224 Mr. Arthur G. Benson on Walter Pater. [Jan. 26, 



live wholly in beauty ; there are other insistent voices that will be 

 heard, other hard experiences which we must face, whether we will 

 or no. But the love of beauty can bring a certain simplicity and 

 sincerity into our hves, can lead us beside the waters of comfort, can 

 tranquillise and uplift us. 



Let us remember the old parable of the man who raked together 

 the straws and the dust of the street. He was right to do it, if it 

 was his work ; but if he could have hearkened, if he could have 

 looked up for a moment from his dreary toil, there was the flashing 

 diadem above his head, and within reach of his forgetful hand. 



[A. C. B.] 



