APPEARANCE OF LOED BEACONSFIELD.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3065, 11 December 1878, Page 2

APPEARANCE OF LOED BEACONSFIELD.

A. London correspondent, describing Lord Beaconsfield as he entered the House of Lords after his return from Berlin, writes:—" His face has been well described as a mask. That is a common ! simile, which finds pictoral expression in 1 the sphinx; but there is a soul behind it. I fancy that' vacant look' is the result of practised disguise of feeling. A face that tells no secrets, eyes that can look unconcerned on all occasions, a mouth with tho lips that never tremble, must be usefu[ to great politicians and ' diplomatists. Depend upon it, many a time the fierce fires of passion have burned red and hot behind that human mask; but everything' comes by practice, and Disraeli is an actor who can control the expressions of his features, and administer in his strongest feelings .with the., discreet management of a great hiatibnic artist. The common people look at him wonder* ingly, his peers don't understand him; only Montague Cory, I suspect, knows him thoroughly, now that his wife is no more. How much in the past he owed to the patient devotion of that good woman the Premier touchingly made known during her lifetime; and there must be something good in a man to whom a true, noble woman is as devotedly attached when they tread the downhill of. life together as she is in the heyday of their ambitious hopes. The: Premier's wife—• one of the best of women—was devoted tohim. She was his only companion* They went together everywhere, like twoclose friends. When she died his bitterest political foes expressed a deep sorrow for him."