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* DENNIE. 130 DENS. moiilhlv in 1800. and enjoyod hi'.'li rcputa- timi. Its foiitriliutors incUuli'il Hroikdi'ii Miuwn and .). Q. Adams. IX'miie wrote under tlie pseudonym of Oliver Old School, and was u man of'abilitv, wlio performed some service in keeping the cause of letters alive in America nt a very gloomy period. His Addisonian com- positions" have iong remained unread, but his J'liilfoUii is of considerable value to students of the period, although he himself is remembered chielly on account of his colonial deference to liritish writers. DENTJIS, .T.sMrs Shepherd (184-2—). An .American Presbyterian missionary. lie was born at Newark, N. J., graduated at Princeton College in 18ti3, and Theological Seminary in 1807, and was missionary in Syria from 1808 to 1891, during which time he was principal and professor of theology in the theological seminary in Bevrout (1873-91). He has since resided "in New York City. Besides several theo- logical treatises in Arabic, he has published Forvigu Missions After a Century (New York, 1893) : the very elaborate work, Christian Mis- sions and Hocial Progress (vol. i. 1897, vol. ii. 1899: to be finished in 3 vols.) ; and the equally elaborate Centennial Survey of Foreign Mis- sions (1902). DENNIS, .John (1657-1734). An English (ritic and dramatist. He was born in London, and graduated at Cambridge in 1679. After further studv and foreign travel, he devoted him- self to literature. His nine plays arc now for- gotten, but Libci-^j/- .4.?.9ciffrf (1704) was received with some favor. He was best known, how- ever, as a political and critical pamphleteer and satirist. He made many enemies, and is one of the best-abused men " in English literature. Swift lampooned him, and Pope assailed him in the Essati on Criticism, and finally 'damned him to everlasting fame' in the Dumiml. Of his critical writings, the chief is The Adranrement and lirformation of Modern Poetry (1701). DEN'NISON, William (1815-82). An American jiolitician, best known as the 'War Governor' of Ohio. He was born in Cincinnati, graduated at Miami Tniversity in 1835, and practiced law until 1848, when he was elected to the State Legislature. He was Governor of Ohio from 1800 to 1804, and at one time, in answer to a call for 11.000 troops, raised more than .30,000. From 1804 until his resignation in ISOO. he was Postmaster-General in the Cabinets of Presidents Lincoln and .Johnson. Ue was one of the earliest of the politicians of prominence who joined the Republican Party, and in 1804 was chairman of the Republican National Con- vention. DENON, dc-noN' DoMlxiQfE Vivant, Baron ( 1747-1S25). A French artist and author, born at C'halons-snr-Sailnc. At an early period he devoted himself to the study of line arts in Paris, and became a great favorite in aristocratic society. Louis XV. made him an altachf- to the embassy at St. Petcrsbvirg, and afterwards Am- bassador to Switzerland. Here he repeatedly visited Voltaire at Ferney. and painted his por- trait and the well-known "Dejenner de Ferney." Puring his seven years' sljiy with the French embassy in Naples, he resolved to devote him- wdf to art exclusively, more esp<'iially to en- graving on copper. In conjunction with the AbbC Saint-Xon, he published the Voyage pittoresque de Sa/iles el de Sieile (1788). He returned to France during the Revolution. Having formed the acquaintance of lionapartc. he was chosen by iiim to accompany the expedition to Kgypt, in the capacity of a savant, and was indefatigable in drawing" the relics of ancient Egyptian art. In. 1S02 he published his oyage duns la Basse et la llaulc Egyiite, the engravings attached to which are very correct, and prove Dcnon to have been a skillful" artist. As a member of the Egyp- tian Institution, he had also an imi)ortaiit part in its Description de VEgypte. Napoleon now made him inspector-general of museums, in which capacity he showed great ability. He accom- panied the Emperor on various svibsequent expe- ditions, and suggested to hiiu what art treasures of the conquered cities would be most suitable for the Louvre. After 1815 he was disniisseii from his ollice. The remaining years of his life were occupied in jirejiaring for publication a history of art, to be illustrated by the best artists, but he did not live to finish it. The work, however, was com- pleted by Amaury Duval, and published in 1829, under the title Monuments dts arts du dessiii chez les peuples taut aneiens que modernes. Denon himself executed more than 300 etchings, chielly imitations of the style of Rembrandt. Consult La Fizeli^re, L'ocuvrc originate de } ivant Denon (Paris. 1872-73). DENOTATION (from Lat. dcnotare. to mark out. from de- -f nota, mark). In logic, the totality of objects to which any term with a definite meaning can be applied. Thus, every individual horse, past, present, and to come, is jjart of tlie denotation of the term horse. Deno- tation and connotation (q.v.) are said to vary inversely, because, in general, with the increase of attributes in the connotation, the objects in the denotation are reduced. Thus, horse is in- creased in connotation by adding the word white, but this addition rediices the number of in- dividuals to which the term is applicable by the exclusion of all horses except white ones. Synonyms of denotation are extension, sphere, breadth. See Looio. DENOUEMENT, dA'non'maN' (Fr., knollingl. in liition, a term generally to the termination or catastrophe of a romance: but, more strictly speaking, it desig- nates the train of circumstances solving the plot and hastening the catastrophe. A good denoue- ment in a novel or play should l)e natural, as a result of the preceding plot, and yet should not be so obvious as to be easily aiitieipa(cd. Forced and arbitrary solutions of plot, olt'ending against nature and common sense, are frequently perpetrated for theatrical elTect (coups dc thf- Aire). DENS, Peter (1090-1775). , Roman Catho- lic theologian, born at Boom, in Hclgitim. The scanty information we jiossess about Dens is derived from the epitaph inscribed on his tmnb. From this epitaph it appears that he was reader in theology at Mechlin for twelve years, and president of the College of Mechlin for forty years. He was also canon, penitentiary, synodi- cal examiner, and scholastic arihprie-it of Saint Rombold's — the metropcdilan church of Belgium. The work which has rendered Dens's name famil- iar even to the Protestant public is his Theiilogiit Moralis et Dogmutica (new ed., 8 vols., Dublin. an un- applied play or