Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1882 — Gambetta. [ARTICLE]

Gambetta.

[Harper's Monthly.] In the Be)f-eoutaiued, dignilied, somewhat imperious-looking President ol the French Chamber -of 1881, with his admirably lilting dress-coat and spotless white necktie, who daily mounts to his throne-like seat in the chamber, it would he difficult to And traces of the carelessly dressed, liery young Republican of the Baudlu days. M. Gambetta of 4d haH the prematurely aged look of a man who has made in youth heavy drains on his menial resources. Far from appearing like a mau in his prime, he looks like a man who has passed it many years since. The ffgure is heavy aud obese, although Gambetta’s movements are still vigorous, active and alert, and the gesture is as fluent as ever. But the face in repose wears a habitually fatigued expression. It is when he speaks that his Italian fervor returns to him. His greatest personal charm now is to be found id his voice, that wonderful, stirriug, magnetic voice, whose sonorous qualities seem to belong peculiarly to itself. It has in it the piercing, puissant vibrations of a finq brass instrument, making the air thick with sound. Gambetta’s intonations are sucu also that he seems to add something to the '‘delicate* idiom of Pails.” He imparts to Its lightness aud grace an indefinable and noticeable quality of richness and depth.