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 {xi} 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 {1} A NEW MEDLEY OF MEMORIES CHAPTER I 1903-1904