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Show A Potraitof Castelar. Accompanying a frontispiece portrait of Spain's greatest orator, in the March Century, are two papers, from one of which, by A. A. Adee, we quote the following: fol-lowing: "It was my good fortune to meet Castelar in the autumn of 1869, when he was flushed with the triumph of 'the greatest effort of his life,' his fervid I speech on the Spanish Constitution. The first impression one has on seeing him is that nature has exhausted herself in building a perfect machine for human vocal utterance. Slightly above the middle mid-dle height, and stoutly built without positive pos-itive corpulence, his notably erect carriage car-riage gives to his splendidly rounded chest seemingly titanic proportions. The effect is enhanced, perhaps, by his habit of wearing a low-cut waistcoat and a slender necktie, leaving a snowy expanse of linen, on which a rare ink-spot at times attests the absorbing character of his studious pursuits. A low collar shows the prominent promi-nent sinews of a neck of almost taurine contour. Square, powerful jaws enframe a large straight-cut. mouth. The lips slightly sensuous in their fullness, are half-hidden by a heavy moustache of wiry, dark-brown hair, curved enough to relieve it from the suspicion of bristliness. He is always clean-shaven as to cheek and chin, which makes the clearness of his slightly florid complexion more no-ticable, no-ticable, and brines into relief button of a mole just below the left corner cor-ner of the mouth. I saw no trace of stub-r stub-r ble on his face, even in the saddest days of the Republic, when he, the responsible responsi-ble head of its power, saw the inevitable end approaching, and, like poor Lincoln, after Fredericksburg, might have said, if there is a soul out of hell that suffers more than I, God pity him !' His head thrown well back, tip-tilts his no3e more than nature intended. It might be a better bet-ter nose, but he seems to be satisfied 1T1'h.lt, ,Tne eJ'es are. limpid, neither j strikingly large nor dark, but they have a way of looking onefrankly through and through, as with self-consciousness of integrity in-tegrity of convictions. Well-rounded brows slope upwards into a somewhat receding re-ceding forehead, made more conspicuous by baldness. One looks, and sighs for the super-human frontal bulk of Webster. Yieiar s enm, too, is inadequate. It is delicately rounded, but there ought to be more of it. If he had possessed Serano's forehead and chin, the Spanish Republic might have been a living thing to-dav "But his voice! Like Salvini'g, o'nee heard it is never to be forgotten Whether in the softly modulated tones of conversation, when the peculiar Anda- i lusian accentuation is now and then char-1 actenstic, or rising to the sober force of I demonstrative declamation, or trembling with feeling, or sweeping all before it in I a wild Nmgara of invective, it is always ! ! resonant His slightest whisper pierces to the farthest corner of the Hall of Dep-' uties, his . fiercest Boanerges-blast is i never harsh. This orator found his i clnefest implement ready fashioned to his I use. He never had to fill his mouth with sea-shore pebbles." . " |