written beneath will be, of course, 'This is some country.' The
philosophic gazer on such a monument might get some way towards
understanding the making of the Panama Canal, that exploit that no
European nation could have carried out.

What facial type the sculptor would give the youth is harder to
determine, and very hard to describe. The American race seems to have
developed two classes, and only two, the upper-middle and the lower-
middle. Their faces are very distinct. The upper-class head is long,
often fine about the forehead and eyes, and very cleanly outlined. The
eyes have an odd, tired pathos in them--mixed with the friendliness that
is so admirable--as if of a perpetual never quite successful effort to
understand something. It is like the face of an only child who has been
brought up in the company of adults. I am convinced it is partly due to
the endeavour to set their standards by the culture and traditions of
older nations. But the mouth of such men is the most typical feature. It
is small, tight, and closed downwards at the corners, the lower lip very
slightly protruding. It has little expression in it, and no curves.
There the Puritan comes out. But no other nation has a mouth like this.
It is shared to some extent by the lower classes; but their mouths tend
to be wider and more expressive. Their foreheads are meaner, and their
eyes hard, but the whole face rather more adaptive and in touch with
life. These, anyhow, are the types that strike one in the Eastern
cities. And there are intermediate varieties, as of the genial business-
man, with the narrow forehead and the wide, smooth--the too wide and
too smooth--lower face. Smoothness is the one unfailing characteristic.
Why do American faces hardly ever wrinkle? Is it the absence of a soul?
It must be. For it is less true of the Bostonian than of the ordinary
business American, in whose life exhilaration and depression take the
place of joy and suffering. The women's faces are more indeterminate,