The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-06-01
Personalities Of Literati.
JERROLD.


is man Of about fifty years Of age, and in
person is Gather spare and diminutive. His
face is sharp, angular, and his eye of greyish
hue. He is probably one of the most caustic
writer's of the age, and with keen sensibility
he often writes under the impulses of the mo
ment, articles which his cooler Judgment con-
dennis. Although believer in hydropaathy'
his habits do not conform to the internal up
plicatiOn Of Adams ale. His Caudle Lee
lures have been read by every one. In con-
versation he is quick ut retOrt-not always re-
fined lie is husband and grandfather.
MACAULEY.
The Hon. Il. b. Macauley is short in stat
ure, round, and with growing tendency to
aldermanic disproportions His head has the
same rotundity as his body, and seems stuck
on it as firmly as pin-head. This is nearly
the sum of his personal defects oil else, cx-
ccpt the voice. (which is mOnOtOnOus and dis
agreeable,) is certainly in his favor. His face
seems literally instinct with expression the
eye, above all, full Of deep thought and mean
ing. AS he walks or rather struggles along
the street, he seems as il in state Of total alb
straction, unmindful Of all that is going Oh
around him, and solely occupied with his own
working mind.
You cannot help thinking that literature is
with him, not u mere profession or pursuit,
but that it has almost grown part Of him
self, US though historical problems or analyti-
cal criticisms were part OF his daily intclec-
tual food.
4 correspondent of the Tribune, writing
from Nottingham, England, says:
have seen Bailey, the author of " Fcstus."
His father is proprietor Of the Nottingham
Mercury, and the editorial department rests
with him. lie is thick set sort of man, OF
. stature below the middle size, complexion
dark, and in years about eight and thirty
His physiogOmy would be clownish in express
sion, il his eyes did not redeem his other ica-
lures. He spoke of Fcstus," and OF its fame
in America, Of which he seemed very proud.
In England it has only reached its third ed-
ton, while in the States eight or nine have
been published.
DE QUINCY.
He is one of the smallest legged, smallest
bodied, and most attcnuatcd cfligies Of the hu-
man form divine, that one could meet in
crowded city during days walk. And If
one adds to this figure clothes that are neither
faShiOnably cut nor fastidiOusly adjusted, he
will have tolerable rough idea of Dc Quin-
ceys outer man. But then his brow that
pushes his obtrusivc hat to the back of his
head, and his light gray eyes that do not seem
to look out but to be turned inward, sounding
the depths Of his imagination, and searching
out the mysteries of the most abstrusc logic,
are something that you would search week
to find the mates to, and then you would be
disappointed. De Quincy now resides ut
Lasswode, romantic rural village, once the
residence of Sir Walter Scott, about seven
miles from Edinburgh, Scotland, where al ai-
fectiOnate daughter watches over him, and
where he is the wonder Of the country people
for miles around.
LAMARTINE
Lamartinc is-ycs; young ladies, positively
prame-oOkng man, with long lace, short
gray hair, slender figure, and a suit of black.
Put pen behind his ear, and he would look
likea confidential clerk" Give his face more
character, and hc would remind yon of Henry
Clay. lie has q fine head, prcnOlOgicaly
speaking-large and round at the top, with q
spacious forehead, and scant allotment of
check. Prime is the wOrd though. There is
nothing in his appearance which is ever so re-
mOtcly suggestive of the romantic. lie is not
even pale, and as for rolling shirt collar or u
Byronic tie, he is evidently not the man to
think of such things. Romance, in fact is the
article he lives by, and like other men, he
chooses to sink the shop ut least when he sits
for his portrait.
DUMAS,
On the contrary, is burly fellow. His
large red, round cheeks stand out, till they
seem to stretch the very skin tnat covers them,
and it looks as smooth as polished apple. His
black crisped hair is piled high above his fore
head and stands divided into two unequal mass
cs one inclining to the right and the other to
the loft Hic ovpc ara dorl, ou1 his mouth
but not to the degree of vulgarity.-
His person is large and his flowing mantle
red. He is gentleman to lay bare the
throat and look romantic, not ByrOnically 50,
but practically. Yet he looks good humored,
and like man whose capacity for physical en-
loyment, of all kinds is boundIess His negro
blood is evident enough to one who knows he
has it; but it would not be detected by one
who knew 1t not. 1t appears in the peculiar
rotundity OF the man and all his parts. It
crisped and heaped his hair; it made him dress
up in flowing red to have his picture taken.-
But his complexion is only shade darker than
average. The portrait reminds us for mo-
mept OF the late Thomas Hamblin the actor.
EUGENE SUE
Is neither prime nor bury. He is man of
large frame, over which q loose black coat is
carelessly buttoned. Complexion light-eyes
blue-hair, once black, now pepper-and-sait-
whiskers voluminous- black and
thick-g00d forehead, and the lower face am
pie. This conveys no better idea of the mans
appearance than French passport. But the
truth IS, Sues cOuntcnance and figure have
none OF those pecularities which make dcscrip-
ton possible. He looks, in his portrait like a
comfortable, careless elderly gentleman; taking
his ease in an easy chair and an easy coat. LIE
does not look like an AUTHORIZATIONS seldom
do. His air is rather that of prosperous cit
izer. He is only forty-fvc years old, but he
has lived fast, and looks ifty-five. Larmartine