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--A Great Church at Norwich--_Ave Verum_ in the Kirk--Fort Augustus Post-bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 CHAPTER XII.--1911.