These essays, with some alterations & additions, are reprinted from the Daily News & the Speaker. The 1st 12 were published in London, by A.L. Humphreys, 1903, as Twelve Types.
Charlie Brontë
William Morris & his school
The optimism of Byron
Pope & the art of satire
Francis
Rostand
Charles II
Stevenson
Thomas Carlyle
Tolstoy & the cult of simpliccity
The position of Sir Walter Scott
Bret Harte
Alfred the great
Maeterlinck
Ruskin
Queen Victoria
The German emperor
Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.
Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox". Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.
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