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DAVDSS— DAVIS.

Aqninas is in the highest fayonr. Shortly afterwards Mr. Davidson produced a work in English, en- titled, " The Philosophical System of Antonio Eosmini-Serbati/* which, the author maintains, lays bare the " grrounds of reasonable belief." Eant, Hegel, and Comte are de- clared to be the inferiors by many degrees of the orthodox Christian Priest of the T^ol. Mr. David- son's work excited the greatest interest in philosophical cii^es, es- pecially among Materialists, whose doctrines are combated with ac- knowledged acumen.

DAVIE S, Thb Eev. John Llewelyn, M.A., born at Chiches- ter, Feb. 26, 1826, was educated at Bepton School and Trinity College, Cambridge, beinff elected a fellow of that society m 1850. He was appointed Incumbent of St. Marks, Whitechapel, in 1852, and Bector of Christ Church, St. Marylebone, in 1856. He was appointed, in Feb., 1881, a Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen; and in Oct., 1882, Rural Dean of the deanery of St. Maryle- bone. Mr. Davies has translated (jointly with D. J. Vaughan) "Plato's Republic ;" and pubnshed several volimies of sermons; an edition of Ephesians, Colosslans, and Philemon; contributions to " Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers," and to periodical literature ; also " Theo- logy and Morality, Belief and Prac- tice," 1873, and " The Christian Call- ing," 1875. He was a contributor to Dr. William Smith's " Dictionary of the Bible," and "Dictionary of Christian Biography." For some years he was a member of the London School Board for the Mary- lebone division, and Principal of Queen's College in Harley Street. He is a theologian of the school of the Kev. F. D. Maurice.

DAVIS, Hbnbt William Banks, B.A., waa born at Finchley, Aug. 26, 1833, and educated at home. When a student at the Boyal Aca- demy, in 1854, he obtained two silver medals — one for perspective.

the other for a model in the Life School. He matriculated at Oxford in 1856, but after residing a few terms at the university he resumed his art pursuits, and was elected an associate of the Boyal Academy in Jan., 1873. In 1861 Mr. Davis painted " Bough Pasturage," exhi- bited at the Boyal Ac^emy; in 1866, " The Strayed Herd ; " in 1866, "Spring Ploughing" (engraved); in 1870, "Dewv Eve;" m 1871, "Moonrise," and "The Pnetorium at Neufchatel;" in 1872, "APanic" (engraved), and "Trotting Bull," in bronze, which obtained a medal for sculpture at the Vienna Exhi- bition; in 1873, "A Summer After- noon;" in 1874, "A French Lane," "The End of the Day," and "In Picardy;" in 1876, "Early Sum- mer," "A Spring Morning," "The Bustlinfi^^ Leaves," and " Mares and Foals: Picardy;" in 1877, "After Sundown," " Beconnoitring," " Con- tentment," and " The Approach of Night;" in 1878, "Mid-day Shel- ter," "Afternoon on the Cliffs," I' Evening Light," and "The Low- ing Herd winds slowly o'er the Lea;" in 1879, "Cutting Forage on the French Coast," "A Mid- summer Night," " Wanderers," " Picardy Sheep," and " Cloud and Sunshine;" in 1880, "Family Affection," and " Betuming to the Fold," which was purchased by the president and council of the Boyal Academy under the terms of the Chantrey bequest ; in 1881, " Mother and Son," " Noon," and " The Even- ing Star;" in 1882, "In Boss- shire," "Sea- and Land-Waves," "Broken Weather in the High- lands," and "Showers in June;" in 1883, "Gathering the Flock." " Ben Eay," and " At Kinlochewe." All the above - mentioned pic- tures were exhibited at the Boyal Academy. Mr. Davis was elected a full member of the Academy June 18, 1877.

DAVIS, Jbffbbson, born in Christian County, Kentucky, June 3, 1808. During his childhood his