Brother Copas - Arthur Quiller-Couch

He who would love his fellow men
Must not expect too much of them"

This is good counsel if bad rhyme. I can only hope that both the faith and the scorn are sound at the core.

For the rest, I wish to state that St. Hospital is a society which never existed. I have borrowed for it certain features from the Hospital of St. Cross, near Winchester. I have invented a few external and all the internal ones. My "College of Noble Poverty" harbours abuses from which, I dare to say, that nobler institution is entirely free. St Hospital has no existence at all outside of my imagining.

ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH.

The Haven, Fowey.
February 16th, 1911.

"And a little Child shall lead them."—ISAIAH xi. 6.

Chapter
I.	[ THE MASTER OF ST. HOSPITAL.]
II.	[ THE COLLEGE OF NOBLE POVERTY.]
III.	[ BROTHER COPAS HOOKS A FISH.]
IV.	[ CORONA COMES.]
V.	[ BROTHER COPAS ON RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES.]
VI.	[ GAUDY DAY.]
VII.	[ LOW AND HIGH TABLES.]
VIII.	[ A PEACE-OFFERING.]
IX.	[ BY MERE RIVER.]
X.	[ THE ANONYMOUS LETTER.]
XI.	[ BROTHER COPAS ON THE ANGLO-SAXON.]
XII.	[ MR. ISIDORE TAKES CHARGE.]
XIII.	[ GARDEN AND LAUNDRY.]
XIV.	[ BROTHER COPAS ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS.]
XV.	[ CANARIES AND GREATCOATS.]
XVI.	[ THE SECOND LETTER.]
XVII.	[ PUPPETS.]
XVIII.	[ THE PERVIGILUM.]
XIX.	[ MERCHESTER PREPARES.]
XX.	[ NAUGHTINESS, AND A SEQUEL.]
XXI.	[ RECONCILIATION.]
XXII.	[ MR. SIMEON MAKES A CLEAN BREAST.]
XXIII.	[ CORONA'S BIRTHDAY.]
XXIV.	[ FINIS CORONAT OPUS.]
	[ CONCLUSION.]

BROTHER COPAS.