Chapter I: Front Matter

[Transcriber's note: This book had varying page headings. They have been collected into chapter titles, and into a Table of Contents.]

BESIDE

STILL WATERS

BY

ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON

FELLOW OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

"_I will run the way of Thy commandments;
when Thou hast set my heart at liberty._"

FOURTH IMPRESSION

LONDON

SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE

1910

[All rights reserved]

Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh

CONTENTS

I The Family--The Scene--The Church--Childhood--Books
II The Schoolmaster--School Life--Companions
III The Public School--Friendships--The Opening Heart--The
Mould--The Last Morning
IV Undergraduate Days--Strain--Recovery--A First Book
V Practical Life--The Official World--Drudgery--Resignation--
Retirement
VI His Father's Friendship--His Sister's Death--The Silent River
VII Liberty--Cambridge--Literary Work--Egotism
VIII Foundations of Faith--Duality--Christianity--The Will of God
IX Art--The End of Art
X Retrospect--Renewal of Youth--The New Energy
XI Platonism--The Pure Gospel--The Pauline Gospel--The Harmony
XII Sacrifice--The Church--Certainty
XIII Waiting for Light
XIV Dreariness--Romance--The Choice of Work--Dulness--A Creed
XV The Pilgrim's Progress--The Pilgrimage--Development--The
Eternal Will
XVI Humanity--Individuality--The Average
XVII Spring--Wonder
XVIII His Father's Death--Illness--A New Home--The New Light
XIX Women--The Feminine View--Society--Frank Relations--
Coldness--Sensitiveness
XX Limitations--Sympathy--A Quiet Choice--The Mind of God--
Intuition
XXI A Far-off Day--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