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Rh He has published a " Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans " (1864); "An Exposition of the Epistles to the Galatians and Colossians " (1865) ; " Lecture on the Pantheistic Idea of an Impersonal-Sub- stance Deity" (1865); " Essay on Christian Art" (1853); "Lect- ures on the Two Es- tates : that of the Wedded in the Lord, and that of the Sin- gle for the Kingdom of Heaven's Sake " (1872) ; " Memoirs of John Adams Dix " (New York, 1888); quarto edition of same (printed pri- vately, 1883) ; " The Gospel and Philoso- phy, Six Lectures " (1886); and two vol- umes of Sermons (1878,1886). He has also issued several manuals of devotion, and occasional sermons. — Another son, Charles Temple, artist, b. in Albany, 25 Feb., 1888 ; d. in Rome, Italy, 11 March, 1878. studied at Union, and early turned his attention to art. He had made good progress in his studies when, at the beginning of the civil war, he was chosen aide-de-camp on the staff of his father, and won credit from his faithful per- formance of duty. On the return of peace he de- voted himself anew to his profession, and soon established a name among the most promising of our marine painters. His " Sunset in Capri " is a spirited study of sea and shore.

DIX, John Homer, author, b. about 1810 ; d. in 1884. Pie was graduated at Harvard in 1838, and as M. D. at Jefferson medical college, Phila- delphia, in 1886, and settled in Boston, where he was highly successful as an aurist and oculist. He was a member of the American ophthalmic society, the American otologieal society, the Mas- sachusetts medical benevolent society, and the Bos- ton society of natural history. In 1856-'7 he built the Hotel Pelham in Boston, the first family hotel erected on this continent. He was the author of " Changes of the Blood," translated from the French of M. Tibert for Dunglison's medical li- brary (Philadelphia) ; " Treatise on Strabismus " (Boston, 1841) ; " Essay on Morbid Sensibility of the Retina." Boylston prize essay (Boston, 1849) ; and " The Ophthalmoscope and its Uses " (1856).

DIXEY, Henry Edward, b. in Boston, Mass., 6 Jan.. 1859. In 1868 he attached himself to the variety stock at the Howard Athenaeum in his na- tive city, and made his first success as Peanuts in " Under the Gaslight." In 1875 he played the Heifer in " Evangeline," at the Globe theatre. Other roles in which he has been seen are : Dr. Syntax in " Cinderella at School," Lorenzo in " The Mascot," Sir Mincing Lane in " Billee Tay- lor," Bunthorne in " Patience," Sir Joseph Porter in " Pinafore," Peter Papyms in " The New Evan- geline," Boss Knivett in " The Romany Rye," the Chancellor in " lolanthe," William Crank in " Pounce & Co.," John Wellington Wells in " The Sorcerer," Brabazon Sykes in" " The Merry Duch- ess," Carrickfergus in '"' The Duke's Motto," Frip- paponne in "Lieut. Helene," Henry Nervine in " Distinguished Foreigners," and Christopher Bliz- zard in " Confusion." In one or another of these parts he has been seen in all the large cities of the United States. In 1883 he began an engagement at the Bijou theatre. New York, in the burlesque of " Adonis," and acted it till the summer of 1885, when he appeared in the same piece in London, England, with considerable success. In September of the same year he returned to America, and re- appeared at the Fifth avenue theatre. New York.

DIXON, Alexander, Canadian clergyman, b. in Longford, Ireland, about 1820. He emigrated to Canada with his parents, and settled in Toronto (then Little York). He was graduated with dis- tinction at King's college, Toronto, and, after pass- ing through a divinity course, was ordained a dea- con in Hamilton. After serving for a few months as curate to the Rev. Dr. Atkinson, in St. Catha- rines, in 1850 he was appointed rector of Louth and Port Dalhousie, where he remained until appointed rector of Guelph, in 1875. While in Guelph he was for a time joint editor with the Rev. J. G. D. McKenzie of " The Church," was for several years special correspondent of " The London Guar- dian," likewise of a New York paper, and also wrote reviews for a Toronto daily. In 1888 he was appointed archdeacon of Guelph.

DIXON, Archibald, senator, b. in Caswell county, N. C, 2 April, 1802 ; d. in Henderson, Ky., 28 April, 1876. His grandfather, Col. Henry, received a wound at the battle of Eutaw which caused his death ; and Wynn, his father, served gallantly through the Revolutionary war. In 1805 he removed with his father to Henderson county, Ky., where he received a common-school education, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1824, and attained high rank as a criminal lawyer. He was a member of the legislature in 1880 and 1841, of the state senate in 1836, and lieutenant-governor in 1843-'7. In 1848 he was the choice of a majority of the Kentucky Whigs for governor ; but on the nomination of John J. Crittenden by a section of them he withdrew from the candidacy, in order to heal dissensions m the party. When a candidate for governor he defended the American protective policy, and made that the principal subject of his discussions. In 1849, when the proposition for gradual emancipation of the slaves was before the people, he vehemently opposed the scheme, and, being chosen a member of the Constitutional convention, proposed a resolution, which was substantially incorporated in the new constitution, declaring that whereas the right of the citizen to be secure in his person and property lies at the bottom of all governments, and slaves, and children hereafter born of slave mothers, are property, therefore the convention has not the power nor the right to deprive the citizen of his property except for the public good, and only then by making to him a just compensation. He was the Whig candidate for governor in 1851, but the Whigs who were emancipationists withdrew their support on account of his views on the slavery question, and put in nomination Cassius M. Clay, which resulted in the election of a Democrat. He had endeavored to unite the party by declining the nomination ; but his friends in the convention insisted upon his taking it. His canvass was contemporaneous with the agitation for the dissolution of the Union, and he eloquently seconded before the people the appeals for its preservation uttered in Washington by Clay and Webster. He and Mr. Crittenden were rival candidates before the legislature for the next seat that fell vacant in the U. S. senate: but both withdrew for the sake of harmony. When Henry Clay died, shortly afterward. Mr. Dixon's friends elected him for the unexpired term. He