16 JANUARY 1915, Page 24

Cato learned Greek when he was past eighty, and his

example has been an encouragement to the aged ever since. Even more greatly daring is the Rev. W. Spooner Smith, who had never set foot outside the United States until he started on a trip round the world in his eighty-seventh year, and who now records his impressions in Travel Notes of an Octogenarian (Boston: the Gorham Press, $i-so). He visited Great Britain, Norway, Egypt, the Holy Land, India, China, and Japan, and took a boyish delight in all he saw of the beautiful world. The keynote of his book is the statement that " the glory still continues to divulge," and it leaves us filled with admiration for the author's protracted powers of enjoyment.