. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. s History of Ferdinandand Isibella of Spain, which was pub-lished in Boston and London, in met with a highly favorable reception,and
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. s History of Ferdinandand Isibella of Spain, which was pub-lished in Boston and London, in met with a highly favorable reception,and was translated into German, Span-ish and French. His * History of theConquest of Mexico was published inNew York and London in 1843, and his* Conquest of Peru in 1847. All theseworks were received with much distinc-tion, and their author was elected a mem-ber of nearly all the literary societiesof Europe. Columbia college bestow-edupon him the degree of LL. D. and Oxforduniversity (England) that of D. C. His History of Philip II. appeared in 1855 and work, however, was never completed. A stroke of paralysisin 1858, and another eleven months afterwards, caused his death,which occurred in Boston in 1859. was an illegible penman, writingwith the aid of a blind scholars instrument,all his manuscript being copied by hissecretary, corrected and recopied for theprinter. The revised edition of his worksfill fifteen issued his Universal and Critical Dictionary of the EnglishLanguage; in 1855 a Pronouncing, Explanatory and SynonymuusDictionary; and in 1860 his quarto Dictionary of the EnglishLanguage (1,854 pages). Besides his dictionaries, he published a Pronouncing Spelling-Book of theEnglish Language, Remarks on Lon-gevity, and for twelve years edited theAmerican Almanac (1831 to 1843).He died at Cambridge, Mass., in 1865. William H. Prescott, Author of the Conquest of :\Iexi(.n, Conquest of Peru^Other Histories. In 1850 he acain visited JOSEPH
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