DOOM 



1842 



DORION 



until Don Quixote falls ill. His belief in knight 

 errantry is shattered, and he dies expressing 

 aversion to books of chivalry. 



From Don Quixote have come many sayings 

 of popular usage, such as "Murder will out" 

 and "A bird in the hand is worth two in the 

 bush." There has been much discussion as to 

 the proper way for Americans to pronounce 

 "Don Quixote." The Spanish pronunciation is 

 usually heard among educated people, although 

 so eminent a man as James Russell Lowell 

 advocated the simplest English pronunciation 

 Don Kunxote just as the letters suggest the 

 sounds. See CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. 



DOOM, DOUM or DUM PALM, a palm of 

 Upper Egypt and Central Africa, remarkable 

 for having a many-branched stem. It grows 

 both in dense forests and singly in desert sands. 

 Each branch of the doom palm ends in a tuft 

 of deeply-lobed fan-shaped leaves. It bears an 

 irregularly-oval fruit about the size of an apple, 

 with a red outer skin covering a thick, spongy 

 and rather sweet substance which tastes like 

 gingerbread; the palm has often been called 

 the gingerbread tree. This pulp furnishes food 

 to the poorer inhabitants of the countries 

 where such trees grow, and an infusion made 

 from it is found cooling and effective in cases 

 of fever. Within each fruit is a horny, semi- 

 transparent seed, which is used as a bead for 

 ornamentation. Ropes are made from the leaf- 

 stalk fibers. See PALM. 



DOR6, dohra', PAUL GUSTAVE (1833-1883), a 

 French painter and sculptor, but preeminently 

 the illustrator of a series of literary master- 

 pieces with which his name will forever be 

 associated. Among them are the Bible, the 

 works of Rabelais, Sue's The Wandering Jew, 

 Dante's Divine Comedy, Lafontaine's Fables, 

 Tennyson's Idylls oj the King, Coleridge's 

 Ancient Manner and Poe's Raven. 



He was born at Strassburg and at an early 

 age gave promise of ability ; in fact, his fame 

 as an illustrator came so early in life and the 

 demand for his art was so great 'that he was 

 given but little opportunity for technical train- 

 ing and study. He himself admitted that be- 

 tween 1850 and 1870 he earned 280,000, or 

 $1,400,000, by his pencil. For many years there 

 was a Dore gallery in London, filled with his 

 works, which were more popular there than in 

 France. Among the paintings there were the 

 enormous canvases of Christ Leaving the Prae- 

 torium and Christ's Entry into Jerusalem. 



However, be is seen at his best in his book 

 illustrations, interesting especially because of 



the imaginative power and dramatic sentiment 

 he was able to weave into them. Subjects of 

 a weirdly-humorous character appealed to him 

 most strongly. Dore's popularity extended 

 throughout the United States and Canada, as 

 well as Europe. In addition to his illustrations 

 he did a number of historical paintings in oil 

 and water colors, and had considerable success 

 as a sculptor. 



DORIANS, do'rianz, the most conservative 

 and practical of the four great branches of the 

 ancient Greek race, the others being known as 

 Achaeans, lonians and Aeolians. Long before 

 the period of known history began the Dorians 

 were driven by invaders from their home in 

 Thessaly, on the eastern slopes of the Pindus 

 range, and, moving southward through Central 

 Greece, settled finally in the Peloponnesus. 

 Their most important representatives in his- 

 toric times were the Spartans (see SPARTA). 

 According to tradition, the Dorians took their 

 name from Dorus, the son of Hellen, who was 

 the legendary ancestor of the Greek race. 



DO'RION (in French, doreoN'), SIR AN- 

 TOINE AIME (1818-1891), a Canadian jurist and 

 statesman, owe of the political leaders in the 

 period preceding Confederation, the spokesman 

 of the Partie Rouge, or "red party," the radical 

 wing of the French-Canadian Liberals. Later 

 in life he served with distinction for many 

 years as chief justice of the province of Quebec. 

 Dorion was born in the parish of Saint Anne 

 de la Perade, in Champlain County, Quebec, 

 attended Nicolet College, studied law at Mont- 

 real and was called to the bar in 1842. He 

 entered public life in 1854 as a member of the 

 Canadian assembly, in which he sat, except for 

 one interval of several months, until Confed- 

 eration in 1867. Dorion soon became a leader 

 of the reformers who sought to secure repre- 

 sentation by population, or "rep. by pop.," as 

 it was called. In 1856 he suggested a federal 

 union of Upper and Lower Canada, but did 

 not continue to advocate this plan. 



On August 2, 1858, he accepted the position 

 of. commissioner of Crown lands for Lower 

 Canada in the government headed by George 

 Brown, known generally as the Brown-Dorioa 

 Ministry. After holding office for only four 

 days the Ministry resigned, after the assembly 

 had voted a lack of confidence. This was the 

 shortest Ministry in Canadian history. Dorion 

 continued to sit in the assembly, and between 

 1862 and 1867 was in turn commissioner of 

 Crown lands, provincial secretary and attorney- 

 general for Lower Canada. At the first general 



