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is installed in a fine building, and the public library now and he published valuable editions of Polybius, Dion (r. g.) contains about 90,000 volumes. The principal manu- Cassius, and other Greek historians. factures now are farming implements and earthenware. Dindy, Paul - Marie-Theodore-VinDuring the bathing season steamboats ply regularly be- cent (1851 —), French musical composer, was born tween Dinan and St Malo. The old cemetery of the in Paris, 27th March 1851. He studied composition under church of St Sauveur has been converted into a public Cesar Franck, the organ at the Paris Conservatoire, and garden. Population (1881), 7893; (1896), 7828, (comm.) obtained the Grand Prize offered by the city of Paris in 8462; (1901), 10,534. 1885 with Le Chant de la Cloche, a dramatic legend after Dinapur, a town of British India, in the Patna Schiller. His principal works, beside the above, are the district of Bengal, on the right bank of the Ganges, 12 symphonic trilogy Wallenstein, the symphonic works miles west of Patna city by rail. In 1881 it had a entitled Sauge Jleuri, La Foret enchantee, Istar, Sympopulation of 37,893, and in 1891 of 44,419. It is the phonic sur un air montagnard franpais; overture to largest military cantonment in Bengal, with accommodation Anthony and Cleopatra) Ste Marie Magdeleine, a canfor two batteries of artillery, a European and a native tata ; Attendez moi sous V or me, a one-act opera; Fervaal, a musical drama in three acts. Vincent d’lndy is perinfantry regiment. Dindigul, a town of British India, in the Madura haps the most prominent among the disciples of Cesar district of Madras, 880 feet above the sea, 40 miles from Franck. Imbued with very high aims, he has always Madura by rail. In 1881 it had a population of 14,182, been guided by a lofty ideal, and very few musicians have so complete a mastery over the art of instruand in 1891 of 20,115 ; the municipal income in 1897-98 attained mentation. His music, however, lacks simplicity, and was Its. 3 2,070. Dindigulhas risen into importance as the centre of a trade in tobacco and manufacture of cigars, can never become popular in the widest sense. His which are exported to England. There are now two large opera Fervaal, which is styled “ action musicale,” is conEuropean cigar factories here. It has manufactures of silk, structed upon the system of Leit motifs. Its legendary muslin, and blankets, and an export trade in hides and subject recalls both Parsifal and Tristan, and the music cardamoms; and there is a large native Christian popula- is also suggestive of Wagnerian influence. DTndy can tion, with two churches. It also has a municipal high scarcely be considered so typical a representative of modern French music as his juniors Alfred Bruneau, school and two printing-presses. the composer of Le Li eve, UAttaque du Moulin, Messidor, Dindorf, Wilhelm (1802-1883), German or Gustave Charpentier, the author of Louise, who have classical scholar, was born at Leipzig, 2nd January 1802, chosen subjects of modern life for their operatic works. and was the son of the university professor of Oriental He nevertheless occupies a distinguished position as one languages. From his earliest years he showed a strong of the most gifted among the musicians of his country. partiality for classical studies, and after completing Dineir, a small town in Asia Minor, built amidst Invernizzi’s edition of Aristophanes at an early age, and editing several grammarians and rhetoricians, was in 1828 the ruins of Celsense-Apamea, near the sources of the appointed professor of literary history in his native city. Maeander (Mendere), is the terminus of the SmyrnaFinding, however, that the duty of lecturing interfered too Aidin-Dineir Railway. The population numbers 1400. much with his philosophical pursuits, he resigned this office in (See Apamea.) 1833, and devoted himself entirely to Hellenic studies. Dingelstedt, Franz von, Baron (1814His attention was at first chiefly given to Athenseus, 1881), German poet and dramaturgist, was born at Halsdorf, whom he edited in 1827, and to the Greek dramatists, in Hesse Cassel, 30th June 1814. In 1836 he became a all of whom he edited separately and combined in his teacher at the Government school at Cassel, from which, Poetae Scenici Graeci (1830). He also wrote a work having given offence to the authorities, he was transferred on the metres of the dramatic poets, and compiled to Fulda in 1838. Despairing of being reinstated, he special lexicons to iEschylus and Sophocles. He edited resolved to abandon his profession for literature, and in Procopius and other historians for Niebuhr’s great Corpus 1841 obtained an appointment on the staff of the of the Byzantine writers, and between 1846 and 1851 Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. He had previously, in brought out at Oxford a highly important edition of 1839 and 1840 respectively, produced a novel, TJnter der Demosthenes; he also edited Lucian and Josephus for Erde, which obtained considerable success, and a play, the Didot Classics. His last important editorial labour Gespenst der Ehre (“The Phantom of Honour”), which was his Eusebius of Caesarea (1867-71). Much of his proved an utter failure. In 1841 appeared the book by attention was occupied by the great republication of which he is likely to be best remembered, the LAeder eines Stephanus’s Thesaurus (Paris, 1832-65), chiefly executed Tcosmopolitischen Nachtwdchters, a most effective contribuby him and his brother Ludwig, a work of prodigious tion to the political poetry of the day, animated with a labour and utility. His reputation suffered somewhat spirit of bitter opposition to the prevalent despotism and through the imposture practised upon him by the Greek distinguished by great sarcastic power. Extreme, therefore, Constantine Simonides, who succeeded in deceiving him by was the surprise when, in 1844, the satirist of German a fabricated fragment of the Greek historian Uranius. princes accepted the appointment of private librarian to The book was printed, and a few copies had been circu- the King of Wurtemberg, and he was unanimously delated, when the forgery was discovered, just in time to nounced as a renegade. In reality, his political convictions prevent its being given to the world under the auspices of had never been very deep, and his hostile attitude towards the University of Oxford. Dindorf died on 1st August the rulers was chiefly inspired by a spirit of scepticism 1883.—His brother Ludwig (1805-1871) was born at and irony, to which the Liberals were as obnoxious as their Leipzig on 3rd January 1805, and died there on 6th opponents. His marriage in 1843 with the celebrated September 1871. Like Wilhelm, he declined academ- actress Jenny Lutzer probably had much influence on his ical office, and he secluded himself so entirely for study decision. In 1845 he published a volume of poems, some that many doubted his existence, and affirmed that of which, treating of modern life, possessed great literary he was a mere pseudonym. The important share which he rather than strictly poetical merit. A subsequent took in the edition of Stephanus’s Thesaurus is nevertheless collection, published in 1852, attracted little attention. authenticated by his own signature to his contributions, In 1850 a tragedy on the House of Barneveldt obtained S. III. — 59