Holt tion of his publishing career. Quickly discover- ing, as he put it, that his "patrimony was not quite equal to matrimony," he cast about for some congenial way of making a living, and in the same year solved the problem by buying from Charles T. Evans a part ownership in The Re- bellion Record, the other share of which was held by George P. Putnam [q.vJ\. Holt acted as pub- lisher of this collection of Civil War documents until 1864 when its increasing volume induced the owners to sell. In the same year the studies which he had been pursuing in the Columbia University Law School were rewarded with the degree of LL.B. Two years later he associated himself in a publishing concern with F. Ley- poldt, the firm being known for a time as Ley- poldt & Holt, then as Leypoldt, Holt & Williams, later as Holt & Williams, and finally (1873) as Henry Holt & Company. The publishing busi- ness in those days was a very different affair from what it was later, and Holt never became reconciled to the developments that he was forced to witness in his closing years, particularly those resulting from the activities of the literary agent. He felt strongly that publishing, at least in the case of belles-lettres, should be a profession, not a business. He had a lifelong hunger for learn- ing, and also a desire for literary self-expression. In 1867 he produced an English translation of Edmond About's The Man with the Broken Ear, and later, anonymously, two novels, Calmire, Man and Nature (1892) and Sturmsee, Man and Man (1905), both of which achieved consider- able success. To several other books including Talks on Civics (1901), republished as On The Civic Relations (1907), On the Cosmic Relations (1914), and The Cosmic Relations and Immor- tality (1918), he added the remarkable feat of founding in his seventy-third year a literary magazine, called The Unpopular Review, a title which he reluctantly changed later to The Un- partizan Review. This he published and per- sonally edited until its suspension was forced in 1921 by conditions following the war. In 1923 he published Garrulities of an Octogenarian Edi- tor. On Dec. 2,1886, he married Florence Taber. Holt was fully as notable for his secondary in- terests, or avocations, as for his profession. He was passionately devoted to music, and became the leading spirit in an amateur string quartet organized by Richard Grant White [g.t/.], in 1875, which met for years at Holt's house. He himself played the 'cello, an instrument on which he became proficient after he was forty. He was the first chairman of the New York University Settlement Society, and was affiliated with many other social, literary, and artistic organizations. Holt He was one of the founders of the University Club, and a member of several other leading clubs in New York City, and was always a cen- ter of attraction whenever he appeared in any one of them. In his closing years he became deeply interested in psychic phenomena, and did much to promote research in that field. Tall, handsome, combining to a remarkable degree dignity and geniality, he made a deep and last- ing impression on all who met him. [Holt's Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor gives an intimate picture of him. On the occasion of his seventieth birthday he prepared for the Publishers* Weekly, Feb. 12, 1910, "The Publishing Reminiscences of Mr. Henry Holt." Chloe Arnold, in "The Fellowship of the Fiddle/' American Mercury, June 1927, portrays Holt the music lover. See also Who's Who in America, 5-26; N. Y. Times, Feb. 14, 1926.] H.P.F. HOLT, JOHN (i72i-Jan. 30, 1784), printer, journalist, postmaster, was born in Williams- burg, Va. He received a good education and was trained for a merchant's career, which he fol- lowed for some years in his native place, becom- ing in the course of time the mayor of the town. In 1749 he married Elizabeth Hunter (1727- Mar. 6, 1788), daughter of John Hunter, another merchant of Williamsburg, and sister of William Hunter, public printer at Williamsburg and with Benjamin Franklin joint postmaster-general for America. From this brother-in-law Holt prob- ably learned the printing art. When in 1754 busi- ness reverses led him to New York City, he car- ried an introduction to James Parker [q.vJ\9 a well-known printer and journalist of that place and resident postmaster there. Meanwhile, on the invitation of President Clap of Yale College, Franklin had set up at New Haven, Conn., a printing-establishment which he intended to put in charge of his nephew, Benjamin Mecom [q.v.], but Mecom declined, whereupon Parker acquired the outfit and on Apr. 12, 1755, began the Connecticut Gazette, the first paper printed in Connecticut Holt was made a deputy post- master at New Haven and manager of Parker's New Haven printery. On Dec. 13 the Gazette appeared with the copartnership imprint of James Parker & Company, Holt being the resident part- ner as well as editor. In the early summer of 1760 he removed from New Haven to New York to manage the Parker business on Burling Slip, and on July 31, 1760, the New-York Gazette and Weekly Post-Boy appeared with the imprint of James Parker & Company, Holt being again a junior partner. Together the partners also con- trolled the postriders from New York to Hartford, who met the postriders from Boston (Post-Boy f Apr. 8, 1762) . When the partnership was dissolved on May 6, 1762, Holt became sole publisher, hav- 180