DORTMUND (89), a town in Westphalia; a great mineral and railway centre, with large iron and steel forges, and a number of breweries.

DORY, JOHN, the hero of an old ballad.

DO-THE-BOYS’-HALL, a scholastic establishment in “Nicholas
Nickleby.”

DOUAY (31), a town on the Scarpe, in the dep. of Nord, France, 20 m.  S. of Lille, and one of the chief military towns of the country; has a college founded in 1568 for the education of Catholic priests intended for England, and is where a version of the Bible in English for the use of Catholics was issued.

DOUBS, a tributary of the Saone, which it falls into below Dole; gives name to the dep. (303), which it traverses.

DOUBTING CASTLE, a castle belonging to Giant Despair in the “Pilgrim’s Progress,” which only one key could open, the key Promise.

DOUCE, FRANCIS, a learned antiquary, born in London; for a time keeper of MSS. in the British Museum; author of “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” and an illustrated volume, “The Dance of Death”; left in the Museum a chest of books and MSS. not to be opened till 1900; was a man of independent means, and a devoted archaeologist (1757-1834).

DOUGLAS (19), the largest town and capital as well as chief port of the Isle of Man, 74 m. from Liverpool; much frequented as a bathing-place; contains an old residence of the Dukes of Atholl, entitled Castle Mona, now a hotel.  See MAN, ISLE OF.

DOUGLAS, the name of an old Scotch family, believed to be of Celtic origin, and that played a conspicuous part at one time in the internal and external struggles of the country; they figure in Scottish history in two branches, the elder called the Black and the later the Red Douglases or the Angus branch, now represented by the houses of Hamilton and Home.  The eldest of the Douglases, William, was a kinsman of the house of Murray, and appears to have lived about the end of the 12th century.  One of the most illustrious of the family was the Good Sir James, distinguished specially as the “Black” Douglas, the pink of knighthood and the associate of Bruce, who carried the Bruce’s heart in a casket to bury it in Palestine, but died fighting in Spain, 1330.

DOUGLAS, GAWIN or GAVIN, a Scottish poet and bishop of Dunkeld, third son of Archibald, Earl of Angus, surnamed “Bell-the-Cat”; political troubles obliged him to leave the country and take refuge at the Court of Henry VII., where he was held in high regard; died here of the plague, and was buried by his own wish in the Savoy; besides Ovid’s “Art of Love,” now lost, he translated (1512-1513) the “AEneid” of Virgil into English verse, to each book of which he prefixed a prologue, in certain of which there are descriptions that evince a poet’s love of nature combined with his love as a Scotchman for the scenery of his native land; besides this translation, which is his chief work, he indited two allegorical poems, entitled the “Palace of Honour,” addressed to James IV., and “King Hart” (1474-1522).