DAWSON, WILLIAM JAMES (1854—). An English clergyman and author. Ile was born at Towehester, Northamptonshire, November 21, 1854: was educated at Didsbury College. Man chester, and entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1875. Ile visited the TTnited States as delegate to the :Nlethodist Ecumenical Council in 1891: resigned from the Wesleyan ministry and entered the Congregational in 1892. Dawson is well known as a lecturer. essayist. and poet. Among his publications are: A Vision of Xmas (1884) ; Quest and Vision, Essays on Lifc and Literature (1886; enlarged 1892) ; 77u Threshold of Man hood (1889); The Makers of Modern Poetry (1891)) ; The Redemption of Edward Shahan, A Sue/0 ( 1891); Pocnts and Lyrics (1893); London Idyls (1895); The Story of Hannah (1890 ; The house of Dreams (1897) ; Judith Bolder°, .1 7'ragie Romance (1898); Makers of Modern l'rosc (1899) ; Suronarola, A Drama (19(10) ; The Man Christ Jesus (1901).
DAX. The capital of an arrondissement in the Department of Landes. France, on the Adorn., :32 miles northeast of Bayonne by rffil. The prin cipal building is the former cathedral, rebuilt by Louis X1N'. in the .teventeenth century. The site of the ancient Roman walls and moat is now occupied by the Promenade des Ramparts. Dax is famous as a health resort, owing to its ther mal springs and baths of every description. It has a considerable trade in agricultural produce, wine, and timber, and manufactures liqueurs and pottery. The ancient capital of the Tarbelli, Dax was known to the romans as Aqua Tarbel hex, afterwards as Civitas Aquensium. It passed through the hands of several conquering races, being last held by the English from the twelfth 'to the fifteenth century. Population, in 1901, 10,329.