Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-21
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

CHARLES EGBERT CRADDoCK is striking IL
Iustration of the old saying that beauty and
brains are seldom found in the same person.
Which does she possess?
ROBERT BROWNING bears remarkable like
ness to the late ]. B. Lippincott, founder of the
well-known Philadelphia publishing house.
This resemblance is both in face and figure.
=GUsTAvE DoRE, the celebrated painter, was
man Of medium size, but with the head of a
poet and the frame of an athlete. Although he
was very rich, he was one of the worst dressed
men in Paris. He was so devoted to his art
that, even in company, when not mapping and
tiddling, he was making sketches. He was a
true Frenchman, and although decorated with
more foreign orders than any of his cotempo-
aaries, no triumph abroad gave him half as
much pleasure as the smallest success won in
Paris.
CHRISTIAN REID. one of the most popular of
the Southern novelists, is the daughter Of
Colonel Fisher, of North Carolina, after whom
Fort Fisher was named. He was one of the
first Confederate officers killed during the Civil
War. Like Miss Phelps, Miss Fisher married
late in life, ann is now Mrs. Tiernan. Since her
marriage, in December, 1883 she has published
nothing. Christian Reid is refined, graceful,
cultivated, an ultra Southerner and jealous
Catholic She is a tall blonde, with beauti-
fully shaped head.
HoRTENsE BERTRAND, daughter of Count
Bertrand, the most faithful of Napoleons Gen
erals is still living in Paris. She accompanied
her father and mother to st. Helena in 1915.
The Emperor taught the little girl her cate
chism, and she made her first communion at
the hands of the same able who administered
the last sacrament to the dying Napoleon.
Hortense returned with her parents to France
and married M. Thayer, gentleman of Amer
ican extraction. She retains a very vivid recol-
lection of the great Emperor and has many
Napoleonic relics, among them his silver serv-
ice, his famous Waterloo coat, etc.
THACKERAY was fond of a good dinner and
when he was in this country enjoyed the terra.
pins and canvas-back ducks of the Chesapeake
He liked to gather few choice spirits around
him and have a good time, but all within the
limits of becoming mIrth, with wine, cigars
stories, etc. He used to enjoy the Saturday
nights at the Century Club, New York, where
he once met DR.. Kane soon.after the latter had
returned from one of his voyages to the North
Pole The doctor told Thackeray how he had
seen sailor reading "Pendennis' by the light
of a train oil lamp beneath polar glacier.
AMANDA NJ. DOUGLAS, the popular novelist.
is one of the few living writer's who knew Edgar
A Poe personally. When the poet was residing
at Fordham, in ls4S she was frequent visitor
at the house of relative whose home was
there. Here Miss Douglas who was a girl at
the time, met Poe, and his large, dark eyes.
broad, white forehead and lofty courtesy made
an indelible impression upon the youthful
Amanda. The poets voice was low. but ex-
quisitely modulated. He never laughed, and
seldom smiled. His smile was sweet but mel
ancholy. Miss Douglas is now nearly go years
old, but is still actively engaged in literary pur-
cuif