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* SANELAGA. 773 DANIEL. the livers Thames, Lea, and Ouse. and by Uie aneient Roman road of Watling Street. Within this region the laws and customs of the Danes were distinctly recognized and were later enu- merated l)v Canute. The term Danelaw is used in contradistinction to Mercian and West Saxon law. until after the reign of Stephen (1135-54). DAN'ENHOWEB, John Wilson (1849-87). An American .rctic explorer, horn in Chicago. He graduated at the United States Naval Acad emy in 1870, served for a time in the line and oe the coast survey, and in 1878 joined the Jcan- nette expedition for polar research, command-ed by Lieutenant De Long. V. S. N. The ship was crushed in the ice, .Tunc. 1881, in latitude 77°, longitude 157° E. Traveling by sleds, the crew reached Bennett's Island. .July 27, whence they embarked in three whaleboats for the Siberian coast. The one containing Lieutenant Danen- hower and ten others, in conunand of Chief En- gineer G. W. Melville, arrived at the Lena delbi in September. Danenhower reached New York in .June. 1882. and was compelled by an affec- tion of the eyes to desist from further explora- tions. He published 'Narrative of the Jcannettc (1882). DANES ISLAND. A small island off the northwestern coast of Spitzbergen (Map: Arc- tic Region, G 4). Andree started from here for the North Pole, July 11, 1897. DANE WORT. See Elder.. DAN'FORTH, Mo.sELEY Is,v.o (1 800-02). An American engraver. Iinrn in Hartford. Conn. He ■was one of the foimders of the New" York Draw- ing Association (1825) and of the National Academy of Design (182fi). He lived in London for ten years, during which time he executed .some well-known draings of the Elgin Marbles and many plates, besides engravings of the "Sentry Box." ''Don Quixote." and portraits of Washing- ton Irving and others. On his return to Amer- ica he worked principally upon bank-note en- graving. DANGEATJ, ditN'zho, Philippe de Courcil- LON, Marqui> de (1038-1720). A French his- torian. After commanding the King's regiment he became aide-de-camp to Louis XIV., and in this capacity took part in the principal cam- paigns of the period. In 1(567 he was appointed Governor of Touraine. He was a favorite at Ver- sailles, enjoyed the fullest confidence of the King, and was the patron of Boileau. who ad- dressed to him the well-known satire on the nobility. He was frequently sent on diplomatic missions, and it was he who encouraged the marriage between ilary of Este (^lodena) and James II. of England. The Jntirnal of Dangeau is one of the best historical documents on the reign of Louis XIV. DANGLE. A fatuous virtuoso, the leading character in Sheridan's TTie Critic, said to have been intended for Thomas Vanghan, an inferior playwright. D'ANGOULEME, da^'goo'lam'. See Angou- l£me. DANHAUSER, diin'hou-zer. .To.sepii (1805- 45). An Austrian painter, bom in Vienna. He studied at the Vienna Academy under Peter Krafft. and first appeared as an historical painter with scenes from (he Rudolph rnn flaha- iurg (Vienna. 1824) of .TohannLadislausPyrker. At Pyrker's invitation he went to Venice, where he determined to attempt genre subjects, in which he was very successful. He had abundant humor and fancy, and possessed a manner which, if somewhat glassy in its coloring, is neverthe- less remarkal>lc for its observant and skillful execution. His works include "The Death of Ottokar" (1832): "The Martvnlom of Saint John" (1835), in the Cathedral of Erlau; "Hagar and Ishmael" (1 830), in the Vienna
 * Museum; "The Courmand" (1838); "The

Widow's Mite" (1839), and "Liszt at the Piano" (1840). DANICAN, dii'nfe'kaN'. Francois Andr£;. See l'iiiLH)on. Fr. (.ois Andr^ D.vxicax. DANICIC, dii'mi-chich, Gjiro (1825-82). A Servian plilologist. born in Neusatz. He stud- ied at Pesth and Vienna, and became librarian of the National Library at Belgrade, and after- wards professor of the history of literature in the university there. In 1877, under conunissioii of the Academy of Sciences at Agram, he began the compilation of the Servian-Croatian dic- tionary, of which he finished Imt three parts. His works further include a Servian grammar (1863: 8th ed. 1892) and a history of the Servian and Croatian languages (1874). DAN'IEL (Heb., Ciod is my judge). In the Book of Ezekiel (xiv. 14. 20 and xxviii. 3), a personage introduced with Noah and Job a.s a proverbial type of wisdom and righteousness. It is this traditional Daniel, of whom nothing cer- tain is known, who is made the hero of the Book of Daniel by the author (or authors), otherwise unknown, who lived and wrote in Jerusalem in the days of Antiochus IV. (B.C. 175-164). The author of the book makes Daniel a .lewish cap- tive carried to Babylon in the third j'ear of Jchoiakim (B.C. 005), who through his super- natural wisdom rose to a prominent position at the Court of Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. i.-ii.), and whose career is made to extend into the reign of Cyrus (Dan. x. 1 ). Daniel is referred to also in 1. Mace. ii. 60, and in the New Testament (Mat. xxiv. 15: Mark xiii. 14) : the first pas- sage contains a reference to the story of the lion's den : in the second he is called "Daniel the prophet." See Daniel, Book of. DANIEL, Book oi'. A composition of about the year B.C. 105, written by a Jewish patriot as an exhortation and encouragement to the Jews, who at the time were sorely oppressed and hin- dered in the free exercise of their religion by Antiochus IV.. surnamed Epiphaues. The book, comprising twelve chapters, consists of several distinct parts, and no less than ten detached sec- tions may be distinguished. These sections may be considered as falling into three groups: (1) Introduction, chapters i.-ii., containing two sec- tions; (2) chapters iii.-vi., containing f(nir nar- ratives; (3) chapters vii.-xii., comprising four prophetic visions. The first section relates how Daniel was brought to Babylon by Xebuchadnez- zar in the third year of .Jchoiakim (B.C. 605). With Daniel are three other youths of noble de- scent — Hananiah. Mishael. and Azariah. Baby- lonian names are given to them in place of their Hebrew ones, Daniel being called Belteshazzar, while the other three are called Shadraeh, Me- shairh, and Abednego. They are portrayed as heing in th.c royal service. l>ut also as steadfa.st in their fidelity to their God, declining to par-