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PAGE CHAPTER I.—1903-1904. The Premier Duke—Oxford Chancellorship—A Silver Jubilee—In Canterbury Close—Hyde Park Oratory—Oxford under Water—"Twopence each" at Christ Church—Church Music—Gregorian Centenary in Rome—Pope Pius X.—Pilgrims and Autograph—Cradle of the Benedictine Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER II.—1904. "Sermons from Stones"—Alcestis at Bradfield—Whimsical Texts—Old Masters at Ushaw—A Mozart-Wagner Festival—Bismarck and William II.—"Longest Word" Competition—Medal-week at St. Andrews—Oxford Rhodes Scholars—Liddell and Scott—Lord Rosebery at the Union—Oxford Portraits—Wytham Abbey—Christmas in Bute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER III.—1905. A "Catholic Demonstration"—Boy-prodigies—Spring Days in Naples—"C.-B." at Oxford—Medical Sceptics—Blenheim Hospitality—A Scoto-Irish Wedding—Dunskey Transformed—Lunatics up-to-date—Eton War Memorial—Four Thousand Guests at Arundel—At Exton Park—Abbotsford and Blairquhan—Lothair's Bride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 CHAPTER IV.—1905-1906. Modern Gothic—Contrasts in South Wales—Chamberlain's Last Speech—A Catholic Dining-club—Lovat Scouts' Memorial—A Tory débâcle—Hampshire Marriages—On the Côte d'Azur—Three Weddings—An Old Irish Peer—Guernsey in June—A Coming of Age on the Cotswolds—The Warwick Pageant—Bank Holiday at Scarborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 CHAPTER V.—1906-1907. Melrose and Westminster—Newman Memorial Church—The Evil Eye—Catholic Scholars at Oxford—Grace before Meat—A Literary Dinner—A Jamaica Tragedy—An Abbatial Blessing—Deaths of Oxford friends—Robinson Ellis—A Genteel Watering-place—Visit to Dover—Pageants at Oxford and Bury—Hugh Benson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 CHAPTER VI.—1907-1908. Benedictine Honours at Oxford—Anecdotes from Sir Hubert—Everingham and Bramham—Early Rising—Mass in a Deer-forest—A Bishop's Visiting-cards—A Miniature College—Our New Chancellor—Bodley's Librarian—Dean Burgon—A Welsh Bishop—Illness and Convalescence—H.M.S. Victory . . . . . . . 94

CHAPTER VII.—1908. Miss Broughton at Oxford—Notable Trees—An Infantile Rest-cure—Equestrians from Italy—"The Colours"—A Parson's Statistics—Two Anxious Mammas—"Let us Kill Something"—Scottish Dessert—A Highland Bazaar—I Resign Mastership of Hall—Notes on Newman—Scriptural Heraldry—Myres Macership—Scots Catholic Judge—At a château in Picardy—Excursions from Oxford—St. Andrew's Day at Cardiff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 CHAPTER VIII.—1908-1909. Christmas at Beaufort—Annus mirabilis—Kenelm Vaughan—A "Heathen Turk"—Sven Hedin—Centenary of Darwin—Oxford and Louvain—Hugh Cecil on the House of Commons—Arundel itself again—The Bridegroom's Father weeps—Cambridge Fisher Society—Bodleian Congestion—Shackleton at Albert Hall—Oakamoor, Faber, and Pugin—Welsh Pageant—Hampton Court—Father Hell and Mr. Dams!—A Bishop's Portrait—Gleann Mor Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 CHAPTER IX.—1909-1910. The White Garden at Beaufort—Andrew Lang—A Holy Well—The new Ladycross—"My terrible Great-uncle!"—Off to Brazil—-King's Birthday on Board—-The New City Beautiful—Arrival at S. Paulo—-An Abbey Rebuilding—Cosmopolitan State and City—College of S. Bento—Stray Englishmen—Progressive Paulistas—Education in Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 CHAPTER X.—1910. Provost Hornby—Christmas in Brazil—Architecture in S. Paulo—The Snake-farm—Guests at the Abbey—End of the Isolation of Fort Augustus—A Benedictine Festival—Sinister Italians—Death of Edward VII.—Brazilian Funerals—Popular Devotion—"Fradesj estrangeiros"—Football in the Tropics—Homeward Voyage—Santos and Madeira—Sir John Benn . . 170 CHAPTER XI.—1910-1911. A Wiesbaden Eye Klinik—The Rhine in Rain—Cologne and Brussels—Wedding in the Hop-Country—The New Departure at Fort Augustus—St. Andrew's without Angus—Oxford Again—Highland Marriage at Oratory—One Eye versus Two—Cambridge versus Oxford—-A Question of Colour—Ex-King Manuel—A Great Church at Norwich—Ave Verum in the Kirk—Fort Augustus Post-bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 CHAPTER XII.—1911. Monks and Salmon—FitzAlan Chapel—April on Thames-side—My sacerdotal Jubilee—Kinemacolor—Apparition at an Abbey—St. Lucius—Faithful Highlanders—Hay Centenary—Nuns for S. Paulo—A Brief Marriage Ceremony—Pagan Mass-music—Seventeen New Cardinals—Doune Castle—A Quest for our Abbey Church—Great Coal Strike—at Stonyhurst and Ware—Katherine Howard—Twentieth-Century Chinese—An Anglo-Italian Abbey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

CHAPTER XIII.—1912-1913. A Concert for Cripples—Queen Amélie—May at Aix-les-Bains—A Sample Savoyards—Hautecombe—A "Picture of the Year"—A Benedictine O.T.C.—Pugin's "Blue Pencil"—My nomination as Prior—Fort Augustus and the Navy—Work in the Monastery—Ladies in the Enclosure—A Bishop's Jubilee—A Modern Major Pendennis—My Election to Abbacy—Installation Ceremonies—Empress Eugénie at Farnborough—A Week at Monte Cassino—Fatiguing Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 CHAPTER XIV.—1913-1914. St Anselm's, Rome—Election of a Primate—My Uncle's Grave—Milan and Maredsous—Canterbury Revisited—An Oratorian Festival—Poetical Bathos—A Benedictine Chapter—King of Uganda at Fort Augustus—Threefold Work of our Abbey—Funeral of Bishop Turner—Bute Chapel at Westminster—A Patriarchal Lay-brother—Abbot Gasquet a Cardinal—Corpus Christi at Arundel—Eucharistic Congress at Cardiff—The Great War—Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 APPENDIX I. Novissima Verba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 II. Darwin's Credo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271