The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-11-26
DUMAS Fills IS DYING.
The Noted Author and Dramatist
Cannot Live the Week Out.
RELATIVES CALLED TO HIS BEDSIDE

The Brilliant French Writer n Victim of
Cerebral Abscess-His Marvellous Success
Early in Life and His Prolific Contribu-
tions 60 Dramatic Literature.
PARIS, Nov. 26-Alexandre Dumas, the
distinguished author and playwright, is
seriously ILL., The physicians in attendance
upon him at first Thought he was suffer
ing from a violent attack of neuralgia but
later they recognized graver symptoms.
The Petit Parisien says that Dumas was
seized on Saturday with cerebral conges-
ton and that DIR. Pozzi diagnosed it as
cerebral abscess. The patient It'll added,
has been in comatose condition since
Sunday evening. His physicians do not
think he can live longer than n week. His
relatives have been summoned to his bed
side
Alexandra Dumas was born in 1924 in
Paris, and at an early age he was placed
in the Souteaux Institution, where he
made marked progress almost from his
entrance. When only II years of age he
wrote a number of poems which were
published in q volume in 1S47, entitled
Lies Peches de Jeunesse." This work has
almost been lost sight of, and possesses
little literary merit, although there are
some pleasing lines.
After having accompanied his father on
journey TO Spain and Africa he wrote a
fantastic book called Adventures de Qua
tire Femmes ct dun Perroquet." In 184s
he wrote and published la Dame aux
Camelias." His fame was instantaneous.
The almost youth of "a years became at
once one of the most famous litterateurs
in Europe. This novel, and the play taken
from it, have been translated into every
civilized language
In 1859 Alexandra Dumas, fils, began to
write for the stage. LA Dame aux Came
lias" was his work, dramatized from the
novel by that name. Its success was even
more pronounced@R that of the book.
1t is said that wheHVs elder Dumas saw
the performance he said, while tears of joy,
not unmingled with wounded pride, ran
down his cheeks: "It seems that my son
at "a was a better dramatist than / am
now at 40"
Alexandra Dumas is, by ordinary French
law of succession Marquis de la PALLET
erie. Some thirty odd years ago Alexandra
Dumas married a noble native of Finland
Princess Narischkine, nee Knarring-by
whom he has had two daughters Colette,
married about fourteen years ago to NJ.
| Maurice Ilppmann, and Jeannine, who
married the Comte de Hauterive in 1890.
Jeannine resembles her father greatly in
character and intelligence while the eldest
sister takes more after her famous grand
father, the author of "Monte Cristo."
The children were brought up in a strict
way. Alexandra Dumas does not believe
that young girls should enjoy much lib
erty. His two daughters were never al
lowed to go to the theater or to balls. Up
to the day of her marriage Mile. Colette
had gone to but one evening party, and
but twice to the theater, on both of which
occasions tragedies were played. But since
/ she has become mother Nine. Lippmann
goes everywhere, reads everything, sees
everything. She copies her fathers man
uscripts and frequently criticizes them.
And the father often profits by the observ-
ations of his daughters.
Between the years 1855 and 1870 more
than fifty curtain raisers and plays from
the young Dumas pen were produced in
the Paris theaters, and since that time his
! contributions to the drama and to litera-
ture have followed each other in rapid sue
cession, his latest dramas being Denise,
presented in 1885, and "Fancillon, " in 1887.