The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-11-28
DUMAS is DEAD.
The Famous Author of Camille"
rPasscs Away Peacefully.
TIE STORY OF HIS LIFE'SCAREER
Is the History OF Gifted writer-HIs
Works Arp CIasslcs-An Inherltsd Gem
ius--Polnts OF Dlnsrcneo Between Him
and His Father rs Authorised Compari-
son Made by tins Lntter--A Great Lo'' to
the French Literary Circles.

PARIS, Nov, 97,-M, Dumas died
peacefully at 7;i5 o'clock this evening
surrounded by his family, While his
physicians and friends had become con-
WINGED that his case was hopeless and
that death was only question Of time,
1t was not expected that the end would
come so soon. At o'clock NJ. Dumas
fen asleep and awoke again at $3.50
o'clock. lie feebly uttered q few words
to those about his bed and then sank
and died.
President Faure and ex-Empress Eu-
genie have made frequent inquiries re-
garding the condition Of the dlstln-
suished patient since his serious Illness
was first made known,
Alexander Dumas was born In 1924,
when his father waa only twenty-one
years " age. The young Alexander
published his FIRST work when he was
In his seventeenth year; II was vol
ume of poems, and called Les Pechcs
do Jeuucssd." The sin OF poetry he has
rcpeuted OF and his next appearance
was as 4 novelist In lAI, with rather
tedious romance, -Four Women and Il
Parrot" In the following year he pub
llshed "Le Roman dune Femme. Ces-
nrIne" and LA Dame aux Cnmellas."
all marked with such dramatic power
that the authors success rs dTamnt-
list could be ioreECen aud forctoll.
Tie trlUmph OF LA Dame aux Came
Has" AZ :he Vaudeville, with Madame
Doche and Fechter IN the leading roles
was colossal, and Il Is today MS at
tructiye ~ ever In the country. What
need OF recNpitulntins all HIS victories
lie DENT Monde" La Femme de
Claude," "EtrauEere Denise"
''Francilon," Monsieur Alphonsc." all
models of construction and character
drowiugY In all the author regards
society nom the pathological point of
view; he is always on the lookout for
some moral mRlady. the more extraor-
binary the better. Dnd IN all he works
out his theories with cold precision.
INHERITED TALENT.
NJ. Dumas is a remarkable example
Of inheritance OF talent, Yet between
the author OF la Dame aux CamelIas"
and the author OF Les Trois Mosque.
taIres" there is as great a difference
as between the Armand DuvRl Of the
former and the D'ATtaGnnn of the lat
ter. The son once attempted to ex-
plain this difference BY saying: MY
father was born IN n poetic age. and he
is nn idcnlist: was born In a material
istic age and am rehlist My father
tnites hts subjects from dreamland. j
take mine from life. He works with
his syes shut; with mine open. He
starts from fact. i from an Idea"
The father, however. was ncnrcr the
truth and epigrammaticully neater
when he summed up with the words:
He Is photographer; am II painter =
At sixteen after thorough training
nj the Institution G0ubauX ard the col
lcgc Bourbon, NJ Dumas left school
for the world II letters and the society,
to which his father, then at his apogee,
belonged lie started IN fiction and sue
ceeded: ne went on TO thcorlzinE
about nrt. morals. politics and religion.
and succeeded. lIe was member Of
the Institute In 1874, and II now nt the
moment when stricken, the acknOwl-
edged best playwright and one OF the
greatest artists In words OF lutter-dny
France HIS novels. from la Dame
aux Cameilas lHs)" 10 "L'AfTairc Cle-
menccnu USGi)." nrc considered clas.
sIca. while his ussHyF letters, speeches.
prefaces and predictions are brilliant
and admirable In form. and In matter
daring, paraduXical and suggestive In
q hiEh degree.