434 Personalities of Literati. \Septemher, 



By this means was the island of Pappay rid of a pest, whicli might 

 have reduced to severe distress, by destroying their scanty crop, an 

 already wretched population, the greater part of which has taken refuge 

 in the wilds of Canada. 



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JERROLD. 



Douglas Jerrold, a well-known contributor to Puncli, and editor 

 )f various publications, is a man about 50 years of age, and in person 

 IS remarkably spare and diminutive. His face is sharp, angular, and 

 his eyes are of a grayish hue. He is probably one of the most caustic 

 writers of the age, and with keen sensibility he often writes under the 

 impulse of the moment, articles whicli his cooler judgment condemns. 

 Altliough a believer in hydropathy, his habits do not conform to the 

 internal application of Adam's ale. His Caudle Lectures have been 

 read by every one. In conversation, he is quick at retort — not always 

 refined. He is a husband and grandfather. 



MACAULAY. 



The Hon. T. B. Macaulay is short in stature, round, and with a 

 growing tendency to aldermanic disproportions. His head has the 

 same rotundity as his body, and seems stuck on it as firmly as a pin- 

 head. This is nearly the sum of his personal defects 5 all else, except 

 the voice (which is monotonous and disagreeable), is certainly in his 

 favor. His face seems literally instinct with expression; the eye, 

 above all, full of deep thought and meaning. As he walks, or rather 

 straggles along the streets, he seems as if in a state of total abstraction, 

 unmindful of all that is going on around him, and solely occupied with 

 his own working mind. You can not help thinking that literature 

 with him is not a mere profession or pursuit, but that it has almost 

 grown a part of himself, as though historical problems or analytical 

 criticism were a part of his daily and regular intellectual food. 



BAILEY. 



He is a thick-set sort of a man ; a stature below the middle size; 

 complexion dark, and in years about eight-and-thirty. His physiog- 

 nomy would be clownish in expression, if his eyes did not redeem his 



