Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-10-18
MISC LIAN EO US.
PERSONALITIES OF LITERATI.
JERROT.D.

Douglass JerroId, well known contfi-
butor to Punch, and editor Of various pub
icalions. is a man about fihv years Of age.
and in person Is remarkably spare and di-
munl,ive. His face is sharp. angular, and
his eye of grey'sh hue. lie is probably
one nt the most csus,ic writer's of The age.
snd with keen sen-iblIiv. he often writes.
under The impulse of the moment, articles
uhlch his cooler judgment condemns. Al
though believer IN b, dropb,hy, his hshis
10 no, conform To, the internal application
Of Adams s'e. His Caudle Lectures have
heen read by every one. In conversation
We Is quick ht re,or,-nni always refined.
lie is husband and grandfather.
MAcAULAY.
The H n. Il. B Macaulsy is short in sIs-
iure, round, and with growing tendency
to aldermanic dispropnrIons. HIS head has
,e same ro,undny as his body, snd seems
suck on i, firmly as a pin-head. This
is nearly The sum of his personal defects !;
all else excep, w. "ire. which is m"not-
onou< and dig sbIe.( is certainly in his
favor. His f4s,>lsems literally insinc, with
expression; taSs ye, above ali. full or 'eep
though, and meaning. As he walks, or rs-
ther struggles. along the street, he seems IN
q state Of total abstraction. unmndful Of all
lha. is going on around him, and solely oc-
cupjed with his own working mind. You
cannot help thinking lbs, Tie literature with
him is MOI mere profession or pursuit, but
hal IL has almost grown q part of himself.
a. though historical problems, or ansl y,icsl
cri!icIsms were par, of bis daily aud iu,el-
iecIual food.
A correspondent, of The Tribune, wiring
from Nottingham, England, SAYS:
81 have seen Bailey the author "f'Fes.ns.'
His father is proprietor of the Nottingham
Mercury, and the editorial department rests
with hin. He is thick Sc, sort Of man;
of stature below the middle size; COM
plexion dark, and his years about eighi-snd-
thirty. His physioenomy would be clown
rsh in expression, If his eyes did not redeem
and of ils fame in America, Of which be
seems very proud In England it has only
reached is third edition. while eight or nine
have been published in the United States"
He is one Of The enables. Ieeg ed, smallest
bodied. and most alienusted efiigies of the
human form divine, lha, one could find in
crowded city during a davis walk. And
If one adds 10 this i2ure clothes ,hst are
neither fashionsbly cuI, nor fastidiou-ly adj
iusied, he will have iolerabie rough idea
of De Quincy. But then his brow. that
pushes his ob,rusive bat to the back par, Of
ms head, and his light grew eyes that do
not seem 10 look out, but To be turned in
ward, sounding The Cephs Of bis imagine
ZION, and searching ou' the vsteries OF the
most abslruse logic, are some thing that you
" ould search week TO find the mates to-;
and you would be Disappointed. De Quin-
cey now resides st Lass~ sde, romdnIc
rursi village. once The residence Of Sir Wal
ter Scott, sbou, seven miles from Edinburgh,
Scotland, where an offrc,ionsle daughter
watches over him, aud where he is The won.
der OF The country people for miles around.
LAMARTINE.
Lamarllne is-yPs, young ladies, posi-
tlvelY-s prim looking man, with q long
face. short, grey halr, slender figure, and
a sui! Of black. Pu, pen behind his ear,
snd he would look "coniGen,isI clerk :"
Give his face more character, and he woulG
remind you Of Henry Clay. He has 6ne
head, phrenologi speaking-isrpe and
round a! the top, with q spacious forehead,
and scan, allolmen, Of cheek. Prim is
The word though. There is nothing 10 bis
appearance which is ever 90 remotely sug.
ges'Ive Of The romantic. He is no, even
pale, and as for a rolling shirt collar, or
Byronic tie, he is evidently not the man to
think of such things. Romance, in fact, is
The article he lives b.v, and, like other men,