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Don Garcia de Navarre (dė nä-vär'). A play by Molière. comédie héroïque , and it is in fact a kind of anticipation [It] may be called Molière's only failure. He styles it a of Racine's manner, but applied to le serious subjects. The jealousy of the hero is, however, the only motive of the piece, and its exhibition is rather tiresome than any action. thing else. The play is monotonous and unrelieved by Saints bury , French Lit., p. 309. Don Giovanni (don jō-vän'në). An opera by Mozart, first produced at Prague Oct. 29, 1787. The words were by Da Ponte. See Don Juan. Dongola (dong'go-lä). A province (mudiriyeh) of Egypt, in Nubia, previous to the Mahdist revolt. Dongola, New, native Ordeh. A town in Nubia, situated on the Nile in lat. 19° 10' N. It was built about 1820, and was the capital of the former Egyptian province of Dongola. It was abandoned by the Anglo-Egyptian forces to the Mahdists in 1886. Dongola, Old. A ruined town of Nubia, situated on the Nile 76 miles southeast of New Dongola. Doniphan (don'i-fan), Alexander William. Born in Mason County, Ky., July 9, 1808: died at Richmond, Mo., Aug. 8, 1887. An American officer in the Mexican war. He conducted a regiment of Mi ouri ans from Valverde, New Mexico, to Chihuahua, Dec., 1846,-March, 1847. Donizetti (do-ne-dzet'tē), Gaetano. Born at Bergamo, Italy, Nov. 25, 1797: died at Bergamo, April 8, 1848. A celebrated Italian operatic composer. He composed about 65 operas, among which are "Anna Bolena" (1830), "L'Elisire d'Amore" (1832), "Lucia di Lammer moor" (1835), "Lucrezia Borgia" (1834), "La Favor it a" (1840), "La Fille du Régiment," afterward "La Figlia del Reggimento" (1840), "Linda di Chamounix" (1842), and "Don Pasquale" (1843). Don Juan (don jū'an; Sp. pron. don Hö-än'). A partly legendary character of Spanish origin. Don Juan Tenorio, who lived in the 14th century, the son of an illustrious family of Seville, killed the commandant Ulloa after having seduced his daughter. The Francis can monks, wishing to put an end to the debaucheries of Don Juan, enticed him to their monastery and killed him, giv. ing out that the statue of his victim (which had been erected there), incensed at an insult offered him (in the plays he is jeeringly invited to supper), had come down and dragged him to hell. Both Spanish and Italian plays were written on the subject, and Dorimon introduced him to the French stage. Don Juan is the type of skeptical libertinism, and as such has been made the subject of the drama "El burlador de Sevilla" ("The Deceiver of Seville"), by Tellez (Tirso de Molina) (17th century); of Molière's comedy "Don Juan ou le fest in de Pierre" (1665); of Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" (which see); of Byron's poem "Don Juan" (1819-24); of Grabbe's German drama "Don Juan und Faust" (1828); and of works by Corneille, Shad well, Zamora, Gold on i, Gluck, Dumas, Zorilla, etc. Don Juan. An incomplete poem by Byron, written in 1818 and published 1819-24. Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre (lė fes-tan' de pyar'). [F.: see the def.] A comedy by Molière, first played in 1665. In 1673 it was turned into verse by Thomas Corneille. The second title is a mistake of Dorimon who first introduced Don Juan to the French stage in 1658 in a play called "Le fest in de Pierre" The Feast of Pierre"), which he translated from the Span ish phrase "El convidado de piedra" (le convié de pierre, the stone guest,' referring to the statue of the commandant [see Don Juan] whom he named Pierre to explain it). Molière, finding the title established, adopted it. Don Quixote f sculpture re at the art school sculptor, profe or of s in Stuttgart from 1877. Donne (don), John. Born at London, 1573: died at London, March 31, 1631. An English poet and divine. He studied at Oxford and Lincoln's Inn, and in 1596 was appointed secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, keeper of the great seal, which office he lost about 1600 by a clandestine marriage with the lord keeper's niece. In 1610 he published a work entitled "Pseudo-Martyr," which procured for favor who per suaded him to take holy orders in 1615, made him a royal chaplain in the same year, and in 1621 appointed him to the deanery of St. Paul's. Besides his poems, a collective edition of which appeared in 1633, and his theological writings, the most notable his "Βιαθάνατος. A Declaration of that Paradoxe of Thesis, That Self-homicide is not so naturally Sin, that it may never be otherwise," etc. (1644). Donnelly (don'el-i), Ignatius. Born at Philadelphia, Nov. 3, 1831. An American author and politician. He was admitted to the bar, and in 1857 re was ern or in 1859 and in 1861. He was a Republican member of Congre from Minnesota 1863-69. Author of "The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the so-called Shakes pere Plays" (1887), "At lant is" (1882), "Ragnarok" (1883). Donner (don'ner), Georg Raphael. Born at E ling, E ling, Austria, May 25, 1692: died at Vienna, Feb. 15, 1741. A noted Austrian sculptor. He entered the imperial service in 1724, and in 1729 that of Prince Esterházy. His greatest works are the fountain on the Mehlmarkt and the fountain of Perseus at the old town hall, Vienna. Donner Lake (don'ér lāk). A small lake in Nevada County, eastern California, in the Sierra Nevada. Donnithorne (don'i-thorn), Arthur. In George Eliot's novel "Adam Bede," a vain, weak, good-natured young man, whose remorse for Hetty's ruin lies chiefly in his chagrin at being found out and losing the approbation of his ac qua in quaintances. Donnybrook (don'i-brük). A village in County Dublin, Ireland, 14 miles southeast of Dublin. It was formerly famous for its fair (held in August), pro- verbial for its good-humored