monis
at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts. In 1877 he received the _prix de
Rome_ for "A Gaulish Chief taken Prisoner by the Romans." At Brussels,
in 1881, he executed the groups entitled "Justice" and "Herkenbald, the
Brussels Brutus." For the pediment of the orphanage at Uccle, "Figure
Kneeling" (Brussels Gallery), and the statue of the lawyer
Metdepenningen in front of the Palais de Justice at Ghent, he was
awarded the medal of honour in 1889 at the Paris Universal Exhibition,
where, in 1900, his "Two Statues of the Anspach Monument" gained him a
similar distinction. For the town of Brussels he executed "The Four
Continents" (Maison du Renard, Grand' Place), "The Lansquenets" crowning
the lucarnes of the Maison de Roi, and the "Monument t' Serclaes" under
the arcades of the Maison de l'Etoile, and, for the Belgian government,
"Flemish Art," "German Art," "Classic Art" and "Art applied to Industry"
(all in the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels), "The Laurel" (Botanic
Garden, Brussels), and the statue of "Bernard van Orley" (Place du petit
Sablon, Brussels). Mention must also be made of "An Enigma" (1876), the
bronze busts of "Rogier de la Pasture" and "P. P. Rubens" (1879),
"Etruria" (1880), "The Painter Leon Frederic" (1888), "Madame Leon
Herbo," "Hermes," a scheme of decoration for the ogival facade of the
hotel de ville at Ghent (1893), "The Genius of the Funeral Monument of
the Moselli Family," "The Silence of Death" (for the entrance of the
cemetery of St Gilles), two caryatides for the town hall of St Gilles,
presentation plaquette to Dr Heger, medals of MM. Godefroid and
Vanderkindere and of "The Three Burgomasters of Brussels," and the
ivories "Allegretto," "Minerva" and the "Jamaer Memorial." Dillens died
at Brussels in November 1904.

DILLINGEN, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, on the left
bank of the Danube, 25 m. N.E. from Ulm, on the railway to Ingolstadt.
Pop. (1905) 6078. Its principal buildings are an old palace, formerly
the residence of the bishops of Augsburg and now government offices, a
royal gymnasium, a Latin school with a library of 75,000 volumes, seven
churches (six Roman Catholic), two episcopal seminaries, a Capuchin
monastery, a Franciscan convent and a deaf and dumb asylum. The
university, founded in 1549, was abolished in 1804, being converted into
a lyceum. The inhabitants are engaged in cattle-rearing, the cultivation
of corn, hops and fruit, shipbuilding and the ship