NOTES
[ [1] G. K. Chesterton, The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton (Sheed & Ward, New York, 1936), pp. 222-8.
[ [2] The Four Men, p. 3.
[ [3] Ibid., p. 300.
[ [4] Ibid., pp. 302-3.
[ [5] Ibid., p. 303.
[ [6] Ibid., pp. 304-5.
[ [7] Raymond Las Vergnas, Chesterton, Belloc, and Baring (Sheed & Ward, New York, 1938), pp. 79-80.
[ [8] On at least three different occasions, in the midst of passages that relate intense spiritual crisis, Belloc reverts to the “Myself” device. These passages will be discussed later on in the chapter.
[ [9] The Four Men, p. 56.
[ [10] T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York), p. 42.
[ [11] Belloc’s “Poet,” as indicated, is in the Platonic conception of poetry: poetry as the intimation of the “divine.” What a contemporary critic would consider essential to a poet, keen sensibility, is found in Belloc’s “Sailor.”
[ [12] “The Autumn and the Fall of Leaves,” Hills and the Sea,
pp. 300-1.
[ [13] Path to Rome, p. 118.
[ [14] “The Autumn and the Fall of Leaves,” Hills and the Sea, p. 311.
[ [15] Ibid., p. 311.
[ [16] Hugh Kenner, Paradox in Chesterton (Sheed & Ward, New York, 1947), passim.
[ [17] Elizabethan Commentary, p. 170.
[ [18] Towns of Destiny, p. 235.
[ [19] Ibid., p. 238.
[ [20] “A Remaining Christmas,” A Conversation With a Cat, p. 296.
[ [21] “The Opportunity,” Short Talks With the Dead, p. 59.
[ [22] Why I Am and Why I Am Not a Catholic, pp. 10-11.
[ [23] “Gilbert Keith Chesterton,” The Saturday Review of Literature, July 4, 1936, p. 4.
[ [24] Quoted in: Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Sheed & Ward, New York, 1943), p. 474.
[ [25] P. D. Murphy, “Hilaire Belloc,” America, September 25, 1920, pp. 539-40.
[ [26] The Path to Rome, p. 161.
[ [27] Ibid., p. 118.
[ [28] “The Idea of a Pilgrimage,” Hills and the Sea, p. 266.
[ [29] Esto Perpetua, pp. 188-9.
[ [30] “Arles,” Hills and the Sea, p. 87.
[ [31] The Old Road, p. 11.
[ [32] “A Remaining Christmas,” A Conversation With a Cat, pp. 296-7.
[ [33] W. H. Auden, The Enchafed Flood (Random House, New York, 1951), pp. 3-42.
[ [34] “The Barbarians,” This and That and the Other, p. 226.
[ [35] Ibid., pp. 226-7.
[ [36] Esto Perpetua, p. 177.
[ [37] The Old Road, p. 9.
[ [38] “A Remaining Christmas,” A Conversation With a Cat, pp. 296-7.
[ [39] Mr. Belloc Still Objects, p. 42.
[ [40] Douglas Jerrold, “Hilaire Belloc and the Counter Reformation,” For Hilaire Belloc, ed. by Douglas Woodruff (Sheed & Ward, New York, 1942), pp. 1-10.
[ [41] Europe and the Faith, pp. viii-ix.
[ [42] This and That and the Other, p. 220.
[ [43] Charles I, King of England, pp. 72-3.
[ [44] The Stane Street, pp. 144-5.
[ [45] Cf. Belloc’s analysis in “Reality,” First and Last, pp. 69-74.
[ [46] “On Mundane Acquaintances,” Sonnets and Verse (Sheed & Ward, New York, 1944), p. 168.
[ [47] “The Roman Road,” Hills and the Sea, pp. 222-3.
[ [48] “The Higher Criticism,” This and That and the Other, p. 247.
[ [49] Marie Antoinette, pp. 553-4.
[ [50] Cf. note 52.
[ [51] “The Men of the Desert,” Hills and the Sea, p. 249.
[ [52] Europe and the Faith, pp. 4-5.
[ [53] The Path to Rome, p. 351.
[ [54] Loc. cit.
[ [55] Prudentius, Contra Symmachum, PM, 2.609-635.
[ [56] Esto Perpetua, pp. 188-9.
[ [57] The phrase is Lord Tweedsmuir’s; Pilgrim’s Way, pp. 48-9.
[ [58] Survivals and New Arrivals, p. 219.
[ [59] Sidney Hook, The Hero in History (The Humanities Press, New York, 1943), pp. 119, 123. (There is hidden irony, and humour as well, in Hook’s judgment. He discusses a short essay written by Belloc that appeared in a volume called “If, Or History Rewritten”; Belloc speculated, in his essay, on what France would have been like had the Revolution failed through the Royal Family’s escaping from the country. Hook, aware of Belloc’s fame as a Catholic apologist, simply assumes Belloc to imagine a modern Europe continuing the best traditions of Christendom, had the Revolution failed. But the contrary is the case. Belloc guesses—rightly or wrongly is beside the point here—that the Faith would practically be dead on the Continent had the Revolution failed. It is difficult to see how Hook could have read the piece and said what he did.)
[ [60] Sonnets and Verse, p. 29.
[ [61] The Contrast, pp. 83-136.
[ [62] “Talking of Byron,” Short Talks With the Dead, p. 33.
[ [63] Essays of a Catholic Layman in England, pp. 157, 305.
[ [64] John Edward Dineen, introduction to Selected Essays by Hilaire Belloc, compiled by J. E. Dineen (J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1936), p. 6.
[ [65] Lord Tweedsmuir, Pilgrim’s Way, An Essay in Recollection, pp. 48-9.