For _marine pieces_: Vandevelde and Bakhuizen.

For _still life and flowers_: Kalf, A. van Utrecht, Van Huysum, and De
Heem.

DUTCH HOUSEWIFERY. In his papers upon _Old New York_ (1846), John
Fanning Watson pays a just tribute to Knickerbocker housekeepers.

"The cleanliness of Dutch housewifery was
always extreme. Everything had to submit to
scrubbing and scouring; dirt in no form could
be endured by them, and dear as water was in
the city, where it was generally sold, still it was
in perpetual requisition. It was their honest
pride to see a well-furnished dresser, showing
copper and pewter in shining splendor as if for
ornament rather than for use. In all this they
differed widely from the Germans, a people with
whom they have been erroneously and often
confounded. Roost fowls and ducks are not
more different. As water draws one it repels
the other."

DUTTON (_Mrs. Dolly_), dairy-maid to the Duke of Argyll.--Sir W.
Scott, _Heart of Midlothian_ (time George II.).

DWARF. The following are celebrated dwarfs of real life:--

ANDROMEDA, 2 feet 4 inches. One of Julia's free maids.

ARISTRATOS, the poet. "So small," says Athenaeos, "that no one could
see him."

BEBE (2 _syl_), 2 feet 9 inches. The dwarf of Stanislas, king of
Poland (died 1764). BORUWLASKI (_Count Joseph_), 2 feet 4 inches. Died
aged 98 (1739-1837). He had a brother and a sister both dwarfs.

BUCHINGER (_Matthew_), who had no arms or legs, but _fins_ from the
shoulders. He could draw, write, thread needles, and play the hautboy.
Fac-similes of his writing are preserved among the Harleian MSS. (born
1674-_).

CHUNG, recently exhibited with Chang the giant.

COLO'BRI (_Prince_), of Sleswig, 25 inches; weight, 25 lbs. (1851).

CONOPAS, 2 feet 4 inches. One of the dwarfs of Julia, niece of
Augustus.

COPPERNIN, the dwarf of the princess of Wales, mother of George III.
The last court-dwarf in England.

CRACHAMI (_Caroline_), a Sicilian, born at Palermo, 20 inches. Her
skeleton is preserved in Hunter's Museum (1814-1824).

DECKER or DUCKER (_John_), 2 feet 6 inches. An Englishman (1610).

FARREL (_Owen_), 3 feet 9 inches. Born at Cavan. He was of enormous
strength (died 1742).

FERRY (_Nicholas_), usually called Bebe, contemporary with Boruwlaski.
He was a native of France. Height at death, 2 feet 9 inches (died
1737).

GIBSON (_Richard_) and his wife Anne Shepherd. Neither of them 4 feet.
Gibson was a note