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Title: G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study

Author: Julius West

Release Date: October 28, 2008 [EBook #27080]

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G. K. CHESTERTON

_UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME:_

W. B. YEATS
BY FORREST REID

J. M. SYNGE
BY P. P. HOWE

HENRY JAMES
BY FORD MADOX HUEFFER

HENRIK IBSEN
BY R. ELLIS ROBERTS

THOMAS HARDY
BY LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE

BERNARD SHAW
BY P. P. HOWE

WALTER PATER
BY EDWARD THOMAS

WALT WHITMAN
BY BASIL DE SELINCOURT

SAMUEL BUTLER
BY GILBERT CANNAN

A. C. SWINBURNE
BY EDWARD THOMAS

GEORGE GISSING
BY FRANK SWINNERTON

R. L. STEVENSON
BY FRANK SWINNERTON

RUDYARD KIPLING
BY CYRIL FALLS

WILLIAM MORRIS
BY JOHN DRINKWATER

ROBERT BRIDGES
BY F. E. BRETT YOUNG

FYODOR DOSTOIEVSKY
BY J. MIDDLETON MURRY

MAURICE MAETERLINCK
BY UNA TAYLOR

[Illustration: G. K. Chesterton.

from a photograph by Hector Murchison]

G. K. CHESTERTON

A CRITICAL STUDY

BY

JULIUS WEST

LONDON
MARTIN SECKER
NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET
ADELPHI
MCMXV

I HAVE to express my gratitude to Messrs. Burns and Oates, Messrs.
Methuen and Co., and Mr. Martin Seeker for their kind permission to
quote from works by Mr. G. K. Chesterton published by them. I have also
to express my qualified thanks to Mr. John Lane for his conditional
permission to quote from books by the same author published by him.