2 Mr. Edward Arnold's Autumn Announcements. 



wisdom, his magnanimity, and his love of country. The tragic 

 waste of great opportunities is portrayed in a story which has the 

 quality of drama in it. Beside the picture of John Redmond 

 himself there is sketched the gallant and sympathetic figure of his 

 brother, who, after thirty-five years of parliamentary service, died 

 with the foremost wave of his battalion at the battle of Messines. 



A MEDLEY OF MEMORIES. 



By the RT. REV. SIR DAVID HUNTER BLAIR, BART. 

 \Vith Illustrations, i vol. Demy 8vo. i6s. net. 



Sir David Hunter Blair, late Abbot of Fort Augustus, in the first 

 part of these fifty years' recollections, deals with his childhood and 

 youth in Scotland, and gives a picture full of varied interest of 

 Scottish country house life a generation or more ago. Very vivid, 

 too, is the account of early days at what was then the most 

 famous private school in England ; and the chapter on Eton under 

 Balston and Hornby gives thumbnail sketches* of a great many 

 Etonians, school-contemporaries of the writer's, and bearing names 

 afterwards very well known for one reason or another. Eton was 

 followed by Magdalen; and undergraduate life in the Oxford of 1872 

 is depicted with a light hand and many amusing touches. There 

 was foreign travel after the Oxford days ; and two of the most 

 pleasantly descriptive chapters of the book deal with Rome in 

 the reign of Pius IX. and Leo XIII., both of which Pontiffs the 

 author served as Private Chamberlain. There is much also that 

 is fresh and interesting in the section treating of the lives and 

 personalities of some of the great English Catholic families of 

 by-gone days. 



Sir David entered the Benedictine Order at the age of twenty- 

 five ; and the latter half of the book is concerned with his life as 

 co-founder, and member of the community of, the great Highland 

 Abb'ey of Fort Augustus, of which he rose later to be the second 

 abbot. The intimate account given in these pages of the life of a 

 modern monk will be new to most readers, who will find it very 

 interesting reading. The writer's monastic experiences embrace 

 not only his own beautiful home in the Central Highlands, but 

 Benedictine life and work in England, in Belgium, Germany and 

 Portugal, and in South America. One of the most novel and 

 attractive chapters in the book is that dealing with the work of 

 the Order in the vast territory of Brazil. 



The volume is illustrated with an excellent portrait, and with 

 some clever black-and-white drawings, the work of Mr. Richard 

 Anson, one of the author's religious brethren, and a member of 

 the Benedictine community at Caldey Abbey, in South Wales. 



