CHAPTER XI

The literature of one people owes a debt to that of others.
Help-bringers. Great work of Benedictine monks. Our debt to Ireland.
The English Chronicle's account of the Martyrdom of St Ælfeah. 97


CHAPTER XII

Abbot Ælfric, writer of Homilies, Lives of Saints, and other works.
Wulfstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. 104


CHAPTER XIII

Love of books is love of part of God's world. In books we commune with
the spirit of their writers. The Church the mother of all Christian
art and literature. Catholic literature saturated with Holy
Scripture. 110


CHAPTER XIV

Scattering of our old MSS. in Sixteenth Century. Some now in Public
Libraries. Collections, Exeter book and Vercelli Book. 114


CHAPTER XV