Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-19
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

HERMAN MELVILLE, who. 40 years ago,
charmed all lovers of the wild and picturesque
in writing, is still living In New York, although
he has not written anything for 80 years. His
hair is now as white as snow.
IT is not generally known that there are in ex-
istence some very spirited ballads by Lord
Macaulay, which, in accordance with the
authors wish. have never been published. The
best Of them relates the story of Bosworth field.
BARON HIRscH, one of the richest of the
French bankers, who was blackballed few
months ago by the Paris Jockey Club, is about
to take his household to England. He thinks of
buying Houghton Hail. one of the most mag
nifcent of English places, near Sandringham,
for f300 900 The Baron is reputed to be worth
910, ,0O0, 900.
APPLETON MORGAN, founder and President
of the New York Shakespeare Society, is very
like Napoleon in appearance, and Is fair, fat
and 40.. His home is at Newtown, Long Island,
where he has a choice library, which is particu-
larly rich In Shakespeareana. He is a lawyer
by profession, bnt, like Master Shallow, he had
very little love for it in the beginning and it
pleased heaven to lessen it on a better ac.
quaintance
COUNT D'ORsAY was Bohemian Of the
grand, princely type. For quarter of CEN
tury he was the glass of fashion of the London
world, although he was SO deeply in debt and
SO harrassed by bailiffs that it was on Sunday
only he conld stir out of DOORS for fear of being
arrested. But on every Sunday he appeared in
Hyde Park resplendent in person and turnout,
for he was the most accomplished whip amongt
the fashionable gentlemen of his day.
DONALD g. MITCHELL, who is perhaps bet
ter known by his nom de plume of six Marvel"
has fine, clear-cut and decidedly aristocratic
features, reminding one of an antique cameo
He dresses in a somewhat picturesque style, is
fond of gay clothes. and looks like a literary
man. He has gathered at his home at Edge.
wood fine library, and some choice pictures
and beautiful things from many lands. He has
a large family. for his reveries have been
broken in upon by ten children, and their
mother is Just the gentle, lovely lady that
belongs to an authors home.
!. HENRY C. BUNNER, the editor of Puck. is
quite young man. He began life as clerk
in New Y ork cotton brokers' office, but hay-
ing literary taste, he wrote verses, stories,
etc. for the weekly papers, which attracted at
tention. by their cleverness and originality.
When Puck was started, he was asked to be-
come its editor, with a liberal salary as an in.
ducement and he gladly exchanged the count
ing room for the sanctum. He is about IS years
old. and although he writes dainty verses.
praising the pleasures of country life, he has
lived in New York nearly all his life. =
WILLIAM u. HowELLs is a Short thick-set.
round-shouldered man, having more the ap-
pearance of Bowery boy than a graceful
humorist His iron-gray hair falls in unkempt
masses over low forehead and his eyes have
more sullenness than intellect in their expires.
sion. He recsives $4,000 year from Hdrper's
Mdqdzi,e. He writes with great rapidity, turn
ing out ten printed pages day on a stretch.
Since the critics, big and little, have begun to
speak plainly about his novels he is not SO sweet
tempered as he was when everything he wrote
was praised to the skies.
MRS. MARGARET ]. PRESTON. the Virginia
poetess, is not blind, as several newspapers
have announced, but she is suffering from the
merciless use of her eyes in her generous
efforts to help Southern literature in the years
which followed the civil war. This incessant
work, day and night, wore out her eyesight,
and for ten years she has been compelled to
dictate her literary work, and also her letters,
to typewriter. In spite of this great draw
back. she brought out three books last year.
She is now 70 years of age but she works STILL
Her husband Colonel ]. 7. L. Preston, is q
professor at the Virginia Military Institute, at
Lexington, Va. He was classmAte Of Edgar
A Poe at private school In Richmond, as far
back as l822 1