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CHAPTER I.—1903-1904.

The Premier Duke—Oxford Chancellorship—A Silver Jubilee—In
  Canterbury Close—Hyde Park Oratory—Oxford under Water—"Twopence
  each" at Christ Church—Church Music—Gregorian Centenary in
  Rome—Pope Pius X.—Pilgrims and Autograph—Cradle of the
  Benedictine Order  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

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

CHAPTER III.—1905.

A "Catholic Demonstration"—Boy-prodigies—Spring Days in
  Naples—"C.-B." at Oxford—Medical Sceptics—Blenheim
  Hospitality—A Scoto-Irish Wedding—Dunskey
  Transformed—Lunatics up-to-date—Eton War Memorial—Four
  Thousand Guests at Arundel—At Exton Park—Abbotsford and
  Blairquhan—Lothair's Bride  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

CHAPTER IV.—1905-1906.

Modern Gothic—Contrasts in South Wales—Chamberlain's Last
  Speech—A Catholic Dining-club—Lovat Scouts' Memorial—A Tory
  débâcle—Hampshire Marriages—On the Côte d'Azur—Three
  Weddings—An Old Irish Peer—Guernsey in June—A Coming of Age
  on the Cotswolds—The Warwick Pageant—Bank Holiday at
  Scarborough  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  56

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

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