INDEX

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Adams, James Truslow, meets Chesterton 78
Adams, Karl 150
Aristotle 131
Armstrong, Prof. A. J., entertains C. 58
Arnold, Matthew 127
Autobiography 145
“Ballad of the White Horse” 94, 160, 162
Baltimore, liked by Chesterton 128
Barnes, Bishop E. W. 108
Barr, Robert 25
Barrie, James M. 37
Beaverbrook, Lord 108
Belloc, Hilaire 7, 10, 14
First meets Chesterton 24
Quoted 35, 44, 75, 133
Benet, Stephen Vincent 162–3
Benet, William R. 158
Bentley, E. C. Iff., 5, 137
Bierce, Ambrose 40
“Biography for Beginners” 85
Birkenhead, Lord 56, 109
Blackwood, Algernon 33
Blatchford, Robt. complimented by C. 21–3
Blessed Virgin 89–90
Blogg, Frances, marries C. 13
Boer War, opposed by C. 19–20
Borden, Lucille 39
Boswell 7, 28
Bourne, Francis Cardinal 148
Braybrooke, Patrick, at C.’s funeral 172–3
Bridges, Horace J., debates with C. 68 ff.
Brown, Edw. tells of C.’s Welsh lecture 49–52
Browning, Robert 3, 14, 58, 95, 125–6, 152
Cabell, James Branch 122
Carrell, R. Alexis, on C. 123
Cecil, Lord 33
Cecil, Lord David 38
Cambridge 107
Canadian Authors’ Society, toasted by C. 76
Catholic Church, C. joins 90, 102
Chamberlain, Joseph 19
Chesterton, Cecil, brother 14, 138–9, 167, 170
Chesterton, G. K.
Chubb, T. C., describes C. at Yale 92–7
Clarke, Isabel C., entertains C. in Rome 35–6
Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain) 19
Praised by C. 135, 149, 172
Cobbett, William 97–8
Columbus, Ohio, C. visits 168
Connolly, Myles, impressions of C. 120
“Convert, The,” poem by C. 157
Cram, Ralph Adams 33 ff., 144 ff.
Dante 153
Darrow, C., debates with C. 66 ff., 117, 128
de la Mare, Walter, meets C. 32–3, quoted
de Castro, Adolphe, meets C. 40
Dickens, Charles, admired by C. 3, 30, 95
“Pickwick Papers,” C.’s favorite 131, 152
Distributism 14, 24
Drinkwater, John 51
Drood, Edwin 27–7
Doyle, Conan 117
Dudley, Owen F., meets C. 34
Duggan, Eileen 151 ff.
Dyboski, Roman 132, 147 ff.
Eliot, T. S. 146
“Everlasting Man” 118
Falstaff 92
Father Brown 25, 94, 144
Fletcher, James Gould 160–1
“Flying Inn, The” 85, 95, 144
Fordham, E. W., boyhood friend 4 ff., 168
France, Anatole 15
Frank, Waldo, admires C. 120
Frankau, Gilbert, meets C. 25
Galsworthy, John 24
discussed by C. 129
Garland, Hamlin, meets C. 119
George Fifth, King, meets C. 11
Gibbs, A. Hamilton, meets C. 165
Gibbs, Sir Philip, meets C. 20–1
Gill, Eric, C.’s friend 27
Gilson, L. E. 149 ff.
“G. K.’s Weekly” 14, 27
Glasgow, C. lectures in 53
visits 165–6
“Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” praised by C. 24
Gordon, Charles W., describes C. 78
Graham, Cunninghame 11
Graham, Kenneth, compared to C. 35
“Greybeards at Play,” C.’s first book 14
Guedalla, Philip, meets C. 31–2
Gwynn, S., recalls C.’s first book 14, 17, 18, 38
Hamilton, Cosmo, debates with C. 62 ff.
