The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-06-06
AUTHORS ON EXHIBITION.
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 It was not so much to hear the authors read as to see what they looked like that packed the Madison Square theatre; and you may be sure that every lady present carried an opera glass. The authors made a good showing, and felt quite proud of them. MT. Curtis, with his English side-whiskers and iron-gra hair, parted in the middle, is always an elegant person to look at, and Julian
 Hawthorne is decidedly picturesque. He has his fathers black curling hair, strik- ing eyes md fierce mustache. He is large and well made, and very good looking fellow. Will Carleton looks ex- actly as you would expect Will Carleton to look. He is the perfect type of brother Jonathan, except that he hasn't the hol- low cheeks of that typical individual; but he used to have. When first saw him he was very hatchet-faced, but now his cheeks are rounded out. He still, however, wears the tuft of hair on his chin, and the old-fashioned necktie, which our parents called stock.
 Mir. Howells, whose stories are the de- light of the ladies, is short and fat, wears his hair banged on his forehead, has a bristling mustache and wears eyeglasses when he reads. He is well dressed for an author-as usual thing authors have not much regard for the tailor's art-and think that his admirers were satisfied with his appearance. Professor Royesen is Norwegian, and, while he doesn't look quite the Viking, wears a tawny beard and mustache, and has a ruddy complexion and light blue eyes. MT. Burner is the last man one would pick out as the editor of Puck. He looks much more like a divinity student. He is young man, with black curling hair, brushed till it shines like looking-glass. and he wears little black side-whiskers, cut close to his cheeks, and eye. glasses.
 John Boyle o Reilly is called the most picturesque author of the Boston circle. He is of the Irish type of beauty, with fine red and white complexion, black curling hair, large light blue eyes, with black lashes and eyebrows, and a droop- ing brown mustache. Mir. Beecher every- body knows. He is triae stouter than he was, his face is little redder and his hair somewhat winter; otherwise he is the same Henry Ward Beecher that we have known from our childhood. Mark Twain IS the same long and lank Mark Twain that he always was, too but he is beginning to show the effects of time and hard joking, for his shock of hair is very gray, and so is his enormous mus tache his eyes are gray, too, but are as clear and sharp in their expression as they were twenty years ago.
 George Parsons Lathrop has a rather foreign appearance his hair is black and curls close to his head, and he has a short curling beard and mustache, and, being very nearsighted, wears eyeglasses he has grown stout of late, though he is still rather picturesque looking. Dr. Edward Eggleston strikes one at first as being all hair; he has an enormous crop on his head, which is very thick and quite long, and an immense unkempt beard and and deep-set eyes overhung with heavy eyebrows.
 These were the authors who took part Tn the readings: but there were many more grouped on the platform around them, the most conspicuous among them being MT. Andrew Carnegie, tie Pitts. burg iron manufacturer and millionaire. whose two books of travel entitle him to a place among the authors. MT. Carnegie occupied large arm, chair in which he threw himself back at full length and laughed like boy out of school at every thing funny that was said. Next to him sat MT. Roswell Smith, the publisher of he CeHIHry, who, though not an author, s very much interested in the copyright pill.