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 apostle, was journeying in the country near Joppa when Dorcas died. The disciples sent for him to come and comfort them in this great affliction; he went, and prayed, and raised the dead Dorcas to life.

This was the first miracle of raising the dead to life performed by the apostles. A woman was thus distinguished for her "good works." And her name has since been, and will ever continue to be, synonymous with the holiest deeds of woman's charity, till time shall be no more. Every "Dorcas Society" is a monument to the sweet and happy memory of this pious woman, who did her humble alms-deeds more than eighteen hundred years ago. See Acts, chap. ix. verses 36 to 43.

DRUZBACKA, ELIZABETH, in Poland, in 1693, was celebrated as a poetess. She wrote some very beautiful idyls, full of the sweetest descriptions of nature, in which it is said she has excelled Thomson. She died in 1763, aged seventy years.

DUBOIS, DOROTHEA, of Annesley, Earl of Anglesea, by Anne Sympson, married a musician, and endeavoured, by her writings, to reclaim her rights from her father, who had basely denied his marriage with her mother, and disowned her as his child. She wrote the "Divorce," a musical entertainment, and "Theodora," a novel, in which she delineates her own history. She died in Dublin, in 1774.

DUCLOS, MARIE ANNE, actress of great merit, was born at Paris, where she died in 1748, aged seventy-eight. She excelled in the representation of queens and princesses. Her maiden name was Chateauneuf; that of Duclos was assumed; she married, in 1730, Duchemin, an actor, from whom she was divorced three years after.

DUDEVANT, AMANTINE-AURORE-DUPIN. known as George Sand, the most remarkable French woman of our time, was born in the province of Berry, within the first ten years of the present century. A royal descent is claimed for her, through her paternal grandmother, a daughter of Marshal Saxe, well known to be a son of Augustus the Second, King of Poland. Her father, Maurice Dupin, was an officer in the Imperial service. Dying young, he left his daugher to the care of her grand-mother, by whom she was brought up, á la Rousseau. At the age of fourteen she was transferred to the aristocratic convent of the Dames Anglaises, in Paris; the religious reaction which followed the restoration, rendering some modification of Madame Dupin's philosophical system of education necessary. Here the ardent excitable imagination of the young Amantine Aurore exhibited itself in a fervour of devotion so extreme as to call for the interposition of her superior. Young, rich, and an orphan, she suffered herself, at the age of twenty, to be led into one of those marriages—called "suitable" by the French—with a retired Imperial officer; an upright, honest, but very dull man. Utterly unsuited to one another,