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Handwriting Of Dumas

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Day
25
Month
February
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Botb tüe Dumas' hands were those of busy naen, but the eider Dumas could go on forever; he never stopped to ptinctnate. One of his literary canons was that a clear style punctuates itself. Tbere is a good deal in this. The sou never missed a comma, seniicolon, colon or fnll etop. He had not the father's facility, which resem bied a tropical vegetation at the end of the rainy season. The younger Dnmas beat his brains terribly and forced them to bring forth plays. Nothing can be more refined than his handwriting. The original manuscripts of his plays are scarcely legible, the corrections and erasures being so nnmerous. But he did not let the copyist or indeed any stranger see them, bnt rewrote and added pungent and pregnant sentences as he did so. The first thoughts of some authors are the best; they were the worst of Duruas fils unless when he -was answering a letter answering, mind ! It was then a case of steel responding to flint. Sparks flew. If there was au explosivo about, it went

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