THE TREES OF PRIDE
by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A MISCELLANY OF MEN
By G. K. Chesterton
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UTOPIA OF USURERS AND OTHER ESSAYS
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
CONTENTS
A WORKMAN’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE IRISH
THE BALL AND THE CROSS
By G.K. Chesterton
CONTENTS
I. A DISCUSSION SOMEWHAT IN THE AIR
II. THE RELIGION OF THE STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE
III. SOME OLD CURIOSITIES
IV. A DISCUSSION AT DAWN
V. THE PEACEMAKER
VI. THE OTHER PHILOSOPHER
VII. THE VILLAGE OF GRASSLEY-IN-THE-HOLE
VIII. AN INTERLUDE OF ARGUMENT
IX. THE STRANGE LADY
X. THE SWORDS REJOINED
XI. A SCANDAL IN THE VILLAGE
XII. THE DESERT ISLAND
XIII. THE GARDEN OF PEACE
XIV. A MUSEUM OF SOULS
XV. THE DREAM OF MACIAN
XVI. THE DREAM OF TURNBULL
XVII. THE IDIOT
XVIII. A RIDDLE OF FACES
XIX. THE LAST PARLEY
XX. DIES IRAE
TREMENDOUS TRIFLES
By G. K. Chesterton
CONTENTS
PREFACE
I. Tremendous Trifles
II. A Piece of Chalk
III. The Secret of a Train
IV. The Perfect Game
V. The Extraordinary Cabman
VI. An Accident
VII. The Advantages of Having One Leg
VIII. The End of the World
IX. In the Place de La Bastille
X. On Lying in Bed
XI. The Twelve Men
XII. The Wind and the Trees
XIII. The Dickensian
XIV. In Topsy-Turvy Land
XV. What I Found in My Pocket
XVI. The Dragon's Grandmother
XVII. The Red Angel
XVIII. The Tower
XIX. How I Met the President
XX. The Giant
XXI. A Great Man
XXII. The Orthodox Barber
XXIII. The Toy Theatre
XXIV. A Tragedy of Twopence
XXV. A Cab Ride Across Country
XXVI. The Two Noises
XXVII. Some Policemen and a Moral
XXVIII. The Lion
XXIX. Humanity: an Interlude
XXX. The Little Birds Who Won't Sing
XXXI. The Riddle of the Ivy
XXXII. The Travellers in State
XXXIII. The Prehistoric Railway Station
XXXIV. The Diabolist
XXXV. A Glimpse of My Country
XXXVI. A Somewhat Improbable Story
XXXVII. The Shop Of Ghosts
XXXVIII. The Ballade of a Strange Town
XXXIX. The Mystery of a Pageant
ALARMS AND DISCURSIONS
By G. K. Chesterton
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The Philosophy of Sight-seeing
The Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
By G. K. CHESTERTON
1915
CONTENTS
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THE
CASE FOR THE EPHEMERAL
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COCKNEYS
AND THEIR JOKES
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THE
FALLACY OF SUCCESS
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ON
RUNNING AFTER ONE'S HAT
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THE
VOTE AND THE HOUSE
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CONCEIT
AND CARICATURE
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PATRIOTISM
AND SPORT.
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AN
ESSAY ON TWO CITIES.
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FRENCH
AND ENGLISH
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THE
ZOLA CONTROVERSY
-
OXFORD
FROM WITHOUT
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WOMAN
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THE
MODERN MARTYR
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ON
POLITICAL SECRECY
-
THOUGHTS
AROUND KOEPENICK
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THE
BOY
-
ON
THE CRYPTIC AND THE ELLIPTIC
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THE
WORSHIP OF THE WEALTHY
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THE
METHUSELAHITE
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THE
ERROR OF IMPARTIALITY
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FAIRY
TALES
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TOM
JONES AND MORALITY
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THE
MAID OF ORLEANS
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A
DEAD POET
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CHRISTMAS
THE CRIMES OF ENGLAND
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
1916
CONTENTS
SOME WORDS TO PROFESSOR WHIRLWIND
The German Professor, his need of Education
for Debate—Three Mistakes of German
Controversialists—The Multiplicity of
Excuses—Falsehood against Experience—
Kultur preached by Unkultur—The Mistake
about Bernard Shaw—German Lack of
Welt-Politik—Where England is really
Wrong.
THE PROTESTANT HERO
Suitable Finale for the German Emperor—Frederick
II. and the Power of
Fear—German Influence in England since
Lather—Our German Kings and Allies—
Triumph of Frederick the Great.
THE ENIGMA OF WATERLOO
How we helped Napoleon—The Revolution
and the Two Germanics—Religious
Resistance of Austria and Russia—Irreligious
Resistance of Prussia and England—Negative
Irreligion of England—its Idealism
in Snobbishness—Positive Irreligion of
Prussia; no Idealism in Anything—Allegory
and the French Revolution—The Dual
Personality of England; the Double Battle—Triumph
of Blucher.
THE COMING OF THE JANISSARIES
The Sad Story of Lord Salisbury—Ireland
and Heligoland—The Young Men of
Ireland—The Dirty Work—The Use of
German Mercenaries—The Unholy Alliance—Triumph
of the German Mercenaries.
THE LOST ENGLAND
Truth about England and Ireland—Murder
and the Two Travellers—Real Defence
of England—The Lost Revolution—Story
of Cobbett and the Germans—Historical
Accuracy of Cobbett—Violence of the English
Language—Exaggerated Truths versus
Exaggerated Lies—Defeat of the People—Triumph
of the German Mercenaries.
HAMLET AND THE DANES
Degeneration of Grimm's Fairy Tales—From
Tales of Terror to Tales of Terrorism—German
Mistake of being Deep—The
Germanisation of Shakespeare—Carlyle and
the Spoilt Child—The Test of Teutonism—
Hell or Hans Andersen—Causes of English
Inaction—Barbarism and Splendid Isolation—
The Peace of the Plutocrats—Hamlet
the Englishman—The Triumph of Bismarck.
THE MIDNIGHT OF EUROPE
The Two Napoleons—Their Ultimate
Success—The Interlude of Sedan—The
Meaning of an Emperor—The Triumph of
Versailles—The True Innocence of England—
Triumph of the Kaiser.
THE WRONG HORSE
Lord Salisbury Again—The Influence of
1870—The Fairy Tale of Teutonism—The
Adoration of the Crescent—The Reign of
the Cynics—Last Words to Professor
Whirlwind.
THE AWAKENING OF ENGLAND
The March of Montenegro—The Anti-Servile
State—The Prussian Preparation—The
Sleep of England—The Awakening of
England.
THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE
The Hour of Peril—The Human Deluge—The
English at the Marne.
CHAPTER I. — Some Words to Professor Whirlwind
CHAPTER II. — The Protestant Hero
CHAPTER III. — The Enigma of Waterloo
CHAPTER IV. — The Coming of the Janissaries
CHAPTER VI. — Hamlet and the Danes
CHAPTER VII. — The Midnight of Europe
CHAPTER VIII. — The Wrong Horse
CHAPTER IX. — The Awakening of England
CHAPTER X. — The Battle of the Marne
THE BARBARISM OF BERLIN
By G.K. Chesterton
First Published in 1914
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: THE FACTS OF THE CASE.
II. THE REFUSAL OF RECIPROCITY