n this pale version of _El Burlador de Sevilla_ the French
romantic school made acquaintance with Don Juan, and hence, no doubt,
the works of Merimee and Dumas already mentioned, Balzac's _Elexir d'une
longue vie_, and Alfred de Musset's _Une Matinee de Don Juan_ and
_Namouna_. The legend has been treated subsequently by Flaubert and
Barbey d'Aurevilly in France, by Landau and Heyse in Germany, and by
Sacher-Masoch in Austria. It has always fascinated composers. Mozart's
_Don Giovanni_ has annihilated the earlier operas of Le Tellier,
Righini, Tritto, Gardi and Gazzaniga; but Gluck's ballet-music still
survives, and Henry Purcell's setting--the oldest of all--has saved some
of Shadwell's insipid lyrics from oblivion.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.--F. de Simone Brouwer, _Don Giovanni nella poesia e
nell' arte musicale_ (Napoli, 1894); A. Farinelli, _Don Giovanni: Note
critiche_ (Torino, 1896); A. Farinelli, _Cuatro palabras sobre Don
Juan y la literatura donjuanesca del porvenir_ in the _Homenaje a
Menendez y Pelayo_ (Madrid, 1899), vol. i. pp. 205-222. (J. F.-K.)

DONKIN, SIR RUFANE SHAW (1773-1841), British soldier, came of a military
family. His father, who died, a full general, in 1821, served with
almost all British commanders from Wolfe to Gage. Rufane Donkin was the
eldest child, and received his first commission at the age of five in
his father's regiment; he joined, at fourteen, with eight years'
seniority as a lieutenant. Becoming a captain in 1793, he was on active
service in the West Indies in 1794, and (as major) in 1796. At the age
of twenty-five he became lieutenant-colonel, and in 1798 led a light
battalion with distinction in the Ostend expedition. He served with
Cathcart in Denmark in 1807, and two years later was given a brigade in
the army in Portugal, which he led at Oporto and Talavera. He was soon
transferred, as quartermaster-general, to the Mediterranean command, in
which he served from 1810 to 1813, taking part in the Catalonian
expeditions. Sir John Murray's failure at Tarragona did not involve
Donkin, whose advice was proved to be uniformly ignored by the British
commander. In July 1815 Major-General Donkin went out to India, and
distinguished himself as a divisional commander in Hastings' operations
against the Mahrattas (1817-1818), receiving the K.C.B. as his reward.
The death of his young wife seriously affected him, and he went to the
Cape of Good Hope on sick leave. From 1820 to 182