The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-08
Circuit Court.
AT THE AUTHORS, CARNIVAL.
How Some Distinguished American Writer
ADnear UnOn the Stage.

How Some Distinguished American Writers
Appear Upon the Stage.
New York Letter.
1t was not so much to hear the authors read as
to see what they looked like that packed the
Madison-square Theater; and you may be sure
that every lady present carried an opera. glass
The authors made good showing and felt
quite proud of them. Mr.. Curtis, with his En-
glish side-whiskers and iron-gray hair, parted in
the middle. is always an elegant person to look
at, and Julian Hawthorne is decidedly pictur-
esque He has his fathers black curling hair
striking eyes and fierce mustache. He is large
and we'll made, and a very good looking fellow
Will Carleton looks exactly 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 individually 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 oid-fashioned necktie which
our parents called stock. Mr.. Howels whose
stories are the delight of the ladies' is short and
fat, wears his hair banged on his forehead. has
a brsting mustache and wears eye glasses
when he reads. He is we'll dressed for an author
--as usual thing authors have not much re-
gard for the tailor's art-and / think that his
admirers were satisfied with his appearance.
Professor Boyesen is a Norwegian, and, while
he does not look quite the Viking, wears a
tawny beard and mustache, and has rudy
complexion and light blue eyes. Mr.. Bunner is
the last man one would pick out as the editor
of Puck. He looks much more like divinity
student. Heis young man, with black curling
hair, brushed till it shines like looking-g glass
and he wears little black side-whiskers, cut
close to his cheeks and eye glasses. John
Boyle OReiley 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 Iight-biue
dropping brown mustache. Mr. Beecher every
body knows. He is a trf1e stouter than he was,
his face a little redder, and his hair somewhat
winter otherwise, he is the same Henry Ward
Beecher that we have known from our chiI..
hood Mark Twain is the same long and j. u
Mark Twain that he always was too; b. - amy Al
beginning to show the effects of TIM Ut ne Is ;
joking, for his shock of hair is ve-L ana hara !
SO is his enormous mustache hi ewes g are srav
ppesson as t as wers in their
George Parsons I,athnr twenty years ago.
appearances his hair, p has rather foreign
his head, and Re har Ii'1cA anu curs close 70
eye.ssasses. an sing very nearsighted. wears
he i still -, ne las grown stout of late though
ward EgcI =" GER picturesque looking DR.. Ed
hair: he ton strikes one at first as being all
which i as an enormous crop on his head,
mense very thick and quite long and an inn
set @ unkempt beard and mustache, and deep
we- ges overhung with heavy eyebrows These
by fe the authors who took part in the reading,
at there were many more grouped on the plat
form around them, the most conspicuous among
them being Mr. Andrew Carnegie Pittsburg
iron manufacturer and millionaire, whose two
books of travel entitle him to a place
among the authors. Mr.. Carnegie occu-
pied large arm chair, 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 pub
Usher OF the Century, who, though not an
author; Is very much interested in the copy
| right bill. Near Roswell Smith sat Rev. DR..
! Howard Crosby, with his fine intellectual face
ard his extraordinary development of brain.
Back by the fireplace sat the handsome young
poet, Charles Dekay and near him the not so
handsome William d. Bishop. author of .sThe
House of a Merchant Prince and other novels
and stories that have appeared in the columns
OF the Atlantic There were other authors on
the platform whom did not recognize, but who
mentioned