The Portland daily press., 1877-12-06
Men and Wnmen.

Dion Boucicault has general air of "don't
cars' about him when he walks the streets.
He stoops and slouches along with his head
near the ground. He has eyes like cut steel,
and gray moustache and goatee cropped close
to the skin.
Meissonier is a short, stout, knock-kneed mar,
with long gray beard and whiskers. 1t is his
ambition to be a fierce, cold, cruel military au-
tocrat, but he makes poor success in this line,
as he has soft, mild eyes and a pleasant face.
But he has temper of his own.
Gerome, the painter, is thin, tall man, with
hair of iron gray and eyes as brilliant as stars,
that give fine, high tone to bis deeply-lined
face. He has five children, of whom he is pas
sionately fond. Sculpture is his luxury and
passion, and he Gays that he paints bis pictures
o help defray the expenses of his sculpture.
The central figure in the Senate Chamber
the past week, during the Republican struggle
against fate, has been George f. Edmunds of
Vermont. His personal appearance is rather
striking Not very tall when upon his legs, he
has th at great length of spine which is regarded
in insurance offices as promise if not guar
antee of longevity. For all know to the coz
trary, Edmunds may be one hundred years old
the uncertain grayness of his hair and beard
are of the kind that defy conjecture as to age.
With his long. furrowed forehead running up
to point above, his long gray beard RAINING
down to a point below, his ghostly attitudes
and gestures, and his archepiscopal habits of
attire, EdmuDds looks like a well-preserved
specimen of the ancient Christian Fathers
Nelo York San Wash. Cor.
The Duke of Norfolk. who was lately married
to Lady Flora Hastings, gave his bride pearl
necklace once owned and worn by Qaeen Mary
of Scotland. The bridegroom is Premier Duke
and hereditary Earl marshal of England, and
by virtue of the latter rank attends sll great
court ceremonials with his Earl-marshal's
baton. He is not only the head of the English
peerags but the recognized leader of the English
Roman Catholic laity The new Duchess
is a convert to that faith.
Miss Grace Vernon Bassell is young Eng
lish lady only sixteen years old indeed, whose
name ought to be known and honored wherever
the word courage" is understood. Hearing of
boat being capsized Miss Bussel rode on
horseback down a steep cliff to the scene of dis
aster She rode her horse into the land sue
ceeded in reaching the boat, accompanied by
her servant and with as many women and chill
dren elinging to her and her horse as possible
she made for the shore and placed them in
safety. The Royal Humane Society has awarded
the brave girl silver medallion, with bronze
medallion to her servant who saved a man.
Gustave Dore is provoked about the report
that he had bought country villa. my life
is work" he says, "my pleasure, my passion
is my art. L must live within reach of my
tools. My workshop is in Paris; my home is in
Paris. No; for the painter Paris is the only
place. My pleasure lies where 1 can give sub
stance to my ideas. have made up my mind
never to buy land. 1t would be useless to me.
have laid down the lines OF my life; and life
is already go short that it is the worst of stupid
tiles not to economize every hour of it. My
plan of life is laid out. Work in Paris, shor'
visit to London in the summer, and then
months holiday at Luchon, Montreaux, near
the mountains, or elsewhere; and for this the
best apartments is the best hotel within reach.
This is an artists life. Has he time to go trot-
tiLg backward and forward to country villa
like a rich bourgeois who is in business?
Chalets are places for idle hours, and the artist
has none." Dore is nusily at work upon a
weird subject Death sitting the poet with
palm-leaves
Count Carlo Valieri, the last descendant of
the family of the great and unhappy Doge of
Venice, Marino Falieri, died recently at Vienna,
at the age of II. At the time of the seizure of
Venice by the first Napoleon, the parents of the
Count were obliged, after confscatien of their
property, to leave their home They then set
tied in Vienna, where Count Carlo has spent
most of his life.