The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-12-13
PERSONALITIES OF LITERATI.
JERRoLD

is man about 30 years oil age, and IN per-
son is remarkably spare and diminutive---
His face is sharp, angular, and bis eye is
a greyish hue. He is probably one of the
most causlic writers of the age, and, with
keen sensibility, he often writes under The
impulse of The moment articles which bis
cooler judgment condemns. Although be-
liever in hydropathy, his habits do not con-
form 10 the internal application OF Adams
ale. HIS Caudle Lectures have been read
by every one. In conversation he is quick
at retort-Hot always refined. He 10 o hus-
band and a.grandfather.
MACAULAY.
The Hon. T. B. Macaulay is short in stat
ure, round, and with growing tendency 10
aldermanic disproportons. His head has the
same rotundity as his body, and seems stuck
on il as firmly as pin.head. This is nearly
the sum Of his personal defects; all else, ex.
cept the voice (Which is monoonous and
dsagreeabIe), is certainly in his favor. His
face seems literally instinct with expression;
his eyes, above ALL full Of deep thought and
meaning. AS he walks, or rather struggles,
along The street, he seems ia stale OF total
abstraction, unmindful of all that is going
on around him, and solely occupied with his
own working mind. You cannot help think
ing that literature with him is not mere
profession or pursuit, but that it has almost
grown part of himself, as though historical
problems or analytical criticisms were part
of his daily food.
BAILEY.
A correspondent of the Tribune, writing
from Nottingham, England, says:
~ have seen Bailey, the author Of 'Feslus.'
His father is proprietor of the Nottingham
Mercury, aud the editorial department rests
of stature below the middle size; complex
ion dark, and IN years about eight-and-ihrty.
His physiognomy would be clownish in ex-
preston if his eyes did not redeem his other
features. He spoke OF 'Festus,' and Of its
fame in America, OF which he seems very
proud. In England it has only reached its
third edition, while eight or nine have been
published in the United States"
DE QUINCY.
He s one of the smallest legged smalles
bodied, and most attenualed effigies of the
human form divine that one could find in
crowded city during days walk. And if
one adds 10 this figure clothes that are neilh-
er fashonably Gu. nor fastidiously adjusted,
lie will have tolerably rough idea OF De
Quincy. But then his brow, that pushes
his obirusive hat 10 the back part of his head
and his light grey eye that Go not seem to
look out: but 10 be turned inward, sounding
the depths of his Imagination, and searching
out the mysteries OF the most abslruse logic,
are something that you would search a week
10 find the mates TO, and then you ould be
disappointed. De Quincy now resides at
Lassawade, romantic rural village, once
the residence of Sir Waller Scott, about sew
skmies from Edinburg, Scotland, where an
affeclionate daughter watches over him, and
where he is the wonder OF the country peo-
pie for miles around.
LhMAkflNE.
Lamartine is--yes young ladies', positive
ly-a prim looking man with long face,
short, grey hair, slender figure, and suit
of black. Put pen behind his ear and he
would look like confidential clerk" Give
bis face more character and he would remind
you of Henry Clay. He has a fine head,
2hrenologicaIy speaking-large and round
4, the top, with spacious forehead, and a
scant allotment of cheek. Prm is The word,
though. There is nothing in his appearance
which is ever SO remotely suggestive OF the
romantic. He is not even pale, and as for a
rolling shirt collar, OF Byronic tie, hc is not
the man to think of such things. Romsnce;
in fact, is the article he lives by, and, like
other men, he chooses to "sink The shop,n
al least when he sils 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 that covers
them, and II looks as smooth as a polished
apple. His black crisped hair is piled high
above his forehead, and stands divided into
two unequal masses, one inclnlng TO the
right, and The other TO the left. His eyes are
dark, and his mouth sensuous, but not 10 the
degree of vulgarly. His person is large, and
his flowing mantle red. He is a gentleman
TO lay bare his throat, and look romantic, not
Byronically so, but practically. Yet he looks
good humored, and like man whose capaci-
ty for physical enjoymen, lie boundess. His
negro blood is evident enough TO one who
knows he has it; but il would not be detect.
ed by one who knew il not. It appears in
The peculiar rotundity of the man and all
his parts; il crisped and heaped his hair; il
made him dress up in flowing red, to have
his portrait taken. But his complexion is
only shade darker Than the average. The
portrait reminds US for moment of The late
Thomas Hamlin, the actor.
EUGENE SUE.
! Isneither prim nor hurley. He is a mar
of large frame, over which loose blach
eoat ;s caraIaaeIxy huttapad rorun vi inr