DONOSO-CORTES. 392 DOOB. de-ranias ( ISO'.i ,'>.!» . A t^jiaiii^li iUitlior and iliploinat. born at El Valle (Ksticmadura ) . He was I'diuatod for the bar at Salamanca, i-ntcrcd publio lilV, and took the part of Isabella against Don Carlos in the Hevolution of »:i-2. He was sciietarv of the Counuil under Memlizabal. and followed the Queen mother in her tlight to France (1S40). Wlien she returned, he was made secre- tary (1S44), had charpe of the education of the yoiing Queen, and was finally sent as Amba.ssador to Berlin (1848). About this time he astonished his countrymen by proclaiming the absolute su- premacy of the (.'atholic Church in his work, Ensai/o sobrr cl cutolici.imo, <7 libcralismo 1/ el socialismo (1851). He died while Ambassador to Paris, his last ollieial post. His works were pub- lished, with a biography by Tejado (1854-55). DON PASQUAXE, piis-kwii'lft. A comic opera bv Donizetti, ])roduced at Paris. .January 3. 1843. The last of his successful works, preceding the failures of Doiii Sebaxtiaii and Catarina Coniaro, it contains brilliant exaiuples of Italian con- certed music, combined with much humorous de- lineation. It was revived with great success at the StuttL'art Court Theatre in 1808. DON QUIXOTE, don kwIks'At, Span, proii. A(,n kv n.,'t:*i. S,c (■|--rv. tes. DON SALTE'BO'S COFFEE-HOUSE. An eating-house and museum, established by John Salter, a barber, in icn5. in Chei-ne Walk, Chel- sea, London, and demolished in 18C6. It is frequently mentioned by Swift, Steele, and other writers of that jieriod. DON SANCHE D'ARAGON, dox siiNsh dii-ri-gox'. A comedy by Corneille, derived from a Spanish play, El jxtlnrio roiifuso, and produced in 1G50. Don" Carlos, a fisherman, proves, in its di-nouement, to be the heir to the throne of Aragon. DO'NUS, or DOM'NUS ( ?-C78). Pope from 670 to 078. He was a patron of architecture and the arts, and made a rebellious Archbishop of Ravenna acknowledge the claims of Knme. A Domis TI. is sometimes placed on the list of popes for the year 974. This is an error, the word domntis in the expression domiiux pnpa, used as a shorter form of dominus, having been wrongly taken as a proper name. DOO, George TnoM.s (1800-80). An English engraver. He was bom in Surrey, January 6, 1800. His "Duke of York." after Sir Thoinas Lawrence, engraved in 1824, was his first im- portant work. In 1825 he went to Paris and studied under Suisse. Doo was appointed his- torical engraver to A"illiam IV., and also to Queen Victoria. Tn 1850 he was elected a Fel- low of the Roval Society, and in 1857 an Acade- mician. .^mong the best knowTi of his plates are: '-The Infant Christ." after Raphael: '-Ecce Homo." after Correggio: "The Pilgrims in Sight of the Holv Citv," after Eastlake: and esiieciiiUy "Knox Preaching," after Wilkie. He died No- vember 13, 1886. D'OOGE, do'Ke, Martin Lctheb (18.30—). An .American classical philologist, born at Zonne- narie, Xelherlands, He received the degrees of A.B., University of Miohigiin (1802): Ph.D.. Leipzig (187.3)": LL.D., University of Michigan (1889), and became professor of Greek in the University of Michigan in 1873. He was the edi- tor of Demosthenes, Dc Corona (Chicago, 1883) ; Sophocles, .iitigonc (Boston, 1885): etc. DOOTiEY, Mr. See Di'.n.nk, Kimjcv Peter. DOOXITTLE, Cii.RLES C.mi' (1H32-1003). An .American soldier, born at Burlington, Vt. In 1802. he was appointed colonel of the Eighteenth Michigan A'olunteers, and subsequently .served in the Peninsular campaign. He was in Ken- tucky in 1802-03, and Tennessee in 1803-04. was "in command of Decatur, Ala., during tlie first day of the defense against Gen. J. B. Hood, led a brigade at Xashville. and in 1805 was placed in command of that city. Kor a time he was in 1805 commander of the northeastern dis- trict of Louisiana. In that yenr he was bre- vetted major-general. DOOH or DUM PALM (Ar. daum, dwarf palm, from AIhki. to iciiiaini, lliiphirnc thcbaica. A species of palm, with Ian shaped leaves, re- markable for the repeated forkings of its stem, branching being unusual among palms. It is a native of Arabia, upper Eg>'pt, and the cen- tral parts of Africa. In some districts it is the most plentiful tree, sometimes forming forests: it also grows in the bare sands of the desert. Ropes are made of the fibre of its leafstalks. Its fruit is about the size of an orange, but of a somewhat elongated, irregular shape. When I lu- red outer skin is jieeled off, a considerable thick- ness of a spong>' dry substance is found within it, which has an insipid sweetness and a re- markable resemblance to gingerbread, so that the tree is sometimes called the gingerbread- tree. This substance is used as an article of food, and an infusion of it as a beverage is cooling, gently aperient, and very salutary in fevers. The endosperm of the seed is hanl and semi-transparent, and is turned into beads and other little ornaments. Each fruit contains one seed. DOOMSDAY BOOK. See Domesday Book. DOOMSTER. See Deemster. DOON, dnnn. A river of Scotland, rising in the southeast of .Tshire. in Loch Enoch, and flowing northwest through Loch Doon. past Drtliiiclling- ton, Burns's monument, and .lloway Kirk, to the Firth of Clyde, two miles south of Ayr (Map: Scotland. D 4)". It is 30 miles long. On leaving Loch Doon. the river flows through Glen Xess, a picturesque rocky and wooded ravine. On an islet in the loch are the ruins of Doon Castle. Bums has immortalized the Doon in song. DOOB (AS. dor, Goth, daur, OIIG. lor. Ger. Thor; connected with Lat, foris. Ck.Sipa. tlii/ra, Ir.. <;;icl. dortif!. OChurch Slav, drlri. Lith. diirix. Lett, dtinris, Av. drara, Skt. driir. door). The movable panel by which the opening to a build- ing, an apartment, closet, or passage is dosed. Doors are made of wood, iron, bronze, or stone. The earliest doors appear to have swung, not on hinges, but in sockets: at least, some ex- tremely earlv marble sockets have l)een found in Babvlonia. from the fourth and fifth milcnniums B.C.," several at Sirpurla (Tcllo). What the style of the beautiful palace and (emple doors of Babylonia and .ssyria was can lie judged not only from the descriptions in the historii- insirin- (ions, but from the doors themselves, found at BalawiK. which were decorated with bronze strips covered with reliefs of figured historic scenes. Other doors were inlaid with bone or ivory and