rioting, established under King John (1199-1216), and suppre ed in 1855. Donoso (dō-no'sō), Justo. Born at Santiago, 1800: died at La Serena, Feb. 22, 1868. A Chile an bishop. He was rector of a theological seminary in Santi- ago, lecturer at the university, and judge of the ecclesiast i- cal court. He was named bishop of Ancud in 1844, and was translated to the see of La Serena in 1855. His works on ca- nonical law are authoritative throughout South America. Donoso Cortés (kōr-tās'), Juan Francisco Maria de la Salud, Marquis of Valdegamas. Born at El-Valle, Estremadura, Spain, May 6, 1809: died at Paris, May 3, 1853. A Spanish politician, diplomatist, and writer. His works include "Consideraciones sobre la diploma cia" (1834), "La ley electoral, etc." (1835), etc. Donovan (don'ō-van), Edward. Died at Lon- don, Feb. 1, 1837. "An English naturalist con- cerning whose personal history little is known except that he was in early life po e ed of a considerable fortune, which enabled him to travel and make collections of objects in natu- ral history. His chief work is "General Illus- trations of Entomology." Don Pasquale (don päs-kwä'le). An opera by Donizetti, first produced at Paris Jan. 4, 1843. Don Quixote (Sp. pron. dön ke-Hō'te; E. don kwiks'ōt). A Spanish romance by Cervantes, printed at Madrid in two parts, the first in 1605, the second in 1615. In 1614, when the second part was nearly completed, an impudent attempt to malign the character of Cervantes was made by Alonso Fernandes de Avellaneda of Tordesillas (thought to be a pseudonym of Luis de Aliaga), who produced a pretended continuation of the first part. Translations of "Don Quixote" have appeared in every European language, including Turkish. The principal English translations are those of Shelton (1612-20), Motteux (1719), Jarvis (1742). Smollett (1755), Bowle (1781), Ormsby (1885), Watts (1888). The book is named from its hero, Don Quixote de la Mancha, a Spanish country gentleman, who is so imbued with tales of chivalry that he sets forth with his squire Sancho Panza in search of knightly adventure with very amusing results. At the beginning of the work Cervantes announces it to be his sole purpose to break down the vogue and authority of books of chivalry, and at the end he declares anew that he had "had no other desire than to render abhorred of men the false and absurd stories contained in books of chivalry," exulting in his succe as an achievement of no small moment. See Cervantes . These two [Don Quixote and Sancho Panza] sally forth from their native village in search of adventures, of which the excited imagination of the knight, turning windmills into giants, solitary inns into castles, and galley-slaves into oppre ed gentlemen, finds abundance, wherever he goes; while the esquire translates them all into the plain prose of truth with an admirable simplicity, quite unconscious of its own humor, and rendered the more striking Donna del Lago (don'nä del lä'go), La. [It., The Lady of the Lake Scott's poem, Naples Oct. 4, 1819. Donndorf (don'dorf), Karl Adolf. Born at Weimar, Germany, Feb. 16, 1835. A German Lake.'] An opera, based on by Ro ini, first produced at by its contrast with the lofty and courteous dignity and 185,635. magnificent illusions of the superior personage. There could, of course, be but one consistent termination to adventures like these. The knight and his esquire suffer a series of ridiculous discomfitures, and are at last brought Don Quixote home, like madmen, to their native village, where Cervantes leaves them, with an intimation that the story of their adventures is by no means ended. Ticknor, Span. Lit., II. 141. Don Quixote in England. A comedy by Fielding, produced in 1734. Don Saltero's Coffee House. A noted house formerly standing in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London. It contained not only an eating-house but a museum of natural curiosities. It was founded by John Salter about 1690. It was torn down in 1866. Walford. Don Sanche d'Aragon. A comedy by Corneille, produced produced in 1650. It was partly taken from a Spanish play "El Palacio confuso." Don Sanche, the heir to the throne of Aragon, is supposed to be dead. He appears as Don Carlos, and believes himself to be the son of a fisherman. IMG:content-0371.png:[blocks in formation] Doomsday Book. [Written archaically Domes day Book , from ME. Domesdeie Book , etc.: so called because its decision was regarded as final.] A book containing a digest, in Norman French, of the results of a census or survey of England undertaken by order of William the Conqueror, and completed in 1086. It consists of two volumes in vellum, a large folio containing 382 pages and a quarto containing 450. They form a valuable record of the ownership, extent, and value of the lands of England (1) at the time of the survey, (2) at the date of bestowal when they had been granted by the king, and (3) at the time of Edward the Confe or, when a somewhat similar survey had been made; the numbers of tenants and dependents, amount of live stock, etc., were also returned. The book was long kept under three different locks in the exchequer, along with the king's seal, but is now kept in the Public Record Office. In 1783 a facsimile edition, printed from types made for the purpose, was i ued by the British government. The counties of North umber land, Cumber land, West more land, and Durham were not included in the survey. There existed also local doomsday books. Doon (dön). A river in Ayrshire, Scotland, which flows through Loch Doon and falls into the Firth of Clyde 2 miles south of Ayr. It is celebrated in the poetry of Burns. Length, about 30 miles. Do or nick (dor'nik). The Flemish name of Tournay, Belgium, whence the English word dornick. See Tournay .