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AUG 13 192

VOLUME 1.

The

NUMBER 8.

Hesperian

A Western Quarterly Magazine.

FEBRUARY-APRIL, 1896.

Frontispiece; Alexandre Dumas, fils.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

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Story: His Genius, His Home
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On the 27th day of November, 1895, there died in Paris an octoroon who had been a recognized power in the intellectual world of the past forty or forty-five years. By his genius, he won literary famewith prejudice rife against him, and intolerance impeding every step of his upward progress; by his energy and good conduct, he amassed a fortune the fruits of which he enjoyed during many years prior to his death. no aristocracy, no caste. the brain that conceived" La Dame aux Camelias," to Alexandre Dumas, fils.

Thank God the Republic of Letters knows
Hats off to this octoroon genius,

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He was born in an attic-room of Paris, whose principal piece of furniture was a writing desk, on July 29, 1824. His father was then only twenty years old, and still a secretary of the Duke of Orleans, a place secured for him by his father, the old General Alexandre Dumas, the illegitimate son of the Marquis de la Pailleterie, who had gone to an early grave as the result of confinement in Neapolitan prisons. But the occupant of the attic-room was one day to make the name glorious also. Negro blood, as is well known, circulated in their veins, as the mother of the old General had been a native of Hayti. The home to which young Alexandre Dumas came was not a happy one, and the father soon deserted the mother, leaving her

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