, 1886-06-23
OF THE BLONDE TYPE.
PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE THEIR
MARK IN THE LITERARY WORLD.

Ioths III
Charlotte Bronte. Madame De sta.i and
Mrs Browning-And Many Others.
1t is a fact the writer has often noticed
that, among people who have made their
mark in the literary world. a large num-
Der have been blondes with blue or gray
eyes. Kate Field, who had n personal nc
quaintance with George Eliot, describes
the great author of Adam Be,lep as u
woman OF fair Saxon coloring, with pale
blue eyes. Another writer speaks Of her
rs having vivid, warm, blue-gray eyes,
full Of depth, now keenly pcrceptive, now
dreamily interpretive, always full Of sad
ness"
The philosopher Emmanuel Kant, the
sage of Konigsberg, is described as
scarcely more than five feet high, with
fair hair, fresh complexion, and light blue
eyes"
or Godfrey Chaucer, the father Of En-
glish poetry, 1t is declared that he had Il
small, fair. round-trimmed beard" II
this is the case, Godfrey must have had
eyes and complexion to correspond, at
least to the second adjective.
Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke say
that Dickens eyes were large, dark blue,
exquisitely shaped, fringed with magnid-
Gently long and thick lashes. They now
swan in liquid, limpid sufrusion when
tears started into them from a sense Of
humor or a sense Of pathos, and r2cc
darted quick flashes of fire y5en some
generous indignation 9tlh1instice' or some
feeling of admiration at
~ShAnimity, or some sudden emotion of
interest and excitement touched them"
Conway says Carlyle had a blue eye that
suggested tenderness, hat nowhere else
appeared in his manner or conversation
1t was a commendable spirit of fore sight,
or aftersight, which must have prompted
Mr.. Conway to make the latter portion of
that remark.
Emma Lazarus says Emerson had clear
gray-blue eyes.
Bryant has bright blue eyes, II we may
believe the evertruthful newspapers.
Iongfellow had gray eyes.
Joaquin Miller has gray eyes.
Margaret Fuller had gray eyes SO had
Gail Hamilton and Julia Ward Howe.
Louisa NJ. Alcott, beloved of all the
young folks. has large dark blue eyes.
OTHERS OF THE LIST.
Mrs. Gaskell says that Charlotte Bronte
had "reddish-brown eyes" but Frances
Gerry Fairchild said she had hazel
gray eyes. This same writer says
Cleopatra had auburn hair and
was freckled Uhe most I'M
kindest cut of ALL, and that her eyes were
not black. but of the tawny and tigerish
yellow so often found in conjunction with
terrific passion and a desperate spirit.
But Cleopatra wa not SO much celebrated
for her literary exploits as for exploits of
another kind.
Burning Sappho' is said to have passed
from memory except rs n spectre of the
tragic passion and a tress OF golden hair. "
Ruskin, he whose given name Is John,
has yes gray and sparkling. Whittier's
eyes are soft and dark. Holmes has
"twinkling brown eyes, Maurice Thomp-
son has the piercing black eyes and swar-
thy complexion OF the southerner that he
is. | talked with him twenty minutes,
a few months since, with the morning
sun In his eyes. | could not call his eyes
either large or particularly beautiful. But
such AS they are, they have looked deep
into nature and found there loneliness more
often than otherwise unnoticed by eyes
of the highest order Of beauy. Madame
De Stael had black eyes. Mrs. Browning
had large brown eyes. The color of Poe's
eyes is disputed. Some writers say they
were gray and others called them brown
Milton had auburn hair, and his school
fellows called him "the blond beauty.
Alphonso Daudet says Victor Hugo's eye;
were deep End soft, but cold.
Howells eyes are gray, while II. James
Jr., is said to gaze upon the Bostonians
(whom lie 50 dearly loves and who SC
ardently reciprocatc his affection), as well
AS the small remaining portion of She
world, with a pair OF black eyes. George
w. Cable has hazel eyes.
Not having had a personal acquaintance
with many OF the earlier writer's, notably
Horace, Virgil, Plato, Aristotle, and Plu-
tarch, and having no description of them
Mt hand, the writer is not prepared to state
whether or not they were blondes. Enough
examples have been given, however, &c
demonstrate the fact that there is always
a fair proportion of Of the ~literati fair, and
those who have not the "flashing black
eyes of genius need not cease their en-.
deayors because lacking such endow.
ments. Mary Durham in Chicago Times