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