The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-11-28
ALEX. DUMAS DEAD.
TIfE END CANE RATHER SUDDENLY
AIMS HOMEIN PARIs.
lie Had Rallied sufficiently TO Crea'e
Belief That lie Might Survive SOW
craI Hours-sketch Of His Life'

PARIS. Nov. 27.-Alexsnder Dumas
A,aI rarlv I'm the evening Dumas TO-
u.d sufficiently TO create the pe'ci ''@'
Do v.ould live at least seVeraI ho"i
About o'clock he asked for tea' WIZ.
was given him. He then had su'n0, ~,
strength to raise the cup 10 ~
without assistance. shorty al'S'
had a nervous CONFUSION. ana oieu 80
suddenly. number Oh
present.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE
Alexander Dumas. nls, the ia'iious
French novelist and dranatis'' -"
the author Of THE Three Guarusi,'e"
and Count Of Monte Cris'o' "as w
In Paris. July 2S 1924 Al the az ~
seventeen ne published a volume OF Hght
noeme Then he took to novel-writine'
Which indicated neither talent nor oIlgl-
nslitv. But the Dame aux Cameras
rS4N showed him under new aspect
This was the history. slightly empeiilsh-
ed of a woman of the town, Marie Du-
nleseis whom Dumas had become ac-
ouainted with through his Partisan Jour
nalistlc work, and who had lately died
az consumption lie subsequently IRA
natized his novel-a notable feat. Inc
drama proved more popular thah tne
novel and drew crowded houses at PARIS
TO music by Verdi. in La TraNiata.
In the United States, several versions
were presented at once on the stage.
lie Dcmi- Monde" performed IN INoo'
gave new evidence Of acutcness of obser-
Nation. dramatic bower, and cutting WI.
u, has also published additional novels.
lie was elected TO the French Academy
January %, 1874. He is Partisan to
the hnger-tips. a thorough master OF that
half-world. for which he invented the
title. "demi-monde.
Said a recent writer in Frank Leslie's
Monthly: Though now seventy years
old. Alexander Dumas is still known as
the younger-a tall bald-headed, lumi-
nous-eyed man. of stalwart build, with
ford. tanned face. deeply furrowed, and
a fringe of curly hair that looks like
white wool. He is a brilliant converse
tionalst, and being also singularly genial
of manner. is naturally much in demand.
IL is now moro than four decades since
he wrote that Dame aux Camenas,
which first caused his countrymen 10 adj
mire him. and which his father declared
TO have been good book spoiled he
has never been known 10 call space
by any other name lie possesses
faculty for handling the hazardous pro-
biems of modern society in dramatic
form. which has rarely been equalled,
and perhaps never surpassed. Indeed, In
the conduct OF his dramas he has never
been known to make mistake-a fact
undoubtedly due 10 the circumstances
that he was literally born behind the
scenes, and has lived there ever since.
He has invented many a phrase that
has lived and OF course. he has not
escaped decoration"
He was a natural child. In the preface
to volume of his plays published in
1877. is found this fragment of autobio-
eraphy:
MY mother was a good courageous
woman. who worked TO rear me, my ia
Their Government emplOye, with
salary of 1900 francs a year ($24W, having
his mother to support BY a lucky
chance il so happened that my iather'
though impulsive was kind-hearted
when. after his first successes as
dramatist he thought he could rely upon
the future, he recognized me and gave me
his name. That was much. the law ala
not force him to do so, and have been
so grateful that | have borne that name
as well as ! could. Yet ii appeared that
his name was not enough In the eyes
OF the children whose position was per-
fectly regular before the law. and in
the midst of whom I was placed very
early i'm a great boarding school, kept
by one of the best Of men, VI. Prosper
Goubaux These children insulted me
from morning till night, delighted. PROB
ably TO abuse in me the celebrated name
of my father because my mother had
the misfortune not TO bear IT, There was
not a day That / did not lave hght
with one or another of my comrades, ana
sometimes with several together. Tor
their cowardice was not solely moral
1'hose who were not thus said nothing
and looked on. My suffering. when
have described in L'Affaire Clemenceau'
and of which ! never spoke to ms NOM
Ter so as not to distress her. las'eu I'VE
or six years.