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Saturday, January 28, 2012

"Gifts of the Millionaire"

GIFTS OF THE MILLIONAIRE

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, July 20,1909

[This article, incidentally, was originally published in The Illustrated London News on May 29, 1909, with the exception that the latter version in the ILN contains one more paragraph (at the end) than this version does.]

"The Dullness of the New Religions"

THE DULLNESS OF THE NEW RELIGIONS

-The Open Road (London), originally published in 1911
[Reprinted in The New York Times, August 25, 1912]

Friday, January 27, 2012

"The New Humility"

THE NEW HUMILITY

The Independent Review, volume IX, April-June 1906

Main Index

Below is the "Main Index" of all the articles/writings on this website, listed in chronological order. Source information is available on individual pages. (The Bookman articles, however, are simply linked to, as they are found on another website)

"Starting Afresh"

STARTING AFRESH

By G.K. CHESTERTON

An excert from:

Is it a New World? A Series of Articles and Letters Contributed by Correspondents to the "Daily Telegraph" August-September, 1920 (published in 1921)

This was Chesterton's contribution in response to a question that appeared in the Daily Telegraph, his response emphasizing the need for engaging in self-criticism, both as individuals and as a society

"The Poetic Quality in Liberalism"

THE POETIC QUALITY IN LIBERALISM

-The Independent Review, Volume 5, February-April. 1905


"An Agnostic Defeat"

AN AGNOSTIC DEFEAT
 

-Dublin Review
 [Reprinted in The Living Age, volume CCLXXII, January, February, March 1912]

"Live Furniture"

I found this essay amusing. :-)

LIVE FURNITURE


"Black and White"
[Reprinted in Current Opinion: A Magazine of Record and Review, volume XXXVI, January-June 1904]

"Victor Hugo"

VICTOR HUGO

-The Pall Magazine, volume XXVI, January-April 1902 

Thursday, January 26, 2012

"Samuel Johnson"

Excerpted from Samuel Johnson by Alice Meynell (1911)

Introduction by G.K. Chesterton

"Patriotism and Ethics"

Patriotism and Ethics
The Speaker, May 18, 1901

"The Bookman" articles

The following are articles that Chesterton wrote for The Bookman which are online.