Hugh: Memoirs of a Brother. Benson Arthur Christopher

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       Arthur Christopher Benson

      Hugh: Memoirs of a Brother

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066178932

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       HUGH

       I

       HARE STREET

       II

       CHILDHOOD

       III

       TRURO

       IV

       BOYHOOD

       V

       AT WREN'S

       VI

       CAMBRIDGE

       VII

       LLANDAFF

       VIII

       THE ETON MISSION

       IX

       KEMSING AND MIRFIELD

       X

       THE CHANGE

       XI

       THE DECISION

       XII

       CAMBRIDGE AGAIN

       XIII

       HARE STREET

       XIV

       AUTHORSHIP

       XV

       FAILING HEALTH

       XVI

       THE END

       XVII

       BURIAL

       XVIII

       PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

       XIX

       RETROSPECT

       XX

       ATTAINMENT

       XXI

       TEMPERAMENT

       INDEX

PREFACE

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      This book was begun with no hope or intention of making a formal and finished biography, but only to place on record some of my brother's sayings and doings, to fix scenes and memories before they suffered from any dim obliteration of time, to catch, if I could, for my own comfort and delight, the tone and sense of that vivid and animated atmosphere which Hugh always created about him. His arrival upon any scene was never in the smallest degree uproarious, and still less was it in the least mild or serene; yet he came into a settled circle like a freshet of tumbling water into a still pool!

      I knew all along that I could not attempt any account of what may be called his public life, which all happened since he became a Roman Catholic. He passed through many circles—in England, in Rome, in America—of which I knew nothing. I never heard him make a public speech, and I only once heard him preach since he ceased to be an Anglican. This was not because I thought he would convert me, nor because I shrank from hearing him preach a doctrine to which I did not adhere, nor for any sectarian reason. Indeed, I regret not having heard him preach and speak oftener; it would have interested me, and it would have been kinder and more brotherly; but one is apt not to do the things which one thinks one can always do, and the fact that I did not hear him was due to a mixture of shyness and laziness, which I now regret in vain.

      But I think that his life as a Roman Catholic ought to be written fully and carefully, because there were many people who trusted and admired and loved him as a priest who would wish to have some record of his days. He left me, by a will, which we are carrying out, though