There is, among his voluminous writings, a curious and interesting _Revelation concerning Purgatory_, purporting to be a woman's dream about one, Margaret, a soul in Purgatory. Amidst much natural horror, not however exceeding that described by Dante, there are many quaint side-lights thrown upon our forefathers' ways of thought; as _e.g._, when Margaret's soul is weighed in one scale, against the fiend, "and a great long worm with him," in the other; the worm of conscience, in fact. But the work has not been included in this volume, lest it should prove wholly unprofitable to a generation which if it be not readily disturbed by sin, is easily and quickly shocked by crude suggestions concerning its possible consequences and reward. They will find enough, perhaps, in the treatise _on Daily Work_. If any one should think that there, and in one portion of the treatise _on Grace_, Rolle has dwelt harshly on considerations of fear, rather than on those of love, he must not make the mistake of concluding that these admonitions represent the whole of Catholic teaching on the point. Men's temperaments differ, and teachers, meeting these various tempers, differ in their modes of helping them. Side by side with Richard Rolle may be put the words of S. Francis Xavier, in what is perhaps the most beautiful of Christian hymns:-- My GOD, I love Thee; not because I hope for heaven thereby, Nor yet because who love Thee not Are lost eternally. . . . . . . Not for the hope of gaining aught, Not seeking a reward; But as Thyself hast loved me, O ever-loving Lord! Moreover, no reader of the Epistle _on Charity_ can entertain any doubt as to whether our English Mystic understood the mystery of limitless love. It is no doubt, easy to complain, as we read certain passages, that Richard Rolle's recommendations are neither new nor original: but if instead of dismissing them as familiar, we tried to put them into practice, we should perhaps have less leisure for idle criticism of others, and ourselves be less evil and tiresome people.