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CHAPTER I. THE TWO POETS OF SAFFRON PARK THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.

By G. K. Chesterton Contents The Blue Cross The Secret Garden The Queer Feet The Flying Stars ...

I INTRODUCTION IN DEFENCE OF EVERYTHING ELSE THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

By G.K. Chesterton Prefatory Note: This ballad needs no historical notes, for the simple reason that it does not profess to be historical.

By G.K. Chesterton CONTENTS PART ONE: THE HOMELESSNESS OF MAN I The Medical Mistake II Wanted: An Unpractical Man III The New Hypocrite IV The Fear...

I. THE FACE IN THE TARGET Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-o...

By G. K. Chesterton PREFACE These fleeting sketches are all republished by kind permission of the Editor of the DAILY NEWS, in which paper they appeared.

Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word "orthodox."

THE CASE FOR THE EPHEMERAL I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do.

ONE -- The Absence of Mr Glass THE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of v...

BY G. K. CHESTERTON HODDER AND STOUGHTON LIMITED LONDON MCMXXII Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. CONSTABLE LTD.

Chapter I How the Great Wind Came to Beacon House A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across Englan...

_ILLUSTRATIONS_ IN THE DARK ENTRANCE THERE APPEARED A FLAMING FIGURE _Frontispiece_ _To face page_ CITY MEN OUT ON ALL FOURS IN A FIEL...

CHAPTER I THE WAY OF THE CITIES CHAPTER II THE WAY OF THE DESERT CHAPTER III THE GATES OF THE CITY CHAPTER IV THE PHILOSOPHY OF SIGHT-SEEING CHAPTER V THE STREETS OF THE CI...

The flying ship of Professor Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue emptiness of the evening.

I INTRODUCTION It will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon a sort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in English history, who make no pretence to particular schola...

MDCCCCII R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON * * * * * The 'Defences' of which this volume is composed have appeared in _The Speaker_, and are here reprinted, after revision and am...

Chapter 1. The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America.

By G. K. Chesterton CONTENTS 1: INTRODUCTORY: ON GARGOYLES 2: THE SURRENDER OF A COCKNEY 3: THE NIGHTMARE 4: THE TELEGRAPH POLES 5: A DRAMA OF DOLLS 6: THE MAN AND HIS NEWSPAPER 7...

ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE CHARLES DICKENS, CIRCA 1840 _Frontispiece_ From an oil painting by R. J. ...

by G.K. CHESTERTON NEW YORK 1916 BY THE SAME AUTHOR The Napoleon of Notting Hill: A Romance.

_By_ GILBERT K. CHESTERTON NEW YORK JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMIX COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY JOHN LANE COMPANY THE PLIMPTON PRESS, NORWOOD, MASS.

BY G.K. CHESTERTON LONDON ARTHUR L. HUMPHREYS 1902 NOTE These papers, with certain alterations and additions, are reprinted with the kind permission of the Editors of _The Daily News_ and _The ...

The Englishman St. George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon He drank a pint of English ale Out of an English flagon.

The Escape The New Raid The New Name A Workman's History of England The French Revolution and the Irish Liberalism: A Sample The Fatigue of Fleet Street The Amnes...

http://www.pgdp.net MAGIC A FANTASTIC COMEDY [Illustration: G.K. Chesterton From a photograph] MAGIC A FANTASTIC COMEDY BY G.K. CHESTERTON G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON T...

By G. K. Chesterton Contents THE SUFFRAGIST THE POET AND THE CHEESE THE THING THE MAN WHO THINKS BACKWARDS THE NAMELESS MAN THE GARDENER AND THE GUINEA ...

I--_Some Words to Professor Whirlwind_ DEAR PROFESSOR WHIRLWIND, Your name in the original German is too much for me; and this is the nearest I propose to get to it: but under the majestic image...

CHAPTER I BROWNING IN EARLY LIFE On the subject of Browning's work innumerable things have been said and remain to be said; of his life, considered as a narrative of facts, there is little or no...

produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) A CHESTERTON CALENDAR _A Chesterton Calendar_ Compiled from the Writings of 'G.K.C.'

Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness.

_Varied Types_ _By_ G.K. Chesterton Author _of_ "The Defendant," etc.

Horatio Herbert Kitchener was Irish by birth but English by extraction, being born in County Kerry, the son of an English colonel.

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I. THE TALE OF THE PEACOCK TREES Squire Vane was an elderly schoolboy of English education and Irish extraction.

Proofreaders THE WILD KNIGHT AND OTHER POEMS BY GILBERT CHESTERTON 1900 NOTE My thanks are due to the Editors of the _Outlook_ and the _Speaker_ for the kind permission they have...

Proofreaders THE APPETITE OF TYRANNY _Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian_ _By_ G.K. CHESTERTON CONTENTS CHAPTER THE FACTS OF THE CASE I THE WAR ON THE WORD II THE REFUSA...