The Saint Paul globe., 1898-04-24

lay figures selected by the writer's
from among the people with whom
they We're acquainted.
The most recent instance of this is
"Sherlock Holmes" The Scotch pro-
fessor upon whom Conan Doyle found
ed the great detective has been re-
cOsnized, and has been written up
again and again, until he is as we'll
known as the detective.
The original of the character of
MicaWber, who eternaHy looked for
something TO turn up, was Charles
Dickens own father, as is ellknoWn.
while the weak and easily victimized
Mrs. Nickleby was the mother of the
novelist. Boythorn. in Bleak House,
caused quarrel between Dickens and
Walter Savage Landor for the latter
recognized in the character his own
peculiarities, and resented the fact
| that he had been so treated Leigh
! Hunt was angry with Dickens because
| the fomOus character of Harold Skim
| pole in the same book resembed his
mannerisms so closely that there was
! TO possibility of the likeness not being
! recognized.
The original Of Thackeray's Bulwig
| in Yellow-Plush Papers was no other
! than BulWer, and there was a tremen-
! dous row over the naming Of a murder
ess in one Of his books, Catherine
| Hayes, which was the name of a fam
| Gus sOngstress. Andrew Archdehne
was the original of Thackeray's Foker.
Archdehne never forgave Thackeray
| the liberty taken with him. The cele-
| brated DIR. Cornish was Thackeray's
| Portman, and young Grubstreet, in the
| ''Virginiars," was Edmund Yates to a
| dot, Costi9an, in The Round about
| Papers" was a composite figure built
! OH the peculiarities of several living
ny01o nly - o11
| edged.
Nathaniel Haw; horne was kept busy,
| after the publication of 'The House Of
Seven Gables" assuring a large and
ever multiplying army of Pyncheons
that his character of that name had
not been drawn from life. SO easily
were Charlotte Bronte's characters in
Shirley" recognized by their originals
| that the latter called each other by
| their fictitious names.
Byron wrote of his own peculiarities
Of life and temperament in his verse,
| Alfred de Musset did the same thing,
| Nine. de Stael depicted herself in Co
| rinne" and "DelDhine," and Thacle-
| rays portrait can easily be recognized
| In Pendennis. DR.. Holland Is supposed
| to be the original of the villain in his
novel Of Bitter Sweet and many
people believed that Amalie Rives
| Chanler was the original of her heroine
| IN Inc quick or the Dead; Charles
| Keade admitted that he was his own
lay figure in drawing the character Of
| Rolfe; Charlotte Bronte was Jane Eyre,
ard George Eliot was a composite Of
Romola, Maggie Tulliver and possibly
Dorothea; Goldsmith was his own origl-
nal in 'The Good-Natured Man." while
Fielding was the original of Tom Jones
Dante wrote his enemies in hell and
Michael Angelo painted them in Dry
den was noted for his satires on living
persons. Pope actually erased the name
of one Of his characters and put Colly
Cibber's in its place. Byron heavily
scored his critics and Bulwer did a like
| office for Tennyson. Bulwer was rather
accomplished in this respect He satir-
lied the Athenaeum magazine in Paul
Clifford Even George ", Of Eng
land, was depicted as the keeper Of a
low den in the same novel,
| Uphoisterinq.