These Over Eighties are a virile set. I have said
something earlier about Lord Lugard and Mrs. Sidney Webb, who will both be over eighty by Sunday. A tribute to the latter appears on a later page from Mr. Bernard Shaw, who is 82. Further on in this issue (for I have had the opportunity of seeing proofs) Sir Alfred Hopkinson, who is 86, offers some ripe counsel to Under Thirties, and in the correspondence columns Mr. Aylmer Maude, who was born in 1858, discusses a film adaptation of a Tolstoy story and Mr. Charles Wright, who I fancy dates . from about 1855, makes an apt comment on football-pool operations. Somewhere else Sir Ian Hamilton has been talking about the world as he sees it at 85. The general optimism of age contrasts rather pointedly with the pessimism of a section—only, no doubt, a section—of youth. * * * *
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