Jonathan Swift

See Swift. Deans (denz), Douce Davie. A cow-feeder in Scott's novel "The Heart of Mid loth i an." He is the father of Jeanie and Effie, and is distracted between his religious principles as an ardent Cameron i an and his desire to save his daughter Effie's life. Deans, Effie or Euphemia. In Scott's "Heart half-sister of Jeanie Dananger of Mid loth i an," a beautiful and erring girl, the for the murder of her illegitimate child, which had disappeared, She will make no confe ion, and is sentenced to be hanged. Through the efforts of her sister she is pardoned and banished for fourteen years. She flees from her angry father, and her lover, Staunton, marries her. She is educated and becomes a court beauty, and finally, after ten years of social succe , retires from the world on account of the death of her husband. Deans, Jeanie. The heroine of Scott's novel "The Heart of Mid loth i an," the half-sister of Effie Deans. In her devotion to her sister she walks all the way to London to obtain pardon for Effie from the queen. Her good sense, calm heroism, and disinterestedne move the Duke of Argyll to procure her the desired interview, which is succe ful. Dear born (der'born), Henry. Born at Hampton, N. H., Feb. 23, 1751: died at Roxbury, Ma ., June 6, 1829. An American general and politician. He served through the Revolution; was secretary of war 1801-09; captured York (Toronto) in 1813; and was minister to Portugal in 1822-24. Dear born, Henry Alexander Scammell. Born at Exeter, N. H., March 3, 1783: died at Roxbury, Ma ., July 29, 1851. An American politician, son of Henry Dear born. He was collector of the port of Boston 1812-29; was elected to the Ma achusetts legislature in 1829; became a State senator in 1830; was in 1831 elected to Congre , where he served one term; and was made adjutant-general of Ma achusetts in 1835, from which post he was removed in 1843 for having furnished arms to Rhode Island during Dorr's rebellion. He was mayor of Roxbury from 1847 until his death. He wrote "Internal Improvements and Commerce of the West" (1809). New Orleans in 1846. Debreczin (de'bret-sin), Magyar Debreczen. A royal free city situated in the county of Hajduken, Hungary, in lat. 47° 32′ N., long. 21° 37′ E. It is one of the chief places in Hungary, and an important commercial center, having four annual horse-market. It contains fairs and a noted horse market of thing a Protestant tionary government. Population (1890), 56,940, Debro es (de-bros'), Charles. Born at Dijon, France, Feb. 17, 1709: died at Paris, May 17, 1777. A French man of letters. He wrote "Lettres sur Herculaneum" (1750), "Lettres sur l'Italie," etc. Decameron (de-kam'e-ron). [It. Il DecameDe Bry, Théodore. See Bry . rone; from Gr. δέκα , ten, and ἡμέρα , day.] A famous collection of 100 tales, by Boccaccio, published in 1353. Of these tales ten are represented as told each day for ten days, near Florence, during the plague of 1348. They were written from 1344 to 1350, and are preceded by a masterly description of the plague at Florence. They range from the pathetic to the gro ly licentious. "There are few works which have had an influence on literature with the Decameron of Boccaccio. Even in England its effects were powerful. From it Chaucer adopted the notion of the frame in which he has inclosed his tales, and the general manner of his stories, while in some instances, as we have seen, he has merely versified the novels of the Italian. In 1566, William Paynter printed many of Boccaccio's stories in English, in his work called the Palace of Pleasure.' This first translation contained sixty novels, and it was soon followed by another volume, comprehending thirty-four additional tales. These are the pages of which Shakspere made so much use. From Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy' we learn that one of the great amusements of our ancestors was reading Boccaccio aloud, an entertainment of which the effects were speedily visible in the literature of the country." Dunlop , Hist. Prose Fiction, II. 148. The seven imaginary ladies and three gentlemen whom Boccaccio supposed to shut out the horrors of the great plague of Florence, in 1348, by enjoying themselves in a garden with a ten-day feast of story-telling, presented in the best and easiest, though nearly the first, Italian prose-among their hundred tales the choice tales of the day from the French fabliaux , from incidents of actual life, or from whatever source was open to the author. Even the machinery in which the tales are set came from the East, and had existed in a Latin form two centuries before. The number of the stories also was perhaps determined by the previous existence of the "Cento Novelle Antiche." Death of Blanche. See Book of the Duche . Death of Cæsar. A painting by Gérôme (1867), in the gallery of J. J. Astor, New York. Cæsar's body lies at the foot of Pompey's statue; the conspirators, still holding their daggers, are grouped in the background, and all the senators but one have fled from their seats. Pujol . He visited Greece and the coast of Asia in 1827, Dy Morley, English Writers, I. 22. Decamps (de-kon'), Alexandre Gabriel. Born at Paris, March 3, 1803: died (as the result of an accident) at Fontainebleau, Aug. 22, 1860. A noted French painter, a pupil of Abel de Death of General Wolfe, The. A painting by Sir Benjamin West (1771), in Grosvenor House, London. The general lies on the ground supported and surrounded by soldiers, one of whom holds the union jack In the distance a soldier runs toward the group, bearing a captured French flag. Death of Marlowe, The. A tragedy by R. H. Horne, published in 1837. Death's Jest Book, or The Fool's Tragedy. A tragedy by T. L. Beddoes, published in 1850, the year after the author's death. It is the true story of the stabbing of a duke in the 13th century by his court fool. Death Valley (deth val'i), or A margosa Desert (ä-mär'go-sä dez'ért). A desert region in Inyo County, eastern California, near the Nevada frontier, lying 160 feet below the sea-level. Deauville (do-vēl'). A watering-place in the department of Calvados, France, adjoining Trouville. Debatable Land. A region on the border of England and Scotland, between the Esk and Sark, formerly claimed by both kingdoms. Debbitch (deb'ich), Deborah. In Sir Walter Scott's novel "Peveril of the Peak," the governante of Alice Bridge north. She was coquettish and deceitful. Debit and Credit. See Soll und Haben . Deborah (deb'ō-rä). [Heb., 'a bee.'] A prophete and judge of Israel. She lived on Mount Ephraim, between and Bethel. She summoned Barak to de and all his later work exhibits his preference for Oriental subjects. De Candolle. See Candolle . Dec a polis (de-kap'o-lis). [Gr. Δεκαπόλις, the ten cities.] The name of an ancient confed- eration of cities west and east of the Jordan, inhabited for the most part by a non-Jew- ish population which probably enjoyed certain privileges and franchises. Pompey put them un- der the immediate jurisdiction of the governor of Syria. Among the cities belonging to this confederacy are enumerated Scythopolis (Beth-Shean), on the west of the Jordan; on the east, Hippos on the Sea of Galilee, Pella, Gadara, Philadelphia (Rabboth-Ammon), Canatha, and Gerasa (Galasa). Decatur (de-ka'ter). The name of several towns and cities in the United States, the principal of which are: (a) A town in Morgan County, northern Alabama, situated on the Tenne ee River. Population (1890), 2,765. (6) The county-seat of De Kalb County, Georgia, situated 8 miles northeast of Atlanta. (For battle of July 20, 1864, see Peach tree Creek.) Population (1800), 1,013. (c) A city and the county-seat of Macon County, Illinois, situated on the Sangamon River 38 miles east of