FAVOURITE HOURS.
[To TER EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Will you allow me to say, with reference to the letter in the Spectator of June 26th under the heading of " Favourite
Hours," the writer of which remarks: " You speak of Jewett, who thought old age the happiest time of life, and you say : We should doubt whether any other man ever agreed with him,' " that I am now half through my seventy-ninth year, and I think if it were not for the war, which prevents anybody from being really happy, I should be disposed to regard the present as the best part of my life so far as health of body and serenity of mind are concerned P But then I have no recollection of ever having enjoyed life very much, though I acknowledge that I have reason to be thankful for the whole of it. I should like to add that I am happy to say that nobody will be able to think of me as having a
"beaming, beautiful face,"—I am, Sir, &C., NEMO.
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