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