7 DECEMBER 1907, page 25

Tea-parties.

T ALK at country tea-tables is not what it used to be. Everything has changed except the talkers. Gossip no longer plays a pre-eminent part. • There is gossip, of course, but it......

When Does Old Age Begin?

I N his inaugural lecture at Oxford Professor Freeman complained that, while he was required to lecture on "Modern History," and various details as to the number and place of......