Number Eight of the Society’s
Biographical Series
WHOLE NUMBER FOURTEEN
Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill,
Chairman Biographical Committee
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with his kind permission
to
BENITO MUSSOLINI
a warm admirer of Chesterton
and his work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| [Introduction] | by E. C. Bentley |
| Chapters | |
| [One] | Boyhood Days |
| [Two] | Literary Apprenticeship |
| [Three] | Meetings with G. K. C. |
| [Four] | Some Friends |
| [Five] | On the English Platform |
| [Six] | On the American Platform |
| [Seven] | Some Recollections of G. K. C. |
| [Eight] | Chesterton at New Haven |
| [Nine] | At Notre Dame |
| [Ten] | Chesterton and American Authors |
| [Eleven] | The Author Visits Top Meadow |
| [Twelve] | Father Brown |
| [Thirteen] | Some Appraisals |
| [Fourteen] | The Poet |
| [Fifteen] | Chesterton the Man |
INTRODUCTION
by E. C. Bentley
Mr. Cyril Clemens’ book about Gilbert Chesterton is of an unusual and, to my taste, a deeply interesting sort. Some one has remarked that the most satisfactory biographies were those in which the letters and journals of the subject bulked largest, since these, telling their own tale, showed the man better than any biographer could do it. Mr. Clemens has assembled a vast number of other people’s memories and appreciations of G. K. C.; and it may be said that they show the attitude of his contemporaries towards him better than any individual critic could describe it.