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Show HOW DRET HARTE LOOKED, Winning Personality of the Great Call fornla Author. Mr. Howclls gives us soma charming romlnlsconces of Urot Harto In tho Easy Chair of Harper's, relating to a week's visit Harto paid him whon tho latter camn East from California. Mr. Howclls thus describes tho author of "Tho Luck of Itoarlng Camp:" "Ho was then, as always, n child of extreme ex-treme fashion as to his clothos and tho cut of his beard, which ho woro In a mustache and tho drooping sldo whiskers of the day, and bis Jovial physiognomy was as winning as his voice, with Its straight noso nnd fascinating fas-cinating forward thrust ot tho under Up, Its fine oyo3, and good forehead then thickly crowned with black hair which grow early white, whllo his mu&tncho ronmlncd dark. ... He was, as ono could not help scolng, thickly pitted, but nfter the first glanco ono forgot this.." Pittsburg Press. |