4 MAY 1901, Page 14

MEMORY IN OLD AGE.

[To TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May it not be that, though we forget, there is one kind of remembrance which, if not direct, is quite trustworthy? We have forgotten some event of our early childhood, but we remember quite well that at a later time we used to tell the story of that event, and we remember too that at the time we used to tell the story we told it with a clear and circumstantial remembrance of the facts. To remember well that once we remembered is probably the basis of many reminiscences in old age.—I am, Sir, &c.,