DEJEAN. for a time grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor. DEJEAN, PlEKBE FkAX^OIS AlMt -VlGLSTE (17801S-I.J). A French general and entomologist, son of the preceding. He was born at Amiens, and took up the study of medicine, but soon entered Xapoleon's army, with which he went to Spain and to Kussia. In the army he attained the rank of a general of division, and at Waterloo acted as adjutant to the Emperor. Devoting all his leisure to science, Dejean made extensive collec- tions of insects, and contributed much to our knowledge of Coleoptcra (beetles). He is the author of the following works: Iconographie tics colioptcrcs iV Europe (182il-3(i): Especes gi- ncraUs des voleoptcics 1182.5-37) : and Uistoiie naturclle et iconographie des colccfpteres d'Eu- rope. The last-named work is still a standard on the subject of Coleoptera. The works were Avritten by Dejean in conjunction with Boisduval and h&. DE KALB. A city in De Kalb County, 111., .)S miles west of Chicago: on the Chicago and Xorthwestem Railroad (Map: Illinois, D 2). It is the seat of the Xorthem Illinois Normal School. The city contains barbed-wire factories, wire-drawing and woven-wire mills, argricul- tural-implcment works, wagon-works, shoe-fac- tory, glove and mitten factory, etc. The govern- ment is administered by a mayor, biennially elected, and a municipal council. Tlie city owns and operates its water-works. Settled about IS.'iS. De Kalb was incorporated in 1S77. Popu- l.ition, in ISPO. 2579: in 1900, 5904. DE KAIiB, B.RO>-. See Kalb, .Johax>^, Baron do. DE KAY, Chakles (1848 — ). An American author. He was born in Washington, and graduated at Yale University in 1868. He was associated with the Xew York Times as literary and art editor from 1877 to 1892, and two years later was appointed consul-general of the Unit- ed States at Berlin, where he remained until 1897. During his sojourn abroad he established the Berliner Fechtklub, after previously found- ing a similar society (the Fencers' Club) in Xew York (1882). Among the literary and art societies established by him are the Authors' Club (1882), the Xa'tional Sculpture Society (Xew York, 1S92), and the National Arts Club (Xew York. 1899), of which he became the man- aging director. Among his numerous publica- tions arc the following: Hesperus and Other Poems (1880) ; Vision of ytmrod, a dramatic poem (1881); Bird Gods, devoted to ancient European mythology' and religion (189S): Es- fcni/s on Ancient frrland : Lore Poems of Louis Bnmavel (pen-name) (1883): and translations of TIeinrich Heine's Letters and of several works from the French. DEKEN, dH'ken, AG.TnE (174M804). A Dutch poet and novelist, bom at Anistelveen. Many of her works were written in collaboration with her friend Elizabeth Bekker. These joint pro<luetions include the novels: Historic van Snr/t PurnerhnrI (17.82); Historic van Wil- Um Lerend (1875); Brieven von Abraham Blanhaart (1787); and Historic ran Cornelia ^Vildsrhut (1793). Her religious songs show her to have lieen possessed of a tnily pious na- ture, while her descriptive poems are fine char- acterizations of the folk life of Holland. Espe- 79 DE KOVEN. cially noteworthy are the collections entitled Licderen voor den boerenstand (1804) and Lic- dercn voor Kinderen. DEK'KER, Enr-ARD DouwES (1820-87). A Dutch" writer, the author of Mux Havelaur (18G0), the Dutch Vncle Tom's Cabin. He was born in Amsterdam, ilarch 2, 1820. He went in 1838 to the Dutch Indian colonies, and remained eighteen years in Government employ, endeavor- ing to mitigate the evils of native government, and resigning in 185l> because his zeal clashed with Government interest. Then he made his appeal to the public conscience in Max Hiivelaar^ revealing conditions of outrageous and inhiman e.tortion, but getting little sympathy and no redress for the victims. In 18(i() he withdrew to Germany, where he published (in Dutch) a pop- >ilar drama, Vorstenschool {The School for Princes) ; a novel, La Sainte Vierge; and several studies in political and social economy. He is well known by his pseudonym, ilultatuli. The posthumous Geschiedenis van Wouterje Pietersc (1888), incomplete, was followed in 1892 by Let- ters and Vi'orks, edited by his widow. DEKKER, Thomas (c.l570-c.lG41). An English dramatist. He was born in London. His dramatic career began as early as 1597, and before his death he wrote, single-handed or in collaboration, more than forty jdajs. In 1600 were printed two of his best comedies — The Shoe- maker's IJoIidai/ and Old Fortunatus. The lat- ter contains scenes and passages of very great beauty. Dekker had been writing the previous year in conjunction with Ben Jonson, but the two dramatists had now fallen out. In 1601 .Tonson ridiculed DekkeT in The Poetaster. Dek- ker replied with Satiromastix, or the Untrussing of the Humourous Poet (1602). Of the plays, that Dekker wrote after that, the most power- ful is The Honest Whore (two parts, 1st part printed 1604; 2d part, 1630), in the composition of which he was aided by ^liddleton. Other plays in which Dekker bore a hand are: Black Bat email of the Xorth (1598) : The Roaring Girl (1611) ; The Virgin Martyr (1622); and The Witch of Edmonton (first published 1658). He wrought with a realistic aim, describing the middle and lower strata of London life. He also wrote sev- eral noteworthy pamphlets, of which The Gull's Hornbook (1609) is the best extant account of the London gallants. Other pamphlets deal with thieves and vagabonds: another. The Wonderful Year (1603), describes London suffering from the plague. Consult: Dramatic Works, edited by Shepherd (4 vols., London, 1873) : Plugs (select- ed), edited by Rhys (London, 1887) ; and Xon- dramatic Works, edited bv Grosart (5 vols., London. 1884-86). DE KO'VEN", Henry Louis Reginald ( 1850 — ). An American composer of songs and liglit operas, born in Middletown, Conn. 'hcn eleven years old he was taken to Europe, where he re- ceived his education. He was graduated from Saint John's College. Oxford, in 1879. .fter he had been instructed in the usual musical ground- ing branches by Speidel. Lebert. and Pruckner. in Stuttgart, and Ilauff in Frankfort, he took a course in vocalization with Vanuccini in Flor- ence, and * courses in liglit-opera composition with (jenOe. Von Suppf. and Delibes. On his return from Europe in 1882 he took up his resi- dence in Chicago, but subsequently moved to
