Chesterton, as seen by his contemporaries

“Chesterton was in his schooldays the centre of a small group of boys. They formed a club under his chairmanship ... the Junior Debating Club, so called to distinguish it from t...

Chesterton had a shorter apprenticeship for a writing career than most men of letters. After leaving St. Paul’s he went to the Slade Art School where he graduated in 1891 at the...

Miss Alice Henry of Melbourne, Australia, has kindly pointed out to the author that the following is something which has never had any but ephemeral publication in a newspaper,...

No one believed more in these words of his friend Hilaire Belloc than Chesterton himself. He delighted in thousands of steadfast friends and acquaintances, and they rejoiced in...

In the course of his life, Chesterton accomplished much lecturing and public speaking as did most of the English writers of his generation such as Shaw, Wells, and to a lesser e...

Chesterton made two extended visits to the United States, in 1920–1, and in 1930–1. Both times he traversed the length and breadth of the country, delivering innumerable lecture...

Mr. Bernard Shaw told the author that he was so much struck by a review of Scott’s “Ivanhoe” which appeared in the “Daily News” while Chesterton was holding his earliest notable...

Thomas Caldecot Chubb met Chesterton at the Elizabethan Club in New Haven almost twenty years ago, and his initial impression still persists that he was a large man in every way...

Chesterton was guest lecturer at Notre Dame University for the first semester of the 1930–1 school year, delivering eighteen lectures on English history, and the same number on...

Recently there appeared a statement to the effect that although Chesterton had considerable popularity with the average American reader, our authors cared but little for the man...

In a delightful villa, called Top Meadow, in Beaconsfield, a small town of Buckinghamshire, about forty minutes on the train from London, lives, and has lived for some ten years...

“‘Trent’s Last Case’ had recently appeared,” Father O’Connor himself writes the author, “and Chesterton full of admiration for E. C. Bentley, was humbly envious, longing to add...

“Chesterton was one of the great and dynamic forces during the time he lived,” declares Ralph Adams Cram. “I ‘fell for him’ many years ago when almost by accident I found and re...

“Chesterton led one of the most original lives of his day in Europe. It is well to remember this when it is suggested that men who avail themselves of the rich experiences of th...

Chesterton possessed one of the most likeable characters of contemporary literary men. There is usually something or other that mars the characters of most, but who would have C...