This is the second volume of Chesterton's collected articles from the Illustrated London News, 1908-1910. They have never appeared in book form before. Chesterton lovers will be delighted to find this treasure filled with jewels quite the match of his best writing elsewhere.
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One of the Best, Maybe the Best ILN Collections,
This review is from: Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Illustrated London News, 1908-1910 (Hardcover)
Chesterton's "ILN" essays consume 11 volumes of the "Collected Works". This volume contains an enormous amount of humor and memorable passages on topics as relevant today as they were in 1908-1910. As usual, Chesterton covers a wide range of topics--European culture, the press, the arts, morals, capitalism, socialism, futurism, evolution, women's sufferage, the temperance movement, Christianity, and European history to name some. A few quotations may give you a sense of his remarkable style."A man can smile when he is dead. Composure, resignation, and the most exquisite good manners are, so to speak, the strong points of corpses." "It seems to me that the mass of men do agree on the mass of morality, but differ disasterously about the proportions of it. In other words, all men admit the Ten Commandments, but they differ horribly about which is the first Commandment and which is the tenth." "We must first of all establish the principle that we do not want a newspaper to give us a vision of the world made perfect; we want a church for that. We do not want a newspaper to give us good news; we want a gospel for that. We want a newspaper to give us true news, not elevating news or improving news." Chesterton shifts from the sublime to the ridiculous with the unbridled glee of a child. But always there is a deep sense of truth in what he says. An absolute joy to read!
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We have an original copy of THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEW, SILVER JUBILEE RECORD NUMBER 1910-1935, we were wandering if it had any value or not. Please let me know , if you have any idea.Thank you: Keith
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