HERBERT
HERBERT
sipations, sought a divorce. On learning this
Herbert invited his literary companions to a feast
in his rooms in New York city. Only one, David
W. Judd, accepted, and in his presence Herbert,
standing before a mirror, suddenly shot himself
in the heart. His more successful books include
these titles: novels — Cromwell (1837), Marma-
cluke Wyril (1843), The Roman Traitor (1846),
Tlie Puritans of Neio England (1853), Shericood
Forest (1855); historical — The Captains of the Old
World (1851), The Cavaliers of England and
Tlie Knights of England (1853), The Cavaliers of
France (1853), Persons and Pictures from French
and English History and The Captains of the
Great Roman Republic (1854), Memoirs of Henry
Vni. and his Six Wives (1855); sports — The
Field Sjiorts of the United States and British
America of North America (1843), The Deer Stalk-
ers (1845), Wartcick Woodlands and My Shooting
Box (1846), Fish and Fishing of the United States
and British Provinces (1849), Frank Forester and
His Friends (1849), Comjilete 3Ianiial for Young
Sportsmen (1852), American Game in its Season
(1853), Horses and Horsemanship in North Amer-
ica (1857). See Frank Forester's Life and Writ-
ings, by Col. Thomas Picton (1881). He died in
New York city, l\Iay 17, 1858.
HERBERT, Hilary Abner, cabinet officer, was born in Laurensville. S.C., March 12, 1834; son of Thomas E. and Dorothy Herbert. He was taken by his parents to Greenville, Ala., in 1846, where his father was a teacher and planter. He studied at the University of Alabama, 1853-55, and finished his education at the University of Virginia. He was ad- mitted to the Ala- bama bar and prac- tised in Greenville. He was captain in the 8th Alabama regi- ment in tiie army of General Lee, and fought in the battles of the Peninsula from Yorktown to Fair Oaks. At Fair Oaks he was wounded and captured and within two months was ex- changed. He was commissioned lieu- tenant-colonel of the 8th Alabama in 1863, and became its colonel in 1864. He fought at second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Salem Heights, Antietam, Gettysburg and the Wilderness. At the battle of the Wilderness he was wounded and carried from the field by his men. He was re- tired as colonel in 1865, and resumed the prac- tice of law in Greenville. In 1872 he removed to
Montgomery, Ala., and was a representative in
the 45th-52d congresses, inclusive, 1877-93. He
served on tiie committees of the judiciary and
ways and means, and was prominent in the up-
building of the new navy, devoting himself with
great energy to this work, serving as chairman of
the naval committee in the 49th, 50th and 52d
congresses, and he was a prominent member of
that committee when the house was Republican in
the 51st congress. He was secretary of the navy,
1893-97, and during his administration completed
and commissioned the Indiana, Massachusetts,
Oregon, Maine, Texas, New York, Brooklyn, Am-
phit7'ite, Monadnock, Terror, Katahdin, Cincin-
nati, Raleigh, Columbia, Minneapolis, Olympia,
Detroit, Marblehead, Montgomery, Castine, Ma-
chias and Puritan, all of which had been author-
ized by acts originating in the committee on
naval affairs while he was on that committee.
He also laid down and practically completed the
gunboats, Nashville, Helena, Wilmington, Anna-
liolis, Wlieeling and Marietta, and laid the keels
of the battleships Kearsarge, Kentucky, Illinois,
Alabama and Wisconsin, and torpedo boats
from No. 3 to No. 18 inclusive. It will thus be
seen that of the six vessels belonging regularly to
the navy which fought at Manila, May 1, 1898,
all except the Boston originated in the committee
of which he was a member, and that all the ships
that fouglit at Santiago, July 3, 1898, except the
converted yacht Gloucester, were authorized in
the committee of which Mr. Herbert was a mem-
ber, and afterward commissioned by him as sec-
retary of the navy. At the close of his official
term in 1897 he entered upon the practice of law
in Washington, D.C. He was elected a member
of the National Geographic society. He pub-
lished in the Democratic campaign book of 1888,
History of Efforts to Increase the U.S. Navy, and
was the largest contributor to and the editor of
TT7i?/ the Solid South? or, Reconstruction and its
Results (1890).
HERBERT, Victor, comjwser, was born in Dublin, Ireland, Feb. 1, 1859; son of Edward and Fannj' (Lover) Herbert and grandson of Samuel Lover, the Irish novelist, song-writer and minia- turist. At the age of six he was sent to the Stutt- gart, Germany, gymnasium or high school. At the age of fifteen he began to study the 'cello under Bernhard Cossman and composition under Max Seifriz in Stuttgart, German}-. His first important position was that of principal 'cellist in the court orchestra at Stuttgart, and he was afterward heard in concerts in the larger Euro- pean cities. In 1886 he was married to Therese Forester, a talented and beautiful prima donna, and in the same year they came to Ameria as members of the Metropolitan Opera House com- pany. Herbert made his first American appear-
