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CONTENTS OF VOL. III

CHAPTER I

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THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE (1850-1860)473

Author’s poem “Mont Blanc Revisited” (1845). 1. His then religious temper-Influence of hills on him and generally. 2. Visit to the Grande Chartreuse (1849): “We do not come here to look at the mountains.” 3. St. Bruno and the Carthusians: their limitations. 4. Author’s experiences of monks and nuns -Miss Edgeworth’s Sister Frances-Visit to the Convent of St. Michael at Le Puy (1840). 5. Catholicism of Chamouni: Wordsworth quoted. 6. Florentine monks: the monks at Assisi and Venice. 7. Author’s reflections: the religion of useful work. 8. The work of the Carthusians: Hugo of Lincoln. 9. Turner and the Grande Chartreuse. 10, 11, 12. Summary of author’s life, 1850-1860. 13. The Working Men’s College-D. G. Rossetti and F. D. Maurice. 14. Bible lesson by the latter on Jael-Maurician free-thinking. 15. Pupils at the College-Mr. George Allen. 16. Belgravian Puritanism-Mr. Molyneux-The Prodigal Son. 17. Scotch Puritanism. 18. Author’s first missal-His character as “worker and miser.” 19. Beauty of the Catholic liturgy. 20. Sabbatarianism. 21. A Sunday at Rheinfelden (1858): Author’s first Sunday drawings. 22. Bellinzona. 23. Autumn at Turin-Service at a Waldensian chapel- Veronese’s “Queen of Sheba”-Author’s rejection of Evangelicalism.

CHAPTER II

MONT VELAN (1854-1856)497

24. Author leaves Turin (1858). 25. A further note on Maurice and the story of Jael-Prout’s death. 26, 27. Author’s dog “Wisie.” 28. Author’s life, 1854: meetings with Macaulay and Bishop Wilberforce-Mrs. Cowper-Temple. 29. With Mr. Cowper-Temple to visit Lord Palmerston at Broadlands-Palmerston, Gladstone, and D’Israeli. 30-33. An encounter with D’Israeli at the Deanery, Christ Church. 34, 35. The author’s interest in Swiss history-The most beautiful of the Swiss Alps-Mont Velan, the ruling Alp of the Great St. Bernard. 36. Early Swiss history-Charlemagne at Zurich on the Limmat. 37. The waters of Switzerland-

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