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DUMAS 



The Duma could not touch "the guages. To many English-speaking 



fundamental laws of the Imperial 

 Administration," but within its 

 sphere were the making of new 

 laws, the modification of existing 

 laws, the national budgets, the 

 construction of state rlys., and 

 any matters submitted to it by 

 Imperial Decree. The chamber 

 could be summoned or dissolved by 

 the ukase of the emperor. * No 

 measie was submitted to the tsar 



readers the most familiar of his 

 other works are The Three Mus- 

 keteers, Twenty Years After, 

 Memoirs of a Physician, The 

 Queen's Necklace, Taking the 

 Bastille, Chicot the Jester, The 

 Black Tulip, and other romances. 

 Many are unfamiliar with what is 

 beyond question Dumas' master- 

 piece, Le Vicomte de Bragelonne 

 (26 vols., 1848-50), prodigious in 



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for hi3 sanction until it had been extent, and scarcely rivalled in 

 passed by both the Duma and the literature as a piece of pure, spark- 

 Council of the Empire. The course ling, and unflagging narrative. 

 of its brief history was stormy. He has set his name to a thou- 

 The military revolution of Nov. 7, san d or twelve hundred volumes ; 

 1917, transferred the government of dramas, romances, books of travel, 

 Russia to Commissioners set up by historical scraps, compilations on 

 Lenin, and the Duma ceased to art, crime, and cookery. Clearly 

 exist. See Russia, D. Mackenzie there was a good deal of hocus- 

 Wallace, rev. ed. 1912. pocus, of literary legerdemain, and 

 Dumaguete. Town of the worse, in the career of this amazing 

 Philippine Islands, capital of the man. The air was charged with 

 prov. of Negros Oriental. It stands stories of Dumas' " ghosts," 



on Negros Island at the entrance to 

 Tanon Strait, 90 m. (direct) S.E. 

 of Bacolod. Its chief trade is con- 

 nected with turtles and cotton. 

 Pop. 15,000. 



Dumangas. Town of the Philip- 

 pine Islands, in the prov. of Iloilo. 

 It stands on Dumangas river, near 

 the S.E. coast of Panay Island, and 

 has tobacco and linen industries. 

 Pop. 12,400. 



Dumanjug. Town of the Philip- 

 pine Islands, on Cebu Island. It 

 stands at the mouth of the Duman- 

 jug river, 38 m. S.W. of Cebii town, 

 and carries on a brisk trade in 

 maize and other produce of the 

 district. Pop. 22,000. 



Dumas, ALEXANDRE (1802-70). 

 French novelist and dramatist, 

 whose full name was Alexandre 

 Dumas-Davy de la Pailleterie. 

 He was born at Villers-Cotterets, 

 July 24, 1802, his father being the 

 illegitimate son of a French noble, 

 the Marquis Alexandre Davy de 

 la Pailleterie, who had settled in 



tants, and collaborators Maquet 



and others. It may be said (1) 

 that Dumas, who could keep half- 

 a-dozen plots going at once, and 



San Domingo, and of a negress was burdened with few scruples as 

 ml to their origin and evolution, seems 

 to have taken help from all quar- 

 ters ; (2) that, whatever tasks he 

 may have assigned to his jackals, 

 his own brain during many years 

 was probably equal to the creation 

 of what is best in the wonderful 

 romances ; and (3) that not one of 

 these associates or auxiliaries, un- 

 assisted by the master, proved his 



named Marie-Cessette Dumas. The 

 father became a general in the 

 French republican army. 



About 1822 Dumas went to 

 Paris. His first success was with a 

 play, Henri III et sa cour, 1829; 

 and competent French critics cit- 

 ng this piece, together with Chris- 

 tine, Charles VII, La Tour de 

 tfesle, and Mademoiselle de Belle- 



tsle, claim for him an even higher rival in any field. 



place as a dramatist than as a 

 teller of tales. 



But to the majority of readers 

 throughout the world Dumas is 

 ;he author of that fantastic 

 and unwearying romance, The 

 Count of Monte Cristo, 1844-45, 

 which translations have almost 

 made a classic in numerous Ian- 



The day came when the power 

 of the great man waned. This 

 was the day of the shifts, schemes, 

 devices to which none but a Dumas 

 would or could have risen or de- 

 scended. He put his name to any 

 MS. that was brought to him, 

 started impossible newspapers, lent 

 himself to the wiles of advertising 



Paris tradesmen. He died at 

 Dieppe, Dec. 5, 1870. 



Bibliography. Dumas' Memoirs 

 Eng. trans. E. M. Waller, 1907 ; 

 Life and Adventures of Alexandre 

 Dumas, P. H. Fitzgerald, 1873 

 Memories and Portraits, R. L. 

 Stevenson, 1887 ; Alexandre Dumas 

 Pere, H. Parigot (in French), 1902 

 Parisian Portraits, F. Grierson,1911 

 Dumas , ALEXANDKE, FILS ( 1 824- 

 95). French novelist, dramatist, 

 and academician. Born July 27, 

 1824, he 

 the natural son 

 of the famous 

 romancer, 

 whose dramatic 

 genius he in- 

 herited, but 

 with whom 

 otherwise he 

 4n had little in 



* &*">*"* * common. When 

 only twenty -four he made a sen- 

 sation with a novel of passion, 

 La Dame aux Camelias. After 

 this he wrote other novels (e.g. 

 Diane de Lys, 1851, L' Affaire Cle- 

 menceau, 1866); but the success 

 of the dramatised versions of La 

 Dame and Diane turned 

 energies to the stage, and it is as a 

 playwright rather than as a novelist 

 that he keeps his distinctive place. 

 Dumas was firmly convinced of 

 the utility of the stage for the dis- 

 cussion of ethical questions and as 

 an agent of social reform, and 

 his plays, notably La Question 

 d' Argent, Le Fils Naturel, Le Pere 

 Prodigue, L'Ami des Femmes, Les 

 Idees de Mme. Aubray, Une Visite 

 de Noces, are problem plays. 

 While as plays they suffer at times 

 from overstress of didactic pur- 

 pose, Dumas' keen sense of the 

 stage generally saved him from 

 sinking into the mere preacher, 

 while his incisive wit and brilliant 

 style further contributed to his 

 popular success. He died at Paris, 

 Nov. 27, 1895. See Monograph, 

 J. Claretie, 1882, and Nouveaux 

 Essais de Psychologic Contem- 

 poraine, P. C. J. Bourget, 1886. 



Dumas, JEAN BAPTISTE ANDK 

 (1800-84). French chemist. He was 

 born at Alais, in the dept. of Gard, 

 July 14, 1800, 

 where he was 

 apprenticed to 

 a pharmacist. 

 In 1823 he was 

 appointed as- 

 sistant to 

 Thenard at the 

 Ecole Poly- 

 technique, 



Paris, and * B - A. Dumas, 

 shortly after- French chenust 

 wards succeeded Robiquet as 

 professor of chemistry at the 

 Athenaeum. 



