d, however, such a scandalous notoriety
for disorder that it was discontinued in 1855, the rights being
purchased for L3000.

DONOSO CORTES, JUAN, Marquis de Valdegamas (1809-1853), Spanish author
and diplomatist, was born at Valle de la Serena (Extremadura) on the 6th
of May 1809, studied law at Seville, and entered politics as an advanced
liberal under the influence of Quintana (q.v.). His views began to
modify after the rising at La Granja, and this tendency towards
conservatism, which became more marked on his appointment as private
secretary to the Queen Regent, finds expression in his _Lecciones de
derecho politico_ (1837). Alarmed by the proceedings of the French
revolutionary party in 1848-1849, Donoso Cortes issued his _Ensayo sobre
el catolicismo, el liberalismo, y el socialismo considerados en sus
principios fundamentales_ (1851), denouncing reason as the enemy of
truth and liberalism as leading to social ruin. He became ambassador at
Paris, and died there on the 3rd of May 1853. The _Ensayo_ has failed to
arrest the movement against which it was directed, and is weakened by
its extravagant paradoxes; but, with all its rhetorical excesses, it
remains the finest specimen of impassioned prose published in Spain
during the 19th century.

Donoso Cortes' works were collected in five volumes at Madrid
(1854-1855) under the editorship of Gavino Tejado.

DONOVAN, EDWARD (1768-1837), English naturalist, was the author of many
popular works on natural history and botany. In 1792 appeared the first
volume of his _Natural History of British Insects_, which extended to
sixteen volumes, and was completed in 1813. He also published _Natural
Histories of British Birds_, in 10 vols. 8vo (1799-1819), _of British
Fishes_, in 5 vols. (1802-1808), _of British Shells_, in 5 vols.
(1800-1804), a series of illustrated works on _The Insects of India,
China, New Holland, &c._, in 3 vols. 4to (1798-1805), and _Excursions in
South Wales and Monmouthshire_ (1805). To these works must be added his
periodical entitled _The Naturalist's Repository_, a monthly
publication, of which three volumes were completed (1823-1825), and an
_Essay on the Minute Parts of Plants in general_. Donovan was author of
the articles on natural history in Rees's _Cyclopaedia_. In 1833 he
published a _Memorial respecting my Publications in Natural History_, in
which he complains that he had been nearly ruined by his publishers. He
was a fellow