Hammond, J. L. 18–9
Hardy, Thomas 129
Harris, Frank 29
Hawthorne 111
Henry Eighth, King 36, 97
Hereford, Oliver, quoted 69
Hazlitt, Henry 117
Heine 41
“Heretics” 15, 30, 116
Hilton, James, writes C. as a boy 23
Hirst, F. W., edits Speaker with C. 19
“History of England” 136
Holliday, Robert Cortes, meets C. 127
Hollis, Christopher, meets C. 24
Holy Ghost 95
Housman, A. E. 107
quoted by C. 129–130
Huxley, Aldous, admired by C. 63
“History of England” 136
Jackson, Holbrook, meets C. 41–45
Jacobs, W. W., meets C. 23
James, Henry 10
Joan of Arc, C. speaks on 33
Johnson, Dr. Samuel 28, 36, 43, 88, 143, 165
Chesterton dressed as 134
Kaye-Smith, Sheila, praised by C. 112
Kernahan, Coulson, meets C. 25–6–7
Kingsmill, Hugh, meets C. 29
Kipling, Rudyard 76, 96, 153
Knox, John 105
Lane, John 15
Lenin 131
“Lepanto,” poem by C. 94, 119, 160
Lewis, Sinclair 112–3, 127
Lindsay, Vachel 161
Liverpool, C. lectures in 53
Locke, John 41
Lodge, Sir Oliver 21
Lowdnes, Mrs. Marie Belloc, meets C. 33
Mabbott, T. O., praises C. 115–6
MacDonald, George 26
MacDonald, Ramsay 26, 108
“Magic,” play by C. 116–7
“Man Who Was Thursday” 3
Praised by James Hilton 24, 32, 95
Admired by Mussolini 134, 144
Martindale, Cyril C. 167–171
Masefield, John 108
Masterman, Charles 11
May, J. Lewis 15
Megroz, Rodolphe L., visits C. 79
Miller, J. Corson 158
Moore, Tom 17, 18
More, Thomas 90
Mussolini, Benito, visited by C. 134–5
Napoleon, quoted 120
“Napoleon of Notting Hill” 15, 16–7, 79, 85, 95, 116, 144
“New Jerusalem” 87
“New Witness” 14
Notre Dame University, C. at 99–113
Noyes, Alfred 155–8
O’Connor, Father John 137–140
Receives Chesterton Into Church 171–2
Oldershaw, J. L. 5, 18, 19
“Orthodoxy” 15, 32, 116, 149–50, 160
Ould, Hermon, offers C. club presidency 86
Oxford 107
Patterson, Mrs. F. T., hears C. lecture 66 ff.
Pearson, Hesketh 31, 140–1
Pemberton, Sir Max 143
Phelps, William Lyon 98, 118
Philip the Second, misinterpreted by C. 119
Pollock, Channing 115
Poland 148 ff.
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur 51
Redfield, William C. 62
Remarque, Enrique Maria, C. dislikes 64
Rinehart, Mary Roberts 143
Ripley, Clements, admires C. 32
Riviere, Hugo C., paints C. 85–6
Roberts, R. Ellis, hears C. lecture 46
Robinson, E. A. 166, 97
Rodin 44
Rome, C. visits 90, 97, 134
Rose, Sir Holland 107
Roseberry, Lord 54
Ruskin, John 19, 107
Russell, Bertrand, C.’s opinion of 108
Russell, George 98, 127–8
Sabatini, Rafael 141–2
Saint Januarius 44
St. Louis, Missouri, C. lectures 72–4, 128
Saint Paul’s School 13
“Saint Thomas Aquinas” 150
Scott, Walter 3
“Ivanhoe” reviewed by C. 75
Shaw, Bernard, C.’s book on 15, 27, 44, 46, 55
Meets Chesterton 75–6, 95, 96, 141, 146
Shorter, Clement K. 141
Sheen, Fulton 150
Slade Art School, attended by C. 13
“Speaker,” The 18–9
Stevenson, Robert Louis, quoted 83
Stewart, Bishop G. C., at C.’s lecture 68 ff.
Stewart, Donald Ogden, admires C. 117
Strachey, Lytton, compared to C. 35
Swinburne 3
Tennyson 3, 95
Thackeray 95
Thompson, Francis 155
Thomas, Edward 2
Thoreau 111
quoted 121
Tinker, Chauncey B. 118
Titterton, W. R., C. writes 81–3
Describes C. 84
Tolstoy 131
“Trent’s Last Case,” by E. C. Bentley 137
Trevelyan, George M. 107
Trotsky 131
Van Dine, S. S., admires Father Brown 142
Van Druten, John 51
“Varied Types” 159
Velasquez 44
“Victorian Age of English Literature” 144
Walker, Headmaster, discovers C.’s genius 1
Walpole, Horace 132
Walsh, William Thomas, describes C. 118–9
Watts, G. F., admired by C. 3
“Well and the Shadows” 146
Wells, H. G. 34, 46, 64, 79–80–81, 86, 96, 133
West, Rebecca 109
Wise, Stephen S., admires C. 122
Wood, Clement 161
Wright, Cuthbert 146
Wyndham, George 11
Yealy, Francis J., hears C. lecture 47
Yeats, Elizabeth, at G. K.’s wedding 13
Yeats, William B. 108
meets C. 145–6