The writer desires, in conclusion, to express his gratitude not only for the loan of Lord Bute's letters, but for the kind help he has received from many quarters in the elucidation (especially) of details regarding his childhood and youth. In this connection his thanks are particularly due to the late Earl of Galloway and his sisters for their interesting reminiscences of Bute's boyhood at Galloway House; and also to the family of the late Mr. Charles Scott Murray for some particulars of his life during the critical years of his early manhood. + DAVID OSWALD HUNTER BLAIR, O.S.B. CHRISTMAS, 1920. [1] "It is for the profit of young men to have known all these things." Terence, _Eunuchus_, v. 4, 18. [2] Mgr. Capel. _Post_, p. 75. See also p. 111. [3] "It has ever been a hobby of mine, though perhaps it is a truism, not a hobby, that the true life of a man is in his letters.... Not only for the interest of a biography, but for the arriving at the insides of things, the publication of letters is the true method. Biographers varnish, they conjecture feelings, they assign motives, they interpret Lord Burleigh's nods; but contemporary letters are facts." (_Newman to his sister, Mrs. John Mozley_, May 18, 1863.) {xi} CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. EARLY LIFE. (1847-1861) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. HARROW AND CHRIST CHURCH. (1862-1866) . . . . . . . . . 18 III. RELIGIOUS INQUIRIES--RECEPTION POSTPONED--COMING OF AGE. (1867, 1868) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 IV. DANESFIELD--RECEPTION INTO CATHOLIC CHURCH. (1867-1869) 60 V. THE _WESTERN MAIL_--ROME AND THE COUNCIL--RETURN TO SCOTLAND. (1869-1871) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 VI. MARRIAGE--HOME AND FAMILY LIFE--VISIT TO MAJORCA. (1871-1874) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 VII. LITERARY WORK--THE _SCOTTISH REVIEW_. (1875-1886) . . . 117 VIII. LITERARY WORK--_continued_. (1886, 1887) . . . . . . . 137 IX. FOREIGN TRAVEL--ST. JOHN'S LODGE--MAYOR OF CARDIFF. (1888-1891) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 X. FREEDOM OF GLASGOW--WELSH BENEFACTIONS--ST. ANDREWS. (1891-1894) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 XI. NOTES AND ANECDOTES--ST. ANDREWS (2)--PROVOST OF ROTHESAY. (1894-1897) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 XII. ARCHITECTURAL WORK--PSYCHICAL RESEARCH--CONCLUSION. (1898-1900) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 APPENDICES