ington College, 1868 16

Robert Hugh Benson and Beth at the Chancery,
Lincoln, in 1876, aged 5 20

The Three Brothers, 1882 44

Robert Hugh Benson in 1889, aged 17. As
Steerer of the _St. George_, at Eton 48

Robert Hugh Benson in 1893, aged 21. As an
Undergraduate at Cambridge 68

Mrs. Benson 76

Robert Hugh Benson in 1907, aged 35 158

At Hare Street, 1909 168

Hare Street, in the Garden, July 1911 174

Robert Hugh Benson in 1910, aged 39 184

At Tremans, Horsted Keynes, December, 1913 188

Bishop's House, Salford 200

The Calvary at Hare Street, 1913 208

Robert Hugh Benson in 1912, aged 40 250

Robert Hugh Benson in 1912, aged 41 258

"Then said _Great-heart_ to Mr. _Valiant-for-Truth_, Thou hast
worthily behaved thyself. Let me see thy Sword. So he shewed it
him. When he had taken it in his hand, and looked thereon a while,
he said, _Ha, it is a right Jerusalem Blade!_"

_The Pilgrim's Progress._

HUGH

I

HARE STREET

How loudly and boisterously the wind roared to-day across the low-hung,
cloud-smeared sky, driving the broken rack before it, warm and wet out
of the south! What a wintry landscape! leafless trees bending beneath
the onset of the wind, bare and streaming hedges, pale close-reaped
wheat-fields, brown ploughland, spare pastures stretching away to left
and right, softly rising and falling to the horizon; nothing visible but
distant belts of trees and coverts, with here and there the tower of a
hidden church overtopping them, and a windmill or two; on the left, long
lines of willows marking the course of a stream. The road soaked with
rain, the grasses heavy with it, hardly a human being to be seen.

I came at last to a village straggling along each side of the road; to
the right, a fantastic-looking white villa, with many bow-windows, and
an orchard behind it. Then on the left, a great row of beeches on the
edge of a pasture; and then, over the barns and ricks of a farm, rose
the clustered chimneys of an old house; and so