, 1885-05-27
AuTHoRs on EXHIBITION.
Per=a==AApps=rsnee Of Noted Men of the
Fen-Isather G~ocd-LooIsing.

acknowledgements Of Noted Men of the
Fen-Isather ~Gocd-Loolsing.
Kew York Cor. Philadelphia Record
II 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 opera glass. The
authors made a good showing, and ! felt
quite proud Of them. Mr.. Curtis, with
his English side-whiskers and iron
gray hair, parted in the mid
die, is always an elegant per-
son to look at, and Julian Haw-
thorne is decidedly picturesque. He has
his fathers black curling hair, striking
eyes and fierce mustache. He is large
and well made, and a very good-looking
fellow. VIII Carleton looks exactly as
you would expect Will Carleton to look.
Ne is the perfect type of brother iona
than, except that ho hasn't the hollow
cheeks Of that typical individual; but
he used to have. When ] first saw him
he was very Ratchet faced, but now his
cheeks are rounded out. He still, how
ever, wears the tuft of hair on his chin,
and the old-fashioned necktie, which
our parents called a stock.
Mr.. Howells. whose stories are the de-
light Of the ladies, is short and fat,
wears his hair banged on his forehead,
has a bristling mnstaohe and wears eye
glasses when he reads. He is well
dressed for an author-as n usual thing
authors have not much regard for the
iailor's art-and / think that his. adj
mirers were satisfied with his appear
an e. Professor Boyesen is a Norwe-
I'm, and. while he doesn't look quite
IN viking, wears a tawny beard and
mustache, and has a rudy complexion
an Light blue eyes. Mr.. Bunner is the
las HYsh one would pick out as the edi-
tor Of Puck lie looks muoh-more like a
d~.vinity student. He is a young man,
with black curling hair, brushed till il
shines like q looking-glass, and he wears
little black side whiskers, cut close 10
his checks, and eyeglasses.
+ John Boyle O'keilly 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. Mr.. peecher
everybody knows. He Is a trifle stouter
than he was, his face is a little redder and
his hair somewhat whittier; otherwise heis
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 che effects of time
and hard joking, for his shock of hair
is very gray, and 80 is his enormous
mustache; his eyes are gray, too, but
are as clear and sharp in their express
sion 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
q short curling beard and mustache,
and, being very nearsighted, wears eye
glasses; he has grown stout of late,
though he is still rather picturesque
looking DR.. Edward Eggleston strikes
ona at first as being all hair; he has an
en- 7rmous crop on his head, which is
Y ~ thick and quite long, and an i'm
uncnse unkempt beard and mustache.
and deep-set eyes overhung with heavy
eyebrows.
These were the authors who took part
in the readings: but there were many
more grouped on the platform around
them, the most conspicuous among
them being Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, the
Pittsburg iron manufacturer AMI
millionaire, whose two books of
travel entitle him to a place among
the authors. Mr.. Carnegie occupied a
large armchair in which he threw him
SELF back at full length and laughed like
a boy out of school at everything funny
that was said. Next to him sat Mr..
Roswell Smith, the publisher of The
Century, who, though not an author, is
very much interested in the copyright
bill.