,” and
  “The Chambered Nautilus.”  Of his three novels “Elsie Venner” is the
  best known.  His “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” “Professor at the
  Breakfast-Table,” “Poet at the Breakfast-Table,” and “Over the
  Tea-Cups” all appeared originally in the Atlantic Monthly. The
  Chambered Nautilus, 30.

HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH.  Born at Southgate, Eng., Oct. 19, 1784; died
  at Putney, Eng., Aug. 28, 1859.  Imprisoned for radical political
  views; writer of popular poems and essays, Abou Ben Adhem, 133.

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INGALLS, JOHN JAMES.  Born at Middleton, Mass., Dec. 29, 1833; died at
  Las Vegas, N. Mex., Aug. 16, 1900.  Educated at Williams College;
  admitted to the bar 1857; moved to Kansas; member of the state senate
  1861; U.S. senator from Kansas 1873-91. Opportunity, 54.

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JONSON, BEN.  Born at Westminster, Eng., about 1573; died Aug. 6, 1637. 
  Went to school at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields and Westminster. 
  Shakespeare played one of the roles in his comedy “Every Man in His
  Humour” 1598.  He went to France as the tutor of the son of Sir Walter
  Raleigh 1613; was in the favor of the court, from which he received a
  pension.  Attacked with palsy 1626, and later with dropsy, and confined
  to his bed most of his later years.  Well-known plays besides the one
  cited above are “Epicoene,” “The Alchemist,” “Volpone,” “Bartholomew
  Fair,” and “Cataline”; author of the lyric “Drink to Me Only With
  Thine Eyes,” and a volume of criticism “Timber.” The Noble Nature,
  177.

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