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DOYLE. 422 DRAC^NA DRACO. but without much success. lie then turned his attention to caricature, and also worked in lithofjraphy. For many years he contributed drawings to the Timvs signed "H. B..' and his identity remained unknown nearly all his life. His satire was very different from that of his coarse and violent, if vigorous, predecessors. He was always refined, never tending toward bur- lesque, and established what may he called a gentlemanly style of caricature. Thackeray, Macaulay, Hayden, and Wordsworth have praised his work, and his sketches throw much light on the political history of England between the years 1830 and 184;'). for every man of note in political Englanil liecame known through his pencil. There are more than six huiulrcd examples of liis work in the British .Museum. One of his most impor- tant designs is the drawing for "The Reform Bill Receiving the King's Assent by Royal Commis- sion" ( 18.36). engraved by Walker and Re-nolds. He also published The Life of the Race florse (1822. six plates). DOYLE, .loiiN Andrew (1844—). An English historian of American iiistory, the son of Andrew Doyle, editor of the Morninfi Chronicle. He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his M... degree in IStlH. winning the Arnold Prize Essay on the subject of The American Colonicfi. which, when published the following year, attracted wide attention as a de- fense of the American Revolution by an English- man. His later works were A ni.itory of the Unit- ed States (IST.")). and The Enplish in America — vol. i., "Virginia. Maryland, and the Carolinas" (1882) and vol ii., ""The Puritan Colonies" (1SS7). DOYLE, Ricn.Rn (1824-83). An English wat<>r-color painter and caricaturist. He was burn in London in September. 1824. the son of .lolin Doyle (q.v.). from whom he inherited his talent. Doyle was one of the early contributors to I'unch. but resigned his position on the staff in 18.50. b<-eause of that journal's hostile atti- tvide toward the Catholics. He designed what has become, with slight modifications, the per- manent cover of the journal. He furnished illus- trations for Thackeray's The eircomcfi, Rus- kin's Kinii of the Golden Ifircr, Leigh Himt's Pot of Honcif. The best known of liis humorous stories, told in picttiri's. is the ".dventures of Brown. .Jones, and Robinson." His work is dis- tinguished by genial Ininior and graceful drawing. He also exhibited many water-colors in the Orosvenor tJaller^', among which were the "Pied Piper of Hameliii" (1870) : "Battle of Elves and Frogs" (1880): and the "Home of Charlotte Bronte" (188."?). He died in London, in Decem- ber. ISS.'i. DOYLESTOWN. A borough and the county- seal nf Bucks County. Pa., S2 miles north of Philadelpliia. on a branch of the Philadelphia and Beading Railroad (Map: Pennsylvania. F 3) . Doylestown is a beautiful residence town. It has a publii- library and fini> court house and school bnildinsrs. The industries comprise creameries, saw and flour mills, agricultural im- plement works, brick and tile works, spoke fac- torv. foundry, etc. Population, in 1800, 2.')I0; in lonn 30.14. D'OYT-Y, C.EOROE (1778-1840). A Church of ETiL'land divine. He graduated B.A. at Cam- bridge (1800), became rector in London (1820), and was one of the principal promot<Ts of the establishment of King's College, London. He is cliielly remembered as joint author with Richard .Mant of D"C)yly and Mant's Bible, an annotated edition of the Bible published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (1814 and often since). Consult his Mtmoir by his son (London, 1847). DdZSA, dO'zho, (Jeorge (sixteenth centurv). The leader <]f the Peasant War in Hungary (1514). At the head of a large army (estimated by some at 60.000 men) originally "designed for a crusade against the Turks. DOzsa led a re- Udlion in the course of which many excesses were committed. While his army lay before Temesvflr, which came near falling into' his hands. IX'izsa was taken prisoner. His forces were dispersed and he was put to death by a series of frightful tortures. The rebellion ha-s "furnished the theme of the well-known novel by Eotvils. entitled Miifrijar- orsziiji l.jl'i hen (1847) : ticrman translation by Dux tinder the title, Oer Hnuernkrieq in Vnqarn (1,S.50). DOZY, do'ze'. Reinii.rt (1820-83). A noted Orientalist, descended from a French family set- tled in Holland, and born at l^ydcn. He pursued a course of study at the Iniversity of Leyden.and obtained the doctor's degree in 1844. Intil ls.50 he was at work ])re|)aring a catalogue of the Oriental manuscripts in the library. In the lat- ter year he was made assistant professor, and in 1857 full professor of history. His first impor- tant work was published in Amsterdam (1S45), under the title Dictionnnire detaillc des iiom* des relements chez Ic.i Arahes. In 1846 appeared the f!criplonim Arabnm loci de Ahhadidix and the Commcniaire historique stir le poime d'Jbn .4 6- doitn par Ilin liadroiin. .Among his other works are: Iiistory of the Almohades (1847: 2d ed. 1881): llistoire dc VAfriquc et de I'Espatjne (1848: supplement, 1883) : h'eeherches siir rhis- toire et lu littdrature de I'Espagne pendant le moyen age (1849: .3d ed. 1881): Al Maklcari, Analeetcs siir Vhisloire et la littdrature des Arahes d'Hspngne (1855-61); Histoire des M iis- siilnians d'Kspagne jitsqii'd la conqufte dc I'An- dalousic par Ics Alnioraridcs ( 1861 ) : Het Islam- isme (1863): Dc Isniilictin tc Mekln (1864). His most important contribution to .rabic i)hi- lologj- was his !<upplcmcnt atix Diclionntiires Arahes (2 vols.. 1877-8(1). which is invaluable to all students of Arabic, and is based on an ex- ceedingly extensive study of Arabic authors of all classes. DRA, drii. . ])arlially dried-up river or waili. of southern Slorocco. .Vfrica, the longest watercourse of the country (Map: .Africa, D 2). It rises in numerous head-streams on the south- ern slojH's of the Central .tlas range, and after crossing the oasis of Ed Dra flows southwest, emptying into the -Atlantic jtist south of Cape N'un. It is only, however, by the aid of (he melted snow of the .Atlas summits that its waters are sutliciently increased to he enabled to reach the ocean: in the dry season its cotirse ends a long dis(:in(e from the coast. DRACJE'NA DRA'CO (Lat.. from nk. «^<i. miiva. drakniiia. she-dragon, from Sih'ikuv. dralcOn, dragon K or Dr.acon Tree. .A tree of the order Liliacea>. that produces the resin called dragon's blood. Its thickness is greatly out of pro[iortion