ay--A Compact--Fragrant Memories
XXII Death--The Real and the Ideal--A Thunder Shower--Storm
and Shadow
XXIII The Club--Homewards--The Garden of God
XXIV The Romance of Life--The Renewal of Youth--Youth
XXV A Narrow Path--A Letter--Asceticism--The Narrow Soul
XXVI Activity--Work--Isolation
XXVII Progress--Country Life--Sustained Happiness--The Twilight
XXVIII Democracy--Individualism--Corporateness--Materialism
XXIX Bees--A Patient Learner
XXX Flowers--The Garden
XXXI A Man of Science--Prophets--A Tranquil Faith--Trustfulness
XXXII Classical Education--Mental Discipline--Mental
Fertilisation--Poetry--The August Soul--The Secret of a
Star--The Voice of the Soul--Choice Studies--Alere Flammam
XXXIII Music--Church Music--Musicians--The Organ--False Asceticism
XXXIV Pictorial Art--Hand and Soul--Turner--Raphael--Secrets of Art
XXXV Artistic Susceptibility--An Apologia--Temperament--Criticism
of Life--The Tangle
XXXVI The Mill--The Stream's Pilgrimage
XXXVII A Garden Scene--The Wine of the Soul
XXXVIII The Lakes--On the Fell--Peace
XXXIX A Friend--The Gate of Life
XL A Funeral Pomp--The Daily Manna--The Lapsing Moment
XLI Following the Light--Sincerity
XLII Aconite--The Dropping Veil

BESIDE STILL WATERS

I

The Family--The Scene--The Church--Childhood--Books

Hugh Neville was fond of tender and minute retrospect, and often
indulged himself, in lonely hours, with the meditative pleasures of
memory. To look back into the old years was to him like gazing into a
misty place, with sudden and bright glimpses, and then the cloud closed
in again; but it was not only with his own life that he concerned
himself; he liked to trace in fancy his father's eager boyhood, brought
up as he had been in a great manufacturing town, by a mother of
straitened means, who yet maintained, among all her restrictions, a
careful tradition of gentle blood and honourable descent. The children
of that household had been nurtured with no luxuries and few
enjoyments. Every pound of the small income had had its appointed use;
but being, as they were, ardent, emotional natures, they had contrived
to extract the best kind of pleasure out of books, art, and music; and
the only trace that survived in Hugh's father of the old narrow days,
was a deep-seated hatred of wastefulness and luxury, which, in a man