26 JUNE 1915, Page 15

FAVOURITE HOURS.

[To rex ELITTOZ OF TH7 n 13,7GTAT07.1 Sin,—In your article on "Favourite Hours" in the Spectator of June 19th you speak of Jowett, who thought old age the happiest time of life, and you say; "We should doubt whether

any other man ever agreed with him." The late Dr. Paton, of Nottingham, happened to be a visitor at our house on his seventy-fourth birthday, and, in answer to congratulations, he said "People sometimes ask which is the happiest time of life. I think I should say it is when one is seventy-four." His beautiful, beaming face, remembered so well by his friends, verified his words.—I am, Sir, &a.,

Mani H. L. BUNTING.