Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-09-27
Persona tiles Of r,i.erati.
JEBROLD.

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Persona tiles of r,iterati
JEBRoLp.
Douglas Jerrold, II well known contributor to
Punch, anil editor Of various publications. man
about fifty years cf age und in person is remark
ably spare and diminutve. His face is sharp,
angular, and eye Of grayi-b hue. He is
probably one of the most oausiic writers of the
age, and with Keen scnsibibty, he often writes,
under the impulse Of the moment, articles which
his cooler luGmont condemns Although be-
lever in hydropathy, his habits do MT conform
10 tho int, nHl application Of Adams ae.-1lis
Caudle Lectures have been read by every one.
Ia conycrs alton he is quick at retort-not al.
ways re6red. He is hu sband and grandfather.
MAcAULAY.
The lion. r. B. Macauny is short in stature.
round, und with growing tendency to alderman
10 dis prop ,rtions. His head has the same rotun-
d'ty ms his body. and seems stuck on il firmly
ms pin head. This nearly the sum of his per-
NAL defects; all else, except the vnoe, (which
il monotonous aud disngreeahr.) is certainly in
his favor. His face seems literally instinct with
expression; his eye, above all full Of deep
thought and meaning. As he walks, or rather
straggcr, ploug the street. he sccma in state of
total abstraction ,unnindful ofa TINT is going on
around him, and solely occupied with his own
working mind Iou cannot help thinning TINT lit
| cratnrc with him il Not mere profession or pur-
! euit but that it his almost grown "A part of him
! self ms though historical pr,llens.or analytical
criticisms were part ofhs daily intelcetu
! al food.
BAILEY.
4 correspondence Of the Tribune. writing from
/ Nottingham, England, says. Il have seen Hai
ley the author of 'Festus His father Is proprie.
toroi the Nottingham Mercury and tne editori
al department rests with him. He is thick set
sort of man; of stature below the middle
riz'; complexion dark, and in years about eight
and thirty. His phis0gnomy would b. clawnish
ia expression, if his eyes did not redoem his 9TH
or features. lie spoke OF 'Fesiur. and of rs
fame in America Of whohle seems very proud
In England it has only reached its third edition,
while eight or nine have been published in the
United States"
DE orr;cfY.
He is one of the smallest legged, smallest bodied
and most nttenuated ctlieies If the human form
divine, any one could find in crowded city during
a days walk. And if one adls to his figure cloth,
cs that ARE neither hshionaby cut nor fasiidious
Is adjusted, be will have Il toleraby rough idea
of DE Quincy. But then his brow, thet pushes
his ootrusive hat to the back part of his head
and his light grey eyes, that do not seem to look
out, but Ia be turned inward, sounding the depths
Of his Imagination, and searching out the mystic.
rirs of the most abstruse logic. arp something
that you would search n week find fne mates
to, and then you would he disappointed. De
Quincey resides at Jasswide. n romantic ru-
raj village, once the residence of Sir Waltes Scott
about seven miles from Edinhurg, Scotland where
an ntiectionate daughter watches over him, and
where he is the wonder of the country people for
miles around.
LAAlAGrINE.
Lamarne is-yes, young ladies, aposiivelya
prim looking man, with long face, short, gray
| hair, slender figure, and n suit of black. Put
pen behind his ear, md he would look like n
"cuntncntial clcrk.' Give his face mere eharae-
ter. and he would remind you of Henry Clay
| He has fine head, phren logically speaking
large and round at the top, with a spacious fore
head, and n scant allotment of check. Prim is
| the word though. There is nothing in his APP
! pcarancc which is ever so reYotey Suggestive of
! the romantic. He is not even pale and as for a
rolling shirt collar, Byronic tie, he is evident
| Nv 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" at 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 that covers them e il looks
as smooth polished apple. His black crispod
hair is piled hg above his forehead, and stands
! divided into two unequal masses, one inenng to
! the right and the other to the left His eyes are
dark. aud his mouth sen>uouS. bat not to the de-
! gree of vul5nrty. His person is large. aud his
! flowing mantle red lie is gentleman 10 lay
|
| ~ 50, but practically. Yet he looks good hunor.
! ed, and like "a man whose capacity for ply steal
| enjoyment is hondlcss. His negro blood is ev
! idrnt enough to one who knows he has it: but it
would not he detected by one who knew it not
| 1t appears in the peculiar rotundity of the man
| in all his parts 1t erispcd and heaped his
hair; it made him dress up in flowing red. To have
his portrait taken. But hi, complexion is only a
| shudr darker than the average. The portrait re-
minds Us for moment of the late Thomas lIamb
| la, the actor.
EUuENE SUE.
Is neither prim nor hury lie is man of
large frame, over which loose black coat is care.
! lesSly buttoncd. Complexion light, eyes blue.
! hair once black ROW pepper and salt. whiskers
| voluminouseve brows black and thick, good fore
! head aud the lower face ample. This conveys
no better idea of the mans appearance than
! French passport. Bat the truth is. Sues counte.
| nance and figure have none of those pecuarities
! which make description possible He looks in
| his portrait like comfortable, careless. elderly
! gentleman, taking his ease in an easy chair and
easy cont. He does not look like an author
authors seldom do. His air is rather that of a
prosperous citizen. Sue is only forty, five years
old, but he has lived fast, and looks fifty. five.
l4amartine is sixty three and would pass easily for
fifty three. Dumas is fifty and could get credit
for thirty.eisht.
CURIOUS DIscLosuREs.-Af foreign correspond
dent of the New York Evening Post furnishes
some interesting incidents of the quarrel now in
progress between the Pope and his refractory
"subiect," the 'Spanqrds We quote;
Among the curou, things which this. quarrel
has brought to light, is a document showing the
sums annually spent at Rome by Spanish sub
JectS for the purchase of indulgencies. These
sre obtained through the Spanish Embassy; an
exact reg steris kept, and there can be no donbt
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