New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-25

picture OF the generosity Of nature. the moral cour
age, the hlgA-mlndedness OF the average French
schoClboy:
Ny mothe- was good courageous woman. who
worked to rear me; M father. Government en-
ploye. with salary cf l2J1 francs year G2iO
it SO happened that my father though impulsve
was kind-hearted When. after his first successes
future, he recognized ne and gave me mis- name
That was much. the law did not force him 10 do So
and have been 50 grateful tnat have borne tn3t
name well as could. Yet It appeared that his
whose position was perfectly regular before the
law. and In the midst Of whom was placed very
best Of men Vi. Prosper GOubauy These children
insuted from morning TIL night delighted prob
father because my mother had the misfortune not
to bear IT,. There was not day that dld not have
ce was NOT sSielS, NOR, Thosn who we're not thus
j have described in "LAnaire Clemenceau' aud of
distress her. lasted five OF Six years.
! At early age the young Dumas was placed In
! he Goub4nx institution whore land also al the
Bourbon College, he made brilliant progress Ac-
| usomed from his earliest youth to literary sur
iundings he soon evnced strong and positive likes
al dislikes on the subjects that discussed be
foe hin by his father and his friends At the age
of seventeen he wrote number OF poems which
wre published in volume In 1871. emitted Les
Pehes de Jennesse." This work mas almost been
Los sight Of ana possesses little literary merit al
Is evidently sincere in It's naIvee; it IS OF youth
youthful. After having accompanied his father on
jurney to Spain and Africa he wrote fantastic
boo; called "Aven;ures de Quatro Femmes et
dur Perroquet" In lSH he published LA Dame
auxCamalas" written IN lsN. His fame was nstan
! famous. The almost youth o' twenty four years
| became Mt once one Of the most famous tterateurs
! In fhIope This novel, and the play taken from Il,
have been translated into every civilized language
Its dhmat,c representation has become familiar to
Amerrans portrayed through the medium Of at
least lhree iansuages-thc French. the Italian and
/ the EHgiish-which at once suggest the names OF
| Benlhardt, Duse and Clara Morris.
Alexander Dumas hs. was, above all, an an
! ayzr. in observation, II not IN expression; he
STUDIED from without. Inward, hut when he came
! 70 give literary form to mis- ideas the action was
reversed; reality then became the medium and not
| thu end. the end dramatic and artistic effect
| lie applied himself to the study of society. and
sought by verlsmilitude and artistic delineation to
/ maze good the deficiency OF actual and practical
/ fac, His works treat mostly OF the relations be-
! t"en vice and morals but always viewed from
his position In that peculiar phase OF society. e
! dem'monde. From his point OF view he was su-
| prem when he tried 10 regard humanity from
oher as he i'd In some OF his last plays. he signal
! ly faied From his viewpoint then. he that be-
| hind the complete abandonment to vice which
the hmm heart va. st.il beating ts natural
/ throb smartng under all the misery 70 which vice
Z
ana necessary consequent OF the narrow and bigoted
I@n0fAisot mo- society ana ne made those truths heard
| " write found In the homes of the middle classes
@ii an, wen ne Wou,d nave used t3is atmosphere as
ceede1 IN making honesty commonplace even alb
his interesting efforts al least from a literary
II, hat pleased him to place with each new edition
OF ht stories or plays But there is something
aphofsc. obscure. and even gelf-con;radciory. In
his philosophy. Just as there IS something forced
and ratched up IN his art He makes the impress
sion 4 an ambitious spirit looking out for way
towari sensation. rather than OF creative genius
distributing It's generous gifts.
in l5c Aleyandre Dumas, fls. began to write FOR
work dramatzed from the novel by that name
OF thebook 1t was p.ayed at the Nardev.lle; with
Leon Taucher IN ihe leading role. !. is sad that
said. While tears Of JOY not !nmnsled w,h
w.onndt pride ran down his cheeks;
Petw,en the years 1863 and 1870 more than nifty
pen wee produced IN the Paris theatres Af'er
the first disasters Of $50 NJ. Dumas retired 10 his
estate IL Puys. near Dieppe The day after the
Iommu he scSt TO a. nswspapsr N t, N a. koqen a
ard nve.tives AGAINST the revoutonists Return
ing to Paris ir ls72. ne hal series OF plays pro-
e yte Is tne dc No@e srd ia prSSesse %o serF
TIE great success OF the plays w1s IN measure
c.pal ri.es. Resles LA Dame aux Camtl las. hs
create droms,,c r.umphs haye hen - g., dfSs
Noces." Ia Pr'rcesse Georeos "Nlonslerr Al;
nhOnse' ard "i'Efrdngerc - lNt' ne punished
.'L'Homr'e Femme" which repeated The thesis %
h's novel. "LANare Clemenceau." and a dramatic
version % 4 rrocrced pit the G"nnase IN 1873
under TIE title LA Femme do Claude" play
which was revived ~ the Renaissance Theatre by
Sarah Perrhardi In 1901
VI Dunas's fne collection OF pictures sold
in 1897 for more than f0o Oo francs
" Dumas was installed a rcer'ber Of the French
Academy on February II. 1875 and was promoted
to m nix Of Comma rder of the l.egor of Honor.
H's drama "JoseDh Rasamo." based his
fathers romance. "Caglcstro." was 2ertorr,el for
the first time AZ the raton. March lS, 1873. He
nubllshed I'm 1850 "Ies Femmes Gui Tuent 81 los
Femmes uui Nofent" I'm 1881 "Ta Princesse DO
Hagdad" I'm 1885 "Dfnise" and In 1857 "Francillon"
BIBIIOGRAPIiY.
Les Pschas dc Jeunesse dSi1). Aventures de
Ouatre Femmes ct dun Perroduet GSi6-iI, vols.).
La Dame aux Cameias Osls, vos), lie Roman
dune Femme ass. vols) Diane de Iys QS5l.
vos) La Dame Pcrles 1854. vols). La Vie a
vinst Ans ng.n la Deml- Monde GSl). La Question