Chesterton died on June 14, 1936, and was buried in the graveyard of the Beaconsfield Catholic Church. Just recently the Republic of Ireland has given a great bell for the Chesterton Memorial Church thus inscribed.

“Presented to the parish of Beaconsfield by friends and admirers of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, to ring the call to faith, which he so chivalrously answered in song, in word, and in example, to the glory of God and of England.”

Walter de la Mare penned a memorial quatrain to his life-long friend,

“Knight of the Holy Ghost, he goes his way,

Wisdom his motley, Truth his loving jest;

The mills of Satan keep his lance in play,

Pity and Innocence his heart at rest.”

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]

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