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as they should, and though we are rather- more favourably

impressed by gloomy or anxious faces the margin is only a small one. We like kind faces, but an entire Cabinet suffused throughout with benignity would make us feel uneasy. There may, there must, be something wrong about being hard-faced, but, since there is much to be said against every possible alternative, what it really boils down to is that politicians ought not to have faces at all. If this could be arranged one might feel quite differently about Dr. Dalton.