Peter Cornelius**, an eminent Dutch poet and historian, and, with his great contemporary Vondel, the real founder of the Dutch stage, was born in 1581, at Amsterdam, of which city his father was burgomaster. After finishing his education at Leyden, he spent three years in foreign travelling, chiefly in France, Germany, and Italy. In the latter country in particular he devoted much time to the study of the mechanism of verse, which he mastered so thoroughly that his drama of *Granida*, published soon after his return home in 1601, is reckoned to this day one of the masterpieces of Danish literature, both for the harmony of its rhythm and the graceful elegance of its diction. In 1609 Hooft was appointed *drossard* of Muilen, a village about 5 miles from Amsterdam, where he spent the remainder of his life. During the whole of this period his house was the rendezvous of all the cultivators of polite letters in Holland, who were attracted to it both by the literary renown and the great social and moral worth of the host. Hooft was twice married, and on both occasions very happily. His first wife died in 1624; his second survived him.

Unlike most writers, Hooft's fame is twofold. His merits as a historian and prose-writer are nowise inferior to his merits as a poet; and the services which he rendered to the prose literature of his country are both in kind and in degree as memorable as those which he rendered to the poetical. His History of Holland, one of the earliest, remains to this day one of the best of the Dutch classics, and is proudly pointed to by the countrymen of the author as a model of grace, purity, and vigour, both of thought and style. Hooft displays most originality, however, in his Minneliedjes, a collection of miscellaneous pieces in the style of Anacreon, whose grace, lightness, and fancy, have been very happily caught. In this vein he is still without a rival in Holland, unless perhaps Poot may claim the honour of that title. Hooft died May 21, 1647, at the Hague, whither he had gone to attend the funeral rites of the Stadtholder Frederic Henry.

HOOGVEEN, Heinrich, a Dutch scholar and philologist of considerable note, was born at Leyden in 1712. His parents, who were miserably poor, were hardly able to send him to the school of his native town, and when at length they procured the means their son made at first little or no progress in his studies, chiefly, it was believed, through the severity of his teacher. A change of masters, however, developed his latent abilities, and he soon distinguished himself so much that at the early age of twenty he was made co-rector of the school of Gorcum. In the following year he was called to organize the gymnasium of Woerden, which, despite his youth, he brought to a high state of prosperity. From Woerden he was transferred to Breda, and from Breda to Dordrecht, and at length found a permanent abode in Delft, where he died in 1791. His best work is a treatise on the Greek Particles, Leyden, 1769 (of which an excellent abridgment was published by Schütz, Leipzig, 1806), and his edition of Vigers' work on Greek Idioms, which has been several times reprinted. Hoogeveen also wrote a large number of odes and elegies in Latin, in which kind of composition he had great facility and no mean talent. None of these works, however, display either high scholarship or very refined taste. Perhaps his most useful contribution to literature is his Dictionary of Analogic Languages, published at Cambridge in 1800. The value of this Lexicon is that all Greek words with the same termination follow each other in alphabetical order according to their final letters—a very convenient arrangement for conveniently tracing etymological analogues.