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Title: Varied Types

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Release Date: November 29, 2004 [EBook #14203]

Language: English

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_Varied Types_

_By_

G.K. Chesterton

Author _of_ "The Defendant," etc.

New York: _Dodd, Mead and Company_

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1905

NOTE

These papers, with certain alterations and additions, are reprinted
with the kind permission of the Editors of _The Daily News_ and _The
Speaker_.

G.K.C.

Kensington.

CONTENTS

Page
Charlotte Bronte 3
William Morris And His School 15
The Optimism Of Byron 29
Pope And The Art Of Satire 43
Francis 59
Rostand 73
Charles II. 85
Stevenson 97
Thomas Carlyle 109
Tolstoy And The Cult Of Simplicity 125
Savonarola 147
The Position Of Sir Walter Scott 159
Bret Harte 179
Alfred The Great 199
Maeterlinck 209
Ruskin 217
Queen Victoria 225
The German Emperor 227
Tennyson 249
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 261

CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Objection is often raised against realistic biography because it reveals
so much that is important and even sacred about a man's life. The real
objection to it will rather be found in the fact that it reveals about a
man the precise points which are unimportant. It reveals and asserts and
insists on exactly those things in a man's life of which the man himself
is wholly unconscious; his exact class in society, the circumstances of
his ancestry, the place of his present location. These