The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . scape had found its best delineator; sothat Harte became, in hispioncer pictures, a sort of later FenimoreCooper. Forty-four volumes were published by him between1867 and 1898. After a year as professor in the university ofCalifornia, Harte lived in New York, 1871-1878; was UnitedSlates consul at Crcfeld, Germany, 1878-1880; consul atGlasgow, 1880-1885; ^i** ^f*^ 885 resided in London, engaged 32 HARTEBEEST—HARTFORD in literary work. He died at Camberley, England, on the 5thof May 1902. A library
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . scape had found its best delineator; sothat Harte became, in hispioncer pictures, a sort of later FenimoreCooper. Forty-four volumes were published by him between1867 and 1898. After a year as professor in the university ofCalifornia, Harte lived in New York, 1871-1878; was UnitedSlates consul at Crcfeld, Germany, 1878-1880; consul atGlasgow, 1880-1885; ^i** ^f*^ 885 resided in London, engaged 32 HARTEBEEST—HARTFORD in literary work. He died at Camberley, England, on the 5thof May 1902. A library edition of his Writings (16 vols.) was issued in 1900, andincreased to 19 vols, in 1904. See also H. W. Boynton, Bret Harle(1905) in the Contemporary Men of Letters series; T. E. Pemberton,Ltje ojBret Harte (1903), which containsa list of his poems, tales, &c. HARTEBEEST, the Boer name for a large South Africanantelope (also known as caama) characterized by its red colour,long face with naked muzzle and sharply angulated lyratehorns, which are present in both sexes. This antelope is the. Cape Hartebeest (Bubalis cama). Bubalis cama or Alcclaphus cama of naturalists; but the namehartebeest has been to include all the numerousmembers of the same genus, some of which are to be found inevery part of Africa, while one or two extend into Syria. Someof the species of the allied genus Damaliscus, such as Huntersantelope (Z). hunleri), are also often called hartebeests. (SeeAntelope.) HARTFORD, a city and the capital of Connecticut, ,the county-seat of Hartford county, and a port of entry, coter-minous with the township of Hartford, in the west central partof the stale, on the W. bank of the Connecticut river, and about35 m. from Long Island Sound. Pop. (1890), 53,230; (1900),79,850, of whom 23,758 were foreign-born (including 8076 Irish,2700 Germans, 2260 Russians, 1952 Italians, 1714 Swedes,1634 Enghsh and 1309 English Canadians); (1910 census)98,915. Of the total p
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