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=Dods, John Bovee.= _N. Y._, 1795-1872. A clergyman of New York city
whose published works include Thirty Sermons; Philosophy of Mesmerism;
Philosophy of Electrical Psychology; Immortality Triumphant; Spirit
Manifestations Examined and Explained.
=Doe, Charles Henry.= _Ms._, 1838-1900. A journalist of Worcester,
Massachusetts. Buffets, a novel.
=Doesticks, Q. K. Philander.= _See Thomson, Mortimer._
=Doggett, David Seth.= _Va._, 1810-1880. A Methodist bishop who lived
at Richmond, Virginia, and published The War and its Close.
=Dolbear, Amos Emerson.= _Ct._, 1837- ----. A professor of physics
and astronomy at Tufts College since 1874. The Art of Projecting;
The Speaking Telephone; Sound and its Phenomena. Matter, Ether, and
Motion. _Le._
=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= _Me._, 1845- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of
Boston. The Citizen and the Neighbour; Jesus and the Men about Him; A
Catechism of Liberal Faith; The American Citizen.
=Dole, Edmund Pearson.= _Me._, 1850- ----. Cousin of C. F. Dole,
_supra_. Assistant attorney-general of the Hawaiian Islands. Talks
About Law. _Hou._
=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= _Ms._, 1852- ----. Brother of C. F. Dole,
_supra_. A littérateur of Boston who, besides publishing translations
from the Russian of Tolstoï and other writers, is the author of A Score
of Famous Composers; The Hawthorn Tree and Other Poems, a collection
of pleasing, unpretentious verse; Not Angels Quite; History of the
Turko-Russian War of 1877-1878; On the Point, a Summer Idyl; Flowers
from Foreign Gardens. One of his most important works is a variorum
edition of the Rubáyát of Omar Khayyám. _Cr. Est. Kt. Mer._
=Donald, Elijah Winchester.= _Ms._, 1848-1904. An Episcopal clergyman
of Boston, rector of Trinity Church from 1892. The Expansion of
Religion. _Hou._
=Donaldson, Frank.= _Md._, 1822-1891. A Baltimore physician, professor
of hygiene in the University of Maryland since 1866. Influence of City
Life and Occupations in Consumption.
=Donaldson, James Lowry.= _Md._, 1814-1885. A colonel and brevet
major-general in the United States army who published Sergeant Atkins,
a tale of the Florida War.
=Donnelly, Eleanor Cecilia.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. Sister of I. Donnelly,
_infra_. A Philadelphia writer of religious verse, the greater part of
which is occupied with Roman Catholic themes. Among her many volumes
are Domus Dei; Out of Sweet Solitude; Hymns of the Sacred Heart;
Children of the Golden Sheaf and Other Poems.
=Donnelly, Ignatius.= _Pa._, 1831-1901. A Minnesota writer who,
besides publishing An Essay on the Sonnets of Shakespeare; Atlantis:
the Antediluvian World; Cæsar’s Column; Ragnarok: the Age of Fire
and Gravel, was the author of The Great Cryptogram. In this work he
claims to have discovered a cipher in the plays of Shakespeare which
sufficiently establishes the fact that they were written by Lord Bacon,
an eccentric exercise of ingenuity that has not been taken seriously by
scholars. _Ap. Har._
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