C. Creighton Mandell

INTRODUCTION BY G. K. CHESTERTON

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I MR. BELLOC AND THE PUBLIC A CASE FOR LEGISLATION AD HOC

CHAPTER II MR. BELLOC THE MAN

CHAPTER III PERSONALITY IN STYLE

CHAPTER IV THE POET

CHAPTER V THE STUDENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS

CHAPTER VI MR. BELLOC AND THE WAR

CHAPTER VII MR. BELLOC THE PUBLICIST

CHAPTER VIII MR. BELLOC AND EUROPE

CHAPTER IX THE HISTORICAL WRITER

CHAPTER X MR. BELLOC AND ENGLAND

CHAPTER XI THE REFORMER

CHAPTER XII THE HUMORIST

CHAPTER XIII THE TRAVELLER

CHAPTER XIV MR. BELLOC AND THE FUTURE

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WORKS BY HILAIRE BELLOC.

Paris
Marie Antoinette
Emmanuel Burden, Merchant
Hills and the Sea
On Nothing
On Everything
On Something
First and Last
This and That and the Other
A Picked Company

HILAIRE BELLOC

THE MAN AND HIS WORK

BY

C. CREIGHTON MANDELL

and

EDWARD SHANKS

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

G. K. CHESTERTON

METHUEN & CO. LTD.

36 ESSEX STREET W.C.

LONDON

First Published in 1916

TO

H. L. HUTTON

OF MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL