# Chesterton, as seen by his contemporaries

Author: Clemens, Cyril, 1902-1999; Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew), 1875-1956 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Massaguer, Conrado Walter, 1889-1965 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75165

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Chesterton%2C+as+seen+by+his+contemporaries+Clemens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“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 the School Union Society, which was the preserve of the senior boys. He never did, as he states in his memoirs, any work at school in the academic sense, and so never rose to the position of a star boy. The star boys did not understand him and classed him as a freak who was unlikely to do the school any credit. He was so exceptionally untidy and absent-minded, even at the age when the ordinary boy becomes careful of his appearance, that he did not fit into the picture at all; and it needed the insight of Walker, the...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER FIFTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SEVEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FIVE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THREE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER NINE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ELEVEN[B](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FOUR](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THIRTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FOURTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER EIGHT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWELVE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chesterton-as-seen-by-his-contemporaries-75165/chapters/12/index.md)