3 See “The Salutation” by Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-74), author of Centuries of Meditations.
1 William Woty, Church Lanoton (1768).
2 Rev. Walter P. Morse, S.S.J.E., an American Cowley Father, working at that time at Kalimpong, near Darjeeling.
3 Probably a reviewer.
1 H. W. Northcott, The Venture of Prayer (1950).
2 “The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground.” Ps. 16.7.
1 See The Life and Letters of Father Andrew, S.D.C., p. 133; a letter “to one thinking of joining the Roman Communion.”
1 “By no means.”
1 Rothley Temple in Leicestershire.
2 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), appointed Edward VII Professor of English Literature in 1912, lived during term time at Jesus College, Cambridge.
3 Samuel Daniel (1562-1619).
1 J. Wickham Legg, English Church Life from the Restoration to the Tractarian Movement, Considered in Some of its Neglected or Forgotten Features (1914).
1 “O happy fault (which was counted worthy to have such and so great a redeemer!),” from the Exultet, or “Paschal Praise,” which in the Western liturgy is sung at the blessing of the Paschal Candle on Holy Saturday.
2 “We may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal.”
1 This passage appears to have been provoked by the rude and aggressive letter from a Roman Catholic (dated ioth June, 1952) which R.M. sent to Father Johnson on 25th June.
1 Rev. G. Mercer Williams, S.S.J.E., Father Superior of the Cowley Fathers' American Congregation.
2 The monthly organ of the Modern Churchmen's Union.
3 P. F. Bowles, The Sheltering Sky (1949).
4 Novel by Graham Greene (1943).
1 (Ital. “collection “). An officially approved R.C. prayer book.
2 Hugh Ross Williamson was received into the Roman Church in 1955.
1 J. Hichens, Noughts and Crosses (1952).
2 “I pray for thee.”
3 “Prosperous journey.”
1 Dom Gregory Dix, The Question of Anglican Orders (1944); usually known by the sub-title Letters to a Layman.
2 Simeon Potter, Our Language (1951).
1 Sir Charles G. Darwin, The Next Million Years (1952).
1 Eleanor Macaulay.
1 “By the sign of the Cross.”
1 R.M. was referring to two separate works by David Knowles: The Monastic Order in England; a History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Later an Council, 943-1216 (1940), and Vol. I of The Religious Orders in England (1948).
2 D. Knowles and J. K. S. St. Joseph, Monastic Sites from the Air (1952).
1 One of a Jewish sect for which daily ablution was an essential part of religion.
2 “Man cannot live unless on every day he plunge into the water and be washed clean and be sanctified from every sin.”
3 Cornells Cornelissen van den Steen (1567-1637), Flemish writer on Biblical subjects.
4 “Nay, but this is rather the life of ducks and fishes than of human beings.”
1 Rachel L. Carson, The Sea Around Us (1950).
2 See R.M.'s And No Mans Wit.
3 Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942), American architect.
1 He had been a personal friend of Father Johnson.
2 Monasticon Anglicanum, a collection of monastic charters, etc., published by Sir William Dugdale in 1655, 1661 and 1673.
1 Novel by J. H. Shorthouse (1881).
Select Bibliography
NOVELS
Abbots Verney
John Murray 1906
The Furnace
John Murray 1907
The Secret River
John Murray 1909
The Valley Captives
John Murray 1911
Views and Vagabonds
John Murray 1912
The Lee Shore
Hodder & Stoughton 1912
The Making of a Bigot
Hodder & Stoughton 1914
Non-Combatants and Others
Hodder & Stoughton 1916
What Not: A Prophetic Comedy
Constable 1918
Potterism: a Tragi-farcical Tract
Collins 1920
Dangerous Ages
Collins 1921
Mystery at Geneva
Collins 1922
Told by an Idiot
Collins 1923
Orphan Island
Collins 1924
Crewe Train
Collins 1920
Keeping up Appearances
Collins 1928
Staying with Relations
Collins 1930
They Were Defeated
Collins 1932
Going Abroad
Collins 1934
I Would Be Private
Collins 1937
And No Man’s Wit
Collins 1940
The World my Wilderness
Collins 1950
The Towers of Trebizond
Collins 1956
POETRY
The Two Blind Countries
Sidgwich & Jackson 1914
Three Days
Constable 1919
ESSAYS, CRITICISM, ETC.
A Casual Commentary
Methuen 1925
Catchwords and Claptrap
Hogarth Press 1926
Some Religious Elements in English Literature
Hogarth Press 1931
Milton
Duckworth 1934
Personal Pleasures
Gollancz 1935
The Writings of E.M. Forster
Hogarth Press 1938
ANTHOLOGY
The Minor Pleasures of Life
Gollancz 1934
HISTORY AND TRAVEL
They Went to Portugal
Jonathan Cape 1946
Fabled Shore: from the Pyrenees to Portugal
Hamish Hamilton 1949
Pleasure of Ruins
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1953
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