A New Medley of Memories

The object of the great gathering, in the summer of 1913, of Benedictine abbots in Rome, whither they had been especially summoned by the _Abbas Abbatum_, Pope Pius X., was not...

The opening of the Long Vacation of 1907 was pleasantly signalized for us Benedictines by the gratifying successes in the Final Schools of our little Hall, which secured two fir...

Before returning to Oxford for the autumn term of 1906, I spent a pleasant ten days at Abbotsford with my old friends the Lane Foxes, and visited with them Dryburgh Abbey, Galas...

I passed the closing days of the summer term of 1908 very pleasantly at Oxford, receiving many kindnesses from old friends, mingled with expressions of regret that my official c...

Our brothers had good success this year with the spring salmon-netting in Loch Ness; and I myself witnessed the landing one afternoon of nine clean fish, all scaling between fif...

There had been an official visitation, by Abbot Gasquet, of our abbey at Fort Augustus in January, 1905. I had been unable to attend it, but the news reached me at Oxford that o...

The Lovat family were all interested in St. Vincent's Home for Cripples, near London, where a daughter of the house (a Sister of Charity) was a nurse; and I attended at their in...

The first news that reached me on my landing at Southampton on July 17, 1910, was that my nephew, Alan Boyle, the intrepid young airman, had been seriously hurt at Bournemouth--...

Since my first visit to Brazil in 1896-97, my Benedictine friends labouring in that vast country had frequently expressed the wish that I should, if possible, return and help th...

An event of Benedictine interest in the autumn of 1905, and one which attracted many visitors to Downside, our beautiful abbey among the Mendip Hills, was the long-anticipated o...

I spent the Christmas of 1908, as usual, very pleasantly at Beaufort. For the first time for many years the family was absolutely _au complet_: the services of the season in the...

The early days of December brought me news from England of the death of Provost Hornby, my old head master at Eton, aged well over eighty. He had birched me three times;[1] stil...

I take up again the thread of these random recollections in the autumn of 1903, the same autumn in which I kept my jubilee birthday at St. Andrews. I went from there successivel...

Abbot Gasquet, who had many friends in Oxford, was much in residence there during the summer of 1904, as he was giving the weekly conferences to our undergraduates. His host, Mg...

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 Uga...

A Concert for Cripples--Queen Amelie--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 a...

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 itse...

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"--Scott...

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--Highla...

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....

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...

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 Itali...

Modern Gothic--Contrasts in South Wales--Chamberlain's Last Speech--A Catholic Dining-club--Lovat Scouts' Memorial--A Tory _debacle_--Hampshire Marriages--On the _Cote d'Azur_--...

"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...

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...

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...