-

Cybele (Rhea). Nature-goddess
worshipped with revelry and
licentiousness; feast of, i, 137.
Cyprus, Island of, depopulated in
the Greek revolution, ix, 291.
Cyrus the Great.-(Died 529 B.C.)

Founder of Persian empire, i,
55; ideal king, 56; link be-
tween the old Oriental world and
the Greek civilization, iv, 28;
Persia before his day under
petty kings who owed fealty to
Media, 37; Astyages, his grand-
father, last king of the Medes,
orders Cyrus to be destroyed at
birth; saved by the scruples of
Harpagus, an officer of the court,
39; brought up by a herdsman
until accident discloses his royal

against Media, defeats Astyages
in battle, and becomes monarch
of both Media and Persia (B. C.
the ascendent power
558), 41;
in Asia, 43; his Lydian cam-
paign and conquest of the Turan-
ian nations, 45; defeats Croesus
of Lydia and takes Sardis by as-
sault (B. C. 546), 49; the
Greek colonies of Asia Minor an-
nexed to Persian empire, 50, 51;
diverts the Euphrates and cap-
tures Babylon (538 B. C.), 53;
death, 56; character, 58, 59;
succeeded by his son, Cambyses,
who adds Egypt to Persia, 60;
Persia finally defeated at Mara-
thon, and at Arbela, era of Alex-
ander the Great (1332 B. C.),
61; wars of, represent the pas-
sion of military glory, v, 327.
Czernin, Count Ottokar.- (1875- .)
Austrian diplomat, xv, 323.

D.

Daguerre, Louis J. M.-French
painter and inventor of the
daguerreotype process, xiii, 309.
Dallas, George M.-(1792-1864.)
American statesman and Secre-
tary of the Treasury, xii, 101.
Damascus, Saul's conversion on

way to, ii, 413.
Damietta, Egypt, Capture of, by
crusaders (1218-19), v, 339.
Daniel's exalted piety, il, 88.
"Daniel Deronda,” George Eliot's

novel, vii, 381-384.
Danish invasions of England, viii,
35, 36; their settlements there,
38; further conquests of, 39-42,
45;
invasion under Hasting

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Italian poet, i, 289; theme:
"Rise of Modern Poetry," vi, 23;
preeminence among poets, 26;
birth, family, and student days,
29-31; exile and wanderings, 32,
33; love for Beatrice, 35, 37-41;
his "Vita Nuova," 36; his "Di-
vine Comedy," 1st part, the "In-
ferno," 43; 2nd part, the "Pur-
gatorio," 46; the "Paradiso,"
49-52; character, 53; sickness
and death, 54; vii, 24, 25, 26,
58, 285.

Danton, Georges Jacques.--(1759-
94.) French revolutionist, ix,

57-59.
Danubian

Principalities won by
Russia in war with Turkey
(1828), the Czar, by treaty of
Adrianople, obtains protectorate
over them, ix, 322.
Darius. King of Persia, palace of,
xiv, 381.
Dartmouth, Lord.

-

- (1731-1801.)
English Secretary of State for
the Colonies, xi, 83.
Dartmouth College, Webster's alma
mater, xii, 151; legal case of,
151, 351.
Darwin, Charles, Robert.-(1809-

1882.) English naturalist, "his
place in Modern science," xiv,
157; birth and school-days, 157-
160; voyage on the "Beagle,"
161, acquaintance with Wallace,
Lyell, and Hooker, 162, 163; his
"Origin of Species," 163, 164;
"Variation of Animals and
Plants under Domestication,"
164; "Descent of Man," 165;
"Expression of Emotion in Man
and Animals," 166; "Fertiliza-

tion of Orchids," "Effects of
Cross and Self-Fertilization,"
and "Formation of Vegetable
Mould through Action of
Worms," 166; sickness, death,
and honors, 167; mental char-
acteristics, 168, 169; religious
views, 170, 171; account of his
writings, 172, 193; general ac-
ceptance of his evolutionary
theories, 193, 194.
Darwinian hypothesis, xiv, 157.
D'Aubigné, Mlle. See Maintenon,

