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* DO RAN. 396 DORCHESTER. Servaiils. a history of the stage from Betterton to Kean (new ed. by Lowe, 18871: in ISU.s, Saints and Sinners; and in 1873, his most inter- esting work, an aecount of Mrs. Elizabeth Mon- tague and the "blue-stockings' of her day. under the title of .1 Latly of the Last Cenliiri/. In 1S7G appeared Manti and Manners, based un the letters of Sir Horace Mann to Horace Walpole, followed by London in Jacobite Times ( 1877 ), and Memories of Our (Ireat Towns (1878). After his dentil was published In and Atmut Drury Lane. Doran was closely connected with tha Athenwum. and at the time of his death was editor of Stilis and Queries. DORANTE, dA'rUNt'. ( 1 ) The character in Comeillc's Lc incnteur (The Liar), after whose favorite vice the play is named, and wlio in the tSuite du menteur has reformed. (2) A gallant in Moli&re's Critique dc I'eeolc des femmcs, who defends L'ecole des femmes and its author. (3) A count, the suitor of the Marquise Dorim&ne, in Jlolif're's I.c bourgeois rinitHhonime. DORAS'TTJS and FAW'NIA. The chief characters in Robert Greene's romance, I'andosto (1588), and originally the sub-title, in later editions the main title, of the romance. DORAT, do'ril', Claude Joseph (17.34-80). A French poet, born in Paris. He was at first an advocate, then a mmisquetairc. and finally gave himself up to authorship. His works incUidc al- most every form of verse and prose, plays, fabler, madrigals, romances, and letters. The i)lays are decidedly mediocre. He celebrated the 'little nothings' of his da.v in elegant but .stilted and affected verse, and may be summed up as a bou- doir poet. His best-known romance is IjCs saeri- (ices de I'amour, a series of letters between the Vicomtesse Senanges and the Chevalier de Ver- senay. DORAT, .Jean. See Daubat, Jean. DO'RAX. A Portuguese renegade, formerly Don Alonzo de Sylvera. Governor of Alcazar, in Dryden's tragedy Don Sebastian ; considered the chef d'tpuvre of Dryden's tragic characters. DOR'CAS (Lat., gazelle, Gk. SopKdc, dorkas, from (^ipKxrHai, derkesthai, to look. Skt. dari, to see) GAZELLE. One of the commonest gazelles (GazcUa dorciis) of the hilly parts of the central Sahara desert, where in winter it gathers into large herds. Tt also occurs in Syria. It is about two feet high and fawn-colored, with the rump, abdomen, inside of the legs, and ears white; con- spicuous white streaks encircle the eyes and curve down to the nostrils. Both sexes bear rela- tively long and slender horns. It is locally called by the Sahara .rabs 'rhezal' and 'hemar.' .'see Gazei.i.e: nnd Plate of Gazelles. DOR'CHESTER. A port of entry, the capital of i-tiiinrelanil County. New Brunswick. Can- ada (Map: Xew Brunswick, E 4). It is situ- ated on .'shepody Bay, at the junction of the Memramcook with the Petitcodiac, and has a station on the Intercolonial Hailway. 11:') miles northeast of Saint .lolin. It has ship-buililing in- dustries and a considerable export trade of building-stone from neighboring qu;irries and of pas-coal. The penitentiary of the Maritime Provinces is a prominent structure on a hill overlooking the town. Estimated population of township in 1002. "000. DORCHESTER. A nnuiicipal borough and the lajiiliil of Dorsetshire, England, on the Erome, about eight miles north of Weymouth (Map: England. D 0). The town is clean and well built, and almost surrounded by avenues of beautiful trivs. The Churcli of .Suiiit Peter con- tains some curious monuments, .mong tlje oilier notable buildings are the guildhall, county Imild- iiig, corn exchange, county prison, and barracks. The county museum contains an excellent collec- tion of antiquities. The town owns its water- supply, markets, and the corn exchange. Us chief industry is the brewing of ale and beer, and the production of butler for the London market. Its markets for cattle and cereals are important. Population, in 18!tl. 8000: in IIIOI. 1"500. Near Dordie^tcr arc the remains of th.' most perfect Itonian am|)hitheatre in Eii;L:land. Its dimensions are 218 by lti3 feet, and 3(1 feet deep. The seats, rising from the arena cut in the chalk, are capable of holding 13,000 specta- tors. Poundsbury and Maiden Castle are two intrenched camps, the first perhaps of Roman origin, the second of British. Dorchester. Brit- ish in origin, was the Roman Duniovaria. or Durinum, a walled town with a fosM-. During the Civil War it was fiercely Parliamentarian. .t Dorchester, in September, ItiS:), .Judge .Jef- freys, in his "Bloody Assize,' sentenced 2!t2 per- sons to death for participation in llie Monmouth Rebellion. DORCHESTER. Formerly a town in Nor- folk County, Mass., but since 1870 a ward of the city of Boston. Dordicsler was settled in June, 1G30, by a company of Puritans headed by their pastors, Warham and Maverick. The .settle- ment was originally called Mattapan. but later in the year was named after Dorcliester, Eng- land, the home of some of the pmigrant.s and of Rev. .John White, their former pastor. It ante- dates Charlestown and Boston, and was de- scribed in 1033 as 'ye greatest towne in New England.' From it. in 1635, went the company under Roger Ludlow which founded Windsor, Conn.; and also, in 1005. the company wliiili ultimately founded .Midway, Ga. By fortifying Dorchester Heights, on March 5. I77li, Washin;.'- ton forced the English to evacuate Boston. The original town comprised Sharon. Canton, -Mil- ton. Stoufihton, and Foxboroiigh. besides parts of Wreiitham and Dcdham. Dorchester was the birtliplace and early lioiiie of Edward Everett. Consult: Orcutt. (lood Old Doreliestcr, .1 arra- tiie Uistoni of the Town, ItlSOlSOS (Cambridge. 1803) ; and Everett, Doreliestcr in IIJ.W. J77t;. and /A5.), an oration delivered on .July 4, 1855 (Boston. 18.55). DORCHESTER, Daniel (18"27— ). A:Melho- dist Kpi-copal clergyman. He was born in Dux- bury, Mass., and was educated at Wesleyan Cni- versity. Connecticut. For three terms of four years each, he was a presiding elder, and was a member of the Connecticut Stale Senate in 1854. In 1822 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. From 1881 to 1885 he was historiographer of the Xew Enylaiid Methodist Historical Society, and in 1885 was president of the National Lea<.'ue (non-.seetarian) for the Suppression of the Liquor Tralfie, and for some time was Superintendent of Indian Schools for the I'nited States. .Xniontr his pub- lished works are: Concessions of Libcralists to