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currently reported, and believed, that in adj
diton to violent words, even blows were
eXchanged-certain it is, however, that the
, novelist and his wife, from that day, parted.
> How the lady has revenged herself, the no.
vel of 'Cheveley, or the Man Of Honor"
in which her husband is mercilessly attack
: ed, sufficiently shows.
e Fancy yourself, reader, in the lobby Of
: the Commons House of Parliament. Yon-
der is Bulwer, conversing with gentleman
near the door. If you have formed any
idea of the man, from the ridiculously eff
Terminate looking bust of him prefxed to
his ''Pilgrims of the Rhine" or from the
three-quarter portrait of him by Maclise,
you must expect to be disappointed, for the
novelist is by no means handsome, as the
f generality of his readers suppose him to be.
Instead of the spruce, popinjay parsonage,
who figures in the picture to which have
T alluded, you behold a man who is so far
below the medium height as to be even
short in stature. Nor is he bolt upright, as
painters have delighted to represent him !;
for their is considerable bend in his back,
slight stoop in his shoulders, and his
legs are somewhat of the hour-glass forma-
tion-or ] may, perhaps, render myself
more ineligible by saying that he is knock
kneed. Over very thin and frail-looking
frame were ill-ftting and slovenly put on
garments-whereas, from the pictured SEM
blances of him, one would take him 10 be
dandy Of the first water.
But let us observe him as he rises in his
place in the House TO speak. Now that
his hat is removed, his well-shaped head is
observable: perhaps phrenologist would
be somewhat puzzled by the forehead, which
is low and receding; what it loses how
ever in height, it amply makes up in BREADTH.
He has a very large aquiline nose, much
too large for his face; but if we are 10 Gre
dit Napoleon's assertion, that long-nosed
men are the most to be relied on for achiev-I
ing great deeds, that must be rather beau
ty than defect. His hair is curly and of
ia light brown color; but his whiskers,
which half cover his cheeks and chin, are
red and very bushy. There is nothing ex-
traordinary about the expression of his
mouth or eve. Such is EngIand's most
popular novelist-so far, at least, as his
outward man is concerned
Bulwer is no great things as a speaker.
His voice is low, clear and sweet; but like
most active writer's, he wants the faculty
OF think King Con his legs''-an ait more diff
6cult of requirement than. persons "not ac
customed to public speaking" would be
apt to suppose. He hesitates good deal,
and seldom goes TO the point, excepting by
a roundabout way reminding us of the
man whose modes Of thinking were so tor
tuous that Sidney Smith said he must have
been born with a corkscrew in his head.
His action, too, is very ungrace(ul, and he
fdgets excessively while speaking. 1t is
evident that, with him, hand and head must
60 together.
A good deal has been said respecting
Bulwer's personal vanity, but with how
much of truth am unable 10 determine
The only circumstance which would indi-
cate it was one communicated to me by a
friend, who once visited the novelist at his
house. He said that in his study were two
small busts, (of Shakespeare and Milton,)
and between them was placed large mar
bic one of himself. This somewhat re-
minds us of Foote'S satirical lines on the
statue of Beau Nash being placed III the
pump-room at Bath, between the busts Of
Pope and Newton-the SAID lines conclud-
ing with
sWisdom and Wit are little seen
But Folly at full LENGTH
Not that would attribute the latter failing
10 Bulwer.
1t is not generally known that a work
which was recently published in England,
and created a great sensation there, and
which Dr. Cheever, in his preface to the
American reprint of it has called ''phllo-
sophcal romance,'' is from the pen of an
English member Of Parliament; ! refer TO
1.-THE Vestiges of the Natural History oil
Creation,'' by Sir Richard RowImson WV
yam, Bart, the member in Parliament Tor
one of the Cornish boroughs. Sir Richard
Vyvyan is a man of the most brilliant Ia
tents and requirements he seldom speaks,
but when he does he always produces
sensation. In person he is rather diminu-
tive, and, unlike Bulwer, exquisiteIy neat in
his dress. No one could look at him with
out being impressed with the idea that he
is no common man. In the House he is
known by the sou6riquet Of the "Cornish
, Diamond" and in society he is extensively
celebrated as one of the most refined Eng
lish wits, and most perfect gentleman.
l Whilst was one evening sitting in the