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A New Medley of Memories
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CONTENTS
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
{x}
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-
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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
{x}
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-
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