The Brookhaven leader., 1885-06-18
AUTHORS ON EX IIslTION.
Personal Appes rance of Noted Men OF the
Psn-Rather Good Looking.


Fen-Rather Good Looking.
New York cor Philadelphia Record.l
1t was not so much to hear the au.
thors 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 0p ra glass. The
authors m ide good showing, an felt
quite proud OF them. Mr.. Curtis, with
his English side whisGers AMI iron
gray hair, parted in the mid
die, is always an elegant per
son TO look at. aud Julian fiaw
thorne is decidedly pictures ue. He has
his father black caring hair, striking
eyes and fierce mustBChe lie is large
and well made, and very good lOOking (
fellow Will Carleton looks exactly a.
you would expect Will Car,eton to look.
lie is the perfect type OF brother iona
than, except that he hasn't the hollow
cheeks of that typical individual; but
he used to have " hen first saw him
he was very hatchet-iace but now his
cheeks are rounded out. lie still, how
ever, wears the tutt Of hair on his chin.
and the o,d-fashoned neckt!e, which
our Parents called stock.
Mr. Howc.ls. whose stories are the de
light of the ladies, is short and fat,
wears his hair banged on his forehead,
has a brlStliu9 III staChe and wears eye
glasses wh.n he reads. He is well
dressed for an author-as a usual thing
authors have not much regard for the
talor's art-and | think that his ad
mirers we're salts led with his appear
anee. Professor Boye5en is a NOrwe-
glan, and while he doesn't look quite
the Viking, wears a tawny beard and
muStache aud has ruddy complexion
and light blue eyes. Mr.. Bunner is the
Iast man one would pick out as the edl
tor of Puck. He looks much more like a
d vinity student lie is a young man,
with black curling hair, brushed till it
shines like a looking glass. and he wears
little black side whiskers, cut close to
his cheeks and eyeglasses.
John Boyle o. ..eil y is called the most
picturesque author OF the loston circle.
He is of the Irish type of beauty, VITA
fine red and white complexion, black
curling hair, large light b.ue eyes with
black laShes and eyebrows, and a droop
ing brown mustache. Mr.. eechrr
everybody knows He is a tritle stOuter
than he was, his ace is little redder AMI
his hair somewhat winter otherwise lie is
the same Henry Ward Beecher that We
! have known from our childhood. Mark
Twain is the same long aud lank Mark
Twain that he always was, too; but he
is beginning to show the effects of tiue
and hard Oking, for his shock of hniI
is very gray, and 50 is his enormous
mIStache; his eyes are gray, too, bu
are as clear and sharp in their expires
sion as they were twenty years ago.
George Parsons Lathrop has rather
foreign appearance; his hair is black
and curlo close to his head, an lie has
short curling heard AMI muSta he,
and, being very nearsighted, wears eye
glasses; he has grown stout of late,
though he is still rather pictures iue
looking DR.. Edward ggeStOn 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 i'm =
mense unkempt beard AMI muStache
and deep set eyes Overhung with heavy
eyebrows.
These were the authors who took part
in the readings, but there were many
more gro ped on the platform arc md
them, the most conspicuous among
them being Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, the
| PittIburg iron manufacturer an Z.
millionaire, whose two tookS OF
travel entitlc him to place among
the authors. Mr.. Carnegie occupied d
large armchair in which he threw him
self back at full length and laughed like
boy out of school at everything funny
! that was said Next to him sat Mr.
Roswell smith, the publisher of Tn,
Century, who. though not an author, is
very much interested in the copy -rigat
bill.