Mme.
Daun, Count.-(1705-66.) Austrian
field-marshal, viii, 382.
David.-King of Scotland, vii, 70.
David, King. - ·(1055-1015 B. C.)
Anointed by Samuel, ii, 158,
174; kills Goliath, 159; warrior
king, 169; characteristics of,
170; birth and family, 171;
identified with Saul's fading
glories, 172; fights Philistines,
172, 173; accession as King
(1051 B. C.?), 173; ode on death
of Saul and Jonathan, 173, fas-
cinating exploits, 172; noble
lyrics of, 174; dislike of Joab,
175; transfers capital from
Hebron to Jerusalem, 176; re-
moves sacred ark, 177; an
Oriental monarch, 178, 179; his
pomp, 179; alienated from his
wife, daughter of Saul, 178;
polygamy of, 180, 182; war with
Moabites, 181; with Ammonites,
181; extends his empire, 181;
war with Edomites, 182; guilty
of murder and adultery, 183; re-
pentance, 183; takes Bathsheba
to wife, 184; backslidings, 185;
numbers the people and its pun-
ishment, 186; trials and misfor-
tunes, in spite of penitence, 187;
rebellion of Absalom, 187; driv-
en from his capital, 187; sue-

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ceeded by Solomon, 189; treas-
ure collected for building Tem-
ple, 190, 191; wealth of his
kingdom, 190, 191; final years,
192, personal character and ser-
vices, 192-195; his psalmody and
lyric poetry, 196, 197; death,
191; vii, 28, 70, 76.

Da Vinci, Leonardo.-Italian paint-
er (1452-1519), vi, 194, 195,
212.

Davis, David.-(1815-86.) Amer-
ican jurist and statesman, xii,
311.
Davis, Jefferson.

(1808-89), of
Mississippi. American states-
man and Confederate president,
X, 347; elected president of
Southern Confederacy, xii, 252,
276; fall of Richmond and flight
of Davis, 312, 327, 328.
Davy, Sir Humphry.-(1778-1829.)
ix, 272; Faraday attends his
lectures, xiv, 397, 398.
Dawson, Dr. Samuel E., of Ottawa,
Can., his annotated edition of
Tennyson's "The Princess," xiii,
458-460.

Deane, Silas.-(1737-89.)

Ameri.

can statesman and diplomat, xi,
87, 89, 90, 92, 239.

Deans, Jeannie, Sir Walter Scott's
creation, vii, 867.

adopted, 122, 131, 176, 191,
243, 249, 275, 315.

Dedication, Festival of the Tem-
ple, ii, 248.

"Defensio pro Populo Anglicano,"
Milton's, xiii, 318.

Deffand, Mme du, Marquise.-
(1697-1780.) French society
leader and wit, vii, 230, 253,
255, 266. 1

Degeneracy, National (era of
Isaiah), ii, 287.

De Gramont, Count.-(1621-1701.)
French noble and memoir writer,
vii, 148.

De Grasse, Count F. J. P.-(1723-
88.) French admiral whose fleet
coöperated with Washington's
forces in the investment and sur-
render of Yorktown, xi, 149, 150.
Deities, minor, of the Greeks, i,

119.

Deity, exalted ideas of the; did
ancient priests and sages teach
these? i, 28.

Delagoa Bay, Africa, xiv, 346.
Delamater, C. H. Builder with
Ericsson of the "Destroyer," xiv,
225.

De la Salière, Duchess of, vii, 148.
Delaware river, xi, 125, 126, 128-
130, 133, 142.

Delegates, Virginia House of, xi,
278.

Delilah, mistress of Samson, vii,
44.

Delphi, Temple at, iii, 131, 132.
"Delphine," of Mme. de Staël, vil,
276, 277, 285, 368.

Delphos (Delphi), seat of the ora
cle of Apollo, i, 112.

Deluge, The, Babylonian account

of, found in Layard's excavated
tablets, xiv, 375.

Demagogues, aristocratic, of Rome,
iv, 72; fear of Cæsar, 77.

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De Médici, Catherine.-Queen of
France (1560-63), her intellec-
tual radiance, vii, 27, 149.
Demeter (Ceres.) "Earth-mother,"
goddess of agriculture, i, 118,
120.

"Demeter and Other Poems," Ten-

nyson's, xiii, 472.

Democracies, in cities, where ex-
treme, usually governed by dema-
gogues, xi, 194;
triumphs of,
how they affected John Adams,
250.

Democratic-Republican societies, xi,

164.

Democrats and their leaders, xi,

248, 249; party of, 293, 294,
310; Democratic Party in U. S.
politics, xii, 195.
Democritus. - -(460-357 B. C.)
Greek philosopher; speculation
about atoms, i, 250-260; philoso-
phy, ii, 127.

