On Everything by Hilaire Belloc

On Everything by Hilaire Belloc

CONTENTS

On Song
On an Empty House
The Landfall
The Little Old Man
The Long March
On Saturnalia
A Little Conversation in Herefordshire
On the Rights of Property
The Economist
A Little Conversation in Carthage
The Strange Companion
The Visitor
A Reconstruction of the Past
The Reasonable Press
Asmodeus
The Death of the Comic Author
On Certain Manners and Customs
The Statesman
The Duel
On a Battle, or Journalism, or Points of View
A Descendant of William Shakespeare
On the Approach to Western England
The Weald
On London and the Houses in It
On Old Towns
A Crossing of the Hills
The Barber
On High Places
On Some Little Horses
On Streams and Rivers
On Two Manuals
On Fantastic Books
The Unfortunate Man
The Contented Man
The Missioner
The Dream
The Silence of the Battlefields .
Novissima Hora
On Rest

Hilaire Belloc (1870- 1953) was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, and raised in England. Educated in Birmingham before voluntarily serving his military term of service in France, Belloc then returned to England to study History at Baliol College, Oxford where he graduated with a First class degree.

Writing on everything from poetry to war and travel in between, Belloc has been called one of the Big Four of Edwardian Letters, along with H.G.Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and G. K. Chesterton, all of whom debated each other into the 1930s. Belloc was closely associated with Chesterton, and Shaw coined the term Chesterbelloc for their partnership. A deeply religious Catholic, Belloc wrote considerably about his faith, and throughout his literary career he was concerned with the problems of social reform. He was a political activist and an MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910 for the Liberal party, and his written non-fiction work criticized both capitalism and aspects of socialism.