Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-09-26
PERSONALITIES OF LITERATI

PERSONALITIES OF LITERATI.
JERnoIp.-Douglas Jerrold, a well known
contributor to Punch, and editor of various
publications, is man about fifty years of age,
and in person is remarkably spare and diminu-
tive. His face is sharp, angular, and his eye
of a grayish hue. He is probably one of the
most caustic writer's of the age, and with keen
sensibility, he often writes, under the impulse
of the moment, articles which his cooler Judg-
ment condemns. Altho' believer IN hydro
pathy, his habits do not conform to the inter
nal application of Adams ale. His Caudle
Lectures have been read by every one. In
conversation he is quick at retort-not always
refined. He is husband and grandfather
NAcAuLAY-The Hon. I. B. Macaulay is
short in stature, round, and with growing
tendency to aldermanic disproportions. His
head has the same rotundity as his body, and
seems stuck on it as firmly pin-head. This
is nearly the sum of his personal defects; all
else, except the voice, (Which is monotonous
and disagreeable,) is certainly in his favor
His face seems literally instinct with express
sion; his eye, all full of deep thought and
meaning. AS he walks or rather straggles
along the street, he seems in state 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 pro-
fession or pursuit, but that it has almost
grown a part of himself, though historical
problems OF analytical criticisms were part
of his daily and intellectul food.
BAuEY.-A correspondent of the Tribune,
writing from Nottingham, Eng, says: 'sI have
seen Bailey, the Author Of .Festus.' His faith
err proprietor of the Nottingham Mercury
and the editorial department rests with him.
He is thick set sort of man; of a stature
below the middle size complexion dark, and
in years about eight-and- thirty. His physiog-
nomy would be clownish in expression, if his
eyes did not redeem his other features. He
spoke of sFeStus,, and of its fame in America,
of which he seems very proud. In England
it has only reached its Sd edition, while 6 or
have been published in the United States.'
DE ouIxcEY.-He is one OF the smallest leg
ged, smallest bodied, and most attenuated eff
gies of the human form divine, that one could
find in q crowded city during days a walk.
And if one adds to this figure clothes that are
neither fashionably cut nor fastidiously adjust
. ed, he will have a toierable rough idea of DE
Quincy. But then his brow, that pushes his
obstructive hat to the back part of the back
part of his head, and his light grey eyes
sounding the depths of imas inat: on, and search
ing out the mysteries of the most obtruse log
ic, are something that You would search aweeE
TO find the mates to, and then you would bt
disappointed. De Quincey now resides a
Lasswade, romantic rural village, once the
residence of Sir Walter Scott, about sever
miles from Edingburg, Scotland, where an af
fectionate daugher watches over him, anC
where ne is the wonder of the country people
for miles around.
Observation-Disclosures is-yes, young la
dies, positively prim looking man, with
long face, short, gray hair, slender figure
and q suit of black. Put pen behind his ear
and he would look like confidential clerk ;
Give his face more character, and he wo'd re
mind you of Henry Clay. He has fine head
phrenologically speaking-large and round a
the top, with spacious forehead, and a scan
allotment of cheek. Prim is the word, though
There snothing in his appearance which is ev
er remotely suggestive of the romantic. II
is not even pale, and as for rolling shirt col
lar, or Byronic tie, he is evidently not tn
to think of such things. Romace, in fact
is the article he lives by, and like other men
he chooses to sssink the shop at least whe
he sits for his portrait.
DUMAS, on the contrary, is burly fellow
His large red, round cheeks stand out, til
they seem to stretch the very skin that cover
them, and it looks smooth as a polished ap
pie. His black crisped hair is piled high abov,
his forehead, and stands divided into two un
equal masses, one inclining to the right, anC
the other to the left. His eyes dark, ant
his mouth sensuous, but not to the degree o
vulgarity. His person is large, and his flowing
mantle red. He is gentleman to lay bare the
throat and look romantic, not Byronically so
but practically. Yet he looks good humored
and like man whose capacity for physical en-
5oyment is boundless. His negro blood is ev-
ident enough to one who knows ne has it; but
it would not be detected by one who knew al
not. It appears in the peculiar rotundity o.
the man and all his parts. It crisped and