Description
All Things Considered features more than thirty columns that G. K. Chesterton wrote for the London Daily News in the years before World War I. Covering a variety of themes, each is written with the same high quality that readers have come to expect of Chesterton. In an essay on canvassing, Chesterton ponders some unusual double standards. In another, he writes about daily annoyances. Another covers literature. But regardless of the topic, each of the essays in All Things Considered is the usual Chesterton masterpiece, tempting the reader to track down even more of the 4,000 newspaper columns penned by Chesterton during his career.
G. K. Chesterton is well known as a novelist, essayist, storyteller, poet, philosopher, theologian, historian, artist, and critic. He's less well-known as a journalist these days, yet all evidence indicates that he viewed his work for the various newspapers as his primary raison-de-etre. Therefore anyone interested in exploring the works of this colossal genius should include a sampling of his newspaper columns, as featured in All Things Considered, along with all of his other brilliant books.
Contents
The case for the ephemeral
Cockneys and their jokes
The fallacy of success
On running after one's hat
The vote and the house
Conceit and caricature
Patriotism and sport
An essay on two cities
French and English
The Zola controversy
Oxford from without
Woman
The modern martyr
On political secrecy
Edward the VII and Scotland
Thoughts on Koepenick
The boy
Limericks and counsels of perfection
Anonymity and further counsels
On the cryptic and the elliptic
The worship of the wealthy
Science and religion
The Methusalehite
Spiritualism
The error of impartiality
Phonetic spelling
Humanitarianism and strength
Wine when it is red
Demagogues and mystagogues
The "Eatanswill Gazette"
Fairy tales
Tom Jones and morality
The Maid of Orleans
A dead poet
Christmas
G. K. Chesterton is well known as a novelist, essayist, storyteller, poet, philosopher, theologian, historian, artist, and critic. He's less well-known as a journalist these days, yet all evidence indicates that he viewed his work for the various newspapers as his primary raison-de-etre. Therefore anyone interested in exploring the works of this colossal genius should include a sampling of his newspaper columns, as featured in All Things Considered, along with all of his other brilliant books.
Contents
The case for the ephemeral
Cockneys and their jokes
The fallacy of success
On running after one's hat
The vote and the house
Conceit and caricature
Patriotism and sport
An essay on two cities
French and English
The Zola controversy
Oxford from without
Woman
The modern martyr
On political secrecy
Edward the VII and Scotland
Thoughts on Koepenick
The boy
Limericks and counsels of perfection
Anonymity and further counsels
On the cryptic and the elliptic
The worship of the wealthy
Science and religion
The Methusalehite
Spiritualism
The error of impartiality
Phonetic spelling
Humanitarianism and strength
Wine when it is red
Demagogues and mystagogues
The "Eatanswill Gazette"
Fairy tales
Tom Jones and morality
The Maid of Orleans
A dead poet
Christmas