That veteran man of letters, Mr. Frederic Harrison, has just ontered upon his 90th year. 4 representative of "The Times" who called upon him at his home in Bath could not discover any sign of old age. "Yes," he said, speaking rapidly and crisply, "(Monday is my 89th birthday, and as I enter. upon the 90th year of a fortunate life I have much to be thankful for. I retain all my faculties, and feel hardly any personal change. Eyes, ears, hands and fect hold out. I read without glacees, have good hearing, walk two or three miles a day, and sleep, eight hours at night; enjoying; Nature, art, society, and books as} much as ever. As Cicero reports of Cate the elder, 'I have no fault to find with old age.'
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