REPORTED DEATH OF OSCAR WILDE.

VICTIM OF MENINGITIS IN PARIS.

The Paris correspondent of the "Dublin Evening Mail" telegraphs that Mr. Oscar Wilde, the well-known playwright, died yesterday at three o'clock in the Latin Quarter. The cause of death was meningitis, which he had been suffering from for some time. Two days ago he became unconscious. Six weeks ago he underwent an operation, which appeared to be successful at the time, but a complication which followed proved fatal. Mr. Oscar Wilde was recently received into the Roman Catholic Church.

Wilde was born in Dublin in 1856, the son of Sir William R. Willis [sic] Wilde, Surgeon Oculist [sic] to Her Majesty, antiquarian, statistician, and man of letters; and of Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde, known as a poetess and woman of letters. Oscar was educated at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen; proceded to Trinity College, Dublin, of which he became scholar; and, having obtained the Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek, went to Oxford in 1874. He obtained first Emyship at Magdalen College; a first-class in moderation, 1876; and a first-class in greats; and the Newdigate prize for an English poem on 'Ravenna,' 1878. He went to London, 1879, and was the originator of the Æsthetic movement. He published a volume of poems in 1880; proceed to America in 1881, where he delivered over 200 lectures on art. He subsequently lectured on art in England and in Paris. His drama of 'Vera' was produced in Newtales [sic] York in 1882; 'The Happy Prince and other Fairy [sic] Tales' was published in 1888. He was also the author of 'Dorian Grey [sic],' a novel of modern life; 'The Portrait of Mr. W. H.,' a new theory about 'Shakespeare's Sonnets'; 'Intentions,' a volume of essays and dialogues on art, containing the developed principles of his æstheticism; 'The [sic] House of Pomegranates,' a collection of 'coloured poems in prose,' as Mr. Wilde himself described it; 'The Sphinx,' a long rhymed poem poef [sic]; and 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime,' a volume of short stories. His blank verse tragedy, 'The Duchess of Padua,' was produced in New York in 1891; and in 1892 he made his debut in London as a dramatist with a brilliant comedy entitled 'Lady Windermere's Fan.' This was followed in 1893 by a comedy entitled 'A Woman of No Importance,' which also achieved success. His one-act tragedy, written in French, entitled 'Salome,' was prohibited by the Lord Chamberlain in London on account of the Biblical character of the subject. On account of this prohibition, Mr. Wilde announced his intention of becoming a French citizen. His last dramatic successes were 'An Ideal Husband' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' He married in 1884, Constance, daughter of Mr. Horace Lloyd Q.C.

The circumstances of the scandal, which consigned him to a gaol and to oblivion, are too recent and too horrible to need recapitulation.