[ [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.
LIST OF EDITIONS CITED
The Four Men (Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, 1906).
Hills and the Sea (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1906).