How Doss it Feel to be Old? By Edward Marston.
(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. Is. net.)—Mr. Marston discourses pleasantly on the feelings of old age. He has not much to complain of. His hearing—he is in his eighty-third year, he tells us—is unimpaired, and his sight adequately preserved, though he finds himself obliged to use long-distance spectacles. Probably much younger men would find that they lose a good deal un- consciously in sharpness of outline and brilliancy of colour by not using them. The loss of memory troubles him. Here age always makes itself felt, and it can hardly fail to be a painful experience. The measure of sleep is not satisfactory. To go to bed at 10 30 and to remain awake till 2.30 looks like a grievous affliction. Wakefulness in the morning is far more endurable. One cannot help asking,—Why go to bed if you are sure not to sleep ?
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