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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Types
By
G. K. ChestertonAuthor of
"The Defendant," etc.
New York: Dodd, Mead
and Company 1903

Published September, 1903

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 Brontë, 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, (not in original TOC) 217
Queen Victoria, 217
The German Emperor, 225
Tennyson, 249
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 261

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