De Morgan.-French Assyriologist,
his excavations in mounds of
Elam, xiv, 382.
Demosthenes. (3 8 5-8 22 B. C.)
Greek orator. His Philippics,
etc., i, 363-365; xi, 211.
Denis, St.-Patron saint of France
(died, 272 A. D.), vii, 44, 48.
Derby, Lord.-(1799-1869.) Eng-

lish statesman, and premier, x,
336, 340; retirement, 354.
De Sarzec, Gustave.-French As-
syriologist and explorer, brings
statues of Chaldean Kings to the
Louvre, Paris, xiv, 375, 381, 388.
Descartes, René.-(1 59 6-1 6 5 0.)
French philosopher, i, 262, 314;
vii, 169.

"Descent of Man," Darwin's, xiv,

158, 165, 166, 172, 185.
Deschanel, Paul. (1856-.)
French statesman and author,
defeats Clemenceau, xv, 293.

her

De Sévigné, Duchess.-(1626-96.)
French epistolary writer;
wit and raillery, vii, 148.
D'Estaing, Charles H., Count.-
(1729-94.) French commander.
At Newport, xi, 140, 141, 150.
Destiny, American, Stephen A.
Douglas a great believer in, xii,
259.

"Destroyer," The, Eriesson's con-
struction of, xiv, 225-227, 235.
"Deucalion," Ruskin's, xiv, 100.
De Valera, Eamon. (1889- .)
Irish Republican leader, success
of work in America, xv, 47.
De Vega, Lope.-Spanish poet and
dramatist, vii, 118.

Dewey, Admiral George. (1837-
1917.) Admiral, United States
Navy, xv, 391; trouble with Ad-
miral Diedrichs, 221; family
history, 391; main inspiration
of boyhood, 391; marriage, 391,
392; appointed to U. S. Naval
Academy, 392; takes active part
in Civil War, 392, 393; com.
mands Asiatic Squadron, 393;
at Battle of Manila Bay, 393-
402; serves as president of Gen-
eral Board, 402; personality,
402, 403.

Diana, Temple of, at Ephesus, iii,
101, 102.

Dickens, Charles. (1812-70.)
English novelist, vii, 347-349,
367, 381, 386.

Dickinson, John.-(1 7 3 2-1 8 0 8.)
American statesman, xi, 100,
155, 191, 236.

Diderot, Denis.-(1713-84.) French
philosopher and writer, vii, 388.
Dieulafoy, M. and Mme. Their ex

cavations of palaces of ancient
Persian Kings, xiv, 381.
Diocletian.-(245-313 A. D.) Em.

peror of Rome; persecution of

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419.
"Discourses"

of Epictetus. See

Epictetus.
Dismal Swamp, Washington's ex-
ploration and drainage of, xi,
112.

Disraeli, Benjamin.-See Beacons-
field, Lord.

Distribution, Arguments from, H.
Spencer's, xiv, 130.

"Divine Comedy," The, Dante's, vi,

27, 41, 43-46, 48-51; vii, 284;
xiii, 338, 340, 346, 347, 350.
Divinities, Greek, creations of the
fancy, i, 109; Roman (the
Olympic gods), 137.
Divinity in chiselled stone, i, 125.
Dix, Dorothea Lynde. (1802-
1887.) Superintendent of
Nurses in Civil War, xvi, 169.
Dix, Morgan.-(1827- .) Amer-

Dominican and Franciscan friars,
scholastic doctors of the 13th
cent., v, 227, 230, 231; orders
of, instituted by Innocent III,
v, 396; vi, 301.

Domremy, on the Meuse, France,
birthplace of Joan of Arc, vil,
71, 72.
Donatists

provoke controversial
genius of St. Augustine, iv, 299,
301.
Donelson, Fort, xii, 297, 299, 303.
"Don Quixote," Cervantes's Span-
ish romance, vii, 118.

"Dora," Tennyson's idyll of, xiii,

Doubleday, Abner. (1819-93.)
American general, xii, 386.
Douglas, Stephen A. (1813-61.)
American Democratic politician,
xi, 295; Lincoln an avowed an-
tagonist of, xii, 264-266; Vote
for, in the contest with Lincoln
for the U. S. presidency, 272.
Draco. (Circa last half of 7th
Athenian legisla
severity of his laws, iii,

cent. B. C.)

tor;

28.

Dragaschan, Ypsilanti, the Russian
general who aided the Greeks
against the Turks (1820), de-
feated at, ix, 293.

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