7 AUGUST 1926, Page 16

PHYSICAL FITNESS IN MIDDLE LIFE [To the Editor of the

SPECTATOR.] 31R4—Your review of Mr. F. A. Hornibrook's sensible little book says " Age is a disease which cannot be cured." As an " old " man of sixty, I wish to contradict that statement, having myself suffered from the disease and having been cured, largely under the influence of Mr. Hornibrook. Length of days has 'nothing to do with it. Some men Suffer from it at thirty years of age. Those whom the gods love never grow old ; theb die young, whatever their age may be.—I am, Sir, &e., Suva, Fiji. May 80th, 1928.

S. BARKER.