DUMA

Ru ian term for council. The State’) was created by imperial ukase, Aug. 19, 1905 ‘to take a constant and active part in the elaboration of law,’ and under constitution of Oct. 30, 1905, it was ordained that no law should be valid without its consent. First Duma a embled May 10, 1906, di olved by the Tsar on July 22, 1906; second sat from March 5 to June 16, 1907; third, Nov. 1, 1907, to June 1, 1912; fourth, elected in Sept. 1912, came to an end with the overthrow of the Tsardom and the declaration of a republic, March 1917. See Bousuryism; Ru ia. E.), town, Negros, Philippine Islands; on §.E, coast; district fertile and agricultural. Pop. 14,000. town, port, at mouth of Dumanjug, Ceba, Philippine Islands; important coast trade. Pop. 30,000. Fr. novelist and dramatist; 6. Villers Cotterets (Aisne); s. of a general; grandson of a marquis and Haitian negre . His early years were spent in poverty, and he received little education. He came to Paris, received an appointment in the bureau of the Duke of Orleans, and took to playwriting. His first play, Henry III. and his Court, 1829, started the Fr. Romantic Drama. It was followed by many more, notably Anthony and The Tour de Nesle. In 1836 he began writing Fr. history in a series of novels, of which the most famous are The Three Musketeers, 1844; Twenty Years After, 1845, and Margaret of Valois, 1845; in all his many novels D. was helped by collaborators, with whom _he afterwards quarrelled. Besides hist. novels, he wrote his masterpiece, The Count of Monte Cristo. After making and giving away several fortunes, he d,apoor man. His work is notable for its imagination, exuberant vitality, and chivalric spirit.