y: and if there
was a single altar for that supreme sacrifice it was no other than
the altar of Cecil's memory.

Acknowledgments

I am exceedingly grateful to the following publishers for permission
to quote from these books:

DODD, MEAD & CO.:
_The Man Who Was Thursday; Orthodoxy; The Napoleon of Notting Hill;
Heretics; George Bernard Shaw; The Ball and the Cross; The Poet and
the Lunatic; Alarms and Discursions; The Ballad of the White Horse;
What's Wrong with the World; Manalive; Sidelights on New London and
Newer York; The Uses of Diversity; The History of England; Irish
Impressions; Collected Poems; The Queen of Seven Swords; The
Everlasting Man; Cobbett; Outline of Sanity; Tales of the Long Bow;
What I Saw in America; The Thing; The Defendant; The Barbarism of
Berlin: or The Appetite of Tyranny; Eugenics and Other Evils;
Collected Poems; G. K. Chesterton, a Criticism_ (by Cecil Chesterton).

DOUBLEDAY DORAN:
_St. Francis of Assisi; The Years Between_.

E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC.:
_Criticisms and Appreciations of the Works of Charles Dickens_.

FARRAR & RINEHART:
_Chaucer_.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY:
_Robert Browning; The Catholic Church and Conversion_.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS:
_The Victorian Age in Literature_.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS:
_Rufus Isaacs, First Marquess of Reading_.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME:
_The Arena_.

"Gehazi," by Rudyard Kipling, from _The Years Between_, copyright
1914, 1919 by Rudyard Kipling, is reprinted by permission of Mrs.
Bambridge and Doubleday Doran and Co., Inc., of New York, and The
Macmillan Company, of Canada, publishers.

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