PEN PICTURES OE LORD SALISBURY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5302, 24 September 1885, Page 4

PEN PICTURES OE LORD SALISBURY.

The new Premier is not of., very prepossessing appearance, and at the Berlin" Conference looked clumsy and coarse alongside of the picturesque and romantic figure of Disraeli. He is pictured by a good peri-painter as a very unwieldy and very ugly man. Massive, and at the same time ill-shaped and flabby, with a corporation far beyond his years, and shoulders broad and stooped, he is as ungainly a specimen of a man as there is in either House of. Parliament. Then his face, which is unhealthily pallid, is surrounded by bristling, black, dishevelled hair, which leaves scarcely a bit of his cheeks uncovered ; the eyes are set and have a curiously sombre and furtive look, and altogether he looks what would be called a hulking customer.^. He is, however, extremely genial arid agreeable in private conversation. Though his speeches breathe rancor arid fire and brimstone, he talks quietly and reasonably, and his boasted imperiousness of will is understood to hide real infirmity of purpose. He is almost a despotic ruler of the House of Lords, which registers his wishes as the Conservative leader.