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Varied Types, by G. K. Chesterton
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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
Charlotte Brontë
William Morris And His School
The Optimism Of Byron
Pope And The Art Of Satire
Francis
Rostand
Charles II.
Stevenson
Thomas Carlyle
Tolstoy And The Cult Of Simplicity
Savonarola
The Position Of Sir Walter Scott
Bret Harte
Alfred The Great
Maeterlinck
Ruskin
Queen Victoria
The German Emperor
Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Objection is often raised agains