VARIED TYPES BY G.K. CHESTERTON New York, Dodd, Mead and Company
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
CHARLOTTE BRONTE 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 BRONTE Objection
is often raised against realistic biography because it reveals
so much that is important and even sacred about a man's life.
The real objection to it will rather be found in the fact that
it reveals about a man the precise points which are unimportant.
It reveals and asserts and insists on exactly those things in a
man's life of which the man himself is wholly unconscious; his
exact class in